The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-01
ON and OFF THE DIAMOND.

ST. Joe at Denver.
Sioux City at Lincoln.
Des Moines at Wichita.
Omaha at Topeka.
O'Toole the new umpire, debutted
at Kaw field Wednesday. O'Toole, it
may be said without fear of contradic-
ton, is big enough for an umpire. In
fact, he is almost large enough to be
a white hope. He has a voice that
beats distant thunder a mile His
method of signalling balls and strikes
hasn't been equalled since Johnny
Mullen left the league. He is of such
digntfied mein that the fans didn't
josh him. He didn't lamp the balls
and strikes as they looked from the
grandstand but he did the bossing.
johnson, who has done some good
work here, worked the bases. john
son has been roasted lot in some
towns but has always got away with 1t
nicely here AID in Omaha Well have
a chance to watch him please both of
them now.
Manager Arbogast got Cy's fast one
in the side while at bat in the first
half of the seventh. He retired, send
ing Johnson, the smuggling demon of the
Rourkes, to the backstop station.
Formerly the chief interest of local
fans in the Omaha team has been
Tommy Thomson, center fielder,
who started the game here. Now JACK
Fugate is on the Rourke staff. Jack
was purchased last night by the
Omahogs. 1t was pretty good deal
for the local management as Jack was
not to last here. Fugate can pitch
for the locals. Either he couldn't or
wouldn't. At any rate his usefulness
here was ended. Jack should go bet
ter with a winning team. So should
make a good twirler for Rourke. Arbo-
CAST has long believed that all he
needed to make his club was another
southpaw.
The Arbogasts sent Scanlont in to
hit for Ryan in the ninth with Bills
on and after Niehoff had scored. He
lifted a fly to King and the game was
over. @
Justice, who leads off for the visitors,
went out three times on pop fouls
Wednesday. The other time he sim
gle6 to right
Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr.. Patter
son; Mr. Patterson, ladies and gentle
men. Patterson is the shortstop who
| decided he wasn't fast enough for
| class A ball. He also convinced the
management that this was true. Wed
nesday, however, he had some DOUBT
of it. He wasn't sure he was too slow
| for the league Result, nine chances
handled perfectly including some nice
pegging. Also Patterson started two
| doubles by going to the second bag
after grounders, touching the base for
a force and throwing the batter out at
| first.
| Walsh is going back to second after
| some of them these days and pegg1ng
! the runner out That's the kind of ball
pla ying that stops the enemy. More of
| it on the infield will make the kaws a
| different team. The inf1eld held to-
gether Wednesday and the Kaws won
At that there was some rather clumsy
| fielding and throwing. But it was
| lot better than it has been.
! O'Toole declined to let Gear go TO
| first when, in lodging one inside he
threw up his hand as the ball rose and
was hit on the arm.
| Shipke, who was formerly manager
1 for the Rourlxes, is playing good ball
| for the visitors at second base. Bill
| formerly played the third sack and
managed, succeeding Billy Fox in this
role. He couldn't get away with it as
| a manager however, and at last gave
way to Arbogast. For a long time he
was out of the game but has returned
and is taking good care of the station
he covers.
Rourke has a bunch of speed mer-
chants on his team. And Thomson is
| one of them.
Alderman. sent from Wichita to the
| Central Kansas league, lost his first
| game to Manhattan Wednesday. Del.
| is pitching for the Great Bend club.
| The Minnies got to him for five runs
and six hits in the second inning. The
! Manhattan club won its eighth straight
game when Fred Haag, the Indian
pitcher who is to come to Topeka when
the season is over there, pitched two
games. He won both of them. Reynolds,
| a Minneapolis twirler, struck out 46
Great Benders. In Sundays game he
struck out IS men. This makes 80 men
struck out in two consecutive games.
| What is the real name of this Reynolds
fellow?
Cochran is working his arm out daily
with a view of going into the game as
a twirIer soon. "Parson' Frantz is
tutoring the former third sacker Coch-
ran has a world of speed and if he
learns to use it should pitch good ball.
Frantz is enthusiastic over the progress
made by his protege.
|
Didn't Know 1t Was Loaded, Dead.
Jetmore, Kan, Aug. IA sad acct
dent occurred on the Sawlog creek
south of town to family named Luz
cas- A gun that wasn't loaded was
| carelessly left in the barn and a six
| year-old son pointed it in play at his
4-year-old sister; the ball passed
through her head just above the ears
resulting in death a few hours later
HadIey Is Regular.