The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-14

southern league just now, ana at re-
Rock a delegation of suffragettes offered
a cake to the player who knocked a home
Sammy ought to make a mark now play
ing ing the part OF pioneer sqffragette advo-
Der of the Topeka Savages last season,
Sammy showed the instincts of real pio-
white sport shirt ever seen on Kansas
avenue.
AS ghosts of a once glorious past the
Chicago races should be a big success.
Without betting, they should be as grape
juice to wine or Pluto water to cham
payne
If it can be done anywhere Chicago
ought to be able to make a success of
betless running races. But it can't be
done in the big way of old. The office
pockets will find no inducement to swell
the crowds as they used to when there
was always a chance of making a killing.
The Terre Haute club of the Central
league possesses the rarest jewel of base
of the club, released himself as a player
because he said he knew he was not fast
enough to hold his job. He will continue,
however, to manage the Terre Haute
club.
| anything but promising. With a big bunch
| of the Jayhawkers on the border, some on
school the Mount Dread place in the Mis-
souri, Valley sun is liable to be hard to
find this fall
One of the latest losses announced by
Coach Olcott is that of Linus Fitzgerald
sub quarter last year, who has let it be
known that he intends to enter the Uni
versity of Montant this fall. Fitzgerald
was expected that he would make K. U.
very valuable man this year.
| The Western league clubs are now at
| the halfway station of their schedule, and
it is approaching the time when accurate
| dope on the race should be within range.
| But, aside from the fact that Omaha and
Lincoln appear to be permanently camped
| in the first division, the guideposts are
bit confusing.
1t does not seem possible that a team
down below while Wichita and Des Moines
hold higher berths. Nor is there any ex-
amene the IeWiy Yet they are an to sag
that they will not remain down is to dis
regard performances of the past.
OF course no team can obtain lead in
one half season that cannot be overcome
there club in the zehruhg loop that is
capable of reforming sufficiently to go out
and pull Omaha and Lincoln down? That's
the question that means so much. Is there
a stretch marvel in the league capable of
making the necessary squirt?
Cold statistics, unfringed and short of
partisan logic, indicate that a whipping,
whirlwfnd finish by one of the down be-
low clubs is very improbable. Lincoln
may be caught and passed before the final
games are reached. but Omaha unless a
cyclone carries some of her pitchers to
| Kalamazoo ought to be adequately en-
trenched, and barring a miracle ought to
finish 1-2.
OF all the clubs that are trailing, the
/ Savages appear to have good chance
to climb any. They surely will climb,
and If any club makes an eleventh hour bid
| for the bunting it should be the one head
ed by Engle. The only weak spot in the
Topeka aggregation is in the pitching de-
partment and if Engle can get more than
two reliable pitchers to operating. at the
same time he should be able to find the
| going much smoother from now on.
During the first half of the season the
Savages were a big disappointment. At
the start they looked like winners, but
every kind of a slump team could have
came to them. The hitters didn't hit the
| pitchers didn't pitch and everything from
the management down went wrong.
: But conditions are changed now. Prac-
| ticaDy all of the men hitting better.