The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
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There are no games in the Western
league tomorrow, it is an off day.
There will be but one break in the
long schedule away from home. One of
the Topeka-Lncoln games scheduled
for Lincoln will be played in Topeka.
game is played here as Sunday ball is
not allowed in Lincoln. The Topeka
team comes here from Lincoln and
goes to Sioux City for game the Sun
day following. Just one game here dur
ing the next month.
The Topeka team will play four
games at DeS Moines commencing with
Wednesday. Four more follow at
Omaha, then three at Lincoln, and
home for one. The trip will then be re-
sumed, four games being played at
Denver and four at Wichita. returning
home to meet Denver June 8.
Harry "BattIe-Axe" WEIGH, third
baseman of the Sioux City team, has
gone to Sioux City to await the return
of the Packers. Harry hurt himself in
one of the games at Denver. In the
meantime Koepping is playing short
and Smith has been shifted to third.
Manager Gunthorpe Of the Denver
team is growing optimistic already
over the teams chances. And the Den
yer team is making the best showing in
many years.
Downey is being eagerly sought by u
team in the Pacific Northwest league.
Downey was out there before playing
with the Kansas City and Denver
teams, and was one of the greatest in
fieIderS ever seen there.
Johnny Gonding has been at Omaha
eight years. The lad broke into the
game at Kansas City along in the lat
ter part of the '90s and played a couple
of seasons after which he went to
Omaha, where he has been a fixture.
The fans of that town can remember
no other regular backstop.
WEIGH, the big right fielder of the
Omahogs, led the Western league in
1862. He was second among the out
f1elders with an average of 1851. He Is
left handed both in batting and throw
ing.
Kane, the Omaha first baseman,
played the initial bag for the Pittsburg
team awhile last season. He is the
first left handed first baseman seen
here this spring.
hourKe, the owner or the
Omaha team, is here on the trip. PA"
has owned the Omaha franchise for
several years. He is an old player,
having played third base on different
teams about fifteen years back.
Hogrie'ger. who Is managing the
Pueblo team. has been in baseball for
twenty-four years, and is still rated as
a pretty good ball player.
Efforts are being made by the Pueblo
fans and magnates to get Ray Lovett,
the new outfielder, to report. Lovett
has been holding out ever since he was
sold by Denver, and Corhan, the teams
shortstop and an intimate friend of
Lovett's, accompanied by one of the
loyal fans of the town have been to
Denver to talk him into reporting
Lovett is sold with an option Of re-
purchase by the Denver club.
According to reports, KenseI, the
young Pueblo third baseman. fights the
ball considerable. but the mana cement
expects him to develop into great
third baseman when he gets himself
settled.
All Western league players who are
holding out, and who failed to sign be-
fore May Z, will be placed on the sus-
pended list by President O'Neill. This is
done in accordance with ruling made
several weeks ago, by the National as
ISOLATION.
Eddie Brennan, recently released BIZ
Cooley. has caught on with the Spring.
field club of the Western association.
Eddie Cicotte, the big F,renchman
who is pitching such splendid ball for
the Boston Americans, was once with
the Lincoln team, and landed the club
in second place in 1907,
In one of the Sioux City games in
Denver last week, it took the two
teams two hours and thirty-five min
utes to play the first four innings And
yet they say Denver has fast team.
Wichita fans consider Brennan the
best pitcher on the club and will use
him in the opening game at Omaha
Wednesday.
Butch Freese. the noisiest man in the
Western association last season, is
managing the Twin City aggregation
in the Kansas State league.
Ace Slater, who tried to pitch with
the Topeka club n 1907. but who