The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-20
Sport Wheezes
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Sport WheeZes
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The slump of the Savage batters
this week undoubtedly is due in large
measure to the no-hit game Koest-
ner of the Wolves pitched against
them last Saturday
But, even in their slump, the To-
pekans are hitting better than any
other club in the league except Lin
coin.
Schweitzer, tie Cincinnati Swiss,
was the only Savage who was able to
fatten his average during the week.
And jumping from .2S3 to 1852 is some
fattening.
Evidently the Sioux Indians do not
expect to win the league race by steal
ing bases. Hensling. a Sioux player,
was leading the league in pliers and
he has been released from the club.
The T. RS are coming back strong
Teddy Roosevelt is batting AHA in
the presidential league race and Tyrus
Raymond has climbed to 1928 in the
American league scramble.
Pitcher F'leharty of Wichita, who
was suspended by President Zehrung
Tor mistaking an umpire's face for a
cuspidor, was reinstated when the
spat upon umpire admitted that the
onense might have been uninten-
uonal.
By giving Washburn the choice
date Friends university football
program, it is evident that the grid
iron enthusiasts of the Beerless Prin-
cess city think they can put up a bat
tie with the Ichabods for the pig
skin supremacy of the state.
There is no reason why there should
not be the same rivalry between To-
peka and Wichita in football that
there is in baseball. That is, no rea-
son except that in the past Wichita
football teams have been as irnpotent
as Wichita baseball teams
Although Cy Forsythe, former freak
now with Omaha, is not hitting in his
usual stride, he has the distinction of
being one of the leading run getters
of the league. Forsythe, Hinchman
of Lincoln and Dyer of Denver have
scored II runs each which is the top
notch of the league
PITCHERS NEED WORK.
| With it an admitted fact that the
| pitching in all the major and big
minor leagues is below par this sea-
son, critics and baseball doctors nat
urally are seeking the cause. A New
York syndicate writer recently had an
article along this line stating that the
| big leagues never were short OF
good pitchers they are this season,
and he intimated that too little work
might be the cause of it.
| Pitchers now rarely ever work
more than twice a week, their conten-
ton being that it Injuries their arm
| to pitch oftener. And it is highly
| probable that many do not get enough
work to keep them in proper shape or
enough practice to make them eff
cient.
Some of the best twirlers the game
has ever known pitched almost as
steadily as ditch digger digs. and
the more they worked the more eff
| cient they were. In the early days OF
baseball such men as Charles Rad
bourne and John Clarkson of the Ma
| tional league worked day after day
and won their games with more regu-
Iarity than the best of the present day
stars do.
| In fact, one season the Providence
| team had only Radbourne to depend
upon and he worked every day in
the week. When asked if it was not
| injurious for him to work every day
Radbourne said: BAH You make
me tired. A ball player does less
work for the money he gets than
anybody else in the world. I like
| to pitch every day. It's all foolish
ness. this thing Of resting up four OF
| five days after pitching a game
Some of the pitchers have conned
the club owners into thinking that
such long rests are necessary. but
| don't feel right unless 1 am in there
working every day."
An incident of more work mean
i ing more efficiency can be found
right here at home. Animal Dashner
who was in the bull pen almost
| not working. was one of the best
pitchers in the league and was one
| of the principal factors that kept the
Savages in the pennant race. Yet
| this season, with little work. he has
| been of little value to the club. An
other incident that bears out the
contention that pitchers do better
| when they get more work is that OF
| the Boston Braves winning the pen
nant and worlds series two years age
with three pitchers.
Undoubtedly, the evidence shows
that some of the box men would do
better If they used their arm more
| frequently. However, few of them are
going to voluntarily ask for more, and
it is doubtful if they would, even if
they knew it would make them bet
ter. But. unless conditions improve,
some club owners are more than apt
| to give the more work theory a try
out. and some heaving artists are
liable to make the digging harder
for their associates by proving the
theory that practice makes perfect
and that use prevents rust and ruina-
| ton of the super
| College Baseball Results.
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