The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-12

Tomorrow the Savages will be back
with US. Don't forget to go out to see
them trip Wichita
A Chicago paper calls the K c..
Blues the Kaws. Well, they can have
the name. Savages is good enough
for the Topeka club
Walter Schafer, University of Chi
cago football, baseball and basketball
star, has given up athletics to go in
for art Now some people will want
/ to know if he got his head hurt in a
football game.
There is just this much about it: If
Omaha and Topeka keep on winning
games when they get together at Oma-
ha on May 81 there will be "somthun
didin' on the old diamond"
| There are ball players who never
make an error, who never strike out,
who never lose their pep. Then there
are players who always place their
hits. Also, there are ball players who
play golf and who learned to lie on
| the links.
| Last Sunday there were something
| like 40 players at w. L. park for the
two City league games. One of the
fans in the grandstand who was in a
Cooley and asked: What becomes of
all the ball players, Dick?" The Old
Vet smiled little as he replied with
a counter question: Tell me what
becomes of all the smart babies, and
I'll tell you"
Throughout the country there is a
noise that sounds very much like the
returning of the racing game. Many
states that have had the ban on are
lifting it, The city of Chicago sent the
largest crowd to the Louisville derby
in the history of the event, and Chi
cago hopes to open her tracks again
soon. The sport of kings looks like it
might again become the king of sports.
And if racing does come back
throughout the country, the baseball
ma gnutS' will have cause to look out
and get out from under" The big
popularity of baseball began when
racing was on the go. OF course, 1t is
possible that the fans nowadays would
go to the races and still be fans. But
there are many ears that consider
Program and scorecard for today's
races" sweeter music than Ladies and
gentlemen, the batteries for today's
game are, ETC." And there are many
who would rather see a four legged
filly run than watch a fat headed
fielder tumble a fly.
Rather a remarkable series of
games that the Reds and Cubs recent
ly played. The first was a tie of fiji
teen innings with a total of twenty
three hits; the second was 13 to IL
affair with twenty-four hits; the third
was shutout; the fourth was 9 to
battle with thfrty-two hits. Twenty
three pitchers were used.
Listen to this: 1t is rumored that
there is pitcher in the Western
league who can throw the emery ball
without the use of emery paper. His
method is very simple. In order to
roughen the cover of the ball, he
merely rubs it on his chin whiskers
just like you would rub it on a piece
Of emery paper While doing the
rubbing act, he covers the ball with
his gloVed hand and the batterS al
ways think he is going to serve them
a splitter. If President O'Neill wants
to find out who this pitcher is, he
might go into the barber business for
a short time and undertake to shave
all the club pitchers. In this way he
could examine the chin whiSkers of
all, and the one with the stiffest bris-
ties naturally would be the guilty
party.
People play a roulette wheel be-
cause of the big element of chance
because they never know what is COM
ing next. For the same reason people
play baseball" The only difference
is that there is absolutely no law of
averages in baseball. There is no sys
tenn of dope that is worth anything.
For instance, there is no reason why
the SavageS should lose to Lincoln and
then defeat Denver on the same trip.
There is no reason that can explain
why a youngster like Lefty Trainer
should outbat an experienced and con-
scientiouS player like Tallion. There
is no explanation of the performance
of Animal Dashner. Sunday the Ami
NAL lasted only one and third in
nings against Denver, but Monday,
against the same club, he came back
and allowed only four hits and one
run. They say one phase of eternity
is full of horrors and that the way of
a woman is the most battling problem
of the ages. But for pure adaman-
tine uncertainty there is nothing that
fills the bill like a bunch of ball
players.