The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-07

home in Alliance. Ohio. James is the
last of the missing Antelopes to report
barring Johnny Jones.
Wichita Beacon: kid" Hogriever.
Kid Eyler. kid" GonGing and KID
Sanders, all of whom are expected to
make good in the Western this year.
ought to have experience in lower
leagues before going into Class A.
Young Davis, Young IsbelI Crank,
Young Weaver. Young Sullivan. Young
as and a few other beardless youths,
more or less widely known, sort of
emphasize the contradiction also.
Lincoln News: Pitcher Fox looked
mighty good to the Lincoln fans who
made the trip to Omaha Sunday. Fox
was on the mound for the Antelopes
during three innings and fairly stood
the Rourkes on their heads Besides
pitching smart ball. he felded his po-
sotlon ike wizard and ate up the
hunts and line drives with most i'm
press1ve ease. Manager Sullivan is
confident that Fox will rank with the
leading pitchers in the Western League
secret of the prediction that in Fox
the Antelopes have shared another
Cicotte.
wichita Beacon: Frank ISbeu and
Mrs 5ISbeH entertained Frank Smith,
Ed Walsh, Sutor. Scott, Parent, Purtell,
Olmstead and Duffy of the White Sox,
Mrs. Frank Smith. and Fullerton. Rice
and Sanborn of the war correspondents
at dinner Sunday before the game. The
what beat the White Sox and the play
ers say it subsidized the press They
all insisted that it was the best din
per ever served hungry crowd. Louie
n hut I7n mi cd
the car and remained at the hotel.
Lincoln News: Pa Rourke's aggre-
cation was made to look pretty cheap
In those two exhibition arguments
with the Antelopes. That 10 to
Sunday crowd, but the Antelopes had
no thought of gate receipts and piled
1T on just as thick as they knew how.
The ranks of the Rourkes are to be
strengthened after April IL. by the
acquisition of Infielder Corridor and
Outf1elder Shotten, who are now
working out with the st. Louis
Browns. Pitcher Kelley and Third
Baseman Shipke are to report this
week. The arrival of this quartet will
act as tonic to the Rourkes and
when they come to Lincoln for two
exhibition bouts on April Is and IA,
the Antelopes may have to go at their
best clip in order to win.
Hugh s. Fullerton, writing for the
Chicago Examiner of the game be-
tween the Cooley and Comiskey
prOteges says:
Playing the cleverest, most intelIi-
gent and well directed ball they yet
have shown and interspersing the
game with brilliant individual feats,
the No. 1 Sox fought Dick Cooley's
team to a standstill today, and after
rating along at even terms almost
without hits for six innings, drew
away and won in a whirlwind of slug
ging, 4 to 1.
new team which have revealed them
selves in almost every game furnished
the feature today the Sox had four
hits, one scratch in the eighth, when
they started slamming right and left
without doing much damage.
The day was cold and gloomy. Rain
fell during the morning and the af-
ternoon was so chilly and bad that
the Sox perform. Those who didn't
come missed something of a baseball
treat.
For six innings the teams battled
along on even terms. The Sox had
three good opportunities to score.
having seven men left on bases in the
first five rounds But Kaufman, a
minor league veteran, was pitching
have seen this season and they could
not hit him safe when hits would have
yielded 200 to 800 per cent in runs.
Olmstead felt like working and cut
loose at top speed for the first time.
His pitching had class and If he is not
one of the regular staff this season
something must go wrong. The in
field worked well except Collins, who
muddIed things up occasionally.
The Sox departure from Wichita
last night was almost pathetic. Half
the men on the team refused to bid
Frank Isbell goodby because of the
bad work of an umpire. They claimed
Ivy fixed up deal to have them
robbed. Isbe1I served ten years on the
Sox team and was the father of the
team, chief adviser and comforter of
the players. He always was good
fellow, but friendship ceased because
of an exhibition game, marred by the
prejudice of an inexperienced umpire
The Sox, instead of being glad because
Izzy won, were bitter, and even those
who were his guests at dinner refused