The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22


Sioux City at Lincoln.
DeS MoineS at Omaha.
Denver at Wichita.
Saturday the Cooleysox will estab-
lish themselves in Topeka for period
of 20 days. Five four-game series OF the
regular schedule are to be played on
the home field. The series will be in
terspersed with dcuble-headerS in or
der to get off postponed games. The
first of these will be played Sunday.
st. JoSeph'S DrummerS come for the
opening bill. Holland has repaired MS
machine and has it running smoothly.
1t may be overtaken. DeS MONIES 1oi-
lows. The Champions have fallen from
last years pinnacle and perhaps Cooley
can separate them from a few medals
himself. Then comes the Sioux CITY
Packers the heavy sluggers Of the pill
box" It is likely they can not hit
the Topeka pitchers over the long fences
and again the Cooleysox may annex
few. Omaha follows the Packers. Pa
Rourke's team. is on the tobogSan as
bad as is Cooley's. Maybe the lads at
home can push them along. Lastly
comes the Antelopes from Lincoln. just
lately they have been climbing the per-
centage tree at an alarming rate. TO
get an even break with them and with
the Packer pennant aspirants Will be
q worthy ambition. Can the Cooleysox
get back into the game on the home
field is the question. Get the answer
i'll the grandStand.
Pete O'Brian, the new second base
man, has reported in Topeka. Maybe
he's good and then maybe he isn't
He will have chance to deliver his
package right away. Kunkie will be
in the game with a strengthened knee.
Abbott will be on the initial corner
and Landreth, Wooley and Thomson
in the outfield. That bunch ought to
go some. The schedule this season has
1rrreax res
on the jump. This is the first time
they have had a chance to settle down
to business.
Wichita Beacon: Barney Reilly made
q favorable impression. He bagged
three of st. Joe's seven hits, and every
enc of them was a clean one. He stole
the only base that was pilfered in the
game, and handled each of his three
chances nicely. But st. Joseph scribe
is off his nut When he declares that
Frank IsbelI sobs every time he COM
pares Reilly and Claire. Issy knew
Reilly and realized that he was good
man, long before he let him go this
summe-. But no shortstop liz the league
has done any better work in all depart
ments of the game than the little Tex
an, and ISbell is not a bit sorry that
he kept Inn. With Claire working,
there was no place to use Reilly in the
Wichita infield, and rather than be
noS. ne let 81. Jt SSpH have HILL OOOoIl
ST. Joe appreciate a favor?
st. Joseph NeTs-Press: Moriarty of
Omaha doesn't seem to be putting it
over little Andy MCNEIL with his work
On third Reports from Rourketown m
dictate that Pa got stung on the Mori-
arty deal.
The first sale of Western players to
the majors for the season was closed
by Jack Holland of the Drummers,
when he sold Tex Jones and Row Cor
han to Charles Comiskey of the Chi
cago White Sox for a consideration of
$4,000. Holland did not take all the
money, though, according to the re-
port, but took half money and half in
he may be able to fill the places to be
made vacant at the, close of the pres
ent season. Should they not make
good in the big league, Holland is to
have first chance to get them back.
Des Moines Capital: THE pill box
grounds in Sioux City were certainly
shown up in the series between the
Packers and Champs which has just
closed. The cheese box may be good
as money maker, but as for getting
the best ball playing from two teams
it is a joke. Where were the terrible
300 hitters of the Packers during the
series just closed? This is the Ques-
ton which nearly every DeS MONIES
fan asked at the end of the series. Al
though the dopesters' batting averages
as promulgated yesterday gave seven
Packers hitting over 800, a glance
over the hitting records for the late
series showed that but one of these
hard hitting seven swatted 800. Harry
Myers is the only 800 man to show a
gain. In the two games he played he
got three hits, giving him an average
of .42S. Andreas is the only other
regular to show a gain. He was hit
ting .266 when the Sioux City team
left home, but here he brought up his
average to 353. "Cy'' Neighbors did
not get a hit in the four games, and
Stem had but one hit in fifteen times
at bat. The Packer pitchers were
about the best hitters here.
Owners McGill and Gunthorp deny
that they have added Pitcher George
Speer of the Cleveland Maps to their