The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Dog Meat. Prune
Pies, Lemon Sandwiches. Etc.
(By Clug.)

1t is not a hard trick to get a good
team down to third place, but some
times it is monstrous task to hold it
down.
George Cochran got two pretty hits
and sacrifice out of four times at
bat Wednesday. but he happened not
to get them at times when they meant
runs.
| Southpaw Mitchell cannot be given
too much credit for his work in the
box Wednesday. 1t is very probable
that if it had not been for the errors
| of Galloway and Whelan he would
have annexed shoutout game. The
two scores the Savages made were the
ties.
Red Roche came in for his share
of criticism Wednesday when he did
not attempt to participate in the
squeeze play that cost the Savages
run in the seventh. Roche un-
doubtedly should have made a stab
at the ball, but it was such a wide
waste that the only way he could have
played it successfully would have
/ been to toss his bat at it.
Very few baseball games are won
on six hits. This is stated for the
! consolation of Animal Dashner and
as gentle hint to each and every
one of the Savages. If Jackson's men
expect to stay in the lead in this years
pennant race they will have to hit
harder than they did Wednesday, and
what's more they will have to learn
| to serve their bingles Mormon style.
A thousand hits scattered over a thou
sand innings are of more value
than one little hit in one inning.
Mayer, the new outfieIder from
Kansas City. was booked to play in
been in Wednesday affair if he had
reached town in time Manager
Jackson said Wednesday night that
he was not sure whether Mayer would
be placed in Tallion or Forsythe's gar
den. Both Jackson and Savage feel
that Kick and Cy should cover more
ground than they do. Also, they feel
| that they should make fewer errors
and get hits a bit oftener
Jimmy Jackson fielded 1000 and
| batted 500 in Wednesdays game
Also. Dashner pitched mighty good
ball up to the ninth inning, and kept
| most of the batters guessing. But it
takes more than a manager and
pitcher to win games these days.
fielder of the Bears, did not shine at
bat as brilliantly Wednesday as he did
Tuesday. But just the same-e he
looks like conner and ought to go up
Jack Coffey has six pitchers with
his team. Four of them are regular
pitchers and two are lefthanders The
Denver club will have to worry along
with only Is players like the other
clubs in the league this season, but it
| is an even money bet that it will fin
| 1sh one, two, three.
A Hunt of Odoriferous Cheese
catch Wideman Huggin- Spar in the
Dell. and her Parents should Rapps
| Clunn, Forsythe, would baltimore be
permitted to Roche the Coffey Cam?
P-H-E-W!
Six stake races for a total of $15,-
900, with entries closing April 26, are
announced for the Empire City track
grand circuit meet, with guarantees
1nsurtng that horsemen will get every
cent they win. The Greater New York
$4,000 stake for 2:08 trotters heads
the list, other stakes being the Man
er for 2:O5 trotters, Broadway for
2:oS PAGERS, Star Pointer for 1908
PAGERS, Great Eastern Handicap 2:O1
to 1925, all $4,000 events.
The federal statute which prohibits
the exhibiting of prize fight motion
pictures is double-barreled in it's eff
feet against the Johnson-Wiilard pic
of such films from foreign countries
and Cuba is a foreign country. 1t al
so prohibits the shipment of the films
from one state to another. 1t pro-
vides fine of $1,000 and imprison-
ment for one year, or both, for each
offense. The law was passed by con-
gress on July 81, 1910, twenty-seven
days after the Johnson-JeffrieSf fight
at Reno, New. and resulted from fears
on the part of many members of con-
greSs, especially from the south, that
race riots would follow attempts of
the promoters to show the fight in
thu movies
Ty Cobb has announced that he will
not try to steal enough bases this year
to attain a record, or to compete with
MaiSel and Milan. Though Cobb was
the boss sack snatcher of the Ameri-
can league for several years, he ap-
pears to have no ambition in that di-
rection just now. But Ty does not
take this stand because he has slowed
up. He contends that he is just as
fast as he ever was. Cobb argues that
he can be of more value to his team
by not depending too much in stealing
bases, which endangers his limbs and
might put him on the hospital list. |
He says that Of course any time it is |
essential to win a game he will steal |
and take chances in doing daring |
running and sliding, but that he is |
not out to make a record.
OKLAHOMA RACE TODAY SURE.