The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-12
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WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW
Pueblo at Topeka.
| Denver at Wichita.
Sioux City at Omaha.
| Des Moines at Lincoln.
The Sioux City club will now have
to do some lofty playing to retain a
place in the first division. The Holmes
tribe is on the road for 20 games. The
next game at Mizzou park is scheduled
for July Z.
The Pueblo team has quite a stay al
home after the return from the Kan
| sas trip. The Star-Journal says this
will put the team in the running.
/ According to the Lincoln News, Hiram
Harris, the utility player of the Lin
coin team, has been sold to the Newton
club In the Kansas State league, with
| the usual options for repurchase near
the end of the season.
The Joplin team has spent two weeks
/ in losing ball games since Hayden took
charge. Hayden has three teams al
ready, Joplin, Springfield and Pittsburg.
1t is reported that he will now make
an effort to strengthen the Joplin team
by buying the Webb City franchise and
consolidating the two, and then shelve
the insists left over on some other
town. The Joplin Globe says Hayden
has q goody chance to get either the
Denver or IineoIn franchise in the
Western League next season. Evident
ly the Globe scribe is the Phineas Z.
Barnum of joplin. .<sz.a
Lincoln News: Guy Green has cut
loose with another fat offer of cash for
ball players The Lincoln magnate has
given notice that he intends to keep
pegging away until he gets results. This
policy will not hurt him any In the
estimation of the Lincoln fans. Let the
Greenbackers get. up in that pennant
race and no city in the circuit has any
license to outdraw the Nebraska CAPT.
tai.
Wichita Beacon: Wichita wanted to
win the series, there is no denying that,
and there is also no denying that Sir
Richard Cooley has pretty nifty
bunch of bali tossers on his pay roll.
Wichita partisans feel that they got
the worst of the luck in yesterdays
games, and if there were any mistakes
made by the umpire which had bear
ing on the fll.-,l result. Wichita got the
short end of it yesterday and also In
Mondays contest. But Wichita isn't
kicking. Luck like errors. has to be
figured upon in every ball game, es-
pecially where the teams are as evenly
matched as they are in the Western
lea que this year. and as long as the
locals get their share of 1t there is no
reason to howl. 1t is long race yet
to the wire, and the Jobbers don't ex-
pect to be at the top all the time. They
do expect to be hovering around IN thas
vicinity most of the time, though, and
1T won't be at all surprising if Topeka
lis I'D there some of the time, too.
Lincoln News: Glenalvin, the new
jumps named yesterday by Tip O'Neill,
scarcely belongs in the SQUAD glass II
is more than 20 years ago that GlenaiVin
was playing ball in Lincoln in the Or
iginal Western league. He Is. to report
for duty in Topeka The department
sincerely trusts that Glenalvin makes
good. The situation affords a fine
chance to get rid of the aggravating
Wheeler, who doubtless means well but
whose train will never arrive
The Jobbers outfit Topeka In the re-
cent series at the Peerless city, but the
locals led in the fielding. Wichita hit
2s8 and Topeka hit -zS5. Topeka field
ed 1858, while Wichita averaged 1858.
Hollenbeck is doing some good pinch
hitting for the Omaha team. The big
southpaw delivers in the pinches ABOUT
four-fifths of the time.
Standard, of the Denver team, is
one of the best hitters on the team
a
ting any here. He did the pinch nit
role for the Grizzlies in the earlv part
of the season, and delivered at the rate
of five out of six. Pretty good. Denver
has some good hitters, and Is hitting
we'll above the 800 mark. Pretty good
for a team after So days of play.
Charlie Jones seems to have the best
team that has been here this season.
OF course the other teams when they
urara iy,era hadn't got started vet. but
at the rate Denver Is playing here.
there is considerable curiosity express
ed as to why Denver is out Of the first
division. They have certainly played
the locals off their feet thus far, with
Yesterdays exception. The team is -ag-
gressive and hpstling every minute.
and fields and hits consistently. The
pitching staff is pretty good too.