The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-27
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- league will open
up series of three games at the local
park tomorrow afternoon. The Griz-
Fly Bears or Teddy Bears, as they are
known, have had their spring work
out at Kansas City. George Tebeau,
one of the most beloved characters in
the baseball business has had the
Denver team working out with the
Kansas City team on his Kansas City
lot. Mr.. Tebeau owns both teams and
| then some. The Denverites are on
their way back to their home at the
foot of the Rockies and will play sew
eral other exhibition games enroute.
Their team lines up sometime in this
fashion: Zalusky, catcher; Olmstead.
Adams, Doll, Merz and Paige. pitch
ers; White. first base; Lauderborn
second base; Irwin, third base and
manager, and Cassidy. Belden and
Waldron, outfielders.
Runkel, the genial German. is ex-
pected in most any, day now and after
his arrival the third corner will be
cared for in great shape as was the
good player and popular with the
fans. His only fault was making too
much noise and fussing with the UNI
pire.
The boys will take a little trip next
playing before unfriendly grand
stands. Tuesday they will play the
Aggies at Manhattan and Wednesday
and Thursday will be spent in Kan
sas City with Monte Cross Blue Legs.
Upon their return they will play the
lola team, Friday, Saturday and Sum
day.
Manager Cooley has signed Funk,
the little fnfielder and Farrell, the
outfielder, who blew in from the Tex
as strands. Both will be given a good
tanned on the team. Funk left yes
terday for Kansas City where he will
complete his medical studies for the
year. He will report again April Sth.
Dick Cooley did not dress for the
game yesterday, but appeared at the
local park in citizens clothes. He
spent a portion of the time on the
bench and also visited the grand
stand, where he could get look at
his cherubs from every possible angle.
81 have fully twice as good team
as I expected to have" said the hand
some leader of the Topeka bunch.
land I think we will be able to show
them all up in this league. And I
have just the right kind of team
to get lot Of work out. Every one
of the players has good habits and all
are young and willing to work. I
haven't a swell head on the squad
and I think every man is capable of
being developed into a good player.
Just who to keep and who not to will
be the hardest question for me to de-
eide before the season opens"
LIE June, who plays the outf1eld
with the Chicago Sox No. 2, and is in
the game here this afternoon, holds
the worlds record for the long dis
lance throwing which was earned by
him last summer at the baseball field
events held in Cincinnati. CULLEN is
a graduate of the Western league and
was two years ago considered the
fastest minor league third baseman in
the business. Weaver, the catcher,
and Olmstead, one Of the pitchers are
well known in Topeka, the former
having been with Wichita last season
and the latter with Springfield.
Johnny Fillman is farming out
most of his players to the lola team
of the o. A. K. league. That is all
the players whom he is not going to
use on his own team. Hayden, for
merly of Webb City, is the owner OF
the lola team. Hayden was always
pretty good at making money. but he
could not get a good baseball team
together in a thousand years.
Since the Enid baseball team has
been named the Railroaders' Mana