The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-27

The Real Hero.
Sing Of your -Four Hundred Hittert
Chant of your league-leading file;
Up with your glasses-hey, ladies and
lassies,
To those who can hit 'em a mile;
I'm one with the raving and roaring,
Where bludgeon and leather may chnch--
But facing the call, here's the king of
them all
The bloke who can hit in pinch.
His record may sdck at Two-twenty-
And duh be the CLEAN in his eye;
But here in the roaring of smashing and
His pals need a run for a tie;
They know him-and wait for the echo
They've lamped him before at the
No Hans on the job nor a second Ty
Just a bloke who is there in the pinch.
-Grantland Rice.
Where They Play Today.
Topeka at Wichita. clear. $3.50 p. m
Sioux City at Des Moines, clear, 1886
p. m.
Lincoln at Denver. clear, $3.50 p. m
St. Joseph at Omaha, clear, $3.50 p. m
Evidently the luck broke the other
way in the first Wichita game Wich-
ita Won The Kaw hitters didn't hit
Ellis effectively and the fielding wob-
OAOo IL . Luz hOA
are still four games to be played in
Wichita, one of the postponed cor
tests being worked out Saturday This
gives plenty of chance to get at the
Jobbers before the team returns here
for a. struggle with Denver.
Meanwhile Lincoln beat Denver in
the first game after an all night
ride to the Hendricks stronghold.
Dwyer has a bunch of good players
out they seem, next to the locals, to
be the hard luck champions.
Booster tickets are on sale at sew
eral places about the city and they
SHOULD be purchased literally. There
is no joke about the Booster day thing.
If the fans do not get busy and signify
their interest in the team the franchise
will be sold. Topeka backed a worse
team han the one this year with gilt
edged attendance last year. The town
was of the best until late in the
season and the team was next to the
worst on earth. This year the team is
a good one but the others seem to be
better. Every club has strengthened
and the going is harder for the Kaws.
A class A club is a costly proposition
and in a town the size of Topeka the
fans must spend money, perhaps a lit
tie more than they feel they should,
to keep the club going. Otherwise we
will have to drop back to class d or
C baseball.
The Boosters plan another rally day
Tuesday. It is hoped the showing made
will be a good one at that time. The
money needed must be raised and rails
ed by the fans. Laying every other
question aside Topeka wants to keep
the bah team
Why not have a bunch of young
women in Topeka sell tickets for
Booster day? They have assisted in
a number of other stunts, some of
them less deserving thar the Booster
day one. Five of the prettiest girls
in town could sell more tickets. If
they would try, thar all the men in
Shawnee county.
The writer is in a position to know
that the dope of strengthening the
team is not 'hot air." Earnest eff
fort is being made to get the winning +
combination. The management, how
ever, needs money to help carry out
its plans.
It is not our ball team but n of
directors who is talking too much.
This is the greatest trouble with. stock
baseball. Some men who
are sslive ones and with good inten-
lions run off at the mouth.
eMAU PITH nF SPORT