The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-28

WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW.
Topeka at Pueblo.
Wichita at Denver.
Omaha at Sioux City.
Lincoln at Des Moines.
Slapnicka, who was left at home on
the trip has received notice of his re-
lease from Cooley. He will remain in
Topeka for a few days at least.
The Lincoln Star thinks Pueblo is
the best team of the four Western
League aggregatlons.
The Omaha papers are printing a lot
of dope about the proposed American
Association war. Maybe Omaha is hg-
Iiring on advancing a notch in case
there IS g. change in the circuits.
Rainy day Topeka items in the Lincoln
Star: McManus, catcher for the To
pelxa. White Sox, has all the earmarks
of a heady, steady man behind the bat.
He fooled Umpire Wheeler many times
On the Topeka series and had him call
ing two feet wide ones, strikes.
Kshi. second basenan for Topeka is
one clever kid. He is fast on his feet
and knows many tricks of baseball. He
tpulled off several old stunts in the SER
ies here, but managed to get away
with them, Umpire Wheeler oeing
blind as a bat.
Denver News: Several clubs of the
lKVestern League have a decided ad-
Vantage over the Denver club IN that
Ffhey are made farms by major league
tolubs The Dec Moines club gets first
choice on the men Comiskey does not
want with the White Sox. Pueblo gets
first choice on the St. Louis Browns
ioyerf1ow. Omaha gets what Cantillon
cannot use in Washington, and Isbell
mas second choice on the Chicago over
flow for his Wichita. team. Ducky
tF1oInaes has the happy faculty of pick
ting up promising youngsters, and Dick
.CooIey's wide acquaintance in major
lleague circles enables him to be on
hand when there is anything in sight
Isround the big circuits. 1t would al
most pay the Denver club to have a
Eraid agent going around the country
scouting desirable material. such as the
ia1,ajor league clubs have. Whoever
Isighted Thompson, Hartman and Mag
On the Texas league discovered three
lE,layers easily worth twice What they
cost dn the draft. The city need not
he ashamed of the team which repre-
SCENTS Denver this year. 1t is made up
of hustling and aggressive players, who
fight every inch OF ground in way
which is bound to cause respect and
reflect credit on the town they repre-
sent. Bad pitching has lost many
games which should have been won
One more reliable pitcher will make
the Grizzlies look bold bidders for the
peunant.
Lincoln News: Topeka objects to the
assertion of an overZealouS Lincoln
scribe, who put it into print that the
Cooleys were a bunch of boneheads.'
The criticism was scarcely we'll found,
ed There are several teams in the
Western League that probably have i
on the Topekans on the score of men
tally but the Cooleys certainly out
class the league in crafty muckerism
And at that we doubt whether they car
be blamed Most of their violations O
the ethics of clean baseball, as dis
played in this city, occurred in plai1
view of Umpire Wheeler, and a spine
less, incompetent arbitrator who thu
permits the game to go to the bad il
the real culprit. The Cooleys are &C
customed to the -oiratical tactics of tn,
Shively league, where umpire baitin.
had become such a science that tn,
ordinary dictates of baseball decenc,
did not apply. We are willing to Civ,
month or two of experience in tn,
Western League may show them tn
error of their way.
The Denver team is certainly in hare
straits for pitchers. Everv member o
the twirling squad has a sore arm.
Lincoln has made a trade with TIN
Pueblo team in which Bonno goes. t,
the Indians while Pitcher James, VIII,
refused to report to Pueblo will repor
70 Lincoln. James is southpaw ant
will make the second southpaw on tn
Lincoln team, Maggie being the other
Tho Tight-handers are Johnson, Jone