The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03
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WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW:
Topeka at Sioux City.
Wichita at Lincoln.
Pueblo at Omaha.
Denver at DeS MoineS.
Bonnie Harris, the young pitcher OIL
the Topeka team is pitching game a:
Burlingame today. Tomorrow he will
go to Kansas City and join the team
which Johnny King is to take to Chi
cago next week. Harris will likely
finish the season with the king team
and rejoin the locals next season. kim
is also looking for Jack Forester.
The veteran Danny Green is now at
his home with Sioux City after having
been buffetted around all over the cir
cult. He is thinking of retiring from the
game. Danny was one of the best IN
the business until his arm went back
on him.
Ia all the lists promulgated by the ma
tional commission seventeen players
from the Western league will go up
next season. Four only were draftc1
and one of these may be a coverup. The
others were sales to the major league
clubs, many of them being exercised
under the option rule, having been sold
to the clubs from which they were
purchased last spring. A majority OF
these will be found coverup deals by
the time another spring rolls around.
Of the drafts, Kerner of Des MONIES
will go to the Chicago White Sox, Fox
of Omaha to Pittsburg, Bill Davidson
of Lincoln to the Cubs and Tony Smith.
also of Sioux City, to the Cubs. DAVID
son is a good outfielder and stands
pretty good chance of making good.
Kerner is only a fair catcher and Des
Moines undoubtedly wants to have one
cinched for next season Tony Smith
was up with Washington once but
failed to stick. And Fox was once IN
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however, and the chances are that this
is merely coverup. A number of the
players who have been sold are merely
covered up for next season as Will be
seen when the Des Moines lineup ap-
pears for next season. Some of them
may advance into the American asso-
citation which is a faster circuit al
though officially classified as the same
Hollenbeck. Fisher and King OF Omaha
all go to the Browns. The Browns are
experimenting with young blood and all
will likely get chance and those who
fail turned back for another year OF
seasoning. The White Sox have exer-
cised the options on Matticks, Miller,
LANCE, Dalton Niehoff and Dwyer, and
have purchased Cole of Wichita. The
later is no coverup affair, for Cole is
now playing with the Sox. Wichita
also sold Brennan to Cincinnati for
spring delivery. The Boston Nationals
have bought Kane from Omaha. A few
IF these men will likely stick Anyhow
it shows that the Western league Is
much faster than 1t was generally sup
posed to be, and it was asserted by
some who should have known better
that there would be very few
purchases or drafts by the majors.
Des Moines Capital: Is Topeka going
to nose Omaha out of third place? This
seems to be one of the pertinent ques-
tions in the Western league now. The
Cooleysox have taken three straight
games from the Rourkes and are now
but three games behind them
Slapnicka, who started the season
with the Topeka team, is now pitching
for Hannibal. Mo-, in the Central asso-
citation. In his first game he beat
Waterloo by a score of to 2, allowing
but six hits
Emory Olson stands a pretty good
chance of making good with the De
troit team. Detroit needs a great 1n-l
fielder to round out an otherwise fast