The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
WALSH LEADS OFF
Rickert, Batting Hard, Sent to
Fifth Place.
Gear Gets Wagner in Effort to
Strengthen Pitchers.
nATTI MHTu oInIIY T0nAN
BATTLE WITH SIOUX TODAY
Local Team Now Fighting
Hard in Every Game.
Several Players Out or Injured,
Lowering Teams Chances.

Notice who's who in the batting
order for the Kaws now? Old Joe
Rickert, batting down in fifth place
and Walsh, an admittedly fast man,
leading off. The new man at the TOP
looks like one who ought TO stay
there. Rickert you will also notice,
got three safe ones in three times up.
Emory hit a few also in the last Des
Moines game getting pair OF dou-
bles and a single in three times.
Walsh included a three Dagger IN ms
celebration of the change.
Again the Kaws batted enough to
win, but it takes lot OF 1t beh1no
the Kaw pitchers. Howell, who has
been working two months WASH IN
shape evidently, and the indications
are that Wainwright who renewed
him, wasn't a great deal better There
was a chance in the ninth but the
boys couldn't send the craft upstream
Manager Gear inserted himself in
Wainwright's place at bat, but there
was nothing doing.
Today theKaws are fighting at
Sioux City for second division honors.
The Kaws in, the past have had lot
of luck with the 500 tribe. But at
this mention the Sioux warriors are
threatening to go faster and the Gears
may encounter trouble. The SIOUX py
in the team this year. In one out
fielder alone they have Ten Mllllon
(ouchD beside the rest of the team.
Andreas is urging his boys along;
strengthening the team here ana
there, and the 500 fans are waiting
for the club to strike its real gait.
Manager Gear is trying to strength
en- the pitching staff, as was predicted
in this column Tuesday. His first at
the
signing of Mr.. Wagner of Lincoln
Wagner has the reputation OF beIng
a good pitcher and may make II all
right. Certain it is that Gear likes
his looks or he would not have taken
him on. There is plenty of dead wood
to be secured, but the manager wants
a pretty sure thing before putting II
into a Kaw uniform. Gear also an
nounces that ihe will soon have an
other pitcher ready to send into the
fray. This will probably mean the
disposal of at least one of the fling
ers working for the Kaws. Just who
hasn't been announced. It's little use
to carry them if they can't win games.
Meanwhile both catchers are on the
injured list and it is just a question
of which one will be the least incapa-
citated.
The Kaws didn't burn UP any grass
during the Des Moines stay. But they
COPIED one of the games which is bet
ter than Denver did at st. Joseph and
that is some comfort. What gives the
greatest relief from the despair caused
by the loss at this time, however, is
that the Kaws were up and in the
fighting in all of the games there. |
None of the easy scores which We're
made possible by Hstless playing here
last week. AS long as the Kaws are
losing games by one score, and fighting
hard to prevent the loss it isn't so bad. |
The fans will. it is believed, stand by
a team that fights for its share and
the Kaws have done this in Des Moines
as the records show.
Meanwhile the Kaws have been play
ing against hard luck as we'll as Des
Moines. Both catchers are injured and
Pitcher Cy Young is out of the game |
on account of the death of his brother
who has been seriously i'll since the
opening of the season. He will ioin
the team as quickly as possible and
may help out some. Frantz has a sore
arm, the result of overworking it while
it was hardly in condition and so it !
goes. Meanwhile the boys who are IN
the game are fighting hard.
Lincoln News: There appears to be
small chance to revive interest in
Omaha, despite the fact that Pa
Rourke has the f1oSsiest park in the
league and his ball club is putting up
~SAA
no team on the O'Neill circuit Even
after the Rourkes had whipped the
pennant winning Grizzlies three out
of four, the Antelopes played to less
than 500 paid admissions Tuesday. |
Mondays crowd in Lincoln was bet
ter than a thousand, not including the
kale paid by the feminine fans. The
attraction was ball game between :
two second division teams. Numerous
Omaha fans say they don't like
Rourke, but is that any reason why a !
population center of 100000. includinc
the three cities of Omaha South Om-
aha and Council Bluffs, should quit so
cold as to contribute only a $50 crowd
on a perfect baseball day?
st. Joe News-Press: Umpire Kis-
sane had barrels of trouble in this af-
ternoOn's game. When Umpire Kis-
sane called Beal safe at first in the
first inning it appeared to the specta-
tors that the Bears centerfelder was
out by yard. "Chief'' johnson lost
his head and slapped the arbiter. Kis-
sane, it is believed, ordered johnson
out of the game Secretary Haynes
of the Denver club appeared at the
press box and notified the newspaper
men that Manager Hendricks will pro
test todayS contest, on the ground
that Kissane had ordered johnson ont