The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-30

yer. 4s; Lincoln, SO; St. Joseph, 80;
Omaha. %; Pueblo. 81; Des Moines.
FIELDING - Denver. 1865; Pueblo,
$50; Lincoln, .959; st. Joseph, .951;
Sioux City, .943; Des Moines, $40; To-
peka, $40; Omaha, .939.
Stolen Bases-St. Joseph, SIS; Sioux
City, ga; Lincoln, 81; Omaha, 81; Den
yer, 81; Topeka, SO; Des Moines, 20;
Pueblo, IS.
Omaha Bee: Frank Isbell has done
we'll with the problem that beset him
at Wichita. The people of Wichita,
with one or two notable exceptions
have done very poorly. Isbell staid
with them as long as there was a
chance to break even or hand over the
team to them. But they turned yellow
clear to the core and IzZy, in self-de-
Tense, had to seek new pastures. 1t is
a reflection on the enterprise of this
Wanted metropolis of Kansas" Is
bell, one of the most famous of ball
players himself, had been giving them
winning team all along-last year
and this year, and yet they rewarded
him with attendances on which he lost
money. We hope that old fellow meets
with splendid support in Pueblo.
Omaha Bee: It is to be hoped that
a certain plan for the displacement of
Higgins at Des Moines may go through
to save that town and team. The sit
uation becomes more acute every day.
The team evidently has quit and Hig-
gins is at sea, as he has been ever since
attempting to run a ball club. The
plan referred to contemplates what
would be calculated to reform the
whole situation. Des Moines as it has
been under Higgins. is a dead load to
the league in more ways than one and
must be attended to at once. 1t cannot
go on as it is. That is perfectly clear,
It is even worse than the Wichita
problem, for Wichita had good team.
Des Moines' present team, however, in
other words, would win many games.
It is doing nowhere near the work OF
which it is capable.
Ernest Ovitz, the young south paw
whom Moore purchased on his trip to
New York the first of the year, prob
ably will not be seen in Topeka uni
form. He was to report in June, after
commencement days at the chicago
medical school of the Illinois univer-
sity where he is a student. But the
management has sold him to the Chi
cago Cubs, evidently taking advantage
of an opportunity to get a piece OF
money before it slipped away. The
Kaw staff of twirlers seems to be in
excellent shape right now and all six
of the box men seem capable of doing
his turn. The south paw fad has gone
and one good port slider on a club can
hold down the requirements. Fugate
needs no help so far as can be dis
cerned at this angle.
Omaha World Herald: In our morn
ing perusal Of the box scores generous
" furnished by the philanthrop1c A. r,
we deem it positively CALLING to note
the caliber of the pastime being put
over by the American association. Par
ticularly it rankles in our bosom to
think that we should rightfully be in
their midst. Paws Darlings might as
well be in the Mink league as far as
prestige goes, and If our slumber1ng
little hamlet had half chance it could
make some of those up-stage big league
burgs travel some when it comes to
clinking the merry turnstile. Even a
lumpy team would look good to US If 1t
was in genteel company.
Lincoln News: One scribe wants to
lay a little bet that Pueblo won't be in
the league but one season Maybe this
faber wielder is Sin on the know" but
it is neither fair nor diplomatic to slap
the new town plump in the face even
before it has come back into the cir
cult. The magnates and Prexy Tip,
meanwhile, owe something to Pueblo
and may be expected to give Little
Pittsburg every possible show to de-
liver the attendance goods History
reads that the old ship was leaking
during the season of '05. Tom Burns
and his Colorado Springs club blew up
in midsummer and Pueblo come to the
rescue, raising a pot of several thou
sand ducatS within few days time
and taking over the team. The aid
given by Pueblo made possible the COM
pletion of the championship campaign
Then followed four years of unbroken
disaster so far as Little PiUsburg was
concerned. Their ball club was never
in the hunt and it was not surprising
that the team failed to draw well at
the home yard. Every season the bust
ness men and the bugs dug up pot of
good coin to finance a losing club, when
many other towns might have faltered
and quit early in the game. However,
the league stuck by Pueblo, feeling that
it owed Little Pittsburg g. debt of graft
tude. Today Pueblo is coming back to
the fold with a first class ball club. The
Izzies may not win the pennant-they
may not finish in the first division, but
they should win a lot of ball games on
the home lot and Pueblo fans will have
splendid chance to enthuse over
team marshalled by one of the finest
men in organized baseball team
which is reasonably sure to make it's
presence known until the end of the
championship season. It is not a bad
notion for the rest of the league to do
a little boosting for Little Pittsburg,
rather than to knock the town over the
knuckles when it steps forward to
shake hands.
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