The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-11

Q0intette OF pitchers on the circuit Of
near equal strength. Other clubs may
have an individual pitcher who has
made q better showing, but as an en-
tire staff. there is none to compare.
With these i've pitchers in condition.
and they usually are, and the other
members Of the club showing their
present batting and fielding ability,
they should win three-fourths Of their
games. -Four runs by the Topeka club
is now considered q safe margin to
bring about q victory in q majority Of
all games played.
Dick Cooley, manager Of the Topeka
club. does not expect to win as many
games on the long road trip. beginning
today. an the club has at home. The
odds at playing In foreign territory and
getting the breaks are against q club.
However, Mr.. Cooley expects the club
to make q good showing.
In former years, Cooley always had a
good road team; they usually won about
as many g-Ames, on the road, as at
home and never until this year, has
his club made poor showing while
travelling. But in making the last trip
on the road, the Topeka club was not as
strong as at present and Cooley thinks
the Topeka club will win half its games.
Pitchers Faircloti4 and Jones have
been placed on the market. Manager
Cooley will send these players to some
other club to finish the season but will
not sell them outright. He wants to
recall them this fall for use next season.
Topeka Is not such a rotten baseball
town after all. Recently Booster day
was given in honor of Dick Cooley and
tickets aggregafing more than $500 were
sold. Last Friday, a Booster day was
pod tn u oil
both clubs share, will be used to pay
the expenses Of entertaining the Ma
tional- Association Of Minor leagues In
Omaha in November. The Des Moines
club played Omaha and the same club
was the attraction with Topeka on our
Booster day. In Omaha. one Of the pa
pers says the attendance was 1000 and
another says the attendance was 1900.
Neither il as great as the attendance
at the Topeka game.
Topeka looks much better than Oma-
ha under these conditions The Topeka
club draws from less than $4,000 people
and the Omaha club has more than ESQ.,
900 to draw from. According to the
last census the population Of Omaha
was 1884, 96, South Omaha had 26,25S,
Council Bluffs. Iowa, just across the
suburban towns will increase the draw
ing power Of the club to more than
$50 900 people. Topeka outdrew them on
a Booster day.
The writer's of the circuit are COM
menting on the playing of the Sioux
City club. Ed Hanlon's athletes have
made an enviable record during a long
road trip and look more formidable that
their two rival clubs-Denver and the
Dfummers. On their road trip of near
ly three weeks the Indians won more
than two-thirds Of their games. while
the Denver club was at home for half
their games and got nothing but an
even break. The Drummers did no
better.
pitcher Mike Flanagan has been
sold to the Cleveland American league
club for $500. He was picked up
during last winter by Dale Gear and
of this season. A surplus of pitchers
caused his transfer. on an optional
agreement, to the Dubuque club OF
the Three Eye league. The Dubuque
club did not like his work and sold
him to the Muscatine club OF the Gen.
linquished all claim on him during
these transfers. Flanagan has been
one of the sensations OF the Central
Association and his sale to the Cleve-
| land club by Muscatine has been an
nounced. Flanagan is twenty years
| OlQ anu Il 8TS4QOAlS VI TIC 0cOI6C-
town university, Of Texas. This is his
first season in professional baseball.
Dick Cooley may break into the boz
score some day. He does not expect
to, but one can never tell. Last Sat
! urday in Omaha, Frank Isbell was
forced to get in the game at first base
| in the absence Of Tex Jones. who was
| called home on account of illness in
:; his family. Isbel1 was up five times
4. and got one hit. He had six chances
at first and got away with IN error.
i There are no cinches on baseball
| This has been made manifest by the
Topeka club during its present home
stay which was concluded yesterday
The Topeka club, before coming home
made a miserable showing and looked
to be just about as rotten as any clut
ever assembled. On paper, the club
looked as good as any on the circuit
but couldn't deliver the goods. In
coming home, things changed. The
Des Moines club was first and lost