The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-04

| While IL other men and the officials try
/ to prevent it.
Wichita Beacon: Secretary McMuI-
len complained to the Jobbers yester-
| day that they had no pepper in
Tuesdays game. This was the answer
| he got from one of the most popular
members of the team: How are we go
ing to show any pepper when the crowd
doesn L All the noise we heard was
the gang roasting Hughes, and that
d1dn t take very well with any of US.
When they turn on the fellow who has
worked harder than any of us to give
them winner, just because things
break against him and he happens to
have bad day, the sweet things they
say to me or to some other fellow
who just now is popular, lose their
nice TASTE Happily, the Wichita
knockers are few. The trouble is that
the boosters keep too quiet to drown
them out.
Omaha News: Baseball stories galore
have geen told about Jay Andrews
who has played with some half dozen
or SO Western League teams during
the course of his long baseball career,
but here's one that hasn't been told
outside the Lone Star state. 1t con-
Germs ruse adopted by the corpulent
and crafty old baseball leader to give
mis- team better fighting chance for
a pennant, and it also deals with a left
handler who has just broken into the
big show a second time.
In 1909 Jay was managing the Okla
homa City team of the Texas League,
and his team was right up in the run
ming with a splendid chance to grab the |
flag. Houston was leading and there |
was long streak of daylight between |
these two clubs and the other six in the |
league.
On the Dallas club was a tall left |
handler, who was a holy terror to the |
Oklahoma City club His name was
Eugene Moore, and he used to NOW
these Oklahoma City batters down like
Walter Johnson would a bunch of kid
leaguers. He had licked the Mets-that
was the appellation of the Oklahoma |
City bunch-evecy time he had faced |
them and that was pretty often, for
the Dallas pitching staff was rather
limited.
After Moore had shut out the Okla
loma City team with a dinky scratch
lit one day, Jay got desperate. If his
cam was to win the pennant he would
lave to get that fellow Moore out OF =
he league some way for Oklahoma
City still had string of games tic
'lay with Dallas. Now Dallas couldn't |
possibly win the Dennant, so a happy |
bought occurred to Jay. He had a
commission from the Pittsburg club to |
Lct as scout, and was expected to tir II
IF the Pirate management to any |
he day after the game Jay wired |
cred Clarke that he had uncovered a |
Wonder, a man who would make Rube |
Vaddell look like u rheumatic busher. |
Clarke wired back to Jay to get him |
n offer for the man right away. Jay II
i'd, ard he did it in a hurry, too. | |
Before that night was over, by dint
f some real burning of the wires.
ay had engineered the sale of Moore | /
o Pittsburg for $4,000, and there was
specification for immediate delivery II
n the deal, 100. Ill
Moore was a big, husky youngster Ill
bout as rough as they make minor II
and Jay didn't have the faint II
st idea the chap could stick in big | II
sague company. but that didn't matter | II
D him. He'd got his particular hoodoo
ut of the league and his team pro- III
eeded to clean up on Dallas in the II
games. But it couldn't win II
lie pennant, Houston grabbing it by II
0uple of games. lll
OF course Moore didn't make good, iii
e was too green. Pittsburg shipped II
i'm to Indianapolis and even Asso- L
alton company was too fast for him.
ventually he drifted back to the Texas =
eague, got the needed experience and
it'll the tailend Galveston team this On
JASON proved a real star. Cincinnati
ought him, and he recently reported to
lie Reds.
It might be added that Pittsburg the
,mmission to DR.. Jay Andrews. III