The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-02
swing it open wide If they are given the

chance.
This story is going the rounds about
Abe LazOtte, last year with Topeka
When in a pensive mood, Abe Lazotte,
the hard hitting outhelder of the To-
peka club, can duplicate any fairy
tale ever doled out by baseball
bug" I.azotte drifted west from
Wilkesbarre. Pa, where the come
dams are more plentiful and remain
unplucked. Our league had a couple
Of bugs, same kind we have out
here" remarked Lazotte the other
day when a Topekan had perpetrated
a strong one on Cap. Arson and the
early days. ''I was playing the first
station and the pitcher and 7 pinned
one of the bugs off the cushion. He
didn't have a chance to get back and
started in to run him down. He
turned, lodged and hit for the right
field fence. He scaled the board wall,
and l. not to be daunted, went after
him. He took the trail around the
enclosure and nosed along behind
with the bulb pushed out ahead as
far as my short arms could reach
He beat me around to the main gate
and dashed inside. The bug hit safe
for the base and I tagged after. The
pitcher seeing thatl unless he stepped
Into the breach was defeated,
planted his mud hooks on the sack
and yelled. shoot 'er, Abei' 7 shot
the chunk with the last atom of
strength I possessed and made good.
The umpire long before had taken up
a station on the line and with all the
dignity at his command beloved
fOutr It was a close decision and the
crowd hooted and Kissed. The bug
was a home product and they were
sore to see him killed, not to reason
that he had run a half mile out Of
the road to turn the trick
This is what the Jobbers will look
like this summer, according to the
Wichita papers: The uniforms are
pearl gray with black trimmings.
The coat has three black stripes
around the sleeves. with the letter w
in q black diamond on the sleeve.
Black CAPS with a small white W on
them. have been furnished the team
by the Rock Island Lumber company
The uniforms we're made by A. G.
Spalding & Bros
From the st. Joe Gazette on shorty
Hurlburt's prospects: A good bunch
of hitters will be put through the trying
out process by Manager Hurlburt of the
local team Of the Western association.
The manager has eight pitchers to
work out for results, and he regards all
of them almost as being good material
Three of the twirlers are left hand
artists and five right hand The men
are Walters, who is fairly well known
in st. Joseph; Companion, who pitched
in the Cotton State league and also won
laurels up north; Kubetz, an Illinois
league man; Walsh, who won GOOD
reputation in and around St. Louis last
season; Atkins. twirler from Las
Vegas; Zackert. Seay and Fair. OF the
last named Zackert and Fair played on
the local Western league team last
year Seay pitched well in city league
teams for several esaons. Two hard
hitting outfielders have been in COM
nunication with Mr.. Hurlburt and they
will porbably report here by Monday.
Do Of
favorable indeed, according to the
manager. The uniforms arrived yes
terday. They viii be exhibited at the
Rex cigar store today The home uni
forms are brown trimmed in white,
and the out of town suits are of white
material, trimmed in blue.
Wade Moore, the great Kansas uni
versitv and Wash burn football player
Of several years ago. is captain and
manager of the Galveston South Texas
league team. The other day his squad
beat the Cincinnati Reds by score OF
to Q.
Atchison is going to have a ball team
this year and wants a game with To-
peka. The Globe thinks the matter as
good as settled from the following.
The Atchison ball club expects to open
the season at Forest park Easter Sun
day, with the Topeka western league
team. George Mcnamara viii play
with the locals again this year, and was
measured for a uniform last night
Kimmel has already commenced to
release some Of the Wichita squad. The
Lynch brothers, Outhelder Cobb and
Outhetlder HeroId were given their
walking papers Saturday The Lynch
boys tried out with Topeka last year.
A dispatch from webb city: The
Webb City baseball team is materializ-
ing fast. In response to the notifications
from Manager Hayden a number Of the
players whose faces will soon become
familiar and well known to hundreds
have reported for the practice weeks
intervening between the first of April
and the opening Of the Western associ-
alton season, and the rest Of the bunch
contracted with or reserved win be
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