The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-27
SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Dog Meat, Prune
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(By CIug.)

II (By CIug 81
The price of admission at today's
game is the same as usual-25 cents
to the bleachers and SO cents to the
grandStand-
So long as the Western league own
ers stand for umpireS like Cusack
they deserve what they get. Mr. Gu
sack may be a fine gentleman and he
may know baseball, but he would not
be a competent umpire in the City
league.
Bill Fishers 2-bagger Sunday and
his 3-bagger Monday indicate that he
is getting into the Id batting stride
In the eighth inning of Mondays
game Bill was credited with an error
that was question: BILE. 1t was a hard
chance and he and baltimore We're in
danger of collision, which in itself
would probably make man miss one.
Jimmy jackson looked mighty good
in his old position in centerfield Mon
day AS usual he was all over his
territory taking 'em and handled four
chances with ease. Also, he was there
with a hit in the big fifth when hits
were needed.
1t is run1ored about the Western
league circuit that Josh Clark, former
manager of the Sioux City club, has
club next season. The rumor has it
that Ham Patterson will finish out
this season and Clark will take over
the reinS next spring.
Tabeau, of the Kansas City Blues,
is another o. B. magnate who is hurt
ing the cause of baseball and making
the Federal league more solid. Tebeau
recently fired two players because
they wouldn't stand a cut in salary
and now he is trying to make another
player live up to the same kind of
contract he himself broke.
Tip O'Neill says he suspects several
clubs in the Western league of violat-
ing the fifteen-p1ayer rule. If Tip
were on his job like he is supposed to
be, he would know that the rule is
being evaded, if not violated, and
would take measures to stop the prac-
tice.
That Frank Isbell is bent on back
ing up O'Neill in everything is shown
by the statement that O'NeiIls UNI
pires are all right and that the club
owners and players are making mis-
take by beefing about them Isoell
also made the statement that in his
judgment Cusack didn't miss as many
as six balls and strikes Sunday.
If Cusack didn't miss more than
six he didn't miss any, and if he
been blindfOlded and had been COM
PEELED to guess at them he couldn't
have missed many more. For some
reason there seems to be more UNI
pire trouble this season than ever be-
fore, in all leagues.
The National and American leagues
have been IN umpire trouble all sea-
son. Quigley seems to be creating the
biggest stir in the National and Co
miSkey has been following loudeSt in
the American. The Feds, 100, have
been having their family rows with
the indicator men, and the Western
league officiating has been fierce
Undoubtedly, there must be a def
mite cause for the trouble. In fact
there can be no -troEble without a.
cause. But so far as is known no one
has made it plain to the public why
the old game can't go along like it has
in years past without the sickening
sight of seeing an jumps rob a. team,
or player beat UP an umpire almost
every time a game is staged.
The charge has been made that
Cusack is O'NeilPs pet. Isbel1 is the
only club owner in the league who
seems to think O'Neill is not a cheese.
Cusack has not only shown partiality
to the Des Moines club here, but he
is accused of having done it in other
towns in the league. Is there a rab-
1t is rumored that Jimmy Callahan,
White SOX scout, has been camping in
Topeka for the past few days to get A
good look at Second Baseman Saw
yer, of the Izzies. If this is a fact,
must have taken an awful long
look Monday when Sawyer made a
running dive over second for a
grounder from Browns bat and threw
the runner out at first with ease. 1t
was one of the prettiest fielding plays
one will see in an average lifetime.
When a player steals home in a
game, fans have something to talk
about worth while. Once or twice a
season the fans are liable to see such
a play, but it is rare treat when one
gets to see a player en- both sides steal
home in the same game. Cochran
did it for the Savages Monday and
Sawyer did it for Desl Moines. Coch-
rams was as pretty a steal as one could
desire, and it was all the greater
stunt because Honus had preceded 1t
with a 3-bagger only few minutes
before.