The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-18
Baseball Notes.

Catcher broadway Alex Smith is play
ing the races in New Orleans, in company
with Delehanty.
Comiskey's aggregate ton will leave for
Mobile on March II, the day that Commy
always celebrates.
Cincinnati players will wear blue coats
during the season. Red stockings and
white belts vii be feature Of the uni
form.
prospects of his latest find Otto Williams.
who will occupy short field for the Car
dinals.
Buck Ewing may break into the game
again as manager Barney Dreyfus may
appoint the old time catcher to handle the
Phillies.
The situation at Baltimore is that the
stockholders have the experience. while
Ned Hanlon holds the franchise.-St Paul
Dispatch
Tufts college baseball candidates are re-
ceivlng some valuable instruction from
Fred Tenney. the crack first baseman Of
the Boston Nationals.
Presidents Hart and Couiskey of the two
Chicago clubs have agreed to play series
championship of the windy city.
Manager joe Kelley has signed young
man named Harry Wood of the Maryland
university as substitute outhelder for the
Cincinnati Reds. Wood is said to be a
clever catcher, too.
Roger Bresnahan has not quite made up
his mind whether he will pitch. catch.
cover first. play the field or tend bar. One
thing certain is that Roger can play any
of the positions.
Charley Farrell of the Brooklyn team
has been offered the management of the
St. Joseph team and may accept. unless
Ned Hanlon whacks up that two weeks
salary he is holding out on the Duke.
Shorty Fuller. who gained fame rs
shOrtstOp for the st. Louis and New York
teams, viii get back into harness next sea-
son on the infield Of the Manhattans. one
of the leading Sunday teams of Cincin-
natl.
The Pittsburg club has signed a utility
Ind. Last season Weaver played with
Ashenbach's Charlotte, n. C.. team until
it gave up the ghost and finished with
Newark, in the eastern league
Harry Arndt will play with the Column
bus team this year. Harry looked pretty
good last season during the short while he
was with the patched up Baltimores. An
other year in minor company should ripen
him for the American league.
The American league baseball field in
New York was discovered in eight differ
ent parts of Manhattan island last week
And they told US while age that there
wasn't spot left on the island big enough
for the game of two-old-cat.
Billy Hauman. who IS playing in kid
mapped in New York says that his wooden
shoe speciality. in the play has kept him in
fairly good shape during the winter and
that he will have no trouble getting down
to weight when he joins the PhiIfes.
All the talk about Bill Lange returning
to the game must result in talk, for it is
said that the tall fielder has spread out
so wide that he is nearly as big as old
Pop Milliken, who wore the mask and pad
for the Athletics ten years OF more ago.
Boston is said to have finally severed
relations with Billy Lush His stick work
has been very light. although Billy is a
good man in every other department of the
game He viii probably try to grab the
managerial reins of some minor league
team
TIE latest is that Toledo is to be chosen
as the American association victim to be
offered up on the altar of Chicago. So
long as Brother Mickey keeps his hands
off St Paul no one in these parts Will
care which town he decides to victimize.-
St Paul DISPATCH.
A while ago Ned Hanlon was giving the
others the laugh when he told them he had
signed Harry Schmidt, the star twirler Of
the Oakland team. Now Harry has
changed his mind. and as Oakland does
not belong to a protected league, he has
decided to remain there another year.