The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-20
BASEBALL NOW.
Washburn Opens the Season
Friday at Baker.
Candidates for the Various
Places on the College Team.
OUTLAND COMING SOON.
Series With Topeka Profession
ais Commences April s.
Kansas Track Association Meet
Here Middle nj Nav
OUTLAND COMING SOON.

Washburn viii open the baseball sea-
son next Friday at Baldwin, Kan,
where a match game will be played
4 with the Baker university boys. Baker
is said to have a strong team, but the
! Washburn people are confident that
they take the honors-
! DR.. John OutIand will arrive in To-
peka in a few weeks to take active
charge of the coaching of the ball team.
| Outland is looked upon as about as
good a baseball coach as he is in the
football business. Last year he took
charge of the baseball team at the
Friends university and by hard work,
drilled lot of raw recruits SO effec-
lively that they managed to take two
out of three games from Paramount coli
lege, and the Paramount team is the one
which administered drubbing to
There VIII be a lot of new material
! in the Washburn lineup this spring In
dications are that the team will be full
ly as strong as last year, and possibly
stronger.
In the pitching department, the team
has all its last years strength, and
several promising new candidates Art
stays of the box, but there are two new
men who promise to do Well one is
Parker, of the Reid-Stone art school,
and the other is Stevenson, a medic.
| Both of these men are working out for
Captain John Dadisman will do the
catching most of the time, but DOC
Hill, captain of next falls football team,
will take his turn behind the bat. Hill
/ is a fair catcher and a hard hltter. AZ
/ is hardly to be expected that either OF
these catchers, however, viii come up
10 the mark set by Fanny Mehl.
/ rrll.< 6rSL
/ base, of whom Wedding is the most
promising. Wedding is a big fellow, ana
ought to be a hard batter. Cox, or the
1904 team, and voorhees,, former play
! err at St. Johns Military academy, are
also trying out for first base.
Second base will probably be played
/ by Griggs when he is not in the box
| Bruce Maxwell is regarded as very
/ strong candidate for the place. Parker,
who is promising as a pitcher, can also
! play second base.
! At short the team will be strons.
/ White will probably get this pos1uon.
He is the little football player who was
/ injured early in the season last year,
and who did not get into the game I'M
til the Thanksgiving day contest, WneH
! he showed himself to be star OF nlSu
magnitude White has played baSeDall
at Bethany college, and is built rlght
1 for a shortstope Wilson, law schooi
man, is. also a promising man Tor sho.s-
It is probable that Walter CaluWell'
the star halfback of the football teahl'
will get out and try for third base.
/ Caldwell is very handy with a paseosill'
and knows the game FRANK ILs Nlo ,llst ;
of last years team, is taking post
graduate work, and VIII unooupteoly "
a strong candidate for the tnlrd sack.
stevenson, one of the new pltcnefs' Is
also a third baseman.
For the outfeld, Stahl Will be VaIu-
able man. He was d member OF last
wears Paramount team, and can pat.
Pressey, one of the 1904 team, will be
back at his old place. and Trun is also
hunting a place in the garden. An eff
fort will be made to pick the outfield
from the candidates who show them
| selves to be the hardest hitters. Wash
burn. has usually been weak with the
stick Indications are that this year
there will be four or i've relable hltters
in the bunch lead by Griggs, who is
about the surest man with the bat the
college has ever had.
After the game with Baker university,
the college has no more match games
scheduled until April 8, when the first
of the series with the Topeka profess
sional team will be played. BY that
time Washburn ought to be putting UP
a lively game of BAH, and it would not
be at all surprising if they should give
the "profesh'' a hard tussle. 1t is prob
able that Coach Outland will catch in
these games with the professionals. Out
land is a good catcher and a hard hitter.
With Outland behind the bat Wash
the field. and thus help out it's hitting
very materially
The work of moving the big football
bleachers back against the north fence
of the baseball field is now in progress.
These big bleachers were substantially
built in sections, so that they can be
placed on rollers and moved around
wherever they seem to be most needed.
By having them located just back of
third base. it will give ample accomno-
dations for all the crowds that are like
" to come to the college ball games
this season.
Inter-SchoIastic Track Meet
Washburn has been invited to join
the Kansas track association which is
now composed Of Baker university, EN-
poria college and ottawa university
The invitation will be accepted and an
effort will be made to have the annual
track meet held in Topeka about May
10 81
Baker, EInporia and Ottawa held a
track meetiast year. but Washburn did
not participate. This year there is a
good deal of interest in track athletics
at Washburn. Washburn has some good
sprinting material Tice, Pressev and
! Vernon have all showed themselves 70
be fleet of foot. and there are several
! others who can also show clean heels
In the weight events, such as hammer
throwing shot putting. etc. WasbblIrn
\ will not be likely to show up as well.
for it has not developed much available