The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01

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Sioux City at Topeka
Lincoln at Wichita.
Des Moines at Denver.
Omaha at Pueblo.
The Sioux City team which opens
ner last season, and should prove a |
greater drawing card than the Lincoln
team. Sioux City has about the same
quality of team this season.
Danny Green has been sitting on the
bench during the Lincoln games. This |
is the first time in many years that the |
veteran outfielder hasn't started the |
season.
Manager Hamilton Patterson of the |
Pueblo team will not be able to remain |
with the Indians this season. He is
back in Sunville after having been in
Chicago comforting with Manager Nc
Aleer regarding his, chances of re-
naming with Pueblo. McAleer has or
dered him to report to the Browns May
2. The recent reverses of the Browns
is declared to be responsible for the
change. This will make George Hog
riever the manager. Hoggy will have
one thing to work with-a bunch of
good pitchers.
Jesse James will not play with the
Pueblo team this season. James is on
farm at Dwight. ILL.,, and although he
was paid personal visit by Patterson,
he refused to leave his fathers farm.
1t is the general supposition however
that Pueblo has enough pitchers with
out James.
Tip O'Neill was scheduled to be in
Pueblo yesterday for the second clash
| between the Des Moines and Pueblo
| teams.
|
| team is only % years of age, and is the
| youngest manager in the circuit.
Pueblo has changed Spencer to CEN
| ter field and Mattick to left and it is
said that the change works to better
| advantage.
| The Sioux City Journal does not
| think that Omaha will be as strong
with Chick ARTERY. Jimmy Austin.
Patsy Raglan and Dusty Rhodes out
of the lineup.
Jimmy Austin, the star third base
! man last season with the Omaha club,
| is breaking into the game with New
York occasionally and is making pretty
good use Of himself.
The Sioux City Journal thinks that
| Catcher Heine Berger of the Cleveland
team is going back. Berger is a native
| of sioux city.
| The reports sent out from Pueblo re-
garding the enormous attendance are
misleading and probably incorrect. In
Pueblo the grandstand and seating ca
| pacity is not large, and the town lacks
several thousand of being as large as
Topeka.
The Lincoln management is a little
| more congenial today. The crowds at
| the opening game, and the amount of
revenue derived make Topeka popular
with the Lincoln owners.
| Catcher LIE Brand of the Omaha team
/ jumped at Grand Island on the way to
| Denver, and took the next train for
! California where he has accepted terms
| with one of the outlaw clubs
| Walter Good, Denver amateur. has
| been signed to act as second catcher.
| Out at Denver there was no parade to
mark the opening. band went around
| town in a street car which was deco
rated with baseball announcements
The Sioux City team will reach To-
peka tomorrow morning at four
O'Clock. Tessie Alderman, one time a
Topeka pitcher. will be one of the CEN
| tiers of attraction
! Umpire Mullen will remain here for
/ the Sioux City series He has given
good satisfaction and Topeka is strong
| for him, even though he is the smallest
| member of the staff.
/ Jack Bolin, the Wichita holdout
pitcher, attended the opening game in
Wichita but said nothing about play
/ ing to Holland.
Bert Shaner was called to Webb City
early in the week on account of the i'll
ness of his fiancee He returned for the
| opening series so as not to leave Hol-
| land in the hole. He will return early
1 next week, If she is no better.
| Cooley has received word from
| Louisville that Orvilie Selby will stick
on the pitching staff, and that Olson
and Landreth viii be retained in their
Irrespective positions. This means that
/ within a few days Cooley will receive
his check for the trio, and that Selby
will not pitch for Topeka. The three
had until May 1 to make good.
4 Jay Andrews tells a good one on
Eddie Gagnier, the Lincoln shortstop.
THE two were walking down Kansas