The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-12
State League Begins Another
Season of Baseball.
Most Prosperous of Kansas Or
CARNATIONS Starts Year.
THE HOME TEAMS LOSE
Big Crowds Watch Opening Con-
tests in All Towns.
Warm Weather Needed to Bring
Players Into Form.

The 1911 season Of the Kansas State
league was launched Thursday with
every club at home losing its opening
game. Hutchinson lost to Lyons,
Wellington to Great Bend, Newton to
MCPHERSON and EIdorado to Larned-
At Hutchinson the raising of the
1910 pennant was the occasion for the
most suspicious ceremonies of the cir
cult. President w. w. Stahl, whose
home Is at Lyons, accompanied Spen-
Ger Arthur Abbott and his Lions to the
metropolis of the league and presented
the rag" Reciprocating the pen
nant run" of automobiles to Lyons
from Hutchinson last season, when the
bunting was hoisted at Lyons, double
the number of machines made the run
from Lyons to Hutchinson and figured
in the auto parade to the grounds.
Two thousand people filled the stands.
Hutchinson won the pennant last
year and here is the evidence" shout
ed President Stahl, who also Is a
county attorney, unfurling the cloth
given by the Hutchinson News. The
players ran to the flag pole and drew
up the trophy Mayor Frank Vincent
heaved the first ball and the game was
on.
Bill link, who has so far escaped
Ringling's hippo cage, and Old Abb,
still with a quarter hundredweight to
spare, guided their clubs from the mi
tial corner. Red Donovan, title hold
er in the "ug-physiog" contest of the
world. esSayed to pitch for the pen
nant winners and Langley went to the
mound for Lyons.
Hits began to figure extensively
shortly after the opening and cold,
wet week just previous was held to
blame. The twirlers of the league have
not yet had a good opportunity to
work ont and had all kinds of trouble.
The fielders, both in and out, encoun-
tered some of the reverse-English luck,
too, and some of the easiest outs were
turned to errors.
Among the familiar figures in the
game were Shortstop Mise of Lyons,
who once had a try at Lincoln; Out
fielder Jones of Lyons, who worked
for Cooley awhile last fall; Third
Baseman Quigley of Lyons, once with
Topeka; Outfielder Block of Hutchin-
son, who was also "at" Hutchinson
last season and Great Benz previous
Iy; Second BaSeman Acock of Hutch
inson, who finished the past season
with Omaha; Weisner, a Lyons out
fielder who had a go with Omaha;
Pitcher Langley, who had try with
Wichita last season, and Managers
Abbott and link. ~
Lyons broke away with one in the
first, third, fourth and sixth. Hutch
inson came back i'm the fourth with
one and then rambled away to the
pounding Langley off the hill. Four
runs were in and the link contingent
added a fifth when Dresser went in.
But the Lions, stirred up by Old Abb
with a prodding iron. went back saw
agely in the seventh, hanging up six.
Hutch kept smuggling in the eighth
and got two across, but could not
cover the new Lyons lead.
While the game as a whole was
poor exhibition for the Kansas State,
due to the muffs of high fys. the play
ing indicated that both clubs will be
strong and that Bill link will enjoy
no runaway race for the pennant. Abb
bolt insists he has a contender and If
nerve is good for anything. Abb's boys
will get along.
With one gone and first and third
occupied when one run would have
tied the score Pitcher Langley started
a double play to second. Old Abbott
nearly tainted and some other old
heads sweated blood, but still Langley
threw to Misse and Mise turned it to
first and the double ended the inning.
But for nerve hand it to Langley. Per-
haps he was excited, but whatever it
was, was something without ordinary
baseball
he o011nt.