The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-24
BASEBALL DOPE AND GOSSIP.
WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW
Topeka at Sioux City.
PUEBLO at Des Moines.
Denver at st. Joseph.
Lincoln at Omaha.

PUEBLO at Des Moines
Denver at st. Joseph.
: Lincoln at Omaha.
Say, boys, gather round a minute.
Pipe the way the little manager pum-i
melled the ball at the pillbox. When
a fellow gets only four hits in four
trips to the rubber he ought to be ar
rested for Vagrancy.
Pepper Clark seems to be getting on
well enough in the Western. He has
worked only short time and can not
be expected to stay full nine innings.
Safe and Sane Buchanan relieved him
in the sixth and held them runless but
the game was won and Pepper gets the
credit.
Thirteen bingles at the Soos' own
game in their own ballyard looks
mighty good to Topeka followers. 1t is
considered hard to beat the leaders at
home but Topeka needs these games
and Tuesday they played errorless ball
to get one.
Eddie Sabre will not have to go to
the Texas League. He had treated the
management so white on his dealings
that Chester Woodward yesterday at
ternoon. handed him an outright re-
lease so that he might go where he
chose. Sabre promised, however, that
he would not play in this league without
seeing that the club got out Of the
signing. what they had put into him.
Pretty square ball player, Ell? The
crack first sacker will try to get on
in the American Association and if he
does get berth he will hold it.
Butch Kerns seems to have slipped
one over on the management. He told
them he was so badly hurt he could
play nowhere and thereby got his UNI
conditional release. Tuesday. he began
wiring around the circuit that he was
a free agent. He received offers from
Denver, Omaha and ST. Joseph but
wants to go to the Coast League. He
the offer Holland made. He says he
wanted to get away from Topeka be-
cause he didn't like Moore. This is the
first player discovered who had no love
for the small manager.
Guess Hollands club don't take to
the Grizzlies. That makes three
straights from the Denver Bears and
it is a safe bet the McGill-H Hendricks
combination is crazy with the fear they
may let the old rag slip away yet.
All St. Joseph is feeling fine over
the two games taken in Denver. The
Denver club made the trip back to st.
Joseph with the Drummers. The Ga
zette lifted the following statements
81 said before the season opened
that we had q first division ball club"
said the Drummer magnate last night,
land I still stick to that. The club
looks even better to me now.
my pitchers are rounding into
shape finally and they are about the
best looking bunch in the league.
Kaufman and Hanifan are going fine.
This fellow Durham pitched great
game against Denver and he looks
mighty good I am sure that he viii
win many games for US.
"fTex' Jones is hitting his stride now
and the fans who watched him work
last year won't know him as the same
fellow. He is better in every depart
ment of the game. You know he was
out of the game for three weeks be-
fore he joined US and it was a few
days before he got to going good, but
Just watch him now.
cooper, the catcher who has not
worked at home yet, is the best catch
er in the league, think. The injury
that he received at Lincoln is what
caused him to go bad for few days,
but after he has recovered he will
show the fans here something. He is
an excellent hitter and the sweetest
looking receiver I have seen behind
the bait
Manager Jack Hendricks of the
Denver baseball club has nothing but
praise for the Drummers. Here's what
he said last night:
1--WE have played every club in the
league now and the Drummers look
to me like the best one. with the ex-
ception, of course, of Denver. The
team that beats st. Joseph out will
certainly have to go some.
kelly, your right fielder, is GER
tainly a great ball player. l notice,
also, that Bobby Meinke. who is a
neighbor of mine in Chicago, Is play |
ing a great game at shortstop.
Those three games in Denver were
about the best played there TINS year:
haven't any excuse to offer for those
two defeats. We were simply out
played
Pa Rourke, dean Of the Western
league, has word of praise for the To-
peka patronage of the game in the fol-
lowing interview to the Omaha Bee: I
am trying TO make good on my prom
ise,'' said Mr.. Rourke last night
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