The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
THRU FEMALEEYE
Lady Scribe Tells of Last Game
With Denver.
COffey Called "COpy-Cat'-Cute
Players Discussed.
BY BERTHA HENfPsTEAD.

BY BERTHA Hampstead.
The Curtis Publishing company is a
disappointed concern this week They
had hoped that the Topeka ball team
would win over the Denver team the
day they sent their statesmen to wit
ness the game. 1 know they hoped it,
because they went to the expense of
sending a telegram to their local
weekly sales manager, Miss Margaret
Goodrich, saying that they wanted To-
peka to win. All the boys who sell
Posts and other Curtis papers in this
town, if they disposed of a half dozen
more than their regular number, were
given an afternoon at the game as
reward of merit. A special car, la
belled '"Topeka's future statesmen"
was provided for them.
The disappointment over the loss of
the game was chiefly that of the pub
fishing company, for their Topeka
salesman took it very little amiss. In
fact, they blithely cheered whatever
happened 1t interfered very little
with their privately conducted game of
throwing cushions and pop bottles,
that the enemy, Buckwheat, was the
hero of the day, conquering without
praise and plaudits
Too Clean to Win.
Something was the matter with that
game. The mayor and Mr.. CIugston
agreed that Buck was to blame In a
search for fundamental principles and
underlying causes, l am convinced
that the defeat was due to the fact
that our men were out of their native
element, in a sense. They had been
out in some heavy rains, and the mud
had been washed all off their uni
forms. They stood forth at that game
In the broad light of day in suits so
cleansed that a suspicion of their orig
1nal Wilderness could be. detected by
careTul observer And moreover,
there was no dust to walLow init had
all been soaked up.
The awkwardness of the situation
was apparent, and under those trying
circumstances, the rOut of our forces
was to be expected and forgiven. The
1nlng is more easily understood in this
shop, since our youngest reporter went
down our white lighted broadway one
night and bought palm beach suit
that is found to be too thin for dav-
time wear, until layer of dirt dims
us embarrassing transparency
Inc Denver manager may be a
Juoge OF men and players, but he has
no originality in costuming He is
copy-cat. He has taken to wearing
red-sleeved underclothes just like our
Jimmie jackson, who invented that
Sartoria1 innovation
The grandstand was awed into 81
lence by the kind of a game those
OenVer men played. <'he chief pleader
Tor the local cause was there but for
once in his career, he was quiet. Art
Wolfe was there, but he was too lone
some to talk much. The fair com
pan1on of his hours off, is in Cali
Iornla this summer, and his after
moons at the ball game are not as in
spring as they otherwise would be.
Divorces Out. -4t
1t was an afternoon for the di-
vorcees. One handsome one rather
recently ground out of the mill, was
engaged in an inconspicuous filtration
n inc fI1o d13II
The du1lest parts, you understand, oc-
cur when the visiting team makes the
runs. S. c. Petit, of the Continental
Milk shop, left some of his subordi-
mates to work the butter, and came
to the game. While he says little and
smokes his cigar in reserved quietness,
he is the sort of fan that pays we'll, |
for he camps there IN that grandstand
pretty consistently through the season.
and stays with it through victory and
defeat. His motto is My team, right |
or wrong"
There was a woman at the game
who had what struck me as an excellent
idea. In the first few innings neither /
side made any advance. This astute /
observer told the man with her that /
in her opinion they had too many men /
out in the field, and that if the man |
ayers would put them out of the game,
maybe the other players could make Z
something. Her theory seems pIau-
sible.
The catcher, as you may have OBJ I
served, has queen way of squatting
down to the ground and talking in ar
absurd sort of sign language to the I
pitcher. Our man, sill Rapps, makes /
a great impression on some of the .
spectators when he does that. Two girls .
sat near me at the game, and every I
few minutes one of them burst forth .
in a eulogy of Mr.. Rapps. The other ,
one contended that one Mr.. Bostick was
"cuter" and she liked him better for .
it. Whether or not Mr.. Bostick can
talk on his fingers as eloquentIy as 1
Mr.. Rapps can, 1 dicn't hear them say,
and it may be he mas some charms |
that compensate for inability to carry
on a conversation under cover of a
huge glove.
Other than the fact that Topeka
lost by five points IND that the Den
yer first baseman had a shamelessly
big tear in one of his stockings there
was little of interest on the diamond
the day the Curtis people entertained !
a group of their statesmen at a ball
game for the first time anywhere in
these United States of America
Breaks a Swimming Record.