The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-03

Gee! but it's tough to be on the bench
Watching the others make good!
Full of ambition that naught can
quench.
Longing to be there swinging the
| wood!
Cheering a guy whose job you crave,
Who pulls a wonderful stop and peg;
A thought crops up you cannot stave.
"Geei if he only would break a leg?'
| Sporting Life.
Des Moines Tribune: True, the local
talent has not won as many games as
We would have wished, but there's some
joy in knowing that Topeka and
Wichita are yet to come-Who's that
smart Alec who just mumbled, Yes,
and Denver, too?" He ought to be
pinched for disturbing our peace.
1t is figured out that the bats used
by the Pittsburg team in rs seasons
represent 1,379 $50 ounces, 86,130 pounds,
43 tons of wood. Here's chance for
Hugh Fullerton to compute how many
leaves were borne by the trees which
grew these bats.
Barney Reil1y's brother Johnny con-
tinues to burn things upon the diamond
at Yale. In the ninth inning of a game
with New Haven for the championship
of the city, with Yale two runs behind,
and two on the bases, Reilly smashed
out a double and scored the two base
runners. He scored later on a single,
winning the game.
Denver Times: There was more worry
in Johnny Kings mind than he cared
to reveal. While the youngster was
striving his best to win his first league
game against Wichita to delight the
heart of 1.-THE old man. who promised
him a $3.50 gift for the victory, that
same "old man. was lying near death
with an attack of appendicitis. Johnny
just had to win, you see, to have the
cheering message flashed to dads bed
side.
Denver Times: Jack Coffey has
wired President James c. McGill that
he expects to leave New York city
Nav r. The shortstop captain says
that he is in great shape and prepared
to take his place Immediately.
John Bea1l, the former Denver fence
BUSTER may be released by Cleve-
land to the Milwaukee Brewers. The
Milwaukee club wants Bean in ex-
change for Leibold and in addition
wishes to retain a claim on Leibold,
if he is returned to a minor league
club for another year. According to
report, the outcome may be that Presi-
dent Somers of the Cleveland club will
send both Beal1 and Leibold to Toledo,
his association property, and that Mil
waukee will get nothing for Leibold.
Lincoln News: Polly McLarry is one
of the most dangerous hitters in the
entire O'Neill loop. He has much to
learn in the outfield, which is not sur
prising in view of the fact that he
has been a first baseman all of his
professional career, never playing the
outfield until he Joined our Antelopes
late last season. But his chief weak
ness has to do with his running the
bases.
Lincoln News: After the three
games with Denver, our Antelopes will
double back with the Bears and play
three more games in the Colorado
metropolis. This run of six successive
games ought to decide definitely wheth-
er or not either Lincoln or Denver
has been going beyond its normal
stride.
Last year the Kaws won 10 out of
the first Ia games played and were |!
tied with ST. Joseph for first place. |
This year it is the opposite. Last |
season, however, the team dropped !
from first place in May to last place |
in June, so possibly the reverse will |
be true this year.
Lincoln Star: Dale Gear and his
aggregation of Kaws pulled off the /
classiest fielding exhibition seen on the |
local stamping grounds for many al