The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-12
BASEBALL GOSSIP.

BASEBALL GOSSIP
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Topeka at Omaha. y
Denver at Lincoln.
Wichita at Des Moines-
st. Joseph at Sioux City,
The Cooleysox new battery worked
against Omaha Thursday without star
ring. Ensley, loaned by Wichita on
the Wright deal, mounted the slab. He
passed ten men, struck out seven ana
allowed only eight hits. Shea got into
the game behind the bat for the first
time, after Brown had almost finished
it. In once to the platter he failed to
deliver hit.
The Cooleysox left field presented
another and yet different appearance at
Omaha. Evidently Abbott could not
hold the job, maybe Kerns did not like
it, or perhaps Barber does like it.
Anyway, Barber was the man in the
garden Thursday. u
Have to give it to those Wichita slab
men who handed it to the Sioux In
dams four times out of five. Shackle-
ford won two of them and allowed
and 4 hits respectively; Durham took
another allowing only five hits and
Aitchinson pulled one through on nine
hits.
An example of what enthusiasm,
nerve and bulldog tenacity will do for
supposedly down and out aggregation
is st. Joseph. Fighting from the bot
tom up through the same obstacles
other teams have had, the Drummers
have reached the lead of the second
division and bid fair to hold it If not
advance.
70 fraT
chise in the Eastern Kansas baseball
league and the franchise was placed
with Blue Rapids. Tuesday. George
Davidson, manager of the Marysyille
club, for the present will have charge
of the Blue Rapids team and it will
at once be strengthened Pitchers
MerkIe and Stack. Third Baseman
Hyzer and Outfielder Sackett have
been added to the Blue Rapids team,
making them strong aggregation.
Wichita Eagle: Good luck is sure to
accompany the Izzyites on their trip
for they have their little lucky silver
horseshoe with them. 1t is a sure
enough horseshoe, and was presented
to Manager Frank Isbell and the team
by Cliff Matson, who represente9i, the
local fans. 1t worked Thursday like
charm and proved a "hoodoo" to the
Sioux City bunch. The jobbers took
the game easily and at no time dld the
Sioux look dangerous. The good luck
| that accompanied the horseshoe will
follow them on the present trip, is
Izzy's prediction. The horseshoe is
made of silver, is slightly under regu-
lation size, and all, the names or the
local players are engraved on the snoe:
Just after Umpire Jack HASKELL had
called the game yesterday afternoon,
the Wichita and Sioux City players
lined up back of home plate in semi
circle in the form of a horseshoe. Cliff
Matson made a speech of presentation
and then handed the present to Icy:
The members of both teams crowded
around to inspect the shoe. and then
the game was called. The shoe was
purchased by dollar subscriptions
raised among local fans. The shoe
cost $50. It will accompany the team
on their trip and Manager Isbell says
it is proof again all the "hoodoos'
around the circuit.
Lincoln Star: Uncle Jake Beckley
thinks that Oklahoma City will be the
logical solution Of the Topeka problem.
He has no information which will al
! low g definite statement as the final
settlement of the Topeka clubs difficult
| ties. but thinks that. Dick Cooley will
get his price and sell out. He asserts
| that Cooley has a club which viii be a
| serious contender. next year. Stoner'
| Riley, WEIGH and other youngsters are
capable of playing great ball with
decent start and good support
Lincoln News: Outfielder Riley and
| Second Basen1ar WEIGH, two Of Dick
Cooley's recent pickups, have looked
pretty good in the bouts with the An
| telopes. Riley Is a corking hitter and
covers a lot of dirt in the garden
| WEIGH is 10 wizard at second, but he
whacks the ball square on the nose and
| skips along the lines with fine speed
| Stoffer, at third, is still in the rough
| while the sale Of Artie Thomson to the
| Cleveland Americans has left a hole in
! the outfield. Jake Beckley has added
| lot IF strength to the Cooleys and il
| sir Richard is able to land couple
| Of good pitchers and a finished out
| fielder, his club should be far from 9
| toke. =. Umpire George Clark
| has been taking it easy in the Lincoln
| Topeka series by handling the base de-
| cisions Clark parted company with e
nail on his big toe the other day Thf
/ umpire says a pitched ball loosened the
nail and a doctor did the rest but we
| strongly suspect that he ran counter tC
one of Pa Rourke's grouches and tht
Omaha boss bit 1t off.
Denver News: Manager Hendrick!
too every player and Trainer Sam
| Murbarger with the team, even includ
ing Buck Weaver. I'VE are going t.
fight to keep in first place while W.
are on the road, and if we succeed WI
will have the pennant cinched, becaus'
We have a long string OF games yet t.
play at home.'' Hendricks also mad
the announcement that he expects t.
add at least one and probably two nev
pitchers to the Denver twirling stat
within the next three or four days. H
has about closed deal whereby he will
get a pitcher from the American
League whom he considers capabl
enough to make a great showing in tn
| Western.