The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-06

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Where They Play Tomorrow.
Topeka at Lincoln.
Denver at Pueblo.
st. Joseph at Sioux City.
Des Moines at Omaha
Almost won a game-then it ralned.
Looks like King is having to do
most Of the hitting for the roaming
Kaws. Mertte Whitney still punches
one now and then, however. and this
new lad. Chapman, has been getting
his bingles with some regularity.
Father Buchanan had the Izzyboys
at his mercy and deserved to win.
Crisp and Chapman staged a spell of
poor throwing which allowed the
score to be tied.
Begins to look like there was some
thing about that rain gag out west.
OF course 1t is quite possible for it to
rain and rain hard enough to stop
battle. but it didn't use to rain that
way.
Notice Des Moines step out today
with a new percentage OF. They can
show .216 today and they got it by a
meritorious exhibition. Hueston al
lowed the Packers only four hits and
shut them out, which is looking UP for
the Hopefuls.
Buff Ehman trimmed his old team
mates yesterday, holding the Grizzlies
TO five hits. Strange what a change
will do for a ball player. Ehnan prob
ably will be one of Lincoln's winning
pitchers, whereas he couldn't get to-
gether in Denver.
| That fat boy, Zwilling, of Hollands
/ F,rn oh hrr h11T 81 7ox
by clouting the ball over the fence in
the eleventh inning and breaking the
tie.
Later information on the game
which Topeka almost won in Denver
has it that In the last half Of the fifth
inning, Clark had two men down and
two strikes on the next batter when
Umpire Clark called the game. Just
one more ball, perhaps, would have
put the game on record as Topeka
victory. The rain fell in torrent, it
pire could allow the pitcher to throw
that one ball. The game had gone far
enough to make void the rain checks
issued by the Denver management, so
James McGiIl retained the receipts.
A New York physician and formerly
a Yale baseball player, gives it as his
opinion that many players should wear
spectacles at the bat. He cites case
of where a player could Bo1 touch the
ball without glasses, but with them
could hit 1000. Likely enough, the
players who grow old in the game
need glasses just as much as any man
needs them in other business. If it
were not for fear of getting hit with
the ball and thus losing the eyes alto
gether, the suggestion to wear specs
would be good one. Among others,
the Kaws should be examined for the
front lamps.
That Des Moines does not intend to
sit idly by and see Higgins transfer all
/ the games or transfer the franchise is
evidenced by action being taken by the
commercial organizations of the city.
Des Mofnes Tribune: Owner Higgins
seems to think that the Des Moines
fans have no opinion in the matter as
to where the Des, Moines team shall
play. an
| In spite of the publication by O'Neill,
Des Moines is not in immediate danger
of losing the baseball team except
/ through spite work. At the present
| time there is not another town in the
/ Western league territory in shape to
| take the team, and no baseball town
| that amounts to anything in another
league would want a tail end team on
their hands at this time in the season.
Just what will happen is a matter OF
conjecture. Following the games at
Sioux City the Des Moines team is not
scheduled to appear in Des Moines TN
til July u. and by that time conditions
may be changed materially.
This city can hope for little at the
/ hands of President O'NeilI, as he has
the best baseball town in the league
and his liking has not increased since
the town has shown indications of de-
mandig that there be some local ele-
ment in its baseball organization. O'Nein
! has not been in the city for two years,
although he has made numerous ex-
cursions to the other towns of the
| league.
Des Moines News: The reason of
nonsupport given the citizens of Des
Moines by President O'Neil1 Of the
Western league for transferring the
Fourth of July dates, the best on the
Des NIoines schedule, to Sioux City, is
an uncalled for "four-f1ush'' and hard
ly deserves a reply by the Des Moines
baseball fans.
Neither is it a cause for alarm. All
that has been said and can be said
about baseball conditions in Des
Afoines is known only too well by