The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
AUTOS To BLAME.
Cause Slump in Attendance at
Wichita and Topeka.
Both Icy and Cooley Find Cars
Costly.
FANS ARE JEALOUS.
Display Of Wealth Causes Dis
content With Managers.
PettigreW, Who Has Grown Old
in Wichita, Released.
FANS ARE JEALOUS.
Weather.

Weather.
Des Moines at Denver, clear, $3.50
p. m.
Pueblo at Sioux City, cloudy, S:45
p. m.
Lincoln at st. Joseph. clear, 9:45 p. m.
Topeka at Omaha, clear, 3:45 p. m.
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Topeka at Omaha
Des Moines at Denver.
Pueblo at Sioux City.
Lincoln at st. Joseph.
What's the matter with this for a
reason why IsbeIl went to the bad at
Wichita and Cooley the same way in
Topeka? They both bought automo-
biles. Both were good managers and
knew a good player. Both put UP WIN
ming bali. And both made money-and
then purchased automobiles. 1mme-
diately attendance at the games drop
ped off. Why? Easiest thing you
know. People don't like to donate TO
some one else's Golfers If they know it.
An automobile is a rank admission that
one has made money somehow. A base
ball manager who buys an auto ex-
poses himself. unduly-so 1t was with
these two old managers. People reruseo
to help build them castles
Pueblo knows Izzy already had his
auto when he came. Salt Lake knows
IT has bought none for Sir Richard
Both leaders are winning. Let them
not burn too much gasoline.
The only game in the Western yes
terday was between Lincoln and ST
Joseph at Joetown. And that was
very ordinary sort of game, the An
telopes winning it.
nh Ill "a nnRd again.
Buck Freeman wouldn't report to the
Soos. the most promising pennant
chasers, simply because his own rec
ord suffered last season in the little lou
where everything is safe. So Jack Hol-
land kindly and considerably came
along and bought him up and now the
Drummer battery will be Buck" and
Butch"
Isbeu has handed little Ned Pettigrew
his unconditional. This right nelder
has served faithfully in the Western
league with Isbell but he has forgotten
how to hit the ball-and that's about all
that makes a right fielder.
Ernest Quigley, who coaches nothing
but championship teams at ot. Marys'
will leave in a few days to umpire In
the .Wisconsin-Iowa league. Quig also
runs an umpire school at st. Marys.
Renort comes from Chicago that
Rollie Zeider can not play good game
at short because the fans don't like him
and boo at him every time ne ap-
pears. Maybe Roy Corhan has some
thine to do with conditions but the
other players say Rollie plays a dandy
game on the road. Likely the Sox VIII
have a good shortstop for sale soon.
The incident of the Denver and
Omaha players being caught In
wreck the other day brings to mind the
Topeka clubs similar experience OF a
year ago. Old Jake Beckley WOULDN'T
play the initial bag for a week trying
to show the railroad company he was
severely shook up inside. But the
Santa Fe never did see where he wac
hurt.
Recurring again to Denver, what
happened to that staunch first place
ship they sailed a week or so ago? Hol-
land knows most about it-but any
afternoon may see the good ship right
ed again.
Des Moines, it is possible to say, has
won five games already this season
and If they hurry it will take them only
two years to catch up with the rest of
the pennant chasers. And yet two of
those games were taken from the
Kaws, so keep it dark.
Some circuit papers say that II the
Kaws had some catchers and a right
fielder, they would be right in the race.
And they said 1t about as we'll as any
one could. The Kaw catchers, at the
present time, know very well what to
call for from their pitchers and that is
the big end of the backstopping which
wins games-but they can't catch what
the call for.
There has been some complaint, too,
from the towns visited by the roaming
Kaws, that Crompton and Hawkins,
dubs who never could hit barn with
a hay rake, go up IN the pinches and
bang out two baggers. It is a crime,
they say.
Denver Times: Reports from the
wreck say that the Denver baseball
team, which had such a narrow escape
when their Pullman was derailed and
turned over into the ditch, lost all
their effects. These include their
gloves, uniforms, masks and bats. The
loss of the latter will be regarded as
"hoodoo'' by many of the players.
Each member of the team carries his
own bat, and becomes so accustome ID
TO its use that his success in mailing the