The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-18

Jimmy Clabby, the pugilist, has de-
cided he can get along without man
ager. Clabby claims to have made
$4,000 in the prize ring, and to have
given one-third of it to his manager.
The managers name was Lichtenstein.
Last Sunday St. Louis fans tried to
kill an umpire with pop bottles and
cucumbers. An inquisitive Topeka
fan wants to know where they got the
cucumbers, and he is the kind one
would not suspect, too.
Hugh Jones. of the Lincoln club.
has returned from an unsuccessful
scouting trip around the Central asSo-
citation. Jones is one of the best
sports in the w. L., and az such he
must be grooming his stables for next
years race.
Cheating in golf is said to be one of
the most perfect methods known by
which a man can skin himself.
A little while and we shall not see
them, but Tom Powell and Joe Nc
Bride will be telling us about the
great soccer players there are in To-
peka.
Western league records show that
Mogridge of Des Moines, has worked
more innings than any other pitcher
in the league. His total is 262. Grover
with 221 and Dashner is second with
1877.
Tomorrow the Savages return home
from their last long road trip to open
their last Eat home" series. Pa
Rourke's Omahogs will be their
guests.
The circuit swing that ends at
Wichita today has been one of the
most successful of the season. Up to
today's games the Savages have won
10 and lost since they left home Au-
gust 3.
The road record to date is as fol-
lows: At Lincoln, won L and lost 8; at
Sioux City, won 1 and lost 4; at
Omaha, won and lost l. at St Joe,
won and lost o; at Des Moines, won
2 and lost L.
AS the clubs now stand. Topeka is
almost certain to finish in the first
division. Only calamity can push
us below third place. There is a
probability that Jackson can nose into
second place and a remote possibility
that he might come under the wire
first.
The good road record can be at
tributed to two things. The pitchers
have been going passably well with
Dashner going like whirlwind, and
the batting averages have been i'm
proved. Dashner has won a majority
of the games, but both Grover and
Lakaff have been pitching good ball.
Practically every member of the
club has fattened his batting average
since the team left home. Brown has
made a remarkable climb and is now
leading the club with a per cent little
below $50. baltimore and Jackson
have been holding their effective gait
as has Tydeman, and Rapps, Fisher,
nd I7or oil
busting the old pill.
The games that were lost were
booted away on errors. Dashner
tossed one away, Tydeman let one slip
through his hands and Bostick and
Cochran were largely responsible for
the others. However, most of the lost
battles were played when Jackson was
sick AIDED, and it is a widely observed
fact that the Savages are pennant con-
tenders when Jackson plays and eel
lar candidates when he is out
Barney Oldfield and Bob Burnam
are left out in the cold by the Indian
apolis auto speedway officials in ar
ranging for a 100 mile race at the
speedway September Is. The two
seven men invited to enter. De Pal
ma, Resta, Anderson, Cooper, Ricken-
ba cker. Aitken and Wilcox are the
seven men asked to enter.
One answer to whats the Matter
With Baseball?' was given by the
fans of Boston, New York Philadel-
phia and Brooklyn, recently, when
more than $4,000 paid admission to
/ the ball parks of these cities in two
days.
NEWTON DEFEATED FLORENCE.
! Southpaw Tate Looks Good Enough
! for Western League.
| Newton, Kan, Aug. 1S.-The New
/ ton Santa F'e team took the Florence
team into camp by the score of 4 to 2.
1 Newton claims to have the fastest all
Santa F'e team on the system and is
prepared to defend the claim
The feature of the game with Flor
ence was Griffith's double play at first
una SISTED. Tate who pitched for the
Newtonians. is considered one of the
/ best amateur pitchers IN this section.