The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-01


i Lincoln at Denver.
/ Omaha. at Sioux City
Des Moines at st. Joseph.
It wasn't much of a ball game at
Pueblo. The lamb, Buchanan, was Of
fered up and left there until wholly
consumed. All they got was 19 hits.
eight of them for extra sacks
Manager Rickert was out Of the game
for some illness and Blaine Durbin was
requisitioned- Durbin had two hits in
three trips and had no errors SO it
wasn't his fault.
Craig for Pueblo became i'll also but
not until after he had pulled loose a
sensational catch. Craig is q find Of
the season who Will undoubtedly make
good
Hughes and Koerner of the Izzy gang
hit a million, the former getting five in
five and the latter four in four All
the Puebs hit but Schmidt and ne had
| only one chance.
Big Whitney hit some. too, getting
] three out of four. and Joe Crisp loosen
ed UP little with the club, sacking
pair Of bingIes.
The Lincoln club has procured an
| option on Pitcher Hirsch of the Auburn
team in the Mink league. He is said
| to be one of the best in that circuit
and good Western timber.
Hans wants back in but hardly any
worse than they want him back IN. No
doubt but that he makes a world of
difference in the Pirates play and the
trip they just finished looked it.
Seems that the A. A. bluff of taking
on major league clothes whether or no
does not carry much weight with the
two big ones. It's a good chance to
drop a lot of money but the signs are
not good for a war.
Soldier Leak pitched against Okla
homa City last week and lost, to T.
Both Galveston and Oklahoma City
had nine hits Leak got q two sacker,
struck out six hitters and walked four
Tom Fairweather of Sioux City is
said to be trying to get Jack Dalton,
formerly of Des Moines from Brooklyn.
Art Griggs, whom the Maps loaned
out to Toledo in the American associa-
ton, is said to be threatened with a2-
pendicitis- Griggs has been clouting
the ball around the $3.50 mark ir the
A. A.
The Pueblo star-Journars all-star
team:
Spa1lr, catcher.
ClemOns, catcher.
O'Brien, pitcher
Buchanan, pitcher.
Rhodes, pitcher.
Jones, first base.
Lloyd, second base.
Quillen, third base.
Berger, shOrtStop.
Matticks, left field.
Middleton. center field.
Beall, right field
Des A1oines, Capital: No wonder Ow-
ems was driven from the slab yester-
day. Any twirler who pitches three |
games in four days is working too
hard.
The St. Joseph Gazette prints the
two following articles simultaneously: |
The Drummers are getting little too |
pires. 1t is true that they have some /
mighty rotten umpirfng to contend /
with but they should control them
selves, anyway. The wise ball player
makes his protest in such a manner
that the umpire allows him to stay in
the game. A player can't 90 his club
much good on the bench He's needed /
out there in the game and he should
conduct himself so that he can re-
main in 1t. Like the girl in |
the melodrama the aged Mr.. Weaver
is more to be pitied than blamed
convinced him that he could
No one believes the rankness of his
performances yesterday was due to a
to be unfair. Everybody
simply admits the poor fellow can't
and let's it go at that In view, how
ever, that St. Joseph is one of the best
producers in the league it goes with
)ut saying that if Prexy O'Neil desires
The game to retain it's popularity in
his vicinity he will Immediately place
Brer Weaver ON the retired list where
al right-intending has beens are allow
I'd pensions of sufficient size to enable
hem to keep off the diamond. If it
n
guish between d ball" and a strike
hat distinguishing characteristic Of his
ability left him before he invaded St
Joseph. No one blameS him for putting
lnruly and disrespectful players on the
bench but he ought to avoid, as nearly
Is possible, giving continual excuse for
objections from men in the game. In
'eality there can be but one remedy
'or Mr.. Weaver and that lies in his
retirement.
Newton Kansan- Republican 1t has
1een over six weeks since the Kansas
State League closed yet President Stahl
1as failed to make q report to the diff
.erent clubs in regard to the financial
standing OF the league. At the league
meeting held when the clubs decided
% discontinue playing the affairs of the
eague were placed in the hands of
to straighten out. This COM
nittee has been trying to straighten out
he books kept by President Stahl but
t seems that he was as poor a book
keeper as he was president. Mr.. Evans
1f Newton is endeavOring to get Pres
dent Stahl's books in some such shape
that a report can be made out for the
benefit Of the different associations.
The return of the ElDorado uniforms
should be pushed at once. Just what
right Mr. Stahl had to retain them
IS not known, as there was more than
enough of the guarantee to pay the
players when the EIDorado association
turned them over to President Stahl-