The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25
from the Grizzlies. but a million miles
from here.

from the Grizzlies. but million miles
from here.
( You have to give it to the fans of
Topeka that they know good baseball
when they see it and refuse to have
their chuck mislabeled. You also have
to give it to Cooley that he doesn't
whine about the good fans not support
ing his cheap team-he just plays 1t
somewhere else and takes the money.
Nobody knows it better than Cooley
that the season got off bad. He said
himself at the first of the season that
he had to win by out-managing other
managers. He could not afford to sink
the money in the team, he thought,
so depended on superior knowledge OF
players and the game. somehow he lost
his cunning, or somebody else has a
larger package. At any rate the bunch
has won two games since the reorgan-
ization and that is something to look
back to.
Lincoln Star: Old Eagle Eye Jake
is as young as ever. He announced that
the visitors were playing good ball ana
need but TWO or three more young play
ers of the class of Coolev's recent ac-
QUESTIONS to be a real baH club. Defeats
do not mar Jahe'S equanImily nor 1loeS
embitter his pleasures. And mcautlme
his little, old batting average is still
climbing. Ed Young has I'M
earthed a picture o. Jimmy Sullivan ia
ken in the only year that Lincoln ever
won the peI1nant, 1895. S1lly was play
ing first base at that time. having been
signed as a catcher and transferred to
the initial station. 1t shows him as
likely lad of 20, a budding mustache
on his lips and the same cheerful HI
bernian look on his physiognomy that
beams today Those were great days IN
Lincoln. The pennant winning team had
Just ten men on the payroll. Two pltcn-
ers performed every day In the out
field, one was the bench ana the
extra catcher was at first. The salary
limit was $500 a month for the club
and the club, by keeping down num-
hers earned larger salaries for them
selves. May Jimmy live to play on
another pennant winner for the Ne
braSka capital.
st. Joseph Gazette: Thank goodness
for that last victory at Omaha. HAD
the Drummers lost it and then lost 70
Des Moines Monday the Champs would
have been in sixth place and the Drum
mers next to the cellar. AS it is the
Drummers can lose another game and
still stick ahead of the Des MONIES
bunch. There is one consolation, TOO
They could lose million and still be
ahead of Topeka. In answer 10
the waii which has gone up over the
announcement that Johnny Baker has
been farmed out to the Superior, Neo.'
( Iub Manager Holland Monday explain
ed that the arrangement is only tenn
perary in order TO give the little sodln-
paw plenty OF work during the next
three weeks Manager Holland says
that all of his pitchers have been going
so we'll that he feels that he ought to
work all of them in turn. With SIX
men on the staff he could not do this
and as he will depend a great zeal on
Baker during the last of the season he
wanted to give him an extra amount
Of work and so he is sending him away
where he will get it. Holland plans 10
recall Baker within the next three
weeks and sooner than that if the pitch
ers retained show any signs OF weaken
ing.
Lincoln News: Frank Jude is fully a
100 per cent better ball player this sea-
son than a year ago. His batting av-
erage is nothing ponderous, but the
niInble Chippewa has a commemorate
faculty of getting on the bases more
than an even share as result of free
passes and has scored a. lot ofrrunsa for
his team Jude covers a. world OF
ground in the left garden and is field
ing better than at any time in his base
ball career. His catch of Hughes long
drive Monday was a dazzler, the like
of which is seldom seen in any, game
in any league. AS a matter of fact,
the Chippewa's trapping of that clout
was a most important factor in Lin
coins victory. Jimmy Sullivan is en-
titled to a full share of the credit for
Judes Improvement. 1t is some trick
on the part of a manager to solve the
problem of handling players in order
to get the best results. For one thing
Sully is no rooster. There are no cali
downs, either in public or in private
The player who does the wrong stunt
is advised of his faults in a diplomatic
manner and Sully generally gets re-
suits, whereas a bawling out would
often defeat the managers ends
Judes heart is in the game this year.
for instance, something which seemed
to be lacking in previous seasons, and
Sully is the answer.
Sioux City Tribune: At last we