The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-13

WHor0 lney RAY t1OI1OErOtFs
Topeka at Omaha.
i Denver at Lincoln.
/ Wichita at Dcs Moiues.
i st. Joseph at Sioux City.
Let's see, when was it the CooleysoS
Won a game? oh, yes-the first game
| Of the double header with Omaha Aug
ust 5. The Omahogs took the second
| and the AnteloDeS followed with SIX
straight and now Omaha has taken
/ two. That's nine losses in succession
Topeka certainly stands a good chance
| to win ehe record cellar championship
Shea did the regular backstop work
! Friday and got two of the hits-both
two sackers. and no errors.
Fugate got little ahead of himself
| by striking out seven and walking only
four.
s. A Abbott played the left pasture
| again for a time after Jackson could
not deliver hit. Jackson got a put
out but otherwise there was nothing do
| ing in the left garden.
Lincoln News: That Tuesday dcuble-
| header drew nearly 1,500, but the quail
ty of baseball exhibited by the Cooleys
the smallest, by far, at the local yard
this season, the fans evidently deciding
to await the coming of the Denver
Bears. Dick Cooley has cleaned up
some money by selling players, but he
cannot expect to draw crowds, either at
home or abroad, with his present line
UP. The average baseball fan is no
body's chump. He wants a ball game,
not a farce. -. Pitchers Jackson,
Barber and Wright, of the Topeka club,
We're easy picking for the Antelopes In
the last three games of the series. The
Antelopes thumped the Topeka trio for
A.; safe clouts in 107 times at bat. This
was team average of .402 and the An
telopes did it in real baseball park,
not O pillbox.
Lincoln Star: Some papers around
the circuit seem to think that the To-
peka club minus the services of many
of its early season players, is joke
They had better get over that notion.
The club has more pepper than at any
previous time. Stoffer at third, Welch
at second and Riley in left are all the
superiors of the men who have played
those positions for the Sox In previ-
Gus games. This is not intended to dis
parage Thomson. by comparison with
Riley, as that fielder takes Landreth's
place and is only subbing in left until
Abbott feels able TO get back In the
game. The Topeka club is weakened
in its pitching staff, beyond doubt, out
has a good enough bunch to bother the
ether teams, and those new ball play
ers of Sir Richards have the slugging
ability. The team will make several Of
the other second division punches hus-
tie to win.
st. Joseph News-Press: Holland re-
manned here to look after business af-
fairs and will leave tonight or tomor-
row for Chicago, where he intends to
visit Charles Comiskey. owner of the
White Sox. Holland is making the
Chicago trip for the purpose of ar
ranging for the draft Of two players
from an eastern league, through Com
iskey. He intends stopping at Quincy
on his way, to look over Shortstop
Berg, who is making things hum in
the Central this season. Holland means
to have a top-notcher in 1911 and is
going after the best players he can
get. OF the men who have been sold
under option, Holland intends to recall
but two, Watson and Mcneil. Kensel.
who was sold to Ottumwa, Clarke and
Grogran, now playing with Burlington,
and Pratt, McLear and Galgano, will
be cut off the list. Whether Kancas
City recalls Frambes or not, Holland
is in hopes that the nifty catcher will
be in a Drummer "uni' again next
spring. Boles and Coe are practically
sure to be with the club. The pitch
ing staff is going to receive the greater
share. of attention, however, and Hol-
land intimated that with two. or per-
haps three exceptions, there would be
new faces in the box next season.
Denver News: The Denver Grizzlies
open a sixteen game road trip at Lin
coin and the four game series with the
Antelopes is sure to put the Bears to
a most severe test. Lincoln has just
concluded a series with Topeka which
showed that the Antelope pitchers are
working in great shape and that the
whole team is hitting and fielding in
championship form. When the Bears
left home they did not go with the
confidence of the fans and they did
not even have. any great amount of
confidence in themselves. This condi-
ton is not at all as it should be. Den
yer has a great team, one of the best,
If not the best, in the league. Unfor-
tunately the team got into a slump
during the Sioux City series here. The
pitchers got to going badly and almost
every player on the team was guilty
of some misplay or lack of Judgment
better ball than they ever played in
the history of their team, but they,
too, slumped the minute they left
Denver and proved to be easy picking
for Wichita. The Grizzlies did not
seem to improve during the Des
Moines series, but when you look over
the situation carefully all this may be
a good sign. Every team hits a slump
sooner or later in the season. 1t is this
uncertainty which makes baseball a
great game and there is not a man
living in the world who can correctly
figure out just what is going to hap
pen in baseball game or in a pen
and there is every chance in the world
that the team will get its stride within
the next day or two. Lincoln has been