The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-07
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Captain Abbott Figures Why
Crowds Are Small.
Due to the Bad Weather He
Says.
NO FEAR OF RESULT.
When Team Comes Home People
Will Be on Edge.
Items About the Other Teams
Around the Circuit.

team, has come to the defense of the
Topeka fans. The only criticism Of
fered on the fans is that they have
not turned out to the games. Cooley
has been playing to starvation crowds
and there is no denying it. But Abb
bott has it all doped out and declares
there need be no fear for Topeka
along the attendance line.
THE weather has been frightful, -
said Abbott. land that explains the
poor attendance. I've talked to a lot
of fans about the attendance and they
tell me that in their own case, and
they believe the same true of others
that the weather has been so bad they
thought little of going out to the
game. And 1t is the weather that has
hurt the attendance without doubt.
I'VE have not had more than FIVE
good days. There was bad weather
between these five good days and it
kept the bugs up town. They are not
sour on the team and they are not
dead ones. If we had been given our
five days of good weather in a row
the crowd would have been coming
good. Good weather is all we need.
The crowd will come when the wealth.
or opens up.
eff we have good trip on our first
swing away from home we will have
the finest attendance when we return.
There seems to be no particular reason
why we should not have a good trip.
know that if we go away from home
and make a good showing the fans
will be with us because Topeka fans
are that kind. They have always stood
by the team and they are not going to
quit now. No need to worry about
the attendance. 1t is going to be good.
But the weather man has surely hand
ed us a bunch of stuff that is hard
to ram down.
The chances are that CAB is about
right in his size up of the situation.
The weather has been so bad that
lot of men who go to games every day
have not yet thought of visiting the
park This department knows this to
be a fact. And it is quite likely that
four or five good days in bunch
would bring out the crowd.
The crowds in Topeka this year have
been bad. Probably they have been
the worst in the league. And Topeka
has been playing against the worst
spell of weather in the league. Even
Wichita has been less in the i'll favor
of the weather man than Topeka. And
Wichita has reported an attendance of
$50 a time or two and did SO right
along last summer.
The papers around the circuit have
commented upon the poor crowds in
the Kansas capital, but it has been
writer's. But there is still belief that
when the weather gets good the
crowds will come. AS to the team,
it seems as it did when the season
opened. that Cooley has the best
bunch of ball players he ever had to-
gether and as all who have witnessed
their work say, they will be contend
ers for the pennant until the third
man has been put out in October.
Monday the Cooleys have an off day.
MI Mink lea
but this is not certain. Tuesday they
open with PAS Rourlxlets in Omaha.
Omaha Bee: The Ad club is making
great preparations for the big opening
day and is doing all in its power 10
make the occasion q grand holiday. A
poster has been issued by the club AMI
placed in conspicuous places about the
city inviting the public to get in line
and boost for Omaha in the first ap-
pearance of the season. The poster
contains some illusions from the adj
writer's pen which attract attention by
the following phrases:
Sporting huxtree! One glorious
grasshopper massacre held under the
benign auspices of the Omaha Ad club
at Paw Rourke's baseball kopje, Fiji
tenth and Vinton streets, Omaha,
Neb., United States of Morgan, Tues
day, May 10, dust or shine, at $40
p. m.
N1ll0 GRACEFUL SIdSSIlOpPCASS ilclS-
querading as ball players and tickled
to death to escape from Topkea, Tin
Kansas, will gambol about Paws
greensward. being good GAMBLERS they
they will take the beating that is COM
inc to them.
This will the first 1910 league game
that Omaha wins on the home grounds.
These Sunfiower florists and cockle-
burr gardeners from the official sum-
mer resort of the cyclone have openly
Il, -
goat in this initial game. Not that we
are mortified (slang for peeved) at any,
thing this grasshopper nine says-they
are good kids and we like them-but We
deem it meet and prudent that Dean
Wilberforce Rourke and his nine capa-
BILE tutors should instruct them on the
subject, What's the matter with Kan
has?'
THE members of the Ad club will sit
together ono one has objected). Put on
it out to the ball park. Buy bottle Of
pink pop. You may not hit the umpire
the first shot, but your aim may i'm
prove as occasion demands.
President Ralph Sunderland will bat
the first ball. If he bats with his totem
pole he may hit the ball, provided it
stays still long enough.
Come on out. Get on and ride Help
the Ad club make the opening of the
baseball season big. classy joyfest.
VI SOdl ~NO 3OAAC +OA7O CNt7i
dreamed you had any If you can't be
real fan be near fan. You can get
away with it in a. crowd. Boost the
baseball team because the ball team
boosts Omaha. That's fair enough
The Ad club has prepared some songs
for the rooters, which follow:
Topeka's lungs are wheezy
And their pitchers are easy
And to take their money is crime.
We will roll in clover
When we put one over
On Topeka's baseball nine
Air Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet
Another me that is being rehearsed
is:
oh, the little white hen with the little
black foot
Layed a little egg on mulberry root
The best little hen we had on the
farm