The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-03
THEY ARE COMING IN.
Members of Topeka Baseball Team
Arrive Today.

The Topeka baseball team is "com-
ing in Five new ones arrived today
and inscribed themselves on President
Sheard's register. They are Alder
man, Carter Henry, Perseh and
Hughes. HOWE. Abbott and Brown
have been in for some time. That
makes q total of eight who have re-
ported. Dunn, Letheby, Kean, Ste
wart. Cole and the two Lynch boys
will be here on Tuesday. Quigley Will
come Wednesday. Crum will not re-
port until April 10. He has a Job
which he does not wish to separate
himself from until that date.
The arrivals this morning look
good" Alderman is a TALL slender
boy with pretty blue eyes and light
curly hair. He viii make HOWE hustle
for his place as the ladies' favorite -
He is a left-hand pitcher. During the
winter he has been a cub" on the
Omaha Bee learning to write sport I'M
der Sandy Griswold. Last year he
graduated from NOtre Dame univer-
sity Where he made a record as a col
lege baseball pitcher. He served
benderiuOS alongside of Bob Lawson,
with Sedalia two years ago. Lawson s
right name is Ruhlbach. This year
he is with the Chicago Nationals. Hart
signed him for $3.50 per month.
Alderman is said to have pitched as
good ball as Ruhlbach when the two
were in college together. If he can
we'll he'll stay, and will be one of the
four pitchers. Tom Sheard saws he
will have a quatrain of them this
season.
Nick Carter is big and overweight,
and looks as healthy as a hickory
sapling or an Usage orange bush. He
has been dipping pens into the ink be-
hind a Sterling hotel register all win
ter. He says he shot $50 ducks dur
ing the winter. HOWE declares that
he would have shot as many also, If
he hadn't tried to kill a bunch one day
which were out of range, and sprained
his gun.
Jack Henry, signed to catch, looks
like the real thing. He has been win
tering in Omaha. He looks big and
husky enough to stop any fast ball
that comes his direction. He is clean
cut and Intelligent mighty impor-
tant factor with a catcher.
Dutch Persch is the same old
"ssay' German that he always. He
left Springfield after a fist fight with
his boss, Mr.. Shorty Huriburt. He
Wintered at his home in LeavenWorth,
but does not want to play ball there
because it is his home town. He viii
take care of the center garden for
Sheard. Logan & Co., Ltd. That he
Will do it all right is not to be doubted.
themselves upon his acquisition.
Tom Hughes has regular bunions
inside his hands He came by them
honestly all right-sWinging a black
during the past two months. He is a
smith by trade. Most of the winter,
however, he spent in Denver. He
looks as healthy as the rest of the
bunch and Sheard is counting a good
deal on "long Tom" during the COM
ing summer.
There was no workout today. It
was too cold Captain Abbott first
thought that he would send his gang
to the park to unlimber their muscles,
but a few whiffs of the stiff, cold south
wind which was blowing, caused him
to change his mind. Instead the
whole crowd went down to the Topeka
Athletic club rooms and played pitch.
Topeka has a heavy aggregation this
year, and that counts for a whole lot.
It takes beef to properly manipulate
a wagon tongue. The weights of the
men who will report here this year
are as follows: Abbott. 1876; HOWE.
1855; Carter 1877; Alderman, 172;
Henry. 17s; Hughes, 1873; Brown,
155; Persch, 178; Dunn, 1876; Letheby,
1877; Kean, IT'S; Stewart 1853; Cole,
1872; QuigIey, 1872; Crum, 174.
QuigIeY, by the way. is highly touted
by Catcher Jack Henry. HE is a
hummer" said Jack this morning,
land will do business for you all
right. He is a peach at short and a
corker at the bat. Put on the coach
lines he simply ought to be a wizard.
With Bert Dunn, he ought to fill some
of the asylumS with crazy pitchers