The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-24
BASEBALL DOPE AND GOSSIP.


Where They Play Tomorrow.
Topeka at Des Moines.
Denver at st. Joseph
Lincoln at Sioux City.
Pueblo at Omaha-
Tho Kaws cut their errors down to
eight Yesterday and had 8 Longer dis
lance to string them in.
AS a matter Of fact that must have
been a regular bali game yesterday.
This new whjrIwind Robinson started
against the Kaws and held pretty tight
for the first eight innings but the Kaws
got to him in the ninth. tying the
score Of two runs and. pushing the
game into extra sessions. Fugate also
pitched steady bali, allowing few more
hits, than. Robinson. The total hits
were equally divided. -
Manager Joe sRjckert sends greetings
and the bunch that the Kaws are badly
off stride and not naturally rotten. The
slump, he says, is id the hitting. This
will remedy itself while new players viii
cover the rest.
It suppose the fans are pretty sore
over our defeats but they'll see a diff
ferent ball club and a different standing
for Topeka in 80 days from now writes
Rickcrt THE season is young yet and
If I get the men I am after, Wen be
there have the strings out and have
little doubt but that I'll land the men.
Our main fault at present is our
slump in hitting Every man on the
club with the possible exception of
Whitney has slurpped, every. one hitting
hard but nothing doing. Am expecting
an inf1elder to play in Saturdays game
and let. us hope he will break the hoo
doo-,'
The inflelder who viii play today pro-
baby is Sam Kreps Of concordia' and
while he may not stick his reputation
warrants a thorough tryout and MS
purchase shows a willingness on the
part of the owners to let new players
in.
Walter Boles will not play with the
Sioux He wired Towne he had &C
| cepted terms and was ready to start
when the transportation was forward
| ed. Towne then renigged on the TERMS
and once more Walter says he will not
play ball. He thinks the f1attering
terms were offered simply to get him IN
the notion of playing. One reason he
| does not care to play unless at good
figure is that he 3Dd his brother, Ar
thur. have just secured the state
agency of Texas with the North Amerl-
can Life.
General Debility has taken the reins
l of control of the Kaw Indians in the
absence of any regular CHIEF Old Man
Debility is a great leader among the
White IIlDCS d11Q SCCAAAS ~ ~ N0~-~7
about as well with the redskins
It might be said in passing that In
dams were ever thus-a loafng lot. Let
the squaws do the work as they did OF
old.
But the Kaws are pretty near the
| class of the league as you can see py
looking at the club standings-upsloe
| down. And there is no club in the CIR
CO 71lr4 v
ers' bunch which has played SO STEADY
ball. The Kaws have been IN second
| place almost every day since the sea-
son began-and that some record Tor
uniform playing Moreover, there seems seems
| to be no power to change their posi-
ton unless they climb into the nrst
place
Might as well give up. This baseball
game is a poor one. Wait Tor Iootpdll'
The Washburn institution. II Is one Is
stood, will havc team on tne .nStu
again next season-all over the field
rather. Topeka certainly has forged
| to the fore in athletics.
The trouble with the Kaws is mar
rowed conservatively to the infield and
the backstopping department The
pitchers and the outfielo might do.
That's half a team, at the least. Whit
nev is good enough at first, Hanord
isn't the worst third baseman in the
league and maybe Moore can play
short now and then; Hawkins and
Frambes are good catchers at times
and Breftenstein is no sort of a Sec
ond baseman at all. Therefore, the
first thing to do is to find second
sacker and they are looking for one;
the next thing to do is to find a catcher
and they are thinking about it, and
after that it would be well to take
Pa Rourke's advice and get whole
new infield.
Sioux City Journal: Harold Will |
kfns, Harmed" to the York club in |
the Nebraska State league. may be re-
called if he continues his good work |
His pitching is the sensation of that
league. Hurting against the Grand |
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