The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08

Messrs. Isbell, Andreas and Fair
weather have a good baseball team
| Their entire club shows class. The
new faces on the infield are Andreas
at second who is as good at second as
| there is on the circuit and a dangerous
| hitter. Sentell is at short and fields
well but is a poor hitter Tex Jones
and Tom Reilly of last years team are
| in the other two positions, Fox is in
| left field. He was the best in the
| Three-I league last year and is good
enough for any Western League team.
The other two positions are filled by
| Eddie Hahn and Hunter. Both are
| excellent men. Isbell claims to have a
| fast pitching staff and if they come
up to his expectations they will win
| a large number of games.
IsbelI, Andreas and Fairweather are
as popular as any other trio on the
circuit and will make friends every
place they go. The fans of Des Moines
are lucky in securing their services.
Umpire Fitzsimmons made his debut
| in Topeka with the Des Moines team.
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Joe French went back of second base
and snagged a drive off Shaws bat in
the third inning which was nothing
short of highway robbery. He threw
the runner out at first. This was one
of the best infield plays seen on the
local grounds this season.
Ed Bass, who runs a green house OPP
posite the association park, has Of
fered the winner of each game a large
bouquet of flowers and the Kaws have
won the decorations three times in sue
cession. They have not failed to COL
Iect and go after the decorations each
day after the game.
ST. Joseph and Jack Holland will
come Saturday for three games. This
team is up in the running but Gear
and the rest of the Kaws believe that
can beat them three straight. The
Kaws pitchers are going better and the
entire team has more confidence than
when they came home from the road
trip.
The Antelopes finally won a game
from Denver. They had the same luck
with the Grizzlies as did the Kaws,
one out of six, and the Jobbers failed
to get any Gear is dead anxious to
meet the Grizzlies on the local grounds
again and believes that the Kaws will
have more success than on the previous
occasion. as
/ Sioux City journal: Tt may be some
consolation to the wichita mana cement
to know that even the Peerless Leader
has failed to give the New York Amer
leans as large a per cent as the Witches
have already accumulated.
Sioux City Journal: You'll have to
give it to Frank IsbelI for one thing
he has his boosters playing right up
on their toes every minute. For pep
and ginger they displayed more here
than either the Rourke's or Drummers.
Das Moines Tribune. While tbe snit-
ter will continue to be respected by all
batsmen who are forced to face that
kind of a pitched ball. a splitter such
as Manager George StovaH of the St.
Louis Browns, certainly merits suspen-
sion. His victim in the deplorable in
cident-Umpire Ferguson-may enter
tain the idea that hanging would be
preferable to suspension.
ST. Joseph News-Press: Umpire F'itz-
simmons has a regular foghorn voice,
something like Johnson of last years
staff. Also, he seems to be good
natured and to want to judge 'em right.
By the way, the St. Joseph fans, like
those most everywhere else, seem to
have more consideration for the UNI
pires this season than formerly. 1t
is going out of fashion to kick on
everything the umpire does.
The big league box scores are just be-
to show that the pitchers are
coming into their own. Tighter games
are looked for in the Western League
also, as the weather grows warmer.
Jack Fourier is said to have hit .436
against the Coast league pitchers, but
if he hits 100 lower than that in the
American league it will satisfy Gala |
han better.
Lefty Mogridge is winning all of his |
games for the Minneapolis Millers and |
Jawn Richie has recovered from thb |
shame and humiliation of having been |
forced to witness the peddling of a |
Western League graduate to the Cam
tillon crew.
Sioux City Journal: They're chock |
full of optimism in Omaha despite the /
reverses of the Rourkes. Abiding the |
club, the Bee sports writer compares |
the Rourkes man for man with the |
members of other clubs and finds SOL /
ace in the fact that the comparison is |
not disparaging to the Rourkes. We
too believe they stack up pretty well |
with the others. excepting Skipper Bill
Schipke al second. The Bee says he
has no peer this season.
Ping Bodie, the fence brea king out
fielder of the Chicago White Sox is not
up his name very conscien-
-iously this season. When Ping first
broke into the big league limelight he
vas preceded by record of having
banged out something like twenty-eight
home runs in the Pacific Coast league.
He continued to bat in similar man
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