The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-08
SPORTING NEWS.
Johnson and COmiskey Tell
Their Plans.
VIII Call the New Chicago Club
the White Stockings.
LIKE OLD ANSON TEAM.
To Be Made as Strong as Money
Can Make 1t.
Cleveland and Detroit Each Are
Provided For.
The New American League
Fighting For Existence.

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the Chicago white stockings" In the
good old days when Adrian Constan-
tine Arson was putting in his golden
summers in winning base ball pen
nants for Chicago his team was known
from one end of the circuit to the other
as the white stockings" The old team
turned out more stars. earned more
money, and gained a bigger reputa-
ton than any other club in the coun-
try. If Comiskey and the men who
make up the new white stockings
can duplicate this record they viii lit
orally own the town before the end of
September.
American league, and Charley Com
iskey, the owner and manager of Chi
Cages new ball team, returned from
Milwaukee yesterday. During their
brief sOjourn in the metropolis Of Wis
cOnsin they held a long conference with
Matt Kililea, the owner of the Mil
waulzee club, and incidentally examined
the architects drawings of the grand
stand of the Milwaukee ball club.
An hour after their arrival in Chi
the architect who prepared the plans
and specifications of the base ball plant
which Adrian Constantine Arson ex-
pected to build on the South side this
spring. COmiskey's South side plant
will, in all probability, be built on the
tain extent the new grand stand will
resemble the structure now standing in
Milwaukee.
Comiskey was too busy to talk for
publication, but he did manage to find
time to say that he had secured the
leases and would announce the loca-
ton of his ball park before the end of
the week.
Il intend to get my players in con-
dition at Champaign" continued the
HT1
in at least twenty days of practice with
the ball team of the Illinois uniVer-
sity. Before going to Champaign we
will put in a week or ten days at West
Baden springs. My idea of taking the
men to this resort is to get them into
physical condition for a season of hard
training. Yes, I intend to call the team
the white stockings, and it is more than
likely that our grounds will be known
as the White Stockings park don't
care at this time to spring any press
agent yarn about the strength of the
team I intend to place in Chicago, but
1 will say this much: I mean to give
the patrons of the game in this city the
best team that money can buy. We
will stand or fall on our merits as ball
players. If the players I have picked
fail to make good we will buy other
men, for I realize that the people who
support the game in this town are
tired of listening to excuses and hard
IuCA SAOI26S- w nat luey want IS a Win
ming ball club, and l certainly will try
to give them what they want"
Ban Johnson was in the very best of
spirits when he greeted the ever-faith-
full reporters at his office in the Fisher
building late in the afternoon.
I'VE certainly have no cause to com
plain over the outlook" he said TT
is looking bright to say the least. That
Detroit muddle has been finally set
tied. Jim Burns, who is a very pOpu-
Low w,r1HTF Tr-r.
everybody in Detroit, is now in con-
troll of the club and franchise George
Stallings will manage the team and
from what I know of their plans they
intend to make a big bid for the pen
nant and intend to at once begin to
strengthen the team.
George Vanderbeck has sold out his
interest in the club, and now has no
connection either directly or Indirectly
with the American league
THE Cleveland matter has been ad-
justed. Messrs. Sommers and KilfoyIe.
the owners of the American league club
in that city are men of wealth and DO
sitiOn. They have secured a Iong-term
lease on plot Of ground located in
an ariStOcratic section in this city On
this tract they intend to erect a mod
ern grand stand and make it an up-to-
date ball park in every way. What is
more, they intend to put a strong team
| III the field, and although they have not
!
age, they are now negotiating with
three or four Well-known managers.
1T is true that Messrs. Sommers, Kill
foyle and myself met Frank De Hass
Robson in Cleveland the other day
and had long talk with him Frank
has vacant ball ground on his hands.
and he wanted us to suitcase it, but
we could not see our way clear to do
ing it. One feature of that conference
was amusing, to say the least. Robi-
! son told US that he would lease the
| grounds to US, providing we agreed not
to place a team in Chicago, and init
! mated that in case we did put a club
| in Chicago he might be tempted to run
! an opposition club in Cleveland Then
! we laughed at him, and the owners of
| the new Cleveland club told him that
| they would ask for nothing better than
to compete with any club in Cleveland
owned and controlled by the Robisons
| An hour later they closed their deal
| for the new grounds, and now we are
| not in a position to consider any propo-
| sition from Robson.
THE spring meeting of the Ameri-
can league win in all probability be
held at the Great Northern hotel in
| this city next Monday. I expect tc
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