The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-22

will have no more short inning games.
| on account of the players of the op-
position wishing to catch a train
to start earlier. The decision he
says was the result of Outfielder
| Spencer of Pueblo wrangling for ten
minutes with the umpire and thus
| knocking Lincoln out of q chance to
| win.
| Pueblo has signed another pitcher,
| Herman Walters, who is a brother Of
the Indians second baseman.
| Wichita Eagle: Another day or so
| of such performances and the job
bers will be headed for the other end
| of the percentage column
| Rusty Owens the pitcher released
| a week or two ago by the Pueblo
/ team has made good with vengeance
| out at Stockholm in the California
| Outlaw circuit In his first appear
| ance he won his own game by q to
affair, by knocking a three-sacker Z
| with the bases full and two men out.
| In view of the declaration of Can
tain Fox of the Lincoln team at the
| opening of the season, to the effect
| that Topeka would be granted no
courtesies in the matter of Catching
trains, the announcement as to short
lining games made by the Omaha
Iapers comes at an opportune time.
Johnny Jones certainly had good
control in that game with Denver
when he won in a 16-fnning contest,
for in all that time he never exuded
one pass.
Jimmy Frick. former Western
| Association star who has been with
the Toronto team for three years. has
| been shifted from a regular job to
a utility position.
If the Topeka team only had a
few of her former pitchers there
would be run away race by the To-
calls With Hagerman, Selby, Halla,
) and Tom Hughes, we could win few
games at least. But what's the use.
We are going some right now for a
new team, which has jumped two
classes.
I Out at Portland, where Danny
Green is going. the fans get to see
baseball every day of the season.
McCreedie, who owns the Portland
franchise ha sa team in the Pacific
I west league, and he has the two
schedules arranged so that there is
never an Offday.
The two teams will arrive together
| tomorrow morning.
Kansas City Journal:-Catcher
Boles is still In the bench, but he may
not be long. if Ritter continues to al
low SO many to steal. Boles is
i good little catcher. and can hit as
good as most of the backstops in the
} league. He is youngster, and pos
sesses all kinds of pepper Boles
and tried to get his release, so he
could go to Topeka, or some place
where he could work every day. He
does not like bench wearing, and 1t
!; is not a good thing for a youngster.
If he wants to improve he ought to
be playing regular. He did not get
the release. and will be playing here
) all summer.
says that the story about his getting
: trial with Comiskey because of ten
hits in a row is untrue. Dalton got
eleven hits the first eleven times at
bat in the American league. He got
} five hits in five times at bat against
! Cy Young, got four hits off anoth-
er Boston pitcher the next day. and
} got three more against Cicotte on
a little pop-up and went for twenty
times at bat in succession without
!: getting another safe one. Such is
baseball.
| Des Moines Tribune: Ali of the
eastern players on the Des Moines
team, including Kirwan and Dwyer
and others, have seen Mcdonnell the
pitcher who is to join the Des Moines
team tomorrow, in action. and they
say that in years past he has been
wonder. He possessed a spit ball
with a great break and a world of
speed. Des Moines surely needs an
other right handed pitcher now.
There is also a possibility of Clarke's
returning. He has changed his mind
seventeen times In regard to report
ing but the last time he wired he
said he was coming. 1t Is possible
that he will be here tomorrow also.
"Information' VIII Not Give Score.
The Independent Telephone company
/ requests it's subscribers not to ask en-
formation for the baseball score. The
score will be given over the State Jour-
l nails special baseball phone, Ind S1s.
; We can save you money on that Ium-