The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-23

/ No outlaws for this wise lad 7li'
=, contractor Dunn started on repairs to
! 80 t 49, park on the 18th, notwith-
bad ''0 'i'7 weather
Ekittredge and starken are the only two
Pie19eIa VINO nave not Joined the Nation
60 - 70 GATE. Kit should have been with
Srahl from the start go Win
W nat a pity it is that Mike Donlin Is
w. - I hllls 1or andy Freedman. The New
80, - = illsts1ate would have thrown the
Daffed him from the grounds
., -slaleger Burnham Of the Newark team
/ appedIs 20 De a man of small ealibre Re-
cause Pitcher Wolfe got the hest ~ III,
~ q business proposition in 1904 he is still
Ter me youngster and trying to drive
am out OF the business The Newarr
sporting writer's should take up the case
L Is about time to hear from the train
/ ing camps about some new STYLES Of fTSyis-
ter that has been manufactured or in
1 vented by some of the pitchers Last ve.ar
/ ~ ms time all that could be heard was
/ the spit ball. @
D. t el1ggsyo Ac6zraw, who is a friend of
/ efatsy Donoyan's, is said to have made the
a asateI7u Wnlch landed Donovan the man
/ aserlai job in Brooklyn.
/ Bobby Wallace is one of the ideal han
pay els. he scarcely has to turn hand to
ger IN condition and reported to St Louis
/ weight. F''-' -4'9
President Murphy of the Chicago Ma
l55onals announced that ne had secured the
signature of Rothgeb the outfelder WAC
played with the Baltimores and VvasbiT
tons last year. Rothgeb is now at Cham
SIalsA' III, ana VIII report for duty to the
cubs at once.
The Mexico Valley league was due IN
start ITS season last Sunday. The NJ Y l.
Solslsts OF -FOUR clubs. the 0lympics, 1906s
trays and FTonteriZOs. the season begin
ming March IL and ending april 81 Most
OF the players Of the league are Nexicans
there being Garcia, Lopez. Perez Serraf6
1narTola, ramirez, Diaz, Martinez, Ortiz
Rueda and others with patronyms SUCCESS
tive Of sunny climes
IN In the spring Of 1900 Hiram college Of
O1lo had battery consisting Of one
Fiopper From and another one Frank
1saporte, the latter now with Griffith La
porte was catcher then, and whatever
may have been his academicaI standing he
LED his class in baseball.
Claude Rossmau, the new first basenaan
o. o. me CleVela7lnds, put in a busy winter.
he played ball with a team Of American
professionals in Cuba and on his return
played indoor ball in Albany. Then he
reporting time came.
Edward Hanion, manager of the Cincir-
nsti team, has been compelled to leave the
,lLalIlhi3g quarters IN Texas and is al his
nome n baltimore. recovering from an at
TACK OF nnalariaI fever In Hanlon's ali
senee Joe Kelley has charge of the Pork
vile players. Hanlon expects to meet the
team when it reaches the home grounds
on March g.
An exchange says: "The entrance to the
hotel where Cincinnati stays in Marlin
Springs, Tex, has the street number 81
AFTER gazing at it a moment CIV Seymour
salu 10 Ned Hanlon: Clever of these
people 70 hallS UP my last years batting
average, Funny, isn't it2 Seymour is
still in Cincinnati The critics can easily
PICK another number and also another
player, however
Nearly all the big leaguers are fond Of
chicken and Ice cream, and heaven help
the hotel or dining car that flashes these
VI rather heip the other diners. If they
don't get IN when the door opens It's an
OFF The ball players are there at the tap
OF the gong Ihey nave been waiting half
an hour They stay there so long as the
onlcken holds out Ice cream and apple
pie is the favorfte dessert.
Tt would not be in the least surprising
II Two new men are found in the Outf7eld
of the Chicago White SOK this year Il
has been the general impression that Dan
Green has been going backward and.
therefore. another is selected to take his
place. Jones may try Hub" Hart the
Everett boy in the outfeld. while Frank
Hemphin may also be assigned an outfield
position.
Manager Collins has sent for Leon Mar
tell, the Georgetown college catcher, to
come SOUTH ana the young man is expect
ed TO so next Thursday. Manager Collins
had a chat with MarteH at Washington
last Saturday. Good catchers are scarce
and Collins is bound to keep on the alert
for the best in sight He IS well satisfied
with both Peterson and Graham. The
latter he says. reminds him very much of
the late Martin Bergen, in his stvle of
handling the ball and in throwing. -Bos-
ton Herald
Rube Waddeu. the eccentric pitcher Of
the Philadelphia Americans.is in the lime
light once more. While walking through
q dark street in Montgomery the other
night WaddeH was knocked down and
robbed Of $40 by two negroes who es-
capped Wadde1Is head was cut omen and
he was picked up unconscious When he
learned that his money was gone he turn
ed TO the ambulance surgeon who was
dressing the wound and said: Never
mind me head. old sport. Get the guys
that got me dough-.
Harry Murch was given a trial at first
base In the afternoon game. He was three
a a h a. a ION 1arcsl
grounder to second base. striking out the
first time upon balls two feet wide of the
plate and going down the second time in
ms own way at first base and acted like a
man in the wrong pew at church. The
giant from Sebago lake is still confident,
however He thinks he Will yet become a
second Larry Lajoie, but not this year
Boston Herald.
In reporting to Manager Griffith Second
Basenan Laporte has evidently come to
ms senses Griffith convinced him that
unless he accepted the terms of the New
] ork American league club he would have
70 remain idle al season. Laporte receiv-
last year and Griffith increased this
amount by more than S1.000. yet the play
fact he has not shown conclusive proof
that he possesses the real major league
quality. With Laporte in line Griffith will
put MN on third base, shifting Conroy
permanently to the left field and playing
Doughery at center This means the
dent.
Why don't the giants of the ball held
and the little men form teams and play a
game to decide the stature championship
select two teams; one composed Of Brob-
dingnagians and the other of peewees and
it would be hot battle between the two.
Here is likely team that could be made
up of the slSyscrapers: BOWerman. catch
eer; Pullman, FaIlZenburg. Young, Wad-
dell. MathewsOn. Hess. Willis and others
too numerous to mention pitchers: StahL
first base; Lajoie, second base: Doolin,
shOrtstoD; Bradley, third base; Dougher-
ali e4ef.1.
They would not have much on this mid
get combination king. catcher Griffith
Winter. Dygert, Sparks and Sudhom
pitchers; Donah hue. first base; Gilbert. sec
ond base; Elberfeld shortstop; Leach
third base; Keller. Hartse1 and SIagle,
outfelders. The siz-fOOters would have an
aaYantage IN the pitcher,s box.