The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12

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Where They Play Tomorrow.
Sioux City at Topeka.
| Omaha at Wichita.
| Des MoineS at Denver.
| st. Joseph at Lincoln.
| THE GOAT.
| If your batting eye is lost
| Blame the jinx.
| If your fielding is frost,
| Blame the jinx.
| If your curves are weak and lame
And they land upon the same
| And chastise them every game,
| Blame the jinX.
-Grantland Rice
The Kaws have nothing to be
ashamed of by losing the game Sun
day. Two scratch hits in the first in
ming upset the dope bucket and were
| responsible for the loss. The visitors
outhit and outplayed the Kaws but they
We're not entitled to run in the first
| inning.
Doe Reynolds will stand fire and will
be one of the best pitchers the
| Kaws staff. Even when pitching under
day he worked like a major Lacquer
| and never f1inched.
| Pa Rourkes team slipped one over
| on the Grizzlies. Beginning to be a
| habit and perhaps some aggregation
will give them a good cleaning in the
near future and start them in the
direction of Wichita ct al.
Dale Gear is some pinch hitter. He
l.; r.
ing the stay at home and has not fall
ed to deliver the goods on either oc-
casion. He started the batting rally
Sunday afternoon which resulted in
scoring three runs.
Umpire Ollie Anderson, the third of
O'NeiIPs umpires to report here this
season is officiating in the st. Joseph
series He came here from Denver
where he worked in the Lincoln series
Umpire Anderson was in the American
Association last year and has worked
with Brick owens. He does not be-
lieve Owens has been guilty OF unpro-
fessional conduct and intimates that
his discharge might have resulted pe-
cause the National League wanted a
place for Hank O'Day and mace
"Brick" the goat. Other charges
which were held against Brick, Whlle
in the American Association, including
a gambling house discovery were SUI
ficient reasons for dismissing the OIL
cial without criticism.
Dale Gear will probably send Josh
Billings to the Quincy, Ill, team of
the Three 1 League. Negotiations are
going on now and may be closed at
anv time Gear has received many OF
fers for the youngster but wanted 10
send him to some club Whlch mas goou
pitchers. He will be sold on an OPP
tion So he can be recalled at any time.
Pitcher Mccullough may go to Man
haitian on an optional contract. Inc
youngster has everything to make him
a good pitcher excepting experience
and he can get this in one season at
Manhattan.
Dale Gear has ordered the Kaws to
report for morning practice. Bunting
will be a speciality, although they will
workout along other lines. Bunting
has been one of the weak points of the
team So far this season.
Writers in the American League are
commenting on the success of Hal
Chase in making plays at second base
which have thought o be impossible
and attempted by few heretofore. They
claim that it is possible and that he |
accomplishes these unheard of plays |
because he is left handed. They say |
TINS endDleS IllIIl 10 lITOW OUT d
ner at second, third, or home plate |
without turning, after fielding batted |
ball On account of this, he succeeds in /
killing the double steal with regularity. |
Jimmy McGill of the Denver team is |
worrying .ver a surplus of shortstops. |
Jack Coffey played this position Iast |
year but. has not reported as he will |
finish a law course sometime this week. |
McGill understood this and granted !
Jack leave of absence until that time |
but he found Matthews to play the |
position until Coffey reported. Mat |
thews has played the position so well
that McGill don't like to misplace him |
and insert Coffey-he fears he might |
break up the winning combination.
AS it is. he does not care if Coffey
never reports but the latter is anxious
to get in the game as soon as he draws /
his sheepskin from the law school.
Sioux City Journal: The Lincoln |
News finds solace in the fact that It'll