The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-06

made flying trip to st. Joe Saturday
night and saw the Antelopes put 1t
over the Drummers yesterday, return
ing home Sunday night. The boss OF
the Lincoln club said today: st Joe
is baseball mad. The Antelopes played
to over $500 paid admissions Satur-
day, while the crowd Sunday over
flowed into the field and made ground
rules necessary, a hit into the crowd
being good only for two bases. The
paid admissions were nearly $500. The
fans in Joetown are loyal and L never
heard such roofing in my life. The
din was something terrific, but the An
telopes were up on their toes and
played marvellous ball from first to
last. George F'arthing's pitching was
superb. A big crowd on hostile
grounds has had a tendency in the
past to get Farthing's goat, but he
stood to his guns yesterday and moved
down the Drummers in every pinch.
Farthing has looked mighty good to
me in the past, but he had everything
yesterday and Christy Mathewson or
Babe Adams couldn't have beaten him
the way he was going. The big league
club which wants this fellow will have
to come across with fancy price, for
pitchers of the Farthing stripe are a
scarce article. Jack Holland accepted
the defeat with good grace and praised
Farthing and our entire club in un-
stinted fashion. The st. Joe fans had
the same opinion as Holland and COM
plimented~ the Antelopes on their
showing" ~.
Denver Post: Manager Hendricks
has released Pitcher Buchanan and
Catcher Woods. The Denver team
could not use Woods because in Wea-
yer and McMurray, they have the two
best catchers in the Western league,
and although Woods is a classy catch
err, Manager Hendricks thought two
good backstops for the team were
enough. Woods will make a valuable
man for the team that gets him. Pitch
err Buchanan was released because
Manager Hendricks had to cut down
his pitching staff, as he will only carry
sixteen men on the teams first trip
away next week, and he must conse-
quently not keep more than seven
pitchers.
What a baseball team does for a
town, as seen by Zip O'Neil, presi-
dent of the western League and told
to the sporting editor of the Des
Moines Register and Leader: The
Greater Des Moines committee
has just spent about $1,000 for an ad
in a leading publication. This spring
the White Sox were billed to appear
in Des Moines. In advertisement of
the trip of the White Sox a booklet
was gotten out and sent to every part
of the world Des Moines was set be-
fore the people by this one game thou
sands of times. When the Sox came
here they received just exactly $S9.
Sioux City, st. Joseph, Omaha and
the other cities on the circuit appre
ciated the visit of the Sox and not only
was the attendance greater in these
cities by far but in addition the mem
bers of the team and the party were
greeted as lronored guests. Every morn
| ing HUNDREDS of thousands of people no
tice the standing of the Des Moines
team in the western League averages.
ST. Joseph was absolutely off the map
when it lost it's ball team, but as soon
as it got back into the Western League
that name was 1laced before the pub
lie more times in one week than it had
appeared in two years before. From
commercial standpoint 1 say that
Des Moines cannot afford to lose the
baseball team. A good baseball team
induces civic pride and it is certain
that Des Moines has had far more
than it's share of good ball teams. From
the attendance standpoint Des Moines
hasn't deserved championship team
in the last five years, but it has grab
bid three. I have never had any faith
In Des Moines as a baseball town and
have none now. L advised President
Higgins to move to ST. Joseph last fall,
but he refused to do it. advised him
to sell the club to the Cantillons when
they wanted to buy 1t last winter but
he hung onto it and thinks that he will