The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-26

thought it wouldn't work well OF
couldn't make it break is known only
to have as much as usual.
ST like my team better than I did be-
fore the season opcned,iss said Cooley.
last night in SUMMING UP the first four
games. 1--WE should have had three out
Of four but they broke badly for us.
The luck was all against US but at that
have no kick 70 make. I sure hope
we get tho same kind: Of umpiring on
the road that Spencer has given US or
rather the visitors during the last two
days. That will help some If we get It,
But when we get on the road the pa
pers will roast these urnpires enough
TO make them favor the home team.
Il know my pitching staff is better
than I thought it was before the sea-
son opened, Fugate and Harris sur
prised me and think they are both
corners. Fugate has more than any
southpaw I ever saw in this league.
The pitching department has always
been my hoodoo and TIM beginning to
feel that perhaps I've got a good one
this year.
THE boys who hit right along are not
hitting but they will come all right.
In day or two the fellows at the
top OF the list will get going. That
is what has beaten US three out of four.
The big fellows have not been there
With the willow. But we'll get going
and then watch u.s.
Quite a come down for 2. z. Hager-
man to be driven from the box in the
Western. But the big fellow will pro-
bably come to Topeka and make mon
keys OF our boys as we'll as handing q
similar package to other fellows around
the. circuie. Hagerman must be
eprinter. He pitched Saturday for
Louisville and then jumped to Denver
for Mondays. game.
Neighbors COPIED one single in the
last contest with the 500. 1t is de-
ciared that Neighbors is spring hit
ter, same as Landreth. Spec king of
Landreth the big fellow is not clouting
the ball this ar as formerly. Three
times has Cooley sent him in during
what is popularity known as a pinch
and although he has got base on balls
two of the three TIRES he has not come
across with the desired hit.
Manager Hendricks is already hav-
ing trouble with his predictions. The
cay before the opener he said: IF Dem
yer ever wins, this season, it should
be tomorrow" Denver didn't win the
opener but undoubtedly has a good
team. Hendricks should not be so fast
with prophecies.
There is no doubling that Butch
KernS has much improved in his throw
ing to second since last year. He throws
so per cent ball player than when he
showed I'D at the local ball lot in 1909.
Kerns and Miller, who caught the op-
ching game. for the 500, played on the
same team part of the time they were
in the Texas League and are the best
cf friends. Kerns says Miller is a good
catcher and Miller protests that Kerns
is all to the gravy.
Will -he games be any shorter in the
Western League this year? Last year
few games were played in less than
two hours and the opener this year was
a bad start at the local park. Why is
it that the games can not be hurried
along little? Especially would this be
appreciated by the fans who war1 to
see it all despite the cold weather which
narred the opening of the season. This
is not kick but shorter games would
be appreciated by the fans.
2 his is the season when the oldest
fan proves thn+ he can come back by
going to the ball park in the most in
clement weather and making insane re-
marks either from joy or grief. But
they are the fellows who enable the
management to issue pay checks.
Nunanacher, who was traced to Chi
cago by Despair on condition that Don
could get him back If Murphy didn't
nse him has been farIned out to BlooIn-