The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
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Topeka at Denver.
Wichita at Pueblo.
Omaha at DeS Moines
Lincoln at Sioux City
Topeka today is at the top of the
second division. This is the first
time the Topeka team has been in
the second division this season and
until this time the Topeka team was
the only time which had not been in
the second division. Not a bad rec
ord for an infant team.
The Wichita team seems to be re-
juvenating in the mountain. air. At
any rate the Jobbers found but little
trouble in Denver.
Thompson will probably continue
to work as backstop for the Denver
team while Zinram and Zalusky are
getting over injuries. This will leave
Kelly, the new infielder to work on
third in place of Thompson.
According to the Sioux City Tri-
bune. Umpire Dugan who is sick in
a Pueblo hospital has resigned: The
which was made by the Lincoln States
Journal evidently failed to take At
least Wheeler is still working and
the release was promulgated some
time ago.
The papers in Sioux City give the
Omaha team credit for the best ex-
hibition of inside baseball in any of
the Western league teams.
Omaha Bee: Omaha has sent out
some fast men. but probably never
contributed to the big leagues
player who has surpassed the record
Austin will yet achieve Already
league managers and papers as a
star. He is doing precisely what he
and his friends knew he would do
making good. eff they will only give
good" wrote Jimmy to Pa Rourke in
letter some weeks ago. He was
not boasting vainly. Now they are
fighting to settle the question, who
discovered Austin?" Joe Villa steps
in as arbiter and says it was none
other than President Farrell of the
Highlanders himself. And then he
refers to the discovery, not as the
find of the year, but "the find of the
age.''
Sioux City Journal: From the
showing of the eight clubs up to
date it looks as If three of the first
division clubs will come from the
east. Omaha, Des Moines and Sioux
City appear good enough to be
picked for flag contenders. while To-
peka looks to have slightly the best
of Wichita for a place in the upper
four. The Rourkes are putting up
clever inside game besides being
bunch of good batsmen. who are
dangerous at all times.
Pueblo Chieftain: Those Sum-
flowers did clout the ball. but in the
heaters. .Kunkel and Geier were
the real demons with the willow,
Kunkel got five hits out of six times
up, and one of them being home
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Geier got four safe ones out of as
many times up. one of them being a
homer.
has been cast adrift. There was
nothing particular against Coates
only that he was unlucky and just
couldn't win. Something like the
experience of Bill Howey in 1905.
According to the Western league
averages published in the Omaha
Sunday papers. Senator Bill Shipke
is leading with swatting average of
.437. Shipke was turned out of the
big leagues because he couldn't hit.
Chick Kirk. coach of the Univer-
sity of Iowa baseball team has been
secured by Des Moines and will be
given a thorough tryout behind the
bat with the Des Moines team
Old Dad Roach has been signed by
Flint in the Southern Michigan
league.
Omaha Bee: The fight for SUI
premacy in the Western league has
now really begun. The race has pro-
ceeded far enough to see that II lies
between Omaha. Sioux City and Des
Moines. Denver will have to brace
up if it expects to get In. Omaha
won eleven of fourteen games played
on its home grounds and It is play
ing fast ball and doing excellent
team work. but it must continue to
do all that to beat either Des Moines
or Sioux City, for both these teams
are going just as fast The Rourkes
begin a four-game series in Sioux
City today, then go to Des Moines for
four, and then return home for
twelve. taking on Lincoln. Des
Moines and Sioux City at vfnton
street park. The pitching staff has
steadied down and is working sys-
On its face it appears
to be the most consistent in the
league. The teams batting Is next
to the highest and seven members
are over 800. In base stealing It is
a leader, and also In the whole of
the inside game.