The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-28
ON THE BENCH.
Where They Play Sunday.

Where They Play Sunday.
Topeka at Omaha.
Denver at D.. Moines.
Lincoln at st. Joseph.
Wichita at Sioux City.
Where They Play Monday.
Lincoln at Topeka.
Denver at Wichita.
Des Moines at st. Joseph.
Omaha at Sioux City.
st. Joe News-Press: Now that the
Western League race is almost half
over, some are beginning to speculate
on the way the teams will finish. The
Drummers, Lincoln, Des Moines and
Omaha are running a pretty race, with
Denver we'll in the lead. Sioux City
seems almost out of the race, but may
be expected to take fresh start now
that Josh Clarke has hurried some new
pitching material to the rescue. The
Jobbers and Kaws appear to be hope
lessly out of the race.
Connie Mack says he will let the
Yankees have either Outfielder Jimmy
Walsh or pete Daley, the coast star,
provided that Frank Chance will turn
over to him Russell Ford.
Pitchers Casey Hagerman of Den
are earning their pay. Each has pitch
ed fifteen games to date. Casey has
won eleven and lost four. Switch the
figures for Faber.
The system of scoring learned runs"
in the Western League now conforms
to that of the American League. A
pitcher is charged with an earned
rum every time player completes the
circuit and scores by the aid of base
on balls, base hits. sacrifice hits, stolen
bases, batsemen hit wild pitches and
balks before chances to retire the side
have been offered and missed. The in
tent of this system is to include under
earned runs all the factors that pro-
duce runs for which the pitcher is
chiefly responsible. Formerly earned
runs were those secured without the
assistance of bases on balls, balks and
batters hit by pitchers.
Ever since Joe Jackson knocked
ball over the top of the right field
grandstand at the Polo grounds joke
artists are declaring that he can make
a dollar and a quarter go farther than
any man playing baseball.
Sioux City Journal: Closely follow
ing a dispatch from Lincoln, which
stated that President O'Neill was going
to bolster up the Sioux came the an
that the club had secured
scribes put wo and two together and
gave O'Neil credit for Vann coming to
the Sioux. The bunk-slinging executive
of the Western League had about as
much to do with Vann joining the In
dams as woodrow Wilson. President
Hanlon and Manager Clarke pulled the
Vann deal all by themselves. The Lin
coin News also interprets the Vann
deal, assuming that O'Neil did get the
player for the club, to mean that Han
lon and O'Neil have smoked the pipe OF
peace. This may be true, but the writer
has not been so advised.
Lincoln News: Jawn Richie, of the
Journal, commiserates
with Jerry Downs because the latter
has been shunted from the American
Association to the Pacific Coast
League Jawn actually considers the
change a demotion and can't get away
from a notion that they play real base
ball in the A. A. All of which compels
us to remind the Minneapolis writer of
that Denver-M Minneapolis series last
October
Sioux City Journal Although the
deal is pending for three players owned
by the Pittsbure club, it has not been
closed. Manager Fred Clarke, of the
Pirates, offered his brother Josh, Out
fielder Booze, Pitcher Ezell and In
fielder Cypert. Booze is the most likely
player of the trio, having work
ed with the Pirates in several games
this spring.
Dubuque Times Journal: If Quincy
had a team of players like Catcher Bill |
lings it would be safe to say that the |
remaining clubs of the Three-I League |
would not have a look-in. The back |
stop has the speed of lightning and
the opposing runners when on bases
do not know when they will be moved |
down by his accurate shoots. He |
throws to all the bases. No one can
take a nap when he's on the job. If
they do, we'll, it's out