The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-28


st. Joseph critics believed the Josey
| fans are laying up wrath in DAYS tc
come by roasting the Bears during the
| late visit of the Hendricks tribe. This
| isn't fair to the Holland fans. The
Grizzly bugs will make it as unpIeas-
ant as possible for the Joetowners any
way, and the Missouri fans should DC
commended for their display Of spiri,
rather than cenSured for 1t.
Remember Cheney, the bean ball
artist and speed finger, formerly II
this section but now with the Cubs
Well, the Chicago News says he's a
better pitcher than O'Toole despite the
$22,500 affair. Only for his work, says
the News scribe, and the Cubs wouIc
be trailing along considerably below
their present standing. He has won
more than half the games the team
is credited with, according to this wri-
ter.
Three or four fans have taken occa-
sion to tell the writer how rotten they
believe the team is, that they believe
Gear is the poorest manager who ever
lit in Topeka and all that sort of
thing. Why should a man lose his tenn
per and use language that would shock
even the stockyards' reporter because
the athletes are losing? Why not look
at the matter in the proper light, hope
for a break to come in the losing
streak and say nothing if nothing good
can be said. A sport reporter probably
hates to have the team lose as much as
any fan. Yet some fans seem to hold
a man who writes sport accountable
for the losses, the team and the man
ager.
AS to the team and management
a ball game without some pitchers. The
pitchers with the Kaws are lacking.
Consequently the Kaws are losing. II
is inconceivable that the management
will not try to strengthen the hurting
staff. People who have first-class
pitchers are not however selling them
just now. There is no need for the
other kind. That may have something
to do with it.
Do not think that any large per
cent of the. fans are in the mood re
ferred to above. Most of them view
the thing more sensibly. They arc
glad they have an opportunity to see
good brand of baseball even if the team
does lose more games than the other
fellows, The game is faster than 1t
was in the old Western Association and
so they journey to the park whether
the team is winning or losing, spend
they would like to, simply because they
know it takes money to keep ball
team going. You don't hear them
kicking much. And they are the back
bone of the game. The baseball dys-
peptic who is stricken with fresh at
tack of indigestion every time the
team loses, stays away until the VIM
ming stride is reached once more. But the
fans who are broader in their idea or
sport and loyalty to the team go every
day and make it possible for even the
crouch to see the game when SO IN
clined.
IF the fans think Gear is not capa-
Die as a manager they should tell it TIC
Mr.. Catlin, the club president, or othe1 |
men whose money is tied up In base
nall here. They and not the scribes |
engage the manager. They pay MIN |
They are the only ones who can re- |
ease him. 1t isn't fair for a fan tc |
,sk a writer TO attack a man whel, |
.hey will not do it themselves. Some |
If the men who want some one else |
n attack Gears administration were |
charter members of the Booster CLUB.
lincoln News: "Sulky'' George
hughes. they used to call him in the
Three-I league. His crouch yesterday
would Justify the title. Hughes saw
it to censor Outfielder Craig before
he public for missing Smiths snort
lit into his field. He yanked Craig
md shifted Middleton into tnat career,
,lacing Davis in right. Craig's only
nance to field Smiths hit would have
,een a hair-raising grandstand stretch
hughes was roasted by local fans.
Denver Post: That history repe1ts
ack Hollands Saints administered q
efeat identical with one on the same
ate last year. May %, 1911, the Josies
omped the Bears 8 to and shifted
hem to third place and the Missouri
ms garnered ten hits, the same as
A comparison of the box scores OF
hese two games is almost identical,
Nth the exception Denver got eight
its last year. Yesterday each team
ivided honors in the error column, as
hey did in 1911.
Big Buff Ehman toiled on the. hill
or the Bears a year ago, while Kauf-
IAN essayed to deliver the winning
eceptives for the Drummers With
ut a few exceptions the lineups were
bout the same
Just as the Salina club was begin
ing to get somewhere in the PEI
entage column Lamb, who has been
he life of the team since joining it,
roke his leg. This is a hard blow to
ne team, as third sacker manager is
v far the hardest worker and best
irector on the team. Salina fans, !
owever are the tickle kind and stand
y their team pretty well in adversely.
When the team is going good thev !
i'm out in as large crowds as attend
ne game here.
The Hiawatha team in the Mink
,ague is on the bottom of the percent
- IL IL
Tub is playing to the biggest crowds ,
the league. The Hiawatha news
apers explain the-position of the team
Y saying that the need is for soma
itchers and an umpire. Why the
itchers? ,