The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-25
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Tennis is the major sport in Will
came to Kansas
A baseball game between the Capt.
tai and Journal seems brewing. 1t
ought to be a show worth seeing.
fans.
Ham Patterson wants his Wolves
equipped with six pitchers. He says
he would rather have an extra twirler
and a utility man just now.
The talcum powder ball seems to
be about the latest innovatio. After
a while some pitcher will make him
self famous by feeding batters a new
one named after a well known brand
of food
A Sioux City paper bitterly con
dennis Holland and Page of st. Joe
for their attack on Umpire Van
SICKLE after a game at Soovi1le. The
best way to cure Holland and his men
of their habit of fighting is to send
them to Jail every time they hit some
body.
Rough neck tactics degenerate the
more, a man who owns a Western
League club should think more of
himself than to scrap with umpires.
The Des Moines News says that if
the Topeka club were in Wichita the
crowds would "bust" the fences around
the park. If this is a fact the Wich-
tia owners should be willing to let
avoid being bankrupted by the car
penters.
A we'll known sport authority as
serts that baseball is holding it's own
in the face of present conditions bet
ter than any other form of amuse-
ment. He cites as an example the
aters that found the past season very
rough shedding.
There is said to be a man in New
Hampshire, who rejoices in the name
of U. Ivory Bean. However, this man
has never played baseball and the
scribe who discovered him wonders
what all the scouts have been doing
since Bean was born
American association fans will well
come the news that Bill Friel, who
managed the st. Paul disappointments
last season, is to be added to the A. A.
umpire staff FriePs talent as an UNI
pire is well known. Two years ago
Jimmy McAleer recommended him to
Ban Johnson, but nothing came of it.
Commenting on the fact that Clarke
Griffith had let him slip off of the
roster of the Washington club, Ger
many Schaefer arises to make these
remarks: 81 used to think Grit had
wonderful judgment, but 1 think diff
ferently now. You know he had to
retrench. That meant that he would
have to let some of his men go. And
he let me out and kept such dubs as
Walter johnson, Clyde Milan and Ed
;.S+ hot
proof his judgment is punk ?''
Under the theory that the best bat
ter is the best player, the Lincoln
News picks the following as the pres
ent all-star team of the Western
league: CT
q Player Position. Team Ave
Kruger, catcher, Omaha..... 1888
Griffith, catcher, wichita. ...... 1862
Musser, pitcher, Des Moines. -. 1928
Mosridge, pitcher, Des Moines. 800
Jones, first base, Des Moines. -. 1922
Galloway, second base, Denver. 1854
Krug, third base, Omaha. $50
Bostick, shortstop, Topeka. 800. 307
Spencer, left field, Denver. 80. 1863
Lejeune, center field, Sioux City. 1888
Forsythe, right field, Omaha. 1858
be hard to beat. 1t would, in truth,
be some ball club"
Long Larry Mclean, whose unruly
deportme cost him his job on the
Giants catching staff, has found a new
job. Mclean has signed to catch for