The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-03
SATURDAY.

peka team in fielding, and although
not quite as good a hitting team az
some, they are always In the game
ana any one Of them is dangerous in
Wichita, think Topeka has the Job
bers entirely ourclassed. Topeka Is
lower In standing but that is not be-
cause the team is poorer. 1t is due
good start and have been working
good all the time, but they are no
classier than Topeka's. look to
Topeka as our strongest opponent for
the flag
Honus Kunkel. the Mellin's Food
third sacker for the Topeka team Is
establishing a record as the young
est player in the league. with his
twenty summers. He is also one of
the most promising.
The present Western league sched-
ule is faulty. All the teams are COM
planning that the home series and the
should be done another year is to
cut up some of the series, and not
give any team a month in one town.
1t kills the interest in the game.
There is such thing as too much
baseball.
Uncle John Higgins of the Des
Moines club is in Chicago on a still
nuill lot Players. since losing haROn
Des Moines wants another pitcher.
MCGUIRE, the third sacl1er recently
purchased by Lincoln, has been
turned back to Quincy. He wasn't
ripe.
The Pueblo papers say that Rusty
Owens will not take the management
of the Ottumwa club as was reported
in the papers over the circuit a few
days ago.
Clarence Cole who has been playing
a great game with the Springfield,
Mo, club is out of the game with
sickness.
Red Maggie who has been recuperat-
ing at Excelsior Springs for some time
is expected to join the Lincoln team
here tonight.
the former manager of the Cubs and
utility man. will not be seen again
this season in a Denver uniform. He
left Monday night for his home in
Philadelphia. The team now has all
kinds of backstops. Swampy Thomp-
son will be back in the game in three
or four days; Catcher Sullivan, who
comes from Lincoln. will be held in
any time, and Clarine. the North
Dakota catcher who did SO well
yesterday, may develop such good
form that he and Thompson may al
ternate on the job Clarine looks like
a ball player, is built like one, and
yesterday played like one. His
peculiar mannerism behind the bat
and his jaNnty little walk was the
source of no end of amusement yes
terday among audience and players
alike. Clarine was ordered to report
at the opening of the season. but did
not decide to play until week ago,
when he wrote the management and
they sent for him to come to Denver
at once. He whips the ball to sec
ond with speed and accuracy and
otherwise play his position well. ....
A reversal Of form has overtaken
Outfielder Belden of the Grizzlies.
Belden ten. days ago led the Western
league in batting. but since the re-
turn Of the team he has made but
two hits. He was the only member
of the team yesterday who did not
connect with the ball In the fourth
he cracked out a pretty single. and
for a second it looked as If the hoodoo
was broken. But the right fielder,
after a hot sprint reached forward
and mitted the pill with one hand.
And Mr.. Belden's hopes were shat
tered.
Tomorrow's games will be played
in the morning and afternoon. The
morning game will be called at 1890
and the afternoon game at $500. The
visiting team can demand two gate
admissions when two games are reg
ularly scheduled for the same date.
Hence the morning game.
Gus Hetling was spiked at Kansas
City Wednesday and Walter Boles Is
putting up a nice game during Het-
ling's absence.