The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-20
BASEBALL DopE AND GossIP.

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BASEBALL DopE AND GOSSIP.
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Omaha at Topeka
St Joseph at Denver.
Sioux City at Lincoln.
Des Moines at Pueblo.
Jack Fugate is proving to be about
all the managers of the Western league
expected when they tried to get him
last winter. He walked only one and
kept his slants lodging a punch on the
nose Goat Anderson. the Rourke dis
card outfielder, managed to get two
hits but others were lucky with one.
Red Gardeners enrolment puts the
Kaw shakedown in about the shape
where it will be left awhile. Krepps
must get his finger healed up and take
the keystone sending King back to the.
outheld and them provided no one else
gets hurt, it will be possible to draw
a bean on the bunch.
Gardner carries something of the
appearance and manner Of Red Davis
of the old Association club He Elts
the ball with the wide shouldered Ell
feet in the same way, too, and yester-
day cIouted a pair which would have
carried an infielder out with them.
Eddie Crompton, who drew his re-
lease along with his pay Saturday
night, has been recalled by the C1ncln-
natl Reds from whom he was hired IN
the spring. If his work here was his
best, he will need some more farming.
One of the most spectacular events
ever seen at the local ball yard was
the first sprint of Umpire Morgan from
first to second. Morgan runs high like
a rooster. He wears white socks ana
every time he arches knee his blue
trousers pull up, showing the flash OF
white. When these white streaks snow
in the IA pid and continued attenuation
of a sprint from first to second and one
knows it is an umpire running the
situation becomes 1udicrous- me oc-
casion was Emory's turn to second on
Graham's overthrow. His Jumps ran
again when Fugate turned on an error
of ColIigan'S but ran little closer 10
the ground and not quite so swiftly.
Sporting News: Adherence to the
rules of the game lost for Decatur one
of the most peculiar battles ever play
ed here on Sunday last. Interference
with the work of the boy manipulating
the big score board on the outnelo
fence BY funny players led him to
slim another inning into the game
along about the sixth. so that when
seven and one-half innings were play
ed, the players and umpire, VINO ue-
pend on the board rather than their
memories, quit with the score TO
in favor of Decatur, leaving II TO the
official scorer to unravel the mystery
of how eight and one-half innings
could have been evolved from the
seven and one-half before him on inc
score book. Rather than attempl tne
feat. he consulted the umpire and IL
was decided to recall the men ana play
the other inning. The Dubuque team
saw so much humor in the situation
that it proceeded to bat out three runs
on the new pitcher, Rustenhaven haN-
ing disposed of his uniform in the few
moments intervening. Decatur nearly
made up for 1t, but fell down at the
moment when the game mlgnt nave
been retrieved, and lost 5 TO 4 Husteh-
haven was thus ropoed py clIculnz
stances of the best game he pitched
for the local team. Incidentally, TINS
tvvirIer who was forwarded to kinsella
nv the Giants this spring. has been re-
leased to meet the 13-man require
ment, and left Immediately Tor tne
when right. Rusty failed to produce
the goods in an or year
Sioux City Tribune: The Sioux City
battery. Sage and Dawson. maze
team worthy of the best side snow on
earth. Sage stands 6 feet 21s inches
high. while Dawson is 6 feet 5 inches
The bit of marble-topped stuff that
walter Smith, one of Jimmy Casey's
players at Fort Wayne, pulled on Wneh
he insisted on walking q man with men
on first and third so he could ill up
the bases and give Jack Onslow ancth
or chance to catch a man off second. Is
eoualled by one Stanley pulled OF
week or two before he was let go, says
a Fort Wayne paper.
A runner was on first, with one man
gone, when Stanley's turn came to bat.
He's q, slow runner and a worse hitter,
SO he asked Casey what he should do.
strike out to keep from hitting into a
double" Jim said impatiently.
And did he do it?' jim says When
telling the story Three in the groove
and he never looked at 'em, and then
he came like a trick dog expecting me
to pat him on the head and give him
something to eat"
''Bobbie" Carruthers, famous as a
pitcher of the st. Louis baseball club
Of the old American association, when
it won four successive worlds cham
pionships, and who later pitched in the
National league, IS in a hospital at
Peoria reported to be in dying condi-
ton. Carruthers has been umpiring in
the Three-I league
Pitcher ROBINSON of the Fort Worth
club in the Texas league. has been
sold to the Pittsburg National league
club for $4,000, according to announce
n1ent made by the manager of the Fort
Worth club.
The post season series with the win
ming team of the c. K. league of the
second half will be played here July
%. The Travellers were successful in
winning the pennant for the first half
and during the second half it viii be
between Clay Center and Junction City.
Either team is liable to take the second
half as the race is close. The Travellers