The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-09
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Where They Play Tomorrow.
Topeka at ST. Joseph.
Denver at Sioux City.
Lincoln at Omaha.
Wichita at Des Moines.
If Bugs Grover had demonstrated
himself as good a twir1er as Mogridge
Thursday, Topeka would have had
cause to rejoice in him today.
The Savages need to win three or
four games in a row to give them
every good ball player must have in
his tool kit. without it he is sure
to boot the ball and certain to have
a low batting average. And a pen
nant winning team is usually one in
which every player on it has conf
dence in every other player.
A member of the Savage squad ex-
plains it thusly: When a pitcher is
going good and the reut of the team
is backing him up, you feel like you
have to help out and you get the hard
ones. But when the man in the box is
being hit hard, the rest of the players
begin to wonder how soon they will
boot one. And pretty soon somebody
does it. Then, somebody else catches
the disease, and then, it is only a
question of how big the score will be.
Grover Cleveland Alexander, Phil
lie pitcher, has set a new slab record
in baseball. Alexander has pitched
three one-hit games this season, which
according to statisticians, was never
did" before by any man in one sea-
son.
The Chicago Evening Post heralds
Umpire Quigley as Famous Athlete
story in it's Wednesday edition. The
title was conferred upon "Quig'' for
his proves in carrying a player off
the field in a game between the Cubs
and Cincinnati Reds.
Friends of poth Kansas University
and the Michigan Tigers will be
pleased 70 know that the annual grid
iron battle between these two schools
will be played on Thanksgiving day
this year. Many also would probably
like to see the game scheduled for
Kansas City, as it is more accessible
than either Lawrence or Columbia 1t
would also be a good thing if the an
nual Washburn-K. U. game could be
staged in Topeka every year, instead
of every other year.
1t is understood that Judge Lands
will shortly hand down his baseball
decision, and that as result the Fed
eral league will be permitted to sign
any Organized Ball players who have
a release clause in their contract. If
spect, they will undoubtedly begin to
make heavy raids on all other leagues.
Harry Davis of the Athletics is a
Yankee. He likes to make money.
After the recent Billy Sunday up
rising in Philadelphia, Harry bought
the tabernacle, and sold it, piecemeal.
to house builders. The Sawdust in
the aisles he boxed up in cute little
boxes and sold at SO cents per box to
admirers of Sunday. When the sup
ply ran out, he got some more from
demand. why let anybody suffer"
asked Davis, when it's SO easy to
make them happys'7FEx- 10
Herr Shultz, the political plutocrat
of this office, is in receipt of a little,
dark brown letter from Postmaster
Parkman, of Emporia, inquiring about
the slump of the Savages. The letter
was written after we got trimmed at
Denver, but thanks to the Democratic
postal efficiency, it didn't reach To-
peka until after the team had defeated
Des Moines and everybody had forgot
ten there had been a slump.
The Lincoln News observes that
Jack Coffeys Denver Bears look a
great deal more like pennant winners
than they did earlier in the season.
Scribe Sherman almost predicts be-
tween the lines that the Bears will
show their backs to Isbell before the
end This new observation was made
the day after Denver had defeated
the Tigers in a one to nothing con-
test, which naturally made them look
good.
Will 1t Be Ford?
Writing from New York, George B.