The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-25

topeka at st. Joseph
| Denver at Sioux City.
| Pueblo at Omaha
Lincoln at Des Moines.
Watch him CO. The little manager
VIII come back home with a batting
average of a million if he keeps it up.
He got two good ones in three trips
to the plate yesterday which makes
him six in seven at Sioux City. Whit
ney and Rickert were in heavy on the
hitting, too.
| The Grizzlies turned with an angry
snarl Wednesday and made a good
cleanup meal of the, Drummers.. 1t
was an awful shut out of IL to but
counts only one game and st. Joseph
mad the three preceding ones.
1t begins to look as if Des Moines
never would have won that fourth
game If Topeka hadn't let them
have it.
The fans are wondering why Moore
sent Breitenstein in to pitch yester-
/ day. Brett used to do it well. But
just now 1t may have been a last look
before good-by.
| Sioux City Journal: Neither Man
ager Towne nor President Fairweath-
er is claiming the 1911 flag for Sioux
City. Manager Towne says that when
he gets his pitching staff reorganized,
not team in the league will have
anything over the Packers in that de-
partment. He is certain that the
Champs have the best team, outside
the pitchers. at present.
| Scribes about the Western league
circuit had much to say early in the
iseason about the Champs outfield be-
| Ing weak this season. When they saw
| Messrs. Neighbors, Breer and Wagner
In action they changed their opinions.
Both the new outfielders are hitting
among the leaders and they are tax
shape
The feature of the ball games this
week will be flag raising Saturday.
This occasion has been saved for Den
Ver' the strongest contender for the
pennant last year.
| Pueblo Chieftain: After IsbelI had
| oeen given joy ride about the city
| curing the afternoon, he met a COM
m1ttee at the Congress hotel and a
| deal was made that was satisfactory
| to both sides. The cash bonus is to be
| divided in three nnual payments and
| $1,000 instead of 81 900, at IsbelTs sug-
| gestlon, will be spent in remodeling and
repairing Selee park, and this amount.
will OF course come out of the $4,000
bonus. Isben was accompanied to Pu-
eblo by Morris F'einberg and as soon
| as they left their train they quietly
slipped over to eSelee park to take a
| peep at the farm. Soon after they were
| discovered by a delegation Of fans and
| after that it was a. busy time for
"1zzy" all day. He was taken up to
the Commerce club and introduced all
around, and later taken for a spin
about the city, the various points of
| interest being pointed out by willing
| guides. In the evening at the Congress
hotel, the meeting which resulted in
the deal being closed, was held.
Wichita baseball fans are like sun
flowers. They bloom in the morning,
have good time during the forenoon,
| but commence to sag about the time
1.-THE game is called. The tremendous
! scores in the big leagues during the
past month have been unanimously
due to the lumpy efforts of the beavers,
! whose arms, due to the frigidity of the
| weather, are as stiff as a barkeep's
muddler. Likewise. when the miscues,
| boots muffs and hammerheaded plays
outnumber the runs, you can't very well
| hang the heavy scoring on the horse
| hide pellet with the cork stomach.
| Kansas is SO tight as regards. refresh
| ments that the fans can't take a chance
| on making it from the sightless-sow to
| the park-they might get dry. If all
| the teams in the w. L. We're tied it
would be a close race.-Omaha World
| Herald.
1
| Is making a desperate effort to bolster
up the weak places of the team The
| new men already secured are Anderson,
toutfelder; Graham, second baseman,
and Patton pitcher, of Omaha, and j.
j. Merriam, pitcher, of Ell Paso, Texas.
The three Omaha players have all been
seen in Des Moines. While here they
performed in good style. A. slump of
the Omaha team a short time ago, how
| ever, caused 'Bill' Rourke to cut them
| loose HIGGINS a
| vantage of the waivers. Merriam has
not been playing much this season. He
has been instructor in a military acad-
envy in Texas of late. His home was
formerly in Boston. AS a semi-profes-
| siona1 player he has quite record in
the east, one OF his latest achievements
being victory over the Boston Red
Sox during their training season.
Woman Millionaire Dies.
Kansas City, May 25.-Mrs. Sarah M