The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-03
GOSSIP OF THE GAME
(By Jake Lewis. official scorer.>


A number of writers Of the circuit
are counting the Topeka club out of
the running in the Western League
race but the local management is not
present, the standing of the Kaws
looks bad, but the management does
not believe the Kaws will remain in
that position very long. With q long
series Of games at home. and with
added strength on the string, Manager
Dale Gear expects to have the club
going at first division gait before
another week has passed.
The race In the Western League, al
in the country. With Sioux City. st.
Joseph and Denver all fighting for
first place and all the rest Of the clubs
fighting for q place in the first d.
vision, the fans Of the circuit are being
given a class OF high grade baseball.
Sandy Griswold Of the Omaha
World Herald even claims the Omaha
club has a chance at winning the race.
The club looks very good as a fielding
aggregation but there are several weak
hitters in the lineup. The pitching
may finish we'll up but it doesn't APP
pear to display the machine working
Requirements which are necessary to
keep up fast gait.
BY the loss Of four straight games,
three to Topeka and one to Omaha,
one Of the writers Of st. Joe thinks
the Drummer pitching Is going bad
and all the hitters in a slump.
Spencer Arthur Abbott has the men
Of his Keokuk club going fast and the
club is in third place on the Central
association with Burlington and Clin-
ton leading. Jay Andrews Is not doing
SO well. The Waterloo club Is in fifth
place.
Adams, the pitcher who jumped the
st. Joe club for the Federal League, is
not making a very good showing. He
made a hit in making his debut but
two other trials since then have been
failures.
Jimmy Callahan expects to make an
outfielder out Of Big Ed Walsh II he
fails to come back as a pitcher. And
who would blame him when Ping
Bodie is batting but .215 and q nat
ural born B. H.
Pitcher Lester Stevenson has been
given his release by Pa Rourke. He
will probably go to the Grand Rapids
club OF the Central league. Stevenson
heralded as good pitcher. He was
tried out a year ago with the st. Louis
Cardinals and it was thought at the
time that he had the making of a
coming twirler. Eddie Justice, short
stop on the Rourkes last year, has also
gone to the Grand Rapids club. Ed
die was suspended this spring, but was
reinstated and released to the Michi-
gan city.
Lincoln Star: Hugh Jones makes
one big mistake which has caused the
Lincoln club some popularity among
the fans. The Lincoln president does
not believe that the clubs business is
everybody's and when he purchases a
new player he refuses to give out the
| cost and naturally the fans think they
either cost him nothing or a very small
sum. When Pa Rourke or Jack Hol-
land invest in a player and pay more
than a hundred bucks for him, they
immediately boost the price about ten
. fold and give it to the papers. They
are on to Rourke over in Omaha and
| the st. Joseph fans will fail to fall for
Hollands stuff some day. From the
! size of the crowds the Western League
club Is drawing in the Missouri river
town it seems they have already fallen.
| Pitcher Albert Clauss, the Lincoln
southpaw. who has lugged q lame
hurting wing all season and has been
unable to take his turn on the Stub,
has gone to Youngstown, Ohio, to con-
suit Reese, the famous bonesetter. The