The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

| Sioux City at Denver.
Des Moines at Lincoln.
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Sioux City at Topeka.
Omaha at Lincoln.
| st. Joseph at Wichita.
DeS MOineS at Denver.
Once again the Kaws have :
! pitcher who is winning. They nearl!
always have one winning pitcher.
has always been so. Remember the
year that Rip Zip Hagerman wa.
here. He was Cooley's only pitcher
that could win more than a game ones
in awhile. And so it goes. A couple
of weeks ago Frantz won the games
garnered by the Topekans. Now it is
Hornsby. Next week it may be
someone else.
1t is not that the other pitchers are
not flinging good ball. They are. But
| they are unlucky or something worse
For instance, in the last game played
here Young deserved to win and had
| the game won until he threw the ball
away at second base. And Brandon
has deserved to win the two games
| he has lost. But he didn't and the
wins must come to count in the per-
centage column. Hornsby is going
good. If another Kaw finger could
get to going at the same time it
climb out of the bottom by winning
every third game.
Knapp has proceeded to hand the
Kaws the worst of it in the st. Jo-
seph series. If PreXy O'Neill only
pires hurt the attendance more than
poor playing. People are disguised
with the work of Knapp here and
there are many who will not attend
a game of ball in which he officiate
Of course umpireS are born rotten.
But some of them are not nearly as
bad as those chosen to officiate on
this circuit. The only pleasing bit of
umpiring this year was in the first
game of the series when Haskell Off
ciated. But Jack doesn't visit us
often and has handed Topeka the
worst of it as many times as the rest
of them.
Any time they want to start that
winning streak this department will
be fully prepared for it. No need of
longer delay on our account.
Early today Gear threatened to
send in Wainwright against Winnie
splitter artist. Wainwright has been
working hard every day with his spit
ter, never having tried to use the
saliva ball until after his release by
Manhattan. Gear liked the looks of
the moisture globule as served by the
co1iegian and declared he believed the
big fellow might make it. Perhaps.
Only Wainwright ought to show pretty
soon if he's going to. It's getting
late in the season for experiment
Meanwhile st. Joseph is a good
place to give him the acid test. If
he can weather the breeze and dodge
the reefs at Joetown he ought TO do
the rest of the journey without
trouble. It looks like Young for to-
morrow's game unless Gear changes
his mind and uses the lanky one to-
day.
TEX Westerzil decided his first
game with the Jobbers by inserting a
two base hit at a proper and fittin'
moment. Not a bad greeting for his
old friends. Tex" played third with
Tommy Nee on the second bag.
The fund being raised will be pre-
scented to Bert King tonight. The men
who have contributed to it are the fell
lows who go to every game possible,
boost for the team as long as there is
hope and then begin planning for the
next one. The man who ''beefs' all
evening about how the game was lost
isn't the kind who dig up money to
support the team and players. Topeka
fans can not be accused this year of
not supporting the team if they keep
ND their present lick. Some small at
tendance figures have been given but
usually there was a bad day or some
thing of the kind to blame. Meanwhile
the team opens here Sunday. "A party
Or two of out of town men are COM
ing in by auto to root for the Topeka
team Let's keep them company and
help them root. The bigger the crowd
the better the team can play if the
crowd is pulling with them.
And they do say as how Chapman
and Fugate had three cases of beer in |
their room at one time. Don't believe !
it. If they had that much property, as
easily turned into cash as the liquid |
why wouldn't they sell it |
and retire from active life. 1t is diff |
dcuIt to believe that anyone in To- |
peka has that much beer. unless it is |
the chief of police.
Despair has lines out for a new !
pitcher and outfielder. Not only that |
but he thinks he feels a nibble at the |
bait The Lincoln magnate is strength |
aning his team in every way possible |
and his Dryers are playing far diff |
Perent game of ball from the one put /
I'D here earlier in the season. And |
they took pair of games from us |
then. |
The Sioux club which comes tomor- |
.ow is practically a new organizati or. |
There is Reilly and Andreas, for ir-
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