The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-27


been dubbed Engineer Kimmel.
The Joplin team claims to have
three good outflelders in the persons
OF Jacobson, Sheldon and Fillman.
Jacobson is said to be a good hitter
and able to cover lots of ground.
Sheldon is said to be good hitter
and baseman besides possessing a
good throwing arm. Ffllman's ability
is well known.
The Milwaukee team has gone into
training at Bartlesville, Okla This
team will play there a few days, and
then will play their way back to Mil
waukee. Topeka gets them for three
days on their way back.
Asa Slater who will be remembered
as a twirler who started the practice
season with the White Sox last season
and who then jumped to the Goodland
semi professional team will play in
Galveston this season. Slater has been
under suspension for three years and
was unable to get his release last sea-
son. He is now going back and will be-
have.
Another baseball casualty has been
reported from Wichita. Charles Keim-
pie, a local player who was trying out
with the Jobbers, was run over in a
right arm was injured and he was sent
to a hospital. Amputation was found
necessary and he Is now without his
right arm. Hard luck at this time Of
the SeaSOni
Patrick Casey has not yet shown up
at the Hutchinson baseball park. And
the fans are In favor Of sending
tracer after the cerise Completed ma
tive of the Emerald Isle.
Cuthbert has been wired his trans
portation and will report here next
Sunday in time to play Sunday after
noon.
The following humorous paragraph
is clipped from the Kansas Notes in
the Kansas City Star: DOC Andrews,
the Hutchinson baseball manager, re-
Gently was introduced to a citizen of
the town, and the new acquaintance,
wishing to say something compliment
tary. Remarked: ct have never had
the pleasure of meeting the doctor be-
FORE but I know him well by reputa-
tion." Geo." retorted the ball player.
Pm sorry to hear that" Docs friend,
Red Downs of the Detroit Tigers,
is quite a wit also. Writing to the
Hutchinson manager one time he said:
with all your pepper, Doc, and the
amount of salt they have down there,
you ought to have a well seasoned
team
Evans, the new Joplin twirler, is said
to possess more smoke than Jack Root
with Joplin last season. If he has he
must be wonder because Root certain
ly was the candy when it came to
speed.
Most of the Topeka fans will doubt
1essly remember Dallas Alderman, or
''Tessie," as he was popularity called,
because of his good looks. For some
time his whereabouts in the baseball
world has been a mystery. After his
cratic season in the Western Associa-
ton in 1905. Tessie went to the Con-
necticut State league where he worked
for a portion of 1906. He got away bad
there however and quit the job in dis
gust and discouraged. He then went 10
the Central league where he was taken |
in hand. Last season he played with |
the Wheeling team in the central
league under an assumed name. He
won about seventy-five per cent OF his |
games. He succeeded in playing under
an alias all season and In attracting
the attention of Manager Fred Clarke |
of the Pittsburg team. Alderman was |
drafted by Pittsburg and has been
WORKING out with the Pirates this sea- |
son. However he has been discovered |
and the Connecticut league managers
have learned of his whereabouts ana
until he satisfies the manager of his |
former team he can't play with Pitts
burg Alderman's advance in baseball
will be welcome news to his many To-
peka friends who we'll remember ms
experiences in this league. With the |
largest assortment of curves ever pos
sessed by one man, he was unable to
win games because of his wildness. His
record of eighteen strikeouts in one
game still stands in the Western
Association as well as his record OF
sixteen walks. Alderman made his
s.ren'' as a pitcher on the Notre Dame
team in 1903. After his graduation
from this school he went to Omaha
,rhara he handled the sports for the
Pee for two years and played
sunday bah. Now that he has acquired
controi his future career in baseball
viii he eagerly watched by his friends.