The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-01
WESTERN ASSOCIATION GOSSIP.

Wares Application lDA lA1S - -
sitting of the court next week
WESTERN ASSOCIATION GOSSIP.
Charley Benais. who pitched for
Wichita last season, got a tryout Win
Little Rock this year. wanted 10 sign
llp with Cooley and Crow, has caught
on with Oklahoma City
From the Daily Oklahoman: Spec
Hurlburt cannot play with tne To-
ronto league this season, nor with any
professional baseball team in the Ma
tional Association, other than the OK
Iahoma City team. letter was re-
ceived here this week, written py nun
to President Shiveley. Spec IS now at /
VViIkesbarre, Pa, and viii likely JOIN I
the outlaw league. If he does, II means
s'slxidoo' for him, for never again can
he play with a protection team
The wichita Beacon sends out a
ebear" story to this effect:
The troubles of the baseball man
ager are being lucidly portrayed and
Wichita stands a poor show OF enter
ing the championship battle next
Friday in fighting trim Two men OF
the Tobbers are out of the game. Tex
Jones is III at home and in all proba-
biIity will be unable to don Uniform +
again for some time Johnny Green i
is another on the leave of absence /
list Green is suffering from badly |
EnTA1nE0 size. evidence OIL plCuLlSt-
This feature is the greatest handicap |
confronting the Wichita manage
ment, with no apparent recourse to !
remedy the weakness for the present.
Lyons, catcher, is being worked at
short.Awhile Milton is alternating with
Edwards. another of the backstop
force, in the outfeld. Wichita will
also open with one of the most promis-
ing clubs in the circuit, Topeka Two
others. each counted in the running,
will take a crack at the champions,
and unless Green and Jones improve
wonderfully the squad VIII enter the
race badly handicapped. Rathburn
looks a find at third. He handles him.
self with the confidence of a big
Lacquer and his wing to first is strong
and true. Both center and left are
well taken care of by johnson and
Miller. The right garden Is still open
for permanent occupancy. With Jones
in the inf1eld and Green in the gar
den the squad would again resume its
former appearance. Until such is
possibility. weakness viii be in evil
dence-
1t will be May 10 before HurIburt's
St. Joe team viii get its nickname.
The agony is unnecessarily prolonged.
Here is an item from the Joplin
Globe warranted to make both Topeka
and Atchison feel badly: To the dis
6DDDtHAIA6AG o. large IUIlD6I OF 1dtlS
IN this city, Earl Green, the big first
baseman. who has been holding down
the initial sack for the Miners through
out the season thus far, has been re-
leased by Manager Armstrong and that
place viii be Allied by the manager
himself when the league season opens.
Pitcher Nick Carter was also given
his walking papers and both men are
now negotiating with other managers
for engagements in their respective
positions on the diamond The big
fellow" as Green has been called by his
fellow players will in all probability go
to Tulsa, where he will hold down
the sack for that club, taking the place
of Charley Shaft, who was compelled
to keep his contract with Topeka a few
days ago The reason given by the
management for Green's release was
that he was not in condition and show
ed no sign OF getting into condition
before the league season is to open
Carter has made no plans regarding
the future.
One on Blaine Durbin from the Joplin
1ews-Herald: Stump Augur" Durbin
Is the appellation that has been ap-
piled to Blaine Durbin, pitcher of the
Joplin baseball team, who arrived IN
the city Thursday to resume his duties
for the season. Durbin earned this new
name after an energetic walk Of several
miles across the prairies adjacent to
Joplin Friday afternoon in search of
that mystic tool of the miners. which
IS on a par with the Italic spaces OF
the printshop. Fresh from one Of the
leading colleges Of Kansas by way OF
Hot Springs. Durbin decided yesterday
morning that he wanted to take a trir
% the mines just to see what was do
ing. He took passage with Ben F.
Wurzel and paid visit to the Sofa
mine, northwest Of town While they
were viewing the work at the mine
Mr.. Wurzel stepped up to one of tbs
Wor&men and asked for the sumr
augur and was told that this tool hac
been loaned TO the miners of a mine
nearby early that morning. wei.
said Wurzel. we need that augur.
expect that 7 had better go after il
No; here's Durbin, I'll have him 60 say
Durbins" he called. you are younge
than am. Go over there and get tha.
stump augur for me. We can't anEors
to lose it. It cost about $50" Tur5i1
set out upon his errand and when b