The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-07
CENTRAL KANSAS LEAGUE.
No games scheduled.

The Kansas State league race is
certainly a pretty one as the end
draws near. But nine more games
are to be played before the season
is ended. At this time it looks like a
close fight between Hutchinson, Nc
Pherson and Lyons. Neither club has
it cinched as yet. The fans over the
circuit would probably favor the
Mcpherson club The Macs win or
lose have made a great race With
a team that was hardly figured in
the running when the season started,
the team has played great ball all
season, and has led the race most of
the way. Then when four of the
best players on the club deserted,
drawn by the lust for the filth lucre,
the fans over the circuit projected a
slump for the Macs, but the slump
didn't come. The loss of four good
team, and now the team is right up
at the fighting, not with the lead it
once had but with a favorable chance
for the rag. Bill link has made a
hard fight and so has Cecil Bankhead.
The Lyons bunch was started by Jay
fans who out Of love for the old
physish would like to see the
Rice county seat town land the bunt-
ing. Another week will tell.
Fred Starr finally did sober up long
City. When he was with Topeka he
was so much the other way most of
the time that Cooley had to wait for
him to sober uD to inform him that
he was canned. But at that Starr is
a good pitcher, and he should help |
the Junction City club no small |
amount.
Mckee seems to be winning the |
plaudits as the premier umpire of
he - al L but fIn troll
Kansas hasn't brought out an umpire |
this season that would rank witr
Cleary of the Kansas State circuit.
Lee Gramley has shifted Art Day,
the Onaga kid, to the top of the bat |
ting order and he is showing his ap-
probation of the honor by hitting the
ball harder than ever.
Cyclone Thompson the southpaw of
the Abilene team who was so highly |
touted in the spring months. has been
given his release through his in
ability to deliver the goods.
Quigley, of St. Marys' has appealed
to Secretary Farrell of the national
dent Hoffman's decision regarding the
protested game between Abilene and
Salina Quigley is fighting hard for
the rag and has decided that he needs
every game he can get.
The Salina Union saws that Presi-
dent Hoffman listens too much to the
protests. and that he decides too
many of them on insufficient evil
dence.
The Great Bend Tribune has the
following apology to make for an
opinion handed down earlier in the
season: Browns boneheading dur
ng the Wellington series makes us
believe we were in error in picking
him as the star second baseman in :
The league. He is a better hitter than
Plank of Hutchinson, but Plank
fields as well and is a better base
'Unner. If Earthman of Great Bend
had been in the league longer, we .
would select him. king is probably
he peer of any ball player in the
eague, but he hasn't got away with
I this season. He started in sick
iition, but at that he has been the
most dangerous man on any team in
breaking up games and beating his
opponents. His hits have almost
Without exception meant runs.
Lyons News: The winning of the
game Tuesday by
he Lions was sufficient from the
tandpoint of an advertising PROPOSE
ion, to pay the expenses of the
0~o1SOAA II A4S O1iS never Wits
mother game. the team has more
han paid for all expenses that has
,een attached to the seasons work
7ractlcally every paper in the coun-
~, that amounts to anything will /
ontain an account of that last game
With the Macks- It will be recorded
n the annals of sport and will be
aIked about in Kansas baseball cir
les Tor years to come. People who
ever before knew where Lyons was
VIII brush the dust off the old atlas