The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-11


Wichita Beacon: Back under the pro-
tecting eye of Sandy Griswold, Fisher is
again stealing bases with surprising reg
ar1y R fa5 5teal yS Sm m eIss
Biersdorfer isn't in the best sL-pe for
Moines. He is a good southpaw and his
absence on account of sore arm Will
seriously handicap the club.
There is something pathetic about the
Des Moines club after all. The Western
league papers roasted Topeka when the
been roasted all season. But Des Moines
With a pennant winner Is 10 De Pit ds1;
when the Des Moines team held the OPP
posing side down to one hit. The park is
falling off in attendance. With PEN
nant winner, Uncle John shouldn't have
a town which failed to make good three
years ago in the Western association.
Pueblo Chiefton: The national baseball
committee has taken up the case of Man
ager Patterson and awarded Patterson to
Pittsburg. Patterson was sold to Pittsburg
but Chicago afterward decided to go back
on the deal. The national commission
forced Comiskey to turn Patterson over
In a letter received by President Garlic
from Patterson today, the former Pueblo .l9
twelve games with st. Louis and that ne
welcomes a change and hopes to get a
chance to show what he can do in the big
league.
in Pueblo and will return to this city attsr
says he likes Pueblo better than any place
he has seen in the east and that he will
make this city his home
If Kaufman had it on the other clubs
like he has it on the Omaha bunch he
would have won nearly every game he
has pitched this season
T
the first magnitude in Des Moines. A few
days ago Miller went to first base in place
p good ga d a aome eeVeT Rttng
On the same day Lange played in left
field and a phenomenal throw to the plate
These two then took turns in the box ard
he'll the opposing teams to one hit each.
Des Moines is up in the race. And with
three weeks mora OF these two iron-me1l
how is Sioux City going to win the pen
nant?
The Sioux City Tribune insists that
subterfuge that stole a game from Topeka
last week, because Ducky Holmes helped
franchises in the western league. To-
| peka certainly appreciates whatever Mr..
Homes 5 has done; put Ill REGGIE Is wrong
being dishonorable.
In the Judgment of the Omaha Bee
| sporting writer the Topeka club shows a
| lot of Improvement over the club which
represented the town earlier in the sea-
son. Topeka is attracting favorable COM
ment all over the circuit.
Sioux City Tribune: Catcher C1apper
and ''Honus" Keeping, who have beer
playing with Superior in the Minnesota
Wisconsin league this summer, are ex-
pected to report to the Champs this week.
Both have had good season in the
league.
Pueblo Cheftain Manager Walters, Of
the Indians, announced the signing of a
new battery in letter received this
Walters signed the men for next season,
but if they are badly needed before The
close. of the present season they will be
asked to report. The new pitcher is John
Grogan, of Rock Island, who has been
playing Independent ball in the east and
is said to be big, strong young twirler.
He is right handed and is a good hitter.
Grogan had several good offers from the
Southern league and Western association,
but accepted the Pueblo contract.
The new catcher is Tom Caffney, who
has been playing with the Muscatine,
Iowa. team but whose home is in Ad-
aza, Iowa. Caffney bats left handed and
is said to be a promising young catcher,
whose work has attracted considerable at
tention during the present season and
brought him several good offers.
Manager Walters thinks he has two good
men for next season, and predicts that
both players will make good. At any
rate, they will be available should any
pitching staff this season