The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-29
CHIEF SMITH 0. K.
Indian Further COmpIicates
Kaw Catching Situation.
Good Idea to Get to OImstead
Often Now.
BEARS NOT MUD HORSES
Fugate Pitches Best Game of
Ball Sunday.
Hendricks Youthful Finger
Shows He Has Glass.
Western League weather. Forecast.

Shows He Has Class.
Western League Weather Forecast.
Denver at Topeka cloudy, $3.50 p. m.
Wichita at Lincoln, clearing, $3.50
p. m.
Sioux City at Des Moines, cloudy,
3:45 p m.
Omaha at st. Joe, cloudy, $3.50 p m.
1t is a good idea to get to this Ohm
stead person as often as possible at
this section of the season. When the
weather grows warmer the getting will
be more difficult. He was for years
the choice of the Denver staff and isn't
tagging behind the procession any this
year. He lost his temper Sunday
when Knapp walked Gear on four per-
fectly wide balls and that may or may
not have had anything to do with his
defeat.
Sunday opened the season of circus
baseball at Kaw field. There were a
dozen tumbles and several other thrill
ing events not on the program some
of the Bears are sore today from thelr
efforts to capture and throw the slip
perry pellets used in the contest.
There was more life in the grand
stand crowd Sunday than on any other
occasion this year. Something doing
all the time. 1t was good noise and
one that should be encouraged.
The work of Knapp was off color
badly Saturday. Kaws and Bears alike
held consultations with him and Gear,
who was called out on a wide one
begged the umpire to keep ms eyes
on what he was looking at Gardner
work was slightly improved sunday.
But the crowd ragged him to frazzIe.
Great is Chief Smith. The stoclzy
built Indian further complicated the
situation yesterday by proving that he
is as good a catcher as any OF them
He caught a good game, working nice
ly with Fugate and swapping the pail
to the bases in nice fashion. He eats
the pop fouls with less exercise than
any catcher who has performed Tor
the locals. And he ate all of them:
In addition he smashed in a couple or
scores and singled once again for good |
measure. He rang the register Tor |
two Dagger in the seventh but Knapp
thought the score was big enough as
it was and after talking the matter |
over with Hendricks and other mem |
bers of the Denver team ordered the |
chief back to the plate, and Gear, who |
had been on first. back to that station.
Knapp got off considerably easier than
he would have had not the lead OF the
locals been so great.
The Bears don't take to grief very
well. Neither are they good mud
horses according to Sundays demon
stration. The bunts laid nicely in the
wet grass after Mr.. Gears 1ntroduc-
ton of this form of hit, were nearly
ALWAYS safe. Sometimes as many as
three men dived into Mother earth in
an attempt to grab the same ball. And
then they didn't always grab it.
Ryan was substituted for Burns in
the fifth inning on account of Ramey,
the southpaW, being called into action.
Rickert is still nursing his charley
horse.
Fugate pitched a splendid game of
swinging into the ambient atmosphere
right along, all the way through the
game. Once in a while they guessed
right and met the ball. "Gentleman
and twirled the best game Sunday that
he has thrown since he first appeared
here with Cooley's squad
Hundreds lamented the fact that
Healy and Ramey could not be de-
pended upon when the writer talked
with him at noon Saturday. His pitch
ing staff was all shot to pieces, boo
You couldn't help feeling
sorry for Jack. And then-Hereafter
we refuse to sympathize with Mr.. Hen
bricks.
The meeting at F'ullerton's store to- {
night is for the purpose of organizing ]
}. city or merchants league. All inter
ested in amateur baseball should be
there.
The Topeka Midgets reorganized af-
ter a couple of years of inactivity, will
open the season Saturday. The groudS ;
have not yet been decided on.
The Topeka high school track team
won the meet at Holton Saturday.
Wetmore high school was second.
Los Angeles Herald: Dick Cooley,
owner of the Salt Lake City club in :
he Union League, made barrel of
money with his club last year because
MS home fans gave the club great sup
port at the box office. The other cities
n the league could not pay expenses,
although one of them had a pennant
winner. Cooley is the type of man
hat is needed in the Coast League and
le is able to finance a club in class AA
San Diego sportsmen have ]
,lamored for admission to the league J
,or the last two or three years, and as {
he city is growing like a weed it looks t
ike good territory. &
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