The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21

him for crap shooting the sum of S25.
Jack Holland of the Drummers, is
| exercising his recall. He has sent out
! the word to Pitchers Ralph Bell Fritz
. Smithson and Cecil Thomas Bell is
Z with Winona in the Northern league,
Smithson with York in the Nebraska
league, and Thomas is with Beatrice
/ in the Nebraska State league. Bell and
Smfthson will join the Drummers i'm
mediateIy. Holland also gives out the
| inforna ton that he and Pitcher Gaines,
| formerly of the Chicago White Sox,
have reached an agreement and that
the pitcher will join St Joseph Aug
ust 80.
Lincoln News: Hugh Jones re-
ports that poor attendance is the
program all along the route, it being
an off year in baseball, in the opin-
ion of the managers Even Des
Moines, with a club well up in the
fight. is not turning large enough
crowds through the stiles to flag a
handcar. 1t may be the runaway
race that is playing hob with the
Western league baseball. but we offer
the suggestion that the three-game
series is the ounce which makes 1t
losing game
Joe Tinker of the Reds is after Bert
~ L
ha. who is playing stellar game with
Louisville this season. When PA"
Rourke sold Niehoff to Louisville
howl went up from the Omaha fans.
Rourke's one reason for selling was
that he didn't want to keep Niehoff
down. Niehoffs work with Louisville
has been more sensational than in the
Western. and if he doesn't go up this
fall, we miss our guess
Wichita Beacon: The Western
league scribes are beginning to pick
the players who are likely to go by the
draft route. The teams had until Aug
20 to sell players. At thar time the 10
went on and on Sept L the big league
nagnates get together and choose
whom they want One Des Moines
writer has Rogge and Sleight going to
the White Sox, Red Faber to Washing
ton. Bill Hunter probably to the Cleve-
landers. Tex Jones back up to the big
show Leonard already has been dis
posed of to the Pirates. From the
Drummers, Joe Kelley and George
Watson already have been sold to
Pfttsburg Dutch ZwiIling has been
sold and Tex WesterziI is expected to
go up Cochran of Topeka. according
to rumors, may be disposed of before
the draft season, and Reynolds and
Cocreham have been sold 1t is I'M
derstood that the White Sox are dick |
ering for Thomson of Omaha, and It /
is rumored that Roxey Middleton of
wichita is likely to be called to the big
show
Sporting News: In connection with I
the recent suggestion by the high |
browed editors of that wonderfully con- (
Quoted news agency, the Associated /
Press, that there is too much slang in |
baseball as she is written. a CORE |
spondent sends the following:
The other day a sport writer filed the /
baseball story on the wire, using the
word boot in it. to indicate that a /
runner had scored because the fielder /
had booted the ball The editor on the 4
other end came back with a correction /
for all points saying to eliminate boot, !
because it's slang, and use single in
stead 1 corrected the correction, maxi
ing it an error. Then I sat down and .
ground out the following, sent it to the
editor and suggested to him that he in
cIude it in new rules for the writer's
who file on this wire:
Words that might be barred beca use