The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-30
.CY YOUNG READY
Oklahoma City Finger Demon
Strates He Has Glass.
Allowed Bears Only One Hit in
Eight Innings.
KING The CLEAN UP HITTER
Center Fielder Is Playing Good
Brand of Ball.
Central Kansas League Um-
pires Announced by GaffOrd.

pireS Announced by GaffOrd.
WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW:
Lincoln at Topeka.
| Wichita at Denver.
Sioux City at st. Joseph.
Des Moines at Omaha.
Manager Gear announces that the
name Elihu will be applied to Young
instead of Cy the umpy umpth. He
believes more games can be won with
the former moniker. Gear hasn't yet
announced the name by which Knapp
will be known. Probably he will not
and if he does probably neither of the
local papers will care to print it. Mr..
Knapp's aliases, as announced by 9TH
er members of the team, will not be
| printed and as there is harmony on
the squad it is not likely Gears def
milton of a Knapp will differ greatly
from those already expressed.
Anyhow Young pitched eight innings
allowing only one hit. Knapp allowed
the other. The weather was cold for
the elongated finger but he proved
| that he had mastered the lessons given
him in diamond etiquette. He had eV-
| erything necessary. He hung nine
strikeouts into the record and had
| everything his way.
The kind of ball Mr.. B. King is
| playing not Oily proves lIlctL the latin
of the fans and management in him
| is we'll founded but it proves that
! whatever else is charged against last
| year some pretty good trade was made
| with Omaha. The chubby centerfield-
| err is playing a grand game in every
department. His clean up of the bases
Monday when he inserted the three
| timer at a well chosen moment, was
! only an incident. He is playing that
| brand of ball all the time. His field
| ing Saturday and Sunday was never
| beaten at this point. King is probably
| as popular with the fans as any play
er on the team and he seems to de-
serve it.
| Another player who is going nicely
| now, and one of the few to hold his
! job over from last year, is Emory. At
| ter the confusion of the first two or
| three games the third sacker seems to
have struck his stride and is now go
! ing as nicely as any Of them He IS
| hitting well, fields his position like a
| major Lacquer and is always trying.
| If there is a weak spot on the team
it hasn't yet developed at third base.
but as none of the hukes counted it
is Just as well. The pop fly in the
ninth which landed safely just back
of Kusel wouldn't have done so one
time in a hundred. Kusel thought the
ball was far enough back of him for
the infeld to reach and the infieiders
didn't think it was back that far Be
yond adding a hit to the record 1t
| didn't do any damage.
With the team fighting last years
champions for second place the crowd
should have been larger even on Mon
day.
Even members of the Denver team
were disguised with the raw play
pulled off by CULLEN and allowed to
stand by Umpire Knapp.
Send your guess to Baseball Editor
State Journal on the percentage the
Kaws will have July 4. This office
will give SO book of admission tick
cts to the first correct guest, or near
est correct, received on percentage
standing, but your guess must be made
not later than May 16. Any games
played on July are the last to be
figured in the standing.
Jack Barrows, the Denver Times ex-
pert travelling with the team, told his
home folks that Topeka's motto had
been interpreted to mean Topeka
games to Denver. Mr.. Hendricks
opinion of this Interpretation would be
interesting.
We may get to see our old friend
Walter Frambes today. He and
journey back to the home of McGill
and the Grizzlies.
The Links come Wednesday. You
know what the tailend team has al
ways done to Topeka. Perhaps the
new team will break this hoodoO.
Perhaps not But at any rate Lin
coin may be depended upon to put
up a worthy battle. That team always
has done so against Topeka and while
the locals won three straight games
there recently they didn't have any
cinch.
The fact that Gardner and Smith
had nearly all the putouts Monday in
dicates that they were not doing a
great deal to the pitcher.
'"The games you win now do not
have to be won in August Hendricks
sal dthe first day of the present Sc
ries. And Gear seems to agree with
him.
When Knapp called CULLEN safe
on that double-Swing- in the sixth |
Smith wasn't content with merely tell |
ing the umpire about it in a few well
chosen words. He reacted the play |
for the benefit of the blind man, and |
furnished a diagram along with it. |
King came in from centerfield to as |
sist the umpire in arriving at some |
thing like an understandable conclu- |
sion King and CULLEN, SO the story |
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