The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16


poned and double header will be played
Sunday.
The Omaha team is badly ''shot up"
of injuries, Justis and Neff are playing.
te game after Seng out on Of
injuries and none of the pitchers is In
condition.
Wichita defeated the Sioux and the
Kaws went back into sixth place The
Alphonso-Gaston stunt with sixth place
and neither is successful in getting away.
The sioux go nome AFTER IT. the present
JUL has passed and the Federal
League teams are still playing. In fact.
and drawing better. The American Assoc
citation and major league manager, ,, are
Nothing much doing this season, but what
next.
Looks like Cocreham for today, the last
game with Omaha
NJ ing new on the trouble with Rourke
and Sigler at Denver but 1t begins to look
like the release of Sigler. That will leave
but four umpires on the circuit
The players get their pay, regardless of
the results, but the man who is the goat
is the chap who owns the ball club. The
disgruntled fan always takes 1t out on
the owner
Sioux City Journal: Although the Red
race as far as the pennant is concerned,
the club owners are by no means 1ole:
Ineg ft the club and Will I'll leave no
stone unturned to land their club higher in
the race. Experimenting with young play
S a rule the novices do not remain long
on the payroll, but their expenses must
be met.
Manager Stovall of st. Louis may be
forced to retire as a player. For several
hands have been drawing tight They
stick up so that handling thrown balls and
bat have worked big cauouses on his
palms
AS shown by the records. the present
position of the Giants in the National
League race is no fluke. They have made
more runs, more hits, more extra bases
on hits, more stolen bases and more as
sists than any club in the league They
have made 323 runs. CAT base hits, S66 total
bases on hits and "a stolen 175 passes against
265 for the Cardinals, the nearest cluo
to them.
Well, the Fourth has passed and Johnny
Evers is still managing the Cubs Early
IN e se IN season fbe INSIDE stated that Johnny
would be succeeded by Roger BreSnahan
as manager of the Cubs before July y, I'll; Il;
in charge. and has his team going better
than at any time during the season.
Charley Comiskey, boss of the Chicago
Soy is said to be dickeTing for Artie
Thornason, Omaha's center fielder. Artle
has a bum ankle, but is sticking by the
pastime and delivering a smart article OF
aseball. The fact is there are few Thom-
asons in this Western League
Lincoln News: Hugh Jones and Jack
Holland have dec-eed that Umpire siglter
can't enter their parks Meantime "a
Rourke is one Western League club own
er who hopes Proxy Tip will go slow IN
attaching the tinware to Sigler. The Dig
wish with Pa just now is that Zip may
assign Sigler to arbitrate a series IN
Omaha. Pas optic. by the way, mas
Chameleon backed off the boards FRIDAY
IL was pink: Saturday 1t had changed TO
henotrope, while Sunday it was royal pur-
pie Pa is a smart entertainer wnen ne
once gets the notion, and he has pledged
himself to extend to Sigler the warmest
sort of welcome
Toe Kelly, of the st. Joe club, has pilfer-
ed thirty-three bases. Lester CHANNEL,
of the Grizzlies, stands next to Kelly with
a total of twenty-four steals. Davy
LLOYD has swiped nineteen bases and
leads the Lincoln club in that department.
Harry Cassidy, also of the Grizzlies, is at
the top of the pile in sacrifice hits. His
total is thfrty-three. Phil Cooney, OF
rificeS.
Lincoln Star: When a player assaults
an umpire he is heavily fined, no matter
how fierce the provocation may be. Now