The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-14

Two shut-outs in two days is a rec
ord of which few pitchers can boast.
In addition to this, however, Dashner
has pitched a Init and 2-hit game
within the last month.
Roy Sanders left the Savages at st.
Joe and will not rejoin them until
they come home, if then.
George Cochran started the scoring
in the first game at st. Joe Friday by
stealing home in the first inning
during the past few days and also has
been hitting more consistently.
Even though she has a subsoil
team, Wichita claims to have drawn
better crowds than any other city in
the Western league this season and
Pa Rourke's statement that no club
would draw better than 10000 people
has been challenged by the Peerless
Princess Also, the home of the
Wolves boasts the fact that she has
paid every club in the circuit more
money than she has received and that
she has paid Topeka almost twice as
much.
1t is always one trouble after an
other with some men. Dale Gear quit
baseball and thought he had served
his time. Then he got a job selling
flour for a Topeka mill and things
ran without friction for a while. Then
Dan Cupid took a fatal shot at him
And now his mill has made all former
troubles look like little ones by pre-
senting him with a Ford in which he
has to make his territory.
This column is in receipt of a letter
from a peeved fan in which Bugs Gro
yer and John Savage are given a mild
scalding. Communications that are
not signed cannot be published. Also,
those who wish to send their knocks
through the mail are requested to re-
member that Uncle Sam does not
make special postage rate to them
and that the price of carrying a letter
is cents and up to fans just like it is
to every one else.
What's the matter with the Saw
ages? If you would ask a St Joe fan
this he probably would answer by
many in Russia ?'' And the results of
the three games in the Drummer town
give the Missourians the right to re-
quest somebody to show them where
thece is anything the matter with
Jimmy Jackson's warriors
AS matter of fact, however, the
team has been ailing a bit ever since
1t left home the last time and it did
not get into its old stride until the
past few days When requested for an
explanation upon the teams arrival in
st. Joe. Jackson said: Tough luck is
the only thing that has kept us down.
The men have kept their spirits up
and every one of them has been do
ing his best, but some player would
have an off day every day and it Just
looked like we couldn't win
However, hypothetical explanation
worthy of consideration is that Jack
son himself was not in the game and
- To- H.,
tea1I left Topeka, Jimmy was sick and
up until the opening Of the ST Joe
series he was in bed half the time and
wrestling with a summer cold all the
time. Jimmy got into the first game
at st. Joe Thursday with his old
"E-Yaht" yell and the boys had one
Of their old time big days, playing
errorless ball and batting out 5 clean
hits.
Most of the tough luck that has
come to the team it's last loop has
been produced by errors In Lincoln
Dashner pitched a two hit game and
threw it away himself. In Sioux City
with a game won in the ninth inning,
Tydeman dropped a fly that he should
have held and everything was lost
pitched a four hit battle and lost it
through errors. Cochran and Bostick
have made a big per cent of the err
rors, but both men have kept their
nerve ana jackson ieeiS thal they rave
done their best and says there is no
doubt that they are trying, and trying
hard.
The team Will be home next Thurs
day for a triple program with Denver.
Jackson and all the men seem to have
confidence that they will come home
IN third place. UNLESS something I'M
forseen happens We will be in show
Joe, land if either Des Moines or Den
yer should happen to have a streak of
bad luck like we had we have a
mighty good chance to spring a sur
prise on some of EN-"