The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-04
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SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Dog Meat. Prune
Pics, Lemon Sandwiches. Etc.
(By Clug.)
Where They Play Tomorrow.
Sioux City at Topeka.
Omaha at Wichita
DeS Moines at Lincoln.
ST. Joseph at Denver.

SIOUX city at Topeka.
Omaha at Wichita
Des Moines at Lincoln.
ST. Joseph at Denver.
Roaring Bill Rapps has become a
composer. His latest song begins
something like this:
Dashner got married at II o'clock
Trum-e-la, trum-e-la, tree.
Pa Rourke agrees with John Saw
age in his contention that Umpire
Myers is not the kind of official
O'Neill should choose to officiate in
the Western league.
We have already done Omaha just
like she did us. However, to go her
one better, and show some real class,
the Savages made UP their minds this
morning to make it four in a row.
Even the most skeptical Topekans
are now admitting that Jimmy jack
son has a sure enough, honest-to-M Miss
Agnes ball team. But the bare spots
in the grandstand during the past
week indicate said skeptics are not
any more anxious to see them play
than they would be if they were per-
forming like the Wichita Wolves.
President O'Neill announces that
unless the players will submit to a cut
in salary the league may have to sus-
pend operations for the remainder of
the season. With her chance of win
ming the pennant Topeka cannot af-
ford to see the league suspend. And
the best way to keep it from doing so
is to turn out good crowds to the
games.
OF the III pitchers whose names
appeared at one time or another in
last years Western league box scores,
this year. They are: Denver-Gas-
kell Harrington, Jordan, Mitchell.
Lincoln - Dawson, Ehman, Morse,
Schneider. Topeka-Dash sinner, Grover
Scott, Sullivan, Slagle. Sioux City
Clarke, Doyle, Casper, Kelly, White,
WOODBURY.. st. Joseph--Brown. Lam
bert, Lakaff, Thomas, Vance, Turner,
don, Ridgeway, Willis Des Moines-
Hogan, Thomas, Turner, Mogridge.
And some of these have vanished
from the league since the season be-
gan.-Lincoln News.
Stallings has one habit that is prob
ably unique. When his team is COM
hitting boneheads or being badly
beaten, the Miracle Man hurls him
self at the water-butt and SulpS drink
after drink of the aqua pura-prob-
ably to cool his coppers and drown
the out-ruSh of furious phraSeology-
According to credible observers, dur
ing a recent severe defeat of the team,
George consumed 27 clippers of water
| without a stop, and must have been
in shape to serve as an aquarium
when the game was over.
The rule at Boston is that Connolly
shall never be allowed to bat against
1eft-hander, and it is carried out to
the minutest detail. Even if the
Braves are mile ahead, or hope
lessly behind, Connolly is always
taken out soon as portsides goes
on the hill for the opposition. He did
not face a southpaw last summer, he
was taken out in the worlds series
whenever a left-hander showed up,
and the rule is strictly enforced this
season. Evidently the idea has be-
come a superstition with Stallings,
and is considered part of the neceS-
Sary details of the campaign.
Pa Rourke, the Omaha magnate
who has spent the last four days in
Topeka with his ball club, is a close
student of affairs and conditions out
side of baseball In fact he is some
what of a psychologist and political
economist. His views on the Ameri-
can mind and mannerisms are based
on sound logic, and his ideas on the
general unrest of the country are
worth while.
For instance: Pa believes that there
is something radically wrong with our
educating too many of our young men
with the idea that they can make
living without working for it. To
quote him: In the old days when l
was a boy" Pa said, I'VE went to
school until We were II or 15 years
old and then we had to get out into
the world and hustle for ourselves.
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