The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-24

club, to reduce expenses, but will this
increase the net receipts? Nick Mad
dox was a hustler and the team played
good baseball for him, but win
Peaches Graham get the same re-
suits from the club? If he does, the
economy move will prove to be q good
one, but If he fails. 1t will not as the
attendance will be reduced and the club
will lose more than the salary Of the
deposed manager.
Frank Isbell thinks his club is slipping
because his pitching staff is weak and il
hunting new material. Only a few
days ago he went to Chicago in search
Of new pitchers but press reports fail
to announce that he succeeded.
Hitting home runs at Des Moines has
become such popular rsastimc that the
management has moved the left field
fence and set 1t on top Of dixie along
the bank Of a river. Home runs will be
less frequent in the future. The dixie is
twelve feet high. ~
In finishing a series with the Wichita
club last Monday, Sioux City completed
a stay at home in which the club won
II and lost games. The Sioux won
the majority of every series but one
and that was the Denver club IN which
they broke even. They defeated the
Drummers three out of five, and won
three out of four with the Topeka. Des
Moines, Lincoln and Wichita clubs.
The Sioux City club has eight pitch
crs. Woodburn Of the Louisville club
recently reported to Manager Josh
Clarke.
Dan Breese, president of the Wichita
club, says that the time has come for
dropping Denver from the Western
League and adding Oklahoma City or
Hutchinson. The fans of Oklahoma
City would not support a Texas League,
and even now the Kansas State League
club in Hutchinson Is not receiving sup
port enough to keep 1t out OF debt.
These towns would not do the Western
League any good and would not make
expenses.
Topeka should take heart from the
Biblical quotation, 1.-THE last shall be
first and the first last" MARBLES Sioux
City scribe Res
An Omaha dope artist arises to say
that Schliebner. Thosnass oDunlap and
Krug. the Omaha dhaftet 81 fnfiefders.
are about the class Of, the Western cir
cult. Yes. just about.
The Wichita club has lost several
games on the road because of the de-
composed work of the mediators, arbi.
traitors, or whatever you want to apply
| to that much abused gent who deals
out decisions, according to Sam Smith.
sporting Ed Of the wichita Eagle. Must
have interviewed Nick Maddox.
1t il noticed that Hank Gossett, the
backstop the White Sox secured from
| st. Joseph in the spring of 1913 and
! who was later gent to New York Yanks,
is now with Indianapolis In the Ameri-
can Association, while Ed Sweeney 10
still with the lowly apostles Of Chance.
Gossett will be remembered as the
backstop whom Frank Chance declared
was better than Sweeney when Big Ed
Topped to the Feds.
| The Mexicans had better be satisfied
with things az they are. Suppose they
had Hal Chase.
| For the first time in three years the
Dies Moines club Is short of good pitch
ers. Frank Isbell is in Chicago trying
to get pitchers for his club but the
Western League hitters don't need to
worry-he won't get Urban Faber or
Joe Benz. two stars Tho formerly
| graced the center Of the Des MONIES
diamond.
The big league Ivory hunters might
find that trip to the Kansas City
l
them some. When one watches the
| slender built and fair faced youngster
who Is doing outfield duty for the Kay
See Blooz perform for few games he
| is sure to conclude that Robert Roth
will appear in the big league box scores
ere long. Roth is hitting the ball on the
I nose when hits mean runs and running
I wild on the bases besides covering more
ground than any other outfielder in the
American Association.
| another one who might be up among
the big lights were it not for his dis
position is Ovid Nicholson. the fleet
outfielder CT the Wichita Jobbers. Nick
Is a consistent three hundred hitter and
Is az fast on his feet az any man in the
big yard. Nick is inclined to sulk when
things are breaking bad. otherwise he
might now be under the big tent.
The Sioux City scribes seem to have
| the impression that Sheldon LeJeune,
the swatting outfielder Of the Indiana
] should be in the big leagues before
now. The smuggling Frenchman might
be there were it not for an incurable
case of Cranial Ossiflcation.
1 Pitcher Higginbotham and Catcher
Hammerschmidt, battery with the
Dubuque team of the Three 1 League.
form nice pair Of monickers for the
with. Higg:nbotham was with Topeka
"once upon q short time ago.
! Ty Cobb failed to get a hit in the first
i game he played after his little "dool''
/ with the butcher. We presume the
celebration.
1 The Western League fans may look
for most anything now since Bossoloni
acting az q pinch hitter for Jones In q
recent Wicn1tS- Omaha game got hit