The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
|MSssstkS4Tgg|easus|

WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW.
Sioux City at Topeka.
Lincoln at Wichita.
Omaha at Pueblo.
Des MONIES at Denver.
Nlg Perrine, who was released by
omaha last week, is playing with one
or the Kansas City league teams. Mig
is in for g. record this season. He
was with one of the California out
law teams, then st. Paul, Omaha, and
the Kansas City city league. Mig is
now almost faded flower in the base
ball world.
The attendance at the local ball
games is not what it should be for a
team that is in the first division of
class A league. Last Sunday there
was scant two thousand at the
game. The only reason the stay
away fans offered was that the team
had lost three straights. During the
winter months the fans said they
would be fully satisfied if Cooley pro-
duced first division team the first
year. This is just what the town has
now. The ideals of the fans have
been realized and now there is a dis
position for the fans to lay down if
the team drops a game occasionally.
The fans demand a pennant winning
team. The pitching staff is being crit
lciSed because one or two or the pitch
ers weakened last week. There is no
team in the Western league nor in the
entire q. S: that is long on pitchers.
Any time Cooley can get a winning
pitcher he will do it, If money will
buy one. CooleyIis giving Topeka the
best baseball he can this season.
Good players are scarce. and it takes
times to build up a class A team that
is capable of landing the rag. Cool
ey has promised better team for
next year. He is now scouting with
that end in view. He has a player out
scouting as well. But for this years
team the Cooleysox are going good,
and will doubtless land in the first di-
vision 1t costs twice as much money
to maintain a team as it did in the
Western association. Don't knock on
the team when you can see twice as
good a game this season as you could
year ago for the same money.
McClintock is spending the day in
the Central Kansas looking over a
couple of players whom Cooley has
been watching through the papers.
It may be that Duke Hollenbeck
will get going good now after that
decisive victory over Wichita a few
days ago. Hollenbeck's fault has
been Wildness.
Sporting Editor State Journal: VIII
ton in your columns? Was not the
score of 81 to which was made by
Sioux City over Pueblo on June 22,
the largest ever recorded. J. E. B.
No. The largest score on record
was made at Buffalo New York, June
209 to 10. The largest professional
score was one of 81 to 48, a victory
Of the Brooklyn Atiantics over the
Philadelphia Athletics in the same
year. There have been worse clubs
in the world than Pueblo's.
Bob Lowe, who is scouting around
the Western league circuit enjoys the
record of having hit for the most
bases in a single game. On May 80,
and single out of five times at bat,
a total of II bases. A year later Ed
Delehanty tied the record but it has
never been beaten.
Johnny Beltz isn't going very good
with Joplin having lost the four
games in which he has worked.
Wichita Beacon: Pa Rourke be-
lieves that George Graham, his star
second baseman, will be back in the
game next season, better than ever.
He says he doesn't waut hi INTO try it
this season, unless, possibly it be
late and then his services will have
to be needed badly if he is called in.
The operation on his injured knee
was successful and the doctors say it
will be stronger than it ever was. Just
now Graham is checking wool for
the Union Pacific railway out in
Wyoming, an easy job which pays
well, and for which he may thank
his big baseball boss. Graham was a
mighty lucky fellow to be mem
Der of the Rourke family when he got
hurt. He drew full pay all last sea-
son, besides getting something like
$500 out of a benefit game which the
Omaha and Lincoln teams played for
him. Then he had a job in Pas
smoke house all winter, to help pay
his off-Season expenses.
Shipke of the Omaha club is af-
ficted with a bad leg but is sticking
at his post.
Sioux City is generally considered
the strongest team in the league in
the pitching department. Ducky has
some reliable men in Chabek, From,
Alderman and Freeman. Then there
Is the young Rothermel who is try
ing out. Ducky must think we'll of
his present bunch, when he let Mel
ter go to st. Louis.
Kid Speer figured in two double
plays in the game with Detroit Mon
day, and this in only two innings.
Speer is one of the best fielding pitch
ers that ever happened to the game.
Rusty Owens, the former Pueblo
pitcher who jumped to the outlaws is
now hooked up with the Ottumwa,
Iowa, team in the Central association.
He is the manager of the club. His
appointment came as result of a
petition to the directors signed by 500
fans.
Hogriever refuses to play with Lin
coin unless he gets more salary than
he has been offered.
The Omaha Bee is opposed to the
transfer of the Pueblo franchise to
ST. Joseph, as the following will show:
Of course 1t may be that Pueblo's
fra ncfaisa. is To he Transferred To ST )