The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-06
The Teams Composing 1t Strong
and Evenly Balanced.
Topeka VIII Not Find the PEN
nant Lying loose.
MEANS FAST PLAYING.
Dss Moines- Won the Flag Easily
the Last Season..
New Deal Should Create Much
Interest in Local Circles.

Now that the chances for 1andings
berth in the Western Leaghe are look
ing very favorable a little gossip con-
corning the league and the managers
and players of the higher league into
which Topeka will enter as a COM
petitor for honors will not be- amiss-.
Norris L OsNeiH or Tip, as he is
better known, who is the president of
the league, is an old time ball player.
lie played center field on the old ST.
Louis Browns, 20 years ago when Chas.
Cpmiskey was manager and landed so
many pennants for the team: He was
a star in those days and was one OF
the best heads in the business. He IS
now a prosperous business man, hav-
ing large mining interests IN California,
where he lives most of the time. He
Is like a good many other old players
though and cannot leave the game
even though his playing days are over
He follows baseball as pasume and
lis more, interested in the success of
the Western League than he is IN his
business. g-~ :,
The Des Meines team won the PEN
nant in the Western League and won
it easy running away in the lead in
the early part of the season and never
being headed Joe Cantillon, who is
now manager of the Washington Sena-
tors, Is the owner of the team Can
tillon is an old player who has seen
all the ups and downs of baseball. He
started out as player and after play
the Indicator for several years. He IS
also interested in the Milwaukee team
at the present time. For this years
team sCantillon has secured the ser
vices Of Mike Kelly, the big first base
man who is one of the real stars in
the game, and who will act as man
ager. Wolfe, who was with Topeka
last season for a short time together
with Yeager and Woodruff will form
the receiving end of Cantillon'sx bat
teries- Joe Doty, Hugh Gillen, Perry
Sessions, Roscoe Miller, and e. 9. Clark
will do the slab duty for the Hawk
eyes, Kelly, O'Leary, Andreas and
Shipke will guard the infield positions
while the outer gardens will be watch
ed by Hogriever, Schloster and one
other
The Lincoln team is managed by
@Ducky'.' Holmes, the former outf1eld-
er of the Chicago White Sox- Last
year was Holmes first attempt at
managing a team but he succeeded IN
good shape and landed his team in sec
ond place. The Lincoln team next
season will lineup as follows: Catchers. |
cote, Mckay, Maddox, B. Jones, ].
Jones, bort; infelders, Jack Thomas, |
Billy Fox, Gagnier and either Lee
Qufllan or Jack Frost; outnefders' I
Dicky Holmes. Davidson Harness
NOISY BfIP, Rourke, former Ma
tiona1 Lacquer, is the purveyor of the
baseball game in Omaha where he is
Rourke has played ball a great deal
himself and is well grounded into the
principles of the game He, has been
successful as a manager at Omaha anu
has always given the fans of the Ne |
braska metropolis a good team. The
lineup of. his team for next year looks |
good and Omaha is looked upon as one |
of the contenders for the pennant. So |
far as has been announced the follow
ing players will compose the Omaha /
team next season: Catchers, Gonding,
Bender. Townsend; pitchers, McNeely,
Saunders, Dodge, WEIGH, Metz and |
rip Raglan; infielders, Ury, Dolan,
Howard, Graham, Francks and Aus
tin; outhelders, Aubrey WEIGH, Bel
den
President Duncan, of the Sioux City
team, has secured Dave Williams, an
old timer well known in baseball as
manager for next season and he will |
Spies, who was with St.-Pau1 several /
years ago with Jerry Sheehan, Lon |
Pettitt and Hogo Freese will compete
for catching honors. Jarrett, Hall,
6timmen. Newlin, Corbett' Bennett,
Weed, and Wenig will try out for
places on the slab staff. Foster.-Weed,
Granville, Danny Sheehan and Frost
will play the infield while |
NobIitt, Campbell, Hupps and Lake
Bauer, formerly with Sedalia, will play
In the outfield. ,.s- z-s
A controlling interest in the Denver
club is owned by George Tebeau, who
fsyille teams in the American Associa-
ton Tebeau learned most of his base
ball in the early days with the Cleve-
land team when that team was in the
National League. R. r. Burke, of
Denver, is president of the team.
Wheeler, formerly of ST. Paul, is the
manager of the team. This team win
report in Topeka two weeks from
Monday and will remain here for a few
days working out with the locals. The
lineup follows: Catchers, Za1usky,
Weigardt; pitchers, Adams. Wright,
Engle, Bohannon, Mallory. Hall, Paige,
Grace; infielders, Reddick, Toman,
Wheeler; outfielders, McHale, Belden,
Russell, McDonough.
Pueblo has one of the cleverest man
ayers in the business in Frank Selee,
formerly of the big leagues. Selee
never played ball to amount to much
but he has managed teams in the big
leagues for years. For many years he
was connected with the Boston team
and later he was with Chicago. Hist
health broke down short time ago
and left him in a serious condition.
The mountain climate of Colorado,
however, agrees with him, and he is
working hard to give the Pueblo fans
a good team. His team will be COM
posed of the following men: Catchers,
Tenneman and LeGrande; pitchers,