The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-24


Wichita at Topeka
Denver at Lincoln.
Sioux City at st. Joseph.
Omaha at Des Aioines.
1t is not our funeral but we know.
and so do many others that the players
will not work behind such pitching
as was staged Friday. After the first
inning everyone but Manager Gear
knew Cochreham wouldn't win. Wheth.
er it is hoedoo OF something else, this
was apparent. Then why leave him in
until it is lost before using the der
rick? The Kaws have lost at least a
score of games through this system of
allowing losing pitcher to remain too
long away from the bench.
AS stated above it's not our funeral.
Manager Gear knows vastly bore about
ball team than the writer. But this
is one thing we could never understand
and there are a few hundred others in
the same boat. Other managers yank
the hurlers the first time a signal of
distress appears. Games mean just a.
much to us as to them. Let's yank
these pitchers in time. What does it
matter if some cne does work out of
turn. The pitchers on other teams do
It.
There wasn't a pair of players in the
game yesterday who didn't feel it in
their bones, after the second inning
that COcreham was to lose. Another
pitcher sent in would have stood a
chance. 1t is the frittering away of a
game like the one Friday that keeps
crowds away and makes attending
games agony instead of a pleasure. We
know Manager Gear had a reason for
keeping Cocreham in or he surely
wouldn't have done it. And, in view of
the results, it should have been e
nightly good reason.
The Witches in a doubleheader will
be the attraction at Kaw field Sunday.
The tribe of Hughes is here for four
games in three days. Every game the
KawS can win from them is equal to
two games won from some one else. If
the Kaws are going to beat the Witches
out, and they can do it if they try.
now is the time to win games. Get out
and support the team. That will be
your share. And the boys are just
anxious to win as they were last
spring.
Three fast double plays Friday indi-
Gated that with any kind of pitching
behind the Kaws would have held the
score to much more even proportions.
Bashang will be out of the game sew
era1 days. Coming home in the last
Thursday contest started to slide and
then decided not to. He wrenched tho
ligaments in his leg.
Cochran, subbing for Bashang in the
sun garden, made the most sensation
al catch of the game when he went
across the foul line and got PowelFs
high drive. He was running too fast to
stop and crashed into the fence with
such force that he bounced back ten
feet. He seemed not to be seriously
injured.
Considering everything the crowd Fri
day was fair.
The Lincoln News insists that the
reason the Kaws are tailenders is
because they are the weakest team in
the league. They are, or more prop
erly, they were. The writer does not
say the sport is dishonest. But he
does believe that two umpires in the
western League this year are dishon-
est and incompetent. Take your
choice. The statement that such is
the case may hurt the game in To-
peka. But it doesn't hurt it half as
much as President O'Nefn does when
ne sends either of these men to To-
peka. OF course Prexy doesn't send
them here for that purpose. But they
hurt the game just the same.
This scribe isn't trying to make ex-
cuses for the team. 1t doesn't need
any. Everyone who is interested in
baseball here knows why the team is
X
What he is trying to do is to tell ex-
actly what happens in the Western
loop. And he would like to see the
day when neither crook nor incom-
petent umpire can stay IN it.
Jack Hendricks says he has spent
only $1,000 for players this year This,
he says, includes $500 for Gilmore
and $3.50 for Block. What became of
the $500 which Denver papers said
was spent in telegraph tolls in one
month trying to get players.
Lefty Smith of Liberal should look
out or the B. L. scouts will grab him. /
He pitched no hit game against /
Hugoton. Only three men got to first
base. One of them was hit by a |
pitched ball and two landed safe on
infield errors He struck out 8 men,
including the last three of the thirty |
who faced him in nine innings
''Ducky'' Holmes, who succeeded
Red Andreas on the Packer throne, |
has decided that lack of pitchers ails
the club. AndreaS decided long ago |
that the trouble was in the pitching
staff but couldn't get an appropriation
to land them.
With the Witches here let's show
some more of that attendance stuff.
The Witches have done lot of crow
ing about some things but have never
talked attendance with the Kaws.
ST.. Joseph Gazette: Manager John
Holland of the Drummers last night |
announced the indefinite suspension of |
Pitcher Henry Chellette, who started i
yesterdays game against the Wichita
club, but who was jerked in the second |
inning. Holland announced that Chel-
lette had been suspended for Ioafing |
and for not being in proper condition |
to pitch. The Drummer boss also an |
nounced that other twirlers were in |
do