The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-08
Schedule Meeting to Be Held
i'm Lincoln Sunday.
VIII Be Trouble in. Effort to
Satisfy All Managers.
WILL OPEN In TOPEKA
Difference i'm Baseball Laws
Makes Problem More Complex.
The Western League Season
VIII Start April %.

There promises to be lot of ''argu-
Tying" when the Western league sched-
uis meeting convenes in Lincoln next
Sunday, February IA. All of the man
ayers and magnates of the league will
@xtend and that all will be busy in try
ing to secure the best possible sched-
ules for their teams during the coming
season goes almost without saying.
The schedule is the one big thing that
controls the situation during the season
and often on the arrangement of this,
depends the result of the season. The
result In the Western league last sea-
son when Omaha lost the pennant oy
having to play against Sioux CITY our
ing the closing series, might have been
avoided had the schedule arranged lot
a different closing Dick Cooley Will
leave for the meeting Saturday.
The fact that the schedule meeting
takes place in Lincoln has it's signifi-
canoe. 1t is customary for this meet
ang to be held in the city which won
the pennant during the previous season
According to this arrangement sioux
City would have had the meeting But
Ducky Holmes the aggressive manager
OF the Sioux City team, has incurred
Ghe wrath of the other Tnagnates or the
association for various reasons, ana ne
was snubbed. Ducky has lost out
politicalIy-at least for the time being.
Three schedules have been drawn up |
"a committee of three was .appolnteo- 70 !
arrange a few schedules to be present
ed at this meeting. The personnel OF
Hhe cimulittee was w. A. Rourke OF
Omaha, J. F. Higgins of Des MONIES
and Jack Holland of Wichita Each OF
this trio have a schedule to present;
Hollands schedule ls not or the. kinu
that would meet with popular favor,
except in Wichita. The peerless city
gets everything in this schedule but OF
course the Hollands won't be adopted,
because the old heads in the league are
too wise to allow new man 70 olctdtei
the schedule Not much rs known OIL
the two other schedules.
Schedule making is a hard proposi-
4fon in the western league. The eight
towns in this circuit are situated In
four different states each of which has
be played on Decoration Day. In Ne
braska there is an anti-Sunday law
which however only affects Lincoln.
However it is almost certainty that
vroDelxa and wichita will get the open
ing dates. This will be done because OF
the weather conditions being more
likely to be favorable. and also as
matter of courtesy to the two new
towns. 1t looks as though the town to
open in Topeka would be either Lincoln
or Des Moines. with the chances IN
favor of the former. IN that case Des
Moines will likely open in Wichita.
The season will open April 2S
,Advices received from Denver indi-
cate that there may be considerable
trouble in securing Harry Arndt from
fA1 Providence team to manage the
Grizzlies in 1909. The ownership of
Arndt is in dispute and won't be set
tied until the national commission
passes on it. This may cause a delay
which will make it necessary to look
elsewhere for leader. In view of this
feature, the following dope from the
Denver News may be of interest:
Joe McGinnity. for many years al
pitching star in the National league as
a member of the New York CLUB, pre-
vious to that time with the Baltimore
club of the American league and the
Brooklyn club of the National league,
may come to Denver to captain and
manage the Grizzlies this year.
In the event of McGinnity coming to
Denver he will come into some interest
in the team and will bring with him
several valuable players who should
serve to build the team up into the
winner local fans have longed for and
dreamed of for years.
1t will either be McGinnity or Arndt
&c only the Denver club owners are
left TO decide. If too many strings are
not attached to McGinnity's release he
nifty 1t will be Arndt. if his release can
be secured. Both are former major
1eaguers OF years experience. McGin-
nifty is just from the majors and Arndt
has been in the minors for two years. |
Denver News: Pat Bohannon writes
from MS nome at FRANKFORT, KY, that
ne will begin to get in shape next
week through coaching one of the
small college teams at home, and that
he expects to report in better condition
than he has trained to in years. He
expresses himself as delighted with |
the prospect of playing first base and
says he has always wanted to be in
the game more regularly than a man
IS when pitching.
An important baseball deal consum-
mated during the past week by Ducky
Holmes or the Sioux City team will
make quite a change in the lineup of
the Packers for next season. Fred
Weed, the veteran first baseman who |
has been with the Packers for four
full seasons has been sold to the Spok-1
ane team of the Pacific Northwest !
league. Weed wanted to play near his
home in California and thought that
four years with Sioux City was i