The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-05
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Sioux City at Denver.
Des MoineS at Lincoln.
Omaha at Wichita.
Topeka at st. Joe.
Since the Kaws left home on their
DehVer trip the best they have done
has been to take one out of each Sc
rIes played. Sometimes it has been
hrough one cause and sometimes an
other- tuesdays game was a hard
one TO lose especially because there
was no excuse for it. But such things
happen.
The Kaws still look to need another
pltcher. Wainwright is using a spit
ter now and according to Gear looks
like a conner. He is being used a lit
tie from time to time and gets away
nicely under the new combination.
However, if he is going to make good
II should be shown soon. The coming
series with the Joseys should show
now the new pitchers are going to
work Meanwhile Lees playing at
short should help the team. It may
and may not. Your guess is as good
as Cocreham pitches nice
ball. but looks a little shy, as yet, on
class He will probably be placed
somewhere. Dulin seems too ungain-
ly to handle a regular situation. A
similar sentence will likely be melted
out to him.
Umpire Knapp slipped another one
into the Kaw management and got
away with it. After Sundays fracas
Knapp agreed not to report the mat
ter to O'Neill if the newspapers would
lay aoff" it. Both papers here kept
off the matter. Nothing was heard of
it until after the last game here when
Knapp was ready to leave. Then he
sprung a telegram from O'NeilI fine
ing King 500 and providing a sus-
pension until the fine was paid.
Knapp didn't want the enmity of the
crowd during the remainder of the
series and instead of keeping the mat
ter from O'Neill merely held it up to
save himself further trouble,
O'Neill is angry over the Sunday
afternoon incident. In his telegram
to Knapp he said that if it were not
for hurting the Topeka team he would
bar King from baseball ~forever. Kin
has formerly paid a 800 fine for an
offense similar to the one perpetrat-
ed Sunday. A classy ball player he
sometimes loses his head. And it is
bad business for a ball player to lose
his head. He doesn't do his club any
good when he is out of the game.
There are times When decisions are
enough to ~aggravate a player almost
to any point but he is never justified
in taking such action as King took.
Knapp knows he is getting away in
bad shape and is trying to come out
of it, he says: 81 don't see how I am
so rotten this year when I got away
well last year." he told the writer
Tuesday. Yesterday I didn't get
away so bad but I missed one at third.
From where i was it looked like I
was right, but a minute afterward 1
knew L wasn't" Knapp however,
says he will keep fighting the game
until he gets to going good. And he
may do it. He thinks one trouble is
49, l. Ill kL~-- S~Ir a-I
says it is a hard habit to get away
from. 1t seems so.
They gave it up on Quigley. Can
you guess what stipend Quigley could
ave secured as an umpire for PreXy
O'Neill? All of $50 per month. Nice
proposition to offer a man who has
been umpiring for some time and get
ting $3.50 a month for it. How Quig-
ley can have the heart to stay out of
the job is hard to understand.
Knapp was knocked down in Tues
days game by a drive off RICKETTS,
bat. The ball was going. with the
speed of a bullet when the cap of the
umpire's knee got in the way. 1t
turned Knapp white as a sheet for a
few minutes but he gamely went back
to work and even tried to run to the
ball grip for a fresh supply.
Lyons, playing nrSC TOT
the Guthrie State League team, claims
he holds a worlds record for batting
in the greatest number of runs during
one inning of a game. The record was
made in 1915 between the Arkansas
City and Wellington teams of the KAN
sas State League. Lyons was playing
first base for Arkansas City. He came
to bat twice in one inning, both times
with the bases full and each time he
batted out a home run, scoring a total
of eight runs in one inning. Outfelder
Lally of the Arkansas team made
all the cuts in hat inning. He famed
twice ana the third time up he flew
out to the third baseman.
Sporting News: Looks as if Mat
tick, the Western League outfieIder,
had at last gained a big league berth
White Sox are going to try him
thoroughly. How many years has this
been on the White Sox list,
and how man spring training trips
has he taken with the team? Comis-
key surely keeps some of them on the
card a long, long time. Some of them
come in each spring for the training
trip, fail out again, and reappear next
spring, perhaps never to make the
team; others are farmed out each sea-
son, come back again and again, and
finally get their chance to stay.