The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-04

interest in the Denver baseball club
and is now president of the associa-
ton. He declares that. ANY horse is
worth the money If it WINS" and says
that he will send Denver under the
wire ahead in 1910 If money and a
Iscrappy. aggressive and heady man
eger can do 1t. And most of all he
starts off right by going after man
6 ger with managerial experience. Jack
/ Hendricks, of Chicago, formerly one of
The New York Giants, and manager of
lie Fort Wayne and Springfield teams
IN the Central association, is the prob
Grizzlies. Others who are being con-
:~'dered for the place are Jimmy Bar
| EFT and Bobby Lowe. But it is be-
.ieved in Denver that Hendricks will
| he it. Jones, who managed last years
team. will be kept as a player if he is
willing to er-ain with the club. Other
wise he will be used in some trade.
Jones is good player but he lack
| The Denver club would have finished
| somewhere last year. They did not
now enough nor play enough inside
nan. Denver with "Buckerine"
catcher secured from Wichita and
Pennell secured in the trade by which
Belden and Bohannon went to the
/ Witches is 20 per cent better than the
team was last year. IT real man
sger is secured and a few pitchers
1
next year when the Denver bunch
| lights in the various towns along the
circuit.
| tiona1s will probably coach the Will
iamsburg College baseball crew next
| spring.
| Mike Donlin declares he can not
| rear the call of the diamond for the
,oise made by the money which Is
rolling in on Mabel and himself Mike
| lad better save it as if he had never
| layed baseball he wouldn't go very
tar in vaudeville.
The Pueblo Star Journal is author
| ity for the statement that if a good
offer is made the ball club representing
that city in the Western League will
he sold. In the absence of such an
offer a team will be put in the field
next year. If ST. Joe really means
business about getting into the Western
League now is her chance. Money
talks in Pueblo as well as elsewhere
ind the Missouri team should get busy
Low or forever hold her peace.
Minor league owners are having
trouble this year to locate material
Tor next year because of the hoggish-
who purchased nearly everything that
could toss ball last year. 1t seemed
that every time a major league scout
raw man in baseball uniform he
recommended him for purchase and
the man he represented usually pur-
chased the player Tom Fairweather.
president of the Sioux City cIlb, is the
latest man to call attention to this
and says that there If little to be done
until the majors begin their casting
says he is in correspondence regarding
the purchase of a major Lacquer to
play first base for the packers but
he deal is still incomplete.
Three Fingered Brown has declared
hat it will be necessary for Murphy
10 write So 900 in the salary clause of
his contract to induce him to throw
ball next year.
Delehanty and Tom Jones are
threatening to leave the Tigers.
Babe" Towne and Buck" Freeman
are visiting each other daily in Strong
City.
New York reports are to the effect
that wholesale cutting loose of old
major leaguers will come next spring
and that a large number of those who
have slowed up will be sent back to
the minors.
"Ducky'' Holmes is trying to land
he managerial berth en- the Vancou-
yer, B. c., team in the Northwestern
League. If he gets the job there will
be a wild and confused scramble for
rev cuss words in that league by this
lime next year.
Rube Waddeli and Christy Mathew
son are opposing each other daily In
winter games being played in Texas.
Baseball is getting a greater and
great grip on the Japanese. Simply
can't believe that such people are en-
rely bad, despite their language.
What has become of the money
raised at the games played in the
Western League last year for the bene-
fl of the widow of the late Frank
Selee.
Jack Hendricks, who is believed will
manage the Denvers next year. is also
after the Pueblo team if the deal with
Denver falls through.
A Brooklyn, n. z, fan has proposed
I new manner for computing the per-
centages of pitchers. He says: '"rhe
existing test of skill in pitching is the
ercentage of victories pitched in only.
That this is not true test of effective
work in the box is generally admitted.
Ibis shows the necessity of judging
pitcher according to his own individual
work would consider that pitcher the
best one who was least at fault in
allowing opposing batsmen to reach
first base. To figure this out in per-
centage divide the number of men who
balls, and by being hit with pitched
halls by the number of men facing a
pitcher AS an example, we will say
Ames of New York, pitched 20 games
and that 900 men faced him: $50 men
reached first base. Out of that num-
7 er 200 made base hits. 20 received
asses on balls. 10 were hit with pitched
alls 40 reached first on fielding
errors, and 40 reached first while 9TH
e1 runners were being put out. OF
course. we would not figure the last
PC men as having reached first off
mes pitching. SO that would leave
$50 to be divided by 800. which gives
Ames a percentage of .311. Figure
pitching averages by this system and
age would be entitled to the honor
CT premier pitcher. The fairness of
this method is manifest. If a dozen
iitchers took part in a single game
each twirler's work would affect his