The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-09

booked for Topeka today and then for
three days Des Moines, leading the
league, and Topeka, about to lead it,
will play each afternoon at w. L.
park.
Those who do not know the way to
said park can get on street car on
Eighth street, in front of the State
Journal office, and said car will take
them all the way.
But this column is not advertising
the street railway company, and those
who do not care to ride can follow the
rails of the track and get there over
the same route in about the same
! time.
The above information is given be-
cause it really must be needed. There
IS something wrong that ought to be
righted. Wichita with a tail end club
that is hopelessly out of the running,
is turning out better crowds than To-
peka is. And Topeka has a team that
ought TO be leading the lea que by the
last of the week.
Tomorrow, the annual shoot of the
Topeka Gun club will be held. Pigeon
busters from all over the state will
be here, and the shoot promises to be
/ the biggest Shawnee county ever
boosted. In another year Topeka
hopes to have the honor of holding
the big state shoot.
A meeting of the Western League
club owners will be held in Omaha
next week for the purpose of discuss
ing conditions in the league and plan
ming for the future. The ultimate OBJ
ject of the meeting, however, prob
ably is to take action on the proposed
cut of the players salaries.
A member of the Sioux City club
has a plan all his own to help out the
league. He suggests that President
O'Nei1. the instigator of the cut
plan, donate his own salary to the
club owners this year, as he can af-
ford to work one year without sal
airy better than most of the players
can afford to give up $50 or $25
month.
President O'Neill's salary, it is I'M
derstood, $4,000 year. And the
Sioux City players plan might be a
good one. This turned over to the
club owners would amount to almost
as much as $40 a month sliced from
the salary of every player in the
league.
In the event that the league should
suspend an Omaha paper has sug
gested that this would be an ideal To-
cation for a Federal farm circuit. Sew
eral Topeka fans have also suggested
that it would give an opening for a
new league to spring up, which
amounts to the same thing.
No new league could be formed I'M
der the sanction of the National Com
mission, but the n. c. would have
trouble keeping the Feds from invad
ing. And even if the Feds are not
playing major league ball, they are
proving themselves to be major league
sports, more so than the o. B. mag
mates are just at present.
1t is evident that in times past some
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bad baseball mistakes. Crisp, who is
Sioux City's star. catcher. this year.
was the highest priced played Topeka
ever bought. The sum of $4,000 was
paid for him. But when he reported
here he had just gotten over spell of
typhoid fever and didn't make "A good
showing. He was given his uncondi
tional release.
Later, Crisp was signed by the Kan
saS City Blues and Kansas City made
the same mistake Topeka did. Crisp
was given his unconditional release.
And old lucky Sooville got him for
nothing. Pepper Clark, another ex-
Topekan, is one of Soo's most valuable
men. 1t is understood that the In
dams refused to part with Pepper last
season for less than $4,000, and the
way he played in the Outfie1d Monday
would indicate that he is worth al
most that much as a fielder.
Now Jimmy Knows.
The following epistle was written
to Jimmy Jackson:
Dear Mr.. Jackson: I would like tc
suggest that you have Mr.. Mayer
pitch a game while the team is home.
I have watched Mr.. Mayors delivery
in practice, and 1 believe 1 am enough
of a judge of a pitcher to know one
when see one. If you will take tip
from one who knows, you will give
that yourster chance, and you might
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by so doing. You might make your
self famous. Also, 1 would like to
know why you don't make Cochran
hit the first ball Whenever he hits
the first ball he always gets a hit.
And whenever he gets a hit, he al
ways makes a score if he doesn't get
caught off the base or put out before
reaching home. Take my advice and
always make him hit the first one.
knowed from the first time 1 seen
you that you was the classiest fielder
in the league, but if you want to be
the classiest manager in my estima-
ton you will make these fellows do
what I say do. If you want any more
advice, knock one over the flag pole
in next Sundays game and I'll know
that you want it and need it and I'll
try to give you a plenty of it free of
compensation.
I T.
In the tenth inning of Tuesdays
game with Bostick on second, the Soos
thought they were pulling a big piece
of strategy when they deliberately
walked Jackson in order to get q
whack at Red Roche. The thing
worked because Roche has been in a
hitting slump for the past few days.
But when Red is just half way right,
it is a dangerous thing to do.
And here might be a good place to
say word or so about the so-called
slump of the ST. Louis Celt Roche
has simply not been right since he