The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

than not to have won at all.
day Manager Jackson made discov-
cry. He discovered that Van Sycle
runs his own ball games. And Incl
dentally he found out that Honus
Cochran is somewhat of an outfielder.
While this column is opposed to
OVERRIDING the scrapping stunt, at the
same time it is glad to see Jackson
and his men fighting for every inch
of ground all the time. The team
god of baseball is invariably on the
side of the team that has the most
pep and pluck.
And above all things, an umpire
should run his game just like Van
Sycle ran Fridays affair. Unless an
umpire does this there might just as
well not be one. 1t may appear that
this Is EN- by 20 inch wheeze space is
trying to carry water on both should
ers by being for both Jackson and
Van Sycle. But it is not. Both did
their duty as they saw it, and that is
as much as the best man the world
ever produced can boast Of
While spreading the aroma it
might not be out of place here to say
that Van Sycle looks like the best Of
fetal Blunderbus O'Neill ever con-
saying that Jimmy Jackson is the
best manager who ever wore a Tope-
ka uniform. If Jimmy continues as
he has started, no matter where his
right to be called manager and he will
make a place for himself in the
hearts of all loyal Topeka fans.
Hosp. the new Wichita Wolf who
Joined the team here, played a much
better game at shortstop Friday than
he did Thursday. Friday he had five
hard chances and fielded all Of them
perfectly. Also. out of four times at
bat, he gathered two hits. But the
real class of the Wichita infieId is
Manager Wares. A man blind in one
eye and nearsighted in the other could
easily tell this in a short time. Wares
is not only always where he ought to
be, but he is often where the other
fellow ought to be when the other fell
low isn't.
In this respect Wares is great deal
like Jackson and Mayer, of the Saw
age outfield. Both of these men seem
to have the knack of knowing just
about where a batter is going to place
his hit, and whenever they don't guess
1000 on this, they always make up
for it by covering the necessary
ground. baltimore is another player
who goes the bloodhound one better
and smells them where they are GO
ing to be before they get there.
Jimmy Jackson has been up in the
big leagues. So has Manager Wares
They told each other so during the
game Friday afternoon. And as one
who has been there and knows, Man
ager Jackson says Topeka fans are
seeing as good baseball now as they
could see in Philadelphia, Boston,
New York, or any other big league
town. And what's more, they are see.
cy.aJr
Loosen up tomorrow, fans, go out and
see a good game and get some real
Americanism in your bones.
The Old Vet Sandy pulls the fol-
lowing in the Omaha World-Ferald:
1T OWNED a club in Topeka once"
a sad-eyed stranger spoke,
He did not have to tell me more-I
know that he was broke.
There is some truth and a great
deal of fiction in the above, as there
is in good deal of Sandy'S dope.
But if Topeka appreciates Il fighting
ball team, no one else will ever have
an occasion to get poetical about our
shortcomings along this line.
1t is true some people have lost
money specializing in baseball in To-
peka. But, if man ever went broke
running a Western League team here,
the man who put Topeka on the w.
L. map, is reputed to have cleaned
up $4,000 as reward for his efforts.
Cooley sold out to several business
men who knew nothing about baseball
and who went into the thing as side
line. Those men lost money, but none
of them went to the poor house be-
cause of it. Some of them could buy
the whole Western League circuit
without going broke. And, then, be-
sides, figures indicate that Topeka is
supporting her team about as well as
some of the rest of them this season.
1t is admitted that the crowds here
have not been what they ought to be;
but by the time the Savages have
licked the hog out of Omahogs, it's
an even money bet the turnstiles here
in the Griswald village.
Speaking of Umpire Amsterdam
Van Sycle, the Lincoln Star says:
Van is courtesy personified. He
treats all ball players alike, showing
no favoritism. He may call some bad
and then he may give a batter an edge
but he is only human, and should re-
ceive the support of the fans instead
of their condemnation. If there is any
reason that an umpire should pur-
poSely give club a raw deal it is
when the home team is ahead and the
fans begin rubbing it into the jumps.
That is practically justification for
almost anything, but Van pays no
more attention to the hootings Of the
fans in such instances, he does to
the whistles Of the Rock Island trains
as they pass the ball park Please
hurry as we are waiting is the salu-
tation which greets each and every
batter as he advances to the plate,
and it is this little act of courtesy and
kindness that will brand Van through
out the circuit as the best one on duty.
We take off our hats to such a man.
He is a credit to the great sport and
the fans should support him instead
of make light of his work"