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

Manager Frank Chance, in the course
of conversation about the Yankee team
in Philadelphia, brought up the name
of Joe Tinker, and then he stopped
and said: Il would give $4,000 or more
to have Joe on my ball club He is a
wonder and can do anything around
that shortstop position"
Sioux City Journal: Magnate Hughie
Jones of Lincoln is in very dutch with
Charles Comiskey Of the Chicago White
Sox. Occasionally the enmity hurts.
attempting to force Tip O'NeiI of the
Comiskey office force and incidentally
Western League president to do some
work around the circuit and to take his
desk out of the Comiskey Office. Com1s-
key handed Jones back-handed repri-
mand just recently by turning Pitcher
Rube Peters of Sacramento over to
Omaha Jones was hot after the Cali
fornian.
Denver Times: George Tebeau, who
owns part of the Denver baseball
grounds, got huffy with Umpire Wester-
welt at Kansas City the other day and
pushed his jumps around a bit because
he called an eleven-inning game with
the score tied to allow the visitors to
catch a train. George is still keeping
in practice, it seems.
Lincoln News: Many of the fans had
figured that the Lincoln management
soon would be erasing Jake WolvertonS
name from the salary roll, whereupon
the Flagler southpaw complexities the
situation by pitching one of the best
games of the season, holding the Griz-
lilies runless during nine lurid rounds.
Jake was supplanted in Lincoln's half
of the tenth to make room for a pinch
hitter and Tom Tuckey twirled the last
inning Coles error followed, the only
run of the day speedily resulted and
the defeat goes into the record against
the gent from Holyoke, Mass.
Outfielder Harry Myers with Sioux
City when they won the Western
League pennant and who later went to
Brooklyn, is with Newark in the In
ternational League. He is an all
around ball player of good average in
hitting, base-running, fielding and
throwing.
Denver Times: We cannot help MOTTO,
ing the change for the better in the
work of Casey Hagerman. His first
year here he was always trying for
strikeouts. He was wild, but had speed
and a good break. This season he is
more deliberate, finished, works his
change of pace in better form and
cuts loose only when necessary. He
will probably have the lowest base on
balls record of his career this season.
Lincoln News: Umpire Segrist ex-
plains his failure to make the pitchers
stand legally on and in front of the
slab by saying that this very point was
discussed at the meeting between Prexy
Tip and his arbitrators in st. Joseph
prior to the Inauguration of the cham
pionship campaign, at which time II
was understood that the club man
ayers could agree between themselves
to let the pitchers pitch with one foot
to the side of the slab. Prexy Tip, OF
course gave no such permission to his
umpires He expects them to enforce
the rules. More than that, not one
word has been said between Manager
Mullen and the visiting managers on
this point There could be no binding
agreement on the part of the managers
involving a violation of the rules of
baseball. Such an agreement would
mean the throwing out of all games
In failing to enforce the rules regard
ing legal pitching, Umpire Segrist is
to the ruination of young
pitchers, who must learn to pitch right
or their hopes of graduating to the
major leagues-and sticking when they
got there-wiIl be blasted.