The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-18
Stars Of Both Leagues Ar G
Changing Their Addresses.
Cy Young win Be With CIeve-
land. Flick with Detroit.
PLAYERS SHIFT ABOUT
Dick Padden Leaves Comiskey
and BuelOw Quits Robson.
Bill Lang Refuses to be Drawn
Back Into the Game.

Chicago. March 1S-Cy Young. with
All his old.time baseball speed left, viii
probably be on Somers' Cleveland pay
ron this year. Elmer Flick, formerly
with the Phillies. will appear in De-
trcit uniform. and Yokohama, the Cher
okee Indian. viii be with "Muggsy' Nc
Graw's orioles. These are a few of the
shifts Of the past few days. Big Ed
DeIehanty viii again cover first for
Colonel Rogers team, Van Haltren has
signed New York contract and Gala
han viii remain with Hart. With king
and Chance for regular shifts and Dex-
ter for a utility catcher Kart is well
provided with baokstops-
The sensation OF the week in the ma
tionaI game was the report that Brush,
John T.. the shrewd. resourceful poll
tician, was weary Of the fight and Will
ing to withdraw. Whether this desire is
due to the fact that McPhee was unable
to sign a single player during his trip
OF three weeks. or whether Colonel Rog-
ers' brOadsides hit below the water line
and necessitated manning the pumps IN
order to keep afiOat, is not known Al
any rate. il is common report In the
Ohio city that the Indianapolis merchant
is anxious to dispose OF the 1rancnlse
and team which Rogers charges did not
cost Brush a cent
Brush has no grand stand. and the
TumCr that ne mad let the contract 4OL
one proved unfounded- With the ma
tiOnal agreement but one year more 10
run. Brush is willing to get from under
before the house falls. Indications point
to shaking up next season. for there
ara several magnates who are persona
non Rrata to the others and these are
listed for a hearty shove which viii land
them outside the breastWOrks-
Many Of the players are in the south
preparing for the season The National
league men are not getting their ex-
penses for the training INDUCED In at
this time-at least the public Is not IN
formed of this If they are. But there
are several reasons for believing that the
players who need some vigorous exer-
else in order to get into condition have
made private arrangements with the
magnates for the current expenses while
boiling OUT The teams viii not begin
practice until April ], but these menu
bers who need more time are all in the
south now and hard at work.
a rumor which proved unfnunded was
current last week to the erect that the
Cleveland team would be transferred to
ST. Louis. The reasons assigned for
such move or the part OF thu Ameri
can was that the Lexington avenue
grounds were sold under conditions sim
liar to the ones under which Comiskey
came to Chicago-that the American
league would not play games there ex-
cept under the national agreement. This
has been violated. and It is possible that
the American league viii be enjoined
from playing in Cleveland. Sportsman's
park IN 81. Louis would prove as good
grounds as the National league has, and
the American had ar option on that
tract.
Robson IS not popular in the Mound
city. and with Tebeau. Young. McGraw.
Robinson. Wallace and Heidrick gone
there would be little hope of attracting
many fans to the game. This was taken
to be the best opportunity for the Amer
loan to conflict with the National to de-
eided advantage. Cleveland however. is
g large city. having a population Of Co..
600 more than Cincinnati has, and about
700. 600 more than has Milwaukee or De-
troit. This should make it as good
town as either Of these at any rate.
Two weeks remain before the base
ball teams viii be made up and on their
way to the training grounds where ac-
tive work Of preparing for the season
will be done. April I is the date selected
by both leagues for the beginning Of
team practice. but in the meantime
many Kaleidoscope changes are pos
sible. Any prophecy Of the future would
be the sheerest folly, judging from the
upheavals Of the past While the con-
tracts are nearly all signed, these are
considered OF little consequence in some
cases-notably those of Sheclxard, Par
ent and DOlan. These three men are re-