The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-28
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Where They Play Tomorrow.

/ BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Where They Play Tomorrow.
4 Lincoln at Denver
i Sioux City at st. Joseph.
Omaha at Wichita.
| Des Moines at Topeka.
/ Des Moines is on the lot here by
I schedule but hree days. playing a
/ double header tomorrow after which
the team leaves for a series with ST..
Joseph.
Manager George Davis, who has re-
Gently been playing short for the
Champs himself in order to keep them
thoroughly alive. let Coligan do it yes
| terday.
| 1t was pleasing thing when Topeka,
| the fall guys, for the hidden ball in
/ Denver, turned the trick on Des Moines
when WEIGH caught Curtis off, thereby
passing the joke on to another club x
Cooley is among the magnates watch
| ing for the bursting of the Western A.
Beckley, manager of the Bartlesville
club. He also has lines out for others
over the continent.
There's always something in the
| brush leagues: The game between
Lyons and Arkansas City ended in
row in the eighth inning when Size
| more, one of the Lyons players who
| was umpiring in place of the league
| umpire, made a bad decision and the
| scorekeeper called it mo game At
the end of the eighth inning the score
was to in favor Of Lyons. Batteries
Jones and Harrison; Killilay and
Lawrence. Ellsworth and Con-
cordia attempted to play a double
header. but got only as far as the
seventh inning of the first game, when
a Concordia runner failed to touch
third base and was declared out by the
umpire. Concordia disputed the de-
cision and left the ground, forfeiting
the game to Ellsworth, to 0.
One pitcher is all q club needs If it
gets Willis Brinson. wherever he is,
says some one. Brinson is said to be
a wonder with either hand. On Sun
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days he is a right handler and fires
from the port side on other days.
At this time it seems certain that
Denver can not be headed in the pen
nant race and Dick Cooley hands the
rag to Hendricks by fifteen-game
gagged in race with the leaders, how
ever, with the Sioux Indians some 30
points to the good. The Packers al
ready have had their soft end of the,
schedule, where they trimmed all COM
ers in their own little pill box. About
two-thirds of the rest of their games
are to be played on foreign fields and
their road hitting is away behind
their home record. On the other hand,
Denver has more than held her own on
fyabout schedule and now will get
to lambast their adversaries on their
home lot Lincoln is climbing at a
rapid clip and at present seems to
have the baseball edge on the Packers
and a fine chance for second place
Denver Republican: In speaking of
the recent success of the Denver Griz-
lilies, a time tried fan remarked the
other day that base running is turning
the trick. That brings to light the fact
that there is revival of base running
in baseball today For the last ten
years or more the art has been a sec
ondary matter. but now we shall see
again the youngSter fly from bag to
bag, with the veteran, although slowed
down by age, matching his knowledge
of the game against the science of the
infield Players have shown, a ten
dency to put aside the straight dash
down the line for the next sack. en-
ploying instead a blind dependence on
the sacrifice bunt, the hit and run. the
squeeze play, and other lines CT at
tack familiar to the modern fan All
of those things are to be admired.
Great Is the hit and run. the squeeze
play and all of the others when they
work, but let them fail and war is at
hand The cause for this revival of
base running is that the new tangled
ideas have not been keeping their po-
sition of late. Failures have been too
frequent, and gradually the intricate
system of manufacturing runs has
been falling down. Because of this,
there can be but one thing to do. and
that is to go back to the old-fashioned
game of stealing bases. One thing
which had great deal to do with the
passing of base running was the in
PRODUCTION of the catcher's big init. IL
used to be the case that the catcher
had to receive the ball on thin finger
glove and his throws to bases were
slowed by the shock to his hand, CIV
ing base runners a much better chance
of making the steal in safety Then
came the pad, and with it loss for
runner of the slender margin which
had brought him stolen bases. About
this time infielders began to. work
tricks to stop runners and they were
successful. The attack was at loss,
and it was then that the hit and run
began to be used. The science of de-
Tense has progressed faster than that
of attack. The infie1d has been work
ing to kill off the squeeze, and in half
of its trials now the manager is made
to look like monument to idiocy. The
speed of fast fielderS is killing the
hunt, and the hit and run is cared for
in the same spirit. The whole mod
ern fnfe1d is a machine of trickery,
bubbling over with plans to break
down the attack. Individual speed,
with plenty of good leg work, is re-
Stunning it's place, thrilling the specta-
tors with dazzling steals of second, and
the double theft of second and third
The game will get a tonic which it is
badly in need of, and there is little use
to decry the return to old ideas and
plays.