The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-23
SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Dog Meat. Prune
Pies. Lemon Sandwiches. Etc.
(By CIug.)

Where they play tomorrow:
Topeka at Lincoln.
Denver at Wichita.
Des MoineS at Sioux City.
Omaha at st. Joseph.
Members of the Topeka Commercial
club treated the Wichita players to an
auto ride over the city Tuesday night
The worst Umpire Cusick could do
Tuesday was to call ball on Wich-
tia player after he had taken a full
swing at it.
Topeka turned out Loyalty for
Jackson day yesterday. Yet there are
probably those who will knock and
say the crowd wasn't as big as it
ought to have been.
Honus Cochran got caught in what
might be called a trap in the third
inning Tuesday. Handling FoX's sac
rifice he juggled the ball a little too
long and permitted him to reach first.
Then he failed to cover third in time
to take Rapps's return throw and al
lowed Charles to score. Both were
hard chances, but he should have
handled them.
There is a campaign on in Wichita
to have the Western league games
| called at o'clock instead of at $50.
suggested that it might help the at
tendance if this were done ir Topeka.
| One argument against $3.50 is that
| the game usually isn't over in time to
allow the average fan to get home at
| his evening meal hour. This some
| times makes trouble in the family and
sometimes it interferes with the even
| ingS recreation plans.
With a few exceptions, most OF
| those who go to games at $3.50 could
| get off to go to games at 3. And it is
highly probable that there are some
who would go at who do not now go
| because of the late hour.
This is particularly true of the lady
| fans. Most of those who have to en-
| gineer the food machinery in their
homes cannot possibly stay at a game
until $50 and get back to the pantry
in time to get anything short of a mid
evening meal. Under proper condi-
lions there is every reason to believe
ball town.
Ham Patterson, the Wichita man
| ager, is opposed to cutting the salary
of PLAYERS, and is opposed to the sin
gle umpire system. Ham says that
even though there is only one fan in
the park, if that fan paid the regular
price he is entitled to as high a quality
of ball as a whole park full of fans
| would be. He says that if the quality
must be cut, then the cost to the con-
sumner should go down accordingly.
The sarcasm of the baseball field
sometimes burns Since the clash be-
Herzog the Cincinnati club has main
tanned an attitude of scornful sarcasm
toward the umpire. In recent game
Rigler was umpiring and Charlie
Of hot r-Il all nd
Rigler. 'I beg pardon, what did you
call that?" inquired Doom, who
thought the ball was off the plate. st
called it a strike" said Rigler bellig-
it?'' Excuse me- said Doom in his
sweetest manner, ct didn't know but
that you called it a sacrifice fly"
The st. Louis American league team
has a most remarkable collection of
giant pitchers. Earl Hamilton is the
smallest member of the staff, and he
stands feet IL " inchees. The larg-
est man in the squad is Carl Weilman,
with 6 feet n inches; Grover Low
dermilk is next, and he is just a trifle
shy of 6 feet inches; Bill James is
over feet inches; Perrynan is a
fraction shy of the same mark, while
Hoch is close to the foot inch
mark.
School for Coaches.
More than 100 prep school athletic
instructors will be pupils of Prof
Pat Page at the University of Chicago
this summer in a unique coaching
school run during the summer term
of the college. Page will have two
subsidiary faculty members in Coach
White of the Varsity swimming team
and Coach Hoffer of the Varsity gym
nastic teams.
Courses in football, baseball, basket
ball, swimming, gymna sites and track
work will be given.
Most of the high school and acad-
envy coaches who compose the classes
are from southern and southwestern
schools.
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