The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-01
SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Dog Meat, Prune
Pics, Lemon Sandwiches, Etc.
(By Clug)

A certain well known local baseball
critic touts McGaffigan, of the Lincoln
club, as being one of the sweetest
players in the league.
McGaffigan may be triple sugar
coated and all that, but for all around
playing, Sammy Mayer, Bill Rapps
and Pitcher Clarke, of the Soos, de-
serve mention.
Hugh Jones, of Lincoln, says that if
o. B. takes the Federal League into
the trust as a major league it will be
the biggest bonehead.' However,
there are others who think the Feds
will take o. B. in after while on
their own terms.
Of course. the Federals have poor
drawing clubs, just like all other
been through some pretty stormy
weather and they have so far shown
the mettle OF the kind of sports who
win out.
Sioux City papers announce that
Larry LeJeune has been made an Of
fer by the St. Louis Federals. How
ever, they state he denies any inten-
ton of jumping.
Western League umpires are now
scrapping among themselves. Van
Sickle accuses Cusack of sending fales
reports to O'Neill and says that this
has enabled him to hold his job. Van
is reported to have talked out of
school in Sioux City when he heard
he was about to be canned.
There are probably few ball players
in the Western League who know
more about the game than McAllister,
the veteran Lincoln backstop. Mac
has been in the game 20 years, in spite
of the fact that he doesn't show it, and
the reason he holds his own is because
he plays the game with his head
The only way you could know Mac
is as much a 'vet' as he is would be
by an examination of his hands. The
scars of many hurt decorate the old
faithful mits, and to say that every
finger has been knocked forty ways
for Sunday would be putting it mild.
But such scars are the rewards that
come to all who do their time in the
cage.
The Salina Journal is the discover
err of the following bit of baseball lit
erature:
Holyrood has a baseball team that
is exceptional. 1t makes double plays
only at critical times as the baseball
reporter reports, these plays can be
played only at critical moments and
as long as the boys keep together and
keep their eyes on the ball in play.
That Joe Mandot-Johnny Griffiths
twelve round affair at Canton July
has Ohio's big army of fight fans
Interested, and if present indications
are borne out, a record breaking
crowd will see the mill. Bernie
Strapp, manager of Grif1iths, and
also promoter of the mill, is planning
for a huge crowd. He is staging the
go in the Canton ball park, and also
will erect a big tent over the ring, so
that the boxers and spectators will
be protected in case of rain.
1t seems there's no limit in sight
for the speed these auto racers can
attain.
When Ralph De Palma drove 500
average speed of nearly go miles per
hour, the speed sharks said the mark
never would be beaten.
Then along came Dario Resta Sat
urday and averaged 97.6 miles per
hour in winning the 500 mile race at
Chicago with the Peugeot. All of the
drivers who finished among the ten
first beat De Palma'S mark.
Many queer and absurd things have
been written about baseball, but it is
doubtful whether anything has been
quite so far-fetched as the stories that
Jack Coombs, former Athletic and
now a winning pitcher with Brooklyn,
has absolutely nothing, but keeps on
winning on what he knows about
pitching.
The folly of such a statement is ap-
parent if considered. If such a thing
was possible, then Christy Mathewson
would not have lost a game this sea-
OILS, the famous pitcher of the nineties,
one of the headiest that ever lived
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