The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-05

Topeka at Omaha
Des Moines at Lincoln
st Joseph at Denver.
Sioux City at Pueblo.
The Kaws are coming through the
last series with great credit. Four in
q row is nice lot for them to hang
on their scalp belt. Chances are Pep
per Clark viii go today.
The game today is the last one to
pc played IN Topeka in the season of
1911. Inc season has not been glorious
but 1t has not been all bad. Topeka
stu holds franchise in the league and
IS looked upon by the league directorate
and club owners as a worthy town. The
attendance here has been about third
IN the league and the club has drawn
as Wen as any on the road. The owners
mere, new to the game, have learned a,
lot about the game from the mana
gerial end and another season will profit
by that experience.
The Kaw players, while they have
slipped pretty low in the percentage
column, have been ready to win a game
when they had a chance and no in
ternal strife has lost games for the
tribe In act, the bunch of players
who have carted the Topeka banner
along for the last month puts a prem
ium on good fellowship and the gang
is great kidding, jovial organization.
back, some of them will not have
chance, and some of them may stick
In better class but they've had a pleas
ant enough summer and drew very gen
erOuS salaries.
Manager Joe Rickert may or may
not be with the club next season and
he may or may not be manager If he
IS. His individual record is a hattering
one and he has done as well as could
be expected, taking the reins when he
did At any rate. he will not spend
the winter in Topeka as he had par
TALLY planned. His wife and her moth
er leave today for New Orleans, their
Omaha series is finished. Both Mrs.
Riekert and her mother have gone
through a spell of the typhoid fever
since coming to Topeka and that knocks
a hole in Joe's hard earned.
Gober, who pitched the first inning
yesterday and almost got the kaws in
hot water is a friend of Chapman's
and worked at Manhattan this summer
season. He is husky and has the smoke
but yesterday did not seem to know
where it was going. His best trick was
the whiting of Slrgger Mattick.
Summed up, however, his work leaves
the suspicion that he changed the or
iginal "u' of his name to 90"
Ulatowski is one of those noisy, pep
perry boys who hate to lose and love
20 win. No matter if the Des Moines
tom lands. he is there with the fight. |
Whether the rest of the bunch fight or
not, he does-and keeps at it. The
wards of Prexy o NeiII, however, show |
Their appearance is that of a beaten !
club long on the road. Their uniforms |
and stockings are in bedrags=ed condi- |
ton and it is doubtful whether they |
will have bats enough left to finish the |
next series. They had only three of |
the war clubs yesterday.
Some pretty features kept the inter
est of the scattered fans in the game. |
In the very first inning Graham leaped |
into the air and made a one hand spear !
Of Kings hot liner. Whitney slammed |
q. liner all the way to Mattick and the I
latter froze onto it. Mattick ran a |
block and hooked one from Emory's |
bat. The Kaws actually made two |
double plays, And Kid Buchanan, chief |
Of control, who usually makes them hit t
where he wants them to, struck out /
three men in one inning and in success
sion.
The Kaws will go to Omaha for three
games beginning tomorrow. The series /
is a transferred one which the attend
ance here warrants but which probably |
viii not be better attended in Omaha.
The Nebraska metropolis has drawn
poorly for months and interest there is
about as low as here.
Lincoln News: Umpire Morgan de-
serves credit for the prompt manner in
which he elected the unruly Lincoln
players and insisted that their fines be
0aid before the second game. Morgan |
S beginning to show a little nerve late
n the season. This apparently is all
lie lacked. His work in Sioux City has
been good, but he took too much CUFF
rom the players.
If Doane should defeat Nebraska II
o 0, how would you feel? Just about
he way they felt in Topeka the other
lay when the College of Emporia (ever
lear Of IT'D handed a licking to the
Nashburn squad by just that score.
daybe it didn't hurt. Emporia had
cored on Washburn just once before 1
n the history of the two schools.
President Despair, of the Lincoln
AnteIopes, is home from ST. Joe and
lis subsequent trip to Kansas City and
hange in the situation as to possible
witch in the ownership Of the local
Tub. He says he has several offers for
he franchise, but nothing tangible has S
developed and that the negotiations {
nay best be described as still pend I
ng." {
Toledo, o., Oct. 5.-Roy Beecher, who {
lays baseball during the summer and
forks as attendant at the Toledo state s
ospital during the remainder of the I
ear, was married to Miss Nina Nor l
ison, who is also an attendant at the /
ospita1. {
Roy Beecher, the Kaw pitcher, re- '
used to tell the name of his bride upon {
saving Saturday night for his home.
lie even denied that he was to be mar .
led but no one believed him.
TidIand viii Not Take on Colleges
Until Next Month.
Atchison, Kan. Oct. 5.-The Octo-