The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Dog Meat, Prune
Pies. Lemon Sandwiches, Etc.
(By Clug)
(By Clug.)

Where They Play Tomorrow.
Des Moines at Topeka; 2 games.
st. Joseph at Wichita.
Omaha at Denver.
Sioux City at Lincoln
Des Moines will be here tomorrow
for a three day SERIES
The stage production entitled He
Shed 10 Buckets of Blood in an Effort
to Bleach His Nose" couldn't compare
with the ninth inning of yesterdays
game.
According to those who claim to re-
member such things, Tallions one
handed stab of Watson's singer over
second base yesterday was one of the
prettiest pieces of fielding ever seen on
a local diamond. 1t was a brilliant
stop and perfect peg.
Lefty Clunn who allowed a girl and
Dan Cupid to come between him and
his baseball career left for Millville,
n. j. Friday night. Clunn was the
best hitting pitcher Topeka had, but
it is probable he will give up baseball
permanently. He realized that he was
not going as good as he ought to and
wishing to get married was sensible
enough to take a steady job rather
than stay with baseball which is none
too certain a meal ticket to the best
of 'em.
In the past baseball enthusiasm in
Topeka has reSembled a short tubed
thermometer. 1t has always risen to
a certain stage and then stopped. But
those who are boosting Savage day
next Tuesday hope to burst the bulb
and spread the mercurial enthusiasm
over the entire city.
A little assistance on the part OF
everybody would make Tuesday an
49, I.,I1 i To e..
why can't everybody enter into a con
spiracy to give Topeka a little free
advertising by breaking worlds rec
ord for the largest attendance at a
ball game in proportion to population
that was ever known?
If one third of the population of
Topeka would just take a two hour
layoff next Tuesday and go to the ball
park the free advertising the city
would get throughout the country
from coast to coast would be worth
more than any man can calculate. 1t
would bring the word Topeka before
hundreds of thousands of people in a
way that would make these hundreds
of thousands of people think and say:
1.-The capital of Kansas is a live town
that knows how to do things, I'd like
to live in a town like that"
And. the thing could be done with
a small amount of effort on the part
IL
woman who will be trodding along in
the beaten path next Tuesday after
noon will say, 81 am going to spend
two hours this afternoon at the ball
park" Topeka will become the most
famous baseball town in the world.
And just now when phenomenal base
ball crowds are scarcer than chicken
teeth, such a record would attract dou-
BILE the attention ii would in normal
times.
George Cochran made the state
ment Friday afternoon that he didn't
care what the newspapers said about
his playing And, taking Honus at his
word, this column expresses it's hon
est opinion of him as a ball player
when it says he is the most brilliantly
erratic player it has ever observed. In
large per cent of the games Topeka
has lost this season, Cochran has
started the splitting of the so-called
limas by making an inexcusable error.
On the other hand, many of the games
Topeka has won have been saved by
brilliant plays on the part of George.
Yesterday he pulled the only possible
triple play that has been seen here
this year and it would have been a
triple if three outs had been need
ed. With the bases full and one out
Koehler hit a line drive that Honus
went into deep short to stop. With a
lightning peg he threw to baltimore,
doubling the man on second, and Lat
timore heaVed the ball to Fisher be-
fore the man on first could get back
to the bag. Then. in the next inning,
Cochran dropped a pop-up that a baby
could have caught barehanded. and il
is possible that ii he had caught it
Lakaff would have come back strong
er in the ninth and would have es-
capped the explosion Another erratic
feature about Cochran is that he
seems to hit better away from home
than at home.