The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-17

Iron, Sioux City's new cactus pitch
er, has been dubbed Flat Iron. If
he were an electric iron or a midiron
he might get by, but as a flatiron-
never.
The Lincoln News admits that the
Tigers are but tame cats when they
attempt to perform in the Des Moines
barnyard. And most of the other
clubs act like kittens when Baldy Is
bell is entertaining them.
Sending boxing gloves to the
trenches may be Jack Johnson's idea
of the quickest way to stop the war
Jack probably remembers how easily
a pair of gloves stopped him from
calling himself champion.
Friends Of the City league are
hereby reminded that two games are
scheduled to be played at Western
league park tomorrow afternoon. The
first game IS between the College Hill
and Palace teams and the second be-
tween the Gem and Eagle teams.
A St. Joe paper announT4 that Tip
O'Neil has arranged for q booster
day in Omaha, Sioux City and st. Joe
on August and in Des Moines on Au-
gust z. Topeka, Wichita, Denver and
Lincoln will hold booster days some
time between July % and August 2.
The old burg am there. right on the
lake all the way round. No wonder
Tip O'Neill and other men with big
affairs out in the world tie themselves
to Chicago with Irvine strings made
out of steel. On August 10 to 10 Chi
cago will hold one of the biggest ma
tlonal archers tournaments ever held
Savages Home Monday.
Monday the battle Scared Savages
wi h0
have been on a trail that was far from
a primrose path. They have had a
hard road to travel through the dust
and the gravel and home ought to
However. the thing that will look
best to them and the only thing that
viii! make them feel like fighting
Monday afternoon. Let's turn ont
and welcome them back in the same
manner we would have if they had
won every game on the trip.
Bill Fisher, the new first baseman.
started the Savages to scoring in .he
sixth inning of Fridays game bv mol
ing homer over the right field fence
BIZ also landed one in the seventh
that gave the Savages another score
Maybe he can't hit, after all.
1t must have been gratifying to the
ing in his old form and allowing
them to score on his error. The only
regrettable thing about it was that il
didn't happen in Topeka where Cy
didn't try to hit"
If the Savages can take today's and
tomorrows games from Omaha thew
Will have broken even on their longest
trip of the season. Which isn't so
bad when you come to think of the
umpiring and other things they have
had to contend with. 1t won't be so
bad if they lose both.
Although the Atchison Champion
has been asleep to long that it doesn't
know Topeka has been out of the
western association several corn har-
vests, yet the Champion comes
through with the information that we
have team in the pennant race.
Also, the Champion tells us that
Glen Trainer is one of the best men
The Cha mpion's review of baseball
is follows:
The Topeka baseball team is now
in the pennant race for the Western
association honOrs and il seems that
they stand fine chance for the said
flag. Glen Trainer, who was with
the Atchison team In 1908 and 1909,
Is now playing left field and is con-
sidered to be one of the best men in
the league. This year is the first time
in the history of Topeka baseball
that there has been a real pennant
team and the support the team re-
ceives is good"