The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-02
BASEBALL DOPE AND GOSSIP.

Only one game scheduled in National
League today.
BASEBALL DOPE AND GOSSIP.
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Topeka at Denver
Lincoln at Pueblo
Des Moines at Omaha.
Sioux City at st. Joseph.
The Kaws hit the trail last night
for the camp of the Grizzlies After
three days there, they go to Pueblo
for three more and then take a swing
around by Lincoln for three more, re-
turning home August II to meet Pueb-
To- They are meeting three of the
hardest propositions in the league and
1t IS expected their averages will suf-
fer. Denver and Lincoln are tough
because they are top notchers and
Pueblo has exerted a jinks on the
Kaws since the opening day. There
is certain amount of consolation in
the certainty that the Kaws cannot be
sent down notch. Des Moines has
that place cinched-
And yet Unglaub says the Kaws are
the only club which is helping him
catch the Bruins. But the games the
kaws take from Denver are taken in
Topeka and not with the Denver bunch
at home.
Returning home, the Kaws will tax e
on IsbeIl and his gang fer three days
and then hit the trail for the eastern
loop.
The new infeIder, Peter McLaugh-
lin of St. Louis, reported yesterday.
He has been burning up the amateur
ball of the Missouri II n-etroDolis this
summer. Tom Reilly of the Sioux
tribe recommended him to Rickert,
and Joe wrote him Immediately for
terms.
That thirteen inning game was one
of those pitchers battles where
manager dare not jerk his twirler from
the hitting list for fear of getting
somebody in the box who couldn't
hold the opposition. There never is
any occasion to take Durbin out how
ever, as he is considered an almost
dependable hitter. His triple turned
the tide in his own favor and eventu-
ally gave him the fame.
Cockman's error in the first inning
was the result of overrunning Emory's
slow hit ball. He had the ball in his
hands but was ahead OF it and let it
slip. He got his feet crossed trying
to recover and stumbled. 1t was an
easy chance.
Chapman showed a chunk of ivory
in the seventh after he lad hit Gard
ner home. Edmiston hit foul of the
third base line. Cockman made the
catch over by the fence and doubled
was no question about the ball being
! foul, as it was a mile out.
Mccormick nipped a Kaw blossom
right in the bud in the ninth when it
looked like the home club was win
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and was sacrificed by Emory. Chap
man poled one on a line to left and
Gardner tore for home, supposing it
a sure enough bingle. His coacher
thought so, too. but Mack caught the
| ball off his shoe strings and turned the
throw to second for double on
Gardner. A most promising inning
went up in a second.
Manager Rickert has been playing
the game under a pretty severe strain
| the last several days. His wife who
recently came from his home in New
Orleans to join him was seized with
q fever last Friday and taken to st.
Francis hospital. Typhoid was at first
feared but final diagnosis pronounced
it malaria, that characteristic south
ern malady. AS a. consequence of his
wife's suffering, Joe had lost a great
deal of the shut-eye by staying at the
hospital at night until the sisters drove
him away. The worry and loss of
sleep have not materially affected
Ricketts, playing but gave him a little
set back at the plate.
| Omaha World-Herald: Omaha is the
| headquarters of the Des Noines team
All the Des Moines games have been
| transferred"
This was the answer of John f. Hig-
| gins when he was asked last night if
| he had any further statement to make
regarding the disposition of the club of
which he is practically, the sole owner
Higgins said that all the games
which We're to have been played in Des
Moines have now been transferred to