The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-28

/ ton He was steady and effective at al
inning williams drove a long home ruI
over the LEFT field fence
Score by innings: R II. 4
1Iinnea polls 49, 010o42 Ill 10
5 Milwaukee ..--.-.--O o o o . O.
s Batteries-Feine and owens SIapnicka
3 Braun and Hughes.
8 Columbus 1: Louisville o.
Columbus, Aug 2S--Shelton single ant
MIXERS double in the first inning gave
able to match it. The home team workec
| three double plays, Stansbury being
| caught at the plate IN the last one.
| Score by innings: R.H E
| Columbus ...-....-...-1 o II
! Louisville .....-....--.0 0 90 90 Z
Batteries-Cole and Smith; LoudermiIk
and SeverOid-
Toledo-Indianapolis not playing.
j ON THE BENCH.
| Denver at Topeka.
| Lincoln at Wichita.
st. Joseph at Omaha.
Des Moines OF Sioux City.
! George Smith got three three base
hits in Wednesdays game. George
Godfrey Moore passed the hat and
| took up collection of $12.75 which
| was presented to him.
| The Kaws will play the last game
| of the season with Lincoln on the
| home grounds this afternoon. This
| is the last time the two clubs will
| meet, either at home or abroad.
| Denver opens Friday for the last
| series of the season on the home
grounds. The two teams will not
meet again until in the closing series
n "a three
games, october at Denver.
Koerner is working well at first
base but hasn't struck his natural
hitting gait. He will soon begin slam
ming the pill to all corners of the lot
The loss of Wednesdays game is the
third which Gene Cocreham has lost
on the home grounds this season. He
has lost a total of six on the road.
Lincoln Star: The more the Lin
coin fans see of Dale Gear the better
us eight Gears at the head of the
clubs on the loop and it would be a
baseball paradise.
Pitcher Joe Benz. of the White Sox.
is worried about a report that the
Chicago club has asked for waivers on
him. The matter of waivers being a
state secret in the American League,
with a line as the penalty Tor violating
it, there is no official way in which to
verify or refute BenZ'S occasion for
worry except the we'll known fact that
the asking of waivers often is for the
purpose of finding out how a player
is regarded by the other seven teams.
with a view to possible trade, but
without any idea of discarding said
player to the minors.
Ty Cobb is said to have serious |
with q knees.
he lose a leg and one eye, it's a good |
bet that the Georgian won't bat more |
than $50 for the next ten years.
A Louisville correspondent writes |
under date of August 10: Mrs. Jas. |
Murray, wife of the American Asso- |
citation umpire, was under the care of /
"A physician as the result of nervous /
on her husband by Infatuated base |
ball fans. During the game between /
Milwaukee and Louisville yesterday, |
Umpire Murray gave Milwaukee the
from the bIeachers and grandstand |
rushed on the field. Pitcher Jack |
Powell caught an angry man who was
about to hurl heavy hammer at the |
umpire. a detail of police escorted /
Murray from the grounds. Mrs. Muir
ray. sitting in a lower box near the |
scene of the attack. tainted and was
carried to an automobile.
The average ball player never goes
into a game that he does not try his
best His efforts may fail, as do those
in other walks of life, but there are
few instances on record where a play
err has not given his team his best
efforts. More cannot be expected.
abb clubs do not carry players that |
are not trying. but it is only human
for them to err on occasions, and such |
players are benefited more by encour-
agement than by heaping criticism
upon them. Were errors eliminated
from the game il would not be any
thing like the game it is. 1t is errors
which add to the games uncertainty,
and it is because it is hard to tell what
may happen in a struggle that holds
the public interest. - Washington
star.
Shortstop Russell Blackburn. now
with Milwaukee. is TO be given anoth-
er trial by the Chicago club as soon
IS the American Association season
ends.
Lincoln Star: Manager McGiIl of the Il
Denver club is dickering with one or
wo owners in the American associa-
ion with an idea towards breaking
leals goes through the most likely
candidate for the Mile High franchise
S said to be Ed Smith of Chicago, the
-eteran third man OF the prize ring
md the matted square. Smith is
Known all over the country as a fair
nan and a good sportsman and he
would be welcomed into the O'Neill
circuit by the other owners and the
press. In the meantime the passing
# McGiH would be a blow to the
Western which would be felt all
around. He has proven to be a fine