The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-24


jude stack. who has been pitching
LOT the Manhattan Maroons ali season.
mas gone to the Clay Center team,
stack lost many games for the Ma
rooms but it was largely through fbe
/ poor team work behind him as he was
never hit hard.
me Junktown papers are getting
a1ter Manager Campbell asking him
to get a catcher. catcher is what
Ine team needs worse than anything
The Clay Center Dispatch saws that
sauna VIII take fall soon and that It
VIII be good hard one. The Ellis
worth team looks the best in that cir
cult.
Ludes Of Salina was asked to UNI
pire in the G. K. by President Hoff-
man but refused. That boy Ludes is
baseball.
Hutchinson News: Central Kansas
league magnates offered aid to Nc
Ioht in the hour Of her distress
last week, in the way of players who
could be used until additional PLAYERS
could be secured by the Macks But
the assistance was not needed. Nc
Pherson's pitchers are going good and
the rams have as much confidence in
Earl Green as manager as they for
merry had in Depew. The Indications
now are that Mcpherson will como
out Of 1t all right
Poor Bill link got only one hit in
eighteen times at bat this week But
he has connected several times since
that awful slump.
The Hutchinson Gazette sport writer
has probably found that II ala NOT
lessen his troubles one bit to print the
batting averages of the Hutchinson
players every day. For If there is any
one thing about which young PLAYERS
are touchy it is their batting averages.
Lyons won't stand for Umpire For
ney and so Forney doesn't get to nm
pre- In the Rice county seat any more.
n nEneaw IL
tention to the fact that the earth is
still moving despite the desertfon OF
Depew and the team is still on TOP by
healthy margin.
Flicker, Clay Center's outfeIder. is
out of the game with a broken rib
Doherty hasn't been playing with
the JunktoWn team for nearly a week.
He is back at Fort Riley but may join
the Junkies later.
Amin and Culver, two former Be-
lott players, are now with a team At
Washington, Kansas.
The Junction City Sentinel is also
knocking for more pepper among the
players. The Junkies are playing a
listless game.
Whalen and Dugan are delighting
the fans of JunktOwn with their hit
ting and Vann and Galeno are doing
as much with their fielding
Monroe of Abilene is leading the G.
K. outfielders in fielding, having a per-
feet percentage.
Beioit is without the services of
Reed, young pitcher, who was re-
leased because he couldn't show any
thing in his repertoire.
Salina Union: So far Salina has
scored the most runs against oppo-
nents with 1873; Junction City comes
next with 127; Minneapolis third with
1926; Ellsworth fourth with ia; Be
lott fifth with los; Abilene sixth with
los; Manhattan seventh with 50; Clay
Center eighth with TO-. Ellsworth
leads with fewest scores against them,
70: Salina is second with 81; Mime
apolis third with 1O2; Clay Center
fourth with 100; Beloit and Abilene
tie with 100 each; Junction City 124,
and Manhattan, 142.. Clay Cen
ter has administered the most shut
outs with 9; Ellsworth and Mime
apolis have administered 5 each; Be
lott Junction City and Salna 4 each;
Abilene and Manhattan H.. juno
ton City has been shutout only once
while .Salina is next with 2; Clay Cen
ter and Minneapolis each; Beloit 8
Ellsworth 6 and Manhattan again
foots the list with z.