The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-11
COT thin STEAKS
That's the Reason ''Slim SAP
Quit st. Louis Cards.
Jake Daubert a Regular Agler
Around First Base.
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

BY FRANK G. MENKE.
New York. July 1.-THE sensa-
tional playing of Jake Daubert around
the first bag is one of the several rea-
sons for the great showing of the
Dodgers this year. Jacob has risen
to heights this season greater than
ever before. He has been making
stops and throws that have brought
gasps of amazement from even the
most blase fans.
The other Dodger infielders are
none too accurate in their pegging.
But it makes no difference. They
don't need to be with Jake on first.
High or low, wide or straight at him,
Jake manages to grab the ball. He
digs them out of the real estate or
leaps six feet into the air. He spears
them with his gloved mitt, while his
body is stretched out to its full limit,
or he grabs them with the ungloved
palm.
A dozen times at least since the
season began. Daubert's uncanny skill
in sharing the wild heaves has saved
a game for the Brooklynites. Times
without number he has gra bbed afro
cious filings and killed off runners go
Daubcrt has checked, or how many
runs he has choked off for the Dodg-
er foes, is something that no one can
tell with any degree of accuracy But
they have been many in number.
Thin Steak-Sa1lee Quits.
Old Bill Bailey of Chicago, who
compares with G. Washington as to
veracity, insists that a thin beefsteak
caused Slim Sallee to quit baseball.
T1Ih
cred in the same New York hotel
wrote Bailey, in the Chicago Amer1-
can. That was a short time ago. while
the Cubs were playing the Giants ana
the Cardinals were battling the Dodg-
ers.
1.-THE Cubs ordered from the la
carte bill of fare, where the steaks
are juicy and thick. The Cardinals
living at the same hotel. were on the
American plan, where the steaks are
not large and juicy.
"Sallee ordered steak one evening;
so did Claude Hendrix, the Cub pitch
err. Sails steak was silver; Claud S
was thick and juicy. Immediately sim
hunted up Manager Miller Higgins
"'Ain't 1 as good pitcher as those
fellows from Chicago?' he demanded
of Higgins.
ter than any of them answered hug
gins. .po,,ar
'Then why 90 they SO|
steaks?' Sallee asked.
.'sRules is rules answered Hugglns
whereupon a row started that resulted
in sallee quitting the Cardinals.
Jinx Pursues Yanks.
A peculiar ink pursues the Yam
KEGS. 1t never overtakes a player I'M
til he begins to be really valuable.
Then it clutches him.
Leslie Nunamaker didn't hit any too
we'll during the early weeks of the
season. In May he began to pick EN-
out and bang 'em quite Justify, where
upon, Mr.. Jinx steps in, wounds the
mttt of Leslie and sends him to the
repair shop.
Just as soon as Fritz Maise1 began
to find the ball, after weeks of mac
tivity with the mace, he broke his leg.
George Mogridge, the slabman. was
breezing along quite merrily, after an
inauspicious start, when his arm de-
veloped aches and pains-and to the
sidelines he did go.
During the first two months Of the
season, Frank Gilhooley fell far below
expectations in the swatting line. OF
a sudden, however, he bumped into a
streak and day after day poled the
ball to all portions of the lot. And
then he broke his leg.
The Collins Slump.
Eddie Collins isn't leading a very
care-free life these days, according to
Chicago reports. The second-sacker
OF the White Sox is said to be quite I'M
popular with his mates. They blame
him for the poor start of the club
claiming that he wasn't doing his best.
In some quarters there was the sus-
picion that Collins was out for C1ar-
ence Rowland's job as manager. It
was whispered that Eddie figured if
the Sox didn't go very we'll this year
rIov hi =
and Collins appointed. However. this
story doesn't ring true. Collins is too
fine a man and too great ball player
to purposely kill the chances of his
team for world series honors to fur
Their his personal ambition.
Collins knew when the season began
that with any sort of luck the Sox
ought to be in the fight all the way
CogniZant of this, he certainly would
not try to kill that chance by playing
below his real form. Eddie plays the
game all the time.
The star second baseman didn't go
very well during the first twelve weeks
of the campaign. He was nearly
eighty points below his normal bat
ting gait. His fielding didn't scintil-
late as in other years. But that con-
dition. without doubt was not inten-
tional. Every player runs into a
slump sooner or later. Unfortunately,
it came to Collins this year when SOM
folks were not in a mood to forgive it,
Others may feel that Eddie has
thrown" his club. We don't Some
may think his star is setting, but it is
our belief that before the 1916 finish
line is crossed it will find Collins back
where he belongs-near the top in
hitting and on or around the top in
fielding.
GOOD PITCHING
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