The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-02
Manager Cooley Orders Players
to Report March %.
GrOundkeeper Danberry Will
Be Here Earlier.
GRANDSTAND SEATS.
Five Hundred Opera Chairs Will
Be In Place.
News of Interest in the Kansas
Leagues.

Manager Cooley today sent notice
to all of the players and tryouts sign
ed for the Topeka ball team to re-
port for spring practice March %,
Just one month before the opening of
the season. OF course most of them
will be here before that date. Trans
portation will later be wired, but this
notice will give them sufficient time
to terminate business deals they may
have on hand and prepare for the
workout which will begin on the
above named date. This will give the
men an opportunity to get their stiff
joints into little better condition be-
fore the first game, which is with st.
Paul on March rs. Groundkeepen
Danberry will arrive earlier and give
the ground the proper treatment so
that work on the grounds will not de-
lay nor interfere with spring practice.
Speaking of Danberry, that worthy
caused Richard all kinds of worry last
year just before the opening of the
season. Danberry came early but
bad weather delayed the work. About
the time Cooley wanted to use the
grounds Danberry had man with a
team blowing up the diamond. Cool
ey thought perhaps Danberry knew
what the ground needed, but was not
sure, and there began the worry. Each
day the ball park looked more and
more like a patch of ground being
prepared for turnip seed But at last
the work was finished and one of the
fastest grounds, for an unsodded af-
fair, was the result.
The 500 new grandstand seats or
"opera chairs will be in place when
the season opens. They will be INSTALL
ed in the east end of the grandstand,
right back of first base, and will come
at the additional cost of 10 cents per.
Junction City Union: Ernest Quig-
ley who will be manager of the juno
ton City baseball team for the sea-
son of 1910, has secured a substitute,
whom he says will be competent to
take charge this spring and steer the
team through the training season and
the early stages of the game, until
June Is, at which time Quigley him
self will be here to take full charge.
The directors do not know very
much about the man who has been
secured by Quigley. They don't even
know his name as yet But what little
information they have concerning him
is very satisfactory 1t is said that
he is a former Glass A player. He
got out of the professional game a
short time ago and is now an athletic
trainer connected with one of the
western colleges.
During his last season in profess
sional baseball, the unknown" play
ed with a Glass A team, officiating as
catcher. His fielding average was $50
and his batting average was 21S. He
will be put in charge of the team, and
will probably remain here until his
college duties call him away, which
will be in August or September.
Secretary John G.. Pease, of the
Function City Baseball association
has received a letter from John Bur-
ton of Cleveland, o. Burton was sign
ed with the Junction City team last
year and failed to show up. Accord
ingly he was suspended, and did not
play any ball at all during the sea-
son. Now he wants to get back into
the game, and has written to the To-
cal association.
Secretary Mitchell of the BeIoit base
ball club today reports Is contracts re-
turned and about a dozen still to be
heard from. Those who have signed
contracts are: Catchers. Walter Sny-
der, Oakdale, ILL.,, and Charles Eckert,
Toledo, O.; first basemen. Roy Yarnell,
Londale. Ok. and Homer Epling, Gas
City, Kan: infielders. Frank Kelly.
Portland, Ind. John Sekavec, Wilson.
Kan, Fred Martin, Emporias Kan, FL
A. Epling. Lawrence. Kan, Louis Hile,
Fort Supply, Ok. and George N. Gibbs,
Omaha, Neb.: outfielderS, Walter
Brown, Mt. Carmel. ILL.,, Howard
Young. Yellow Springs. o., and Guy
Martin, Sullivan, Ill. !; pitchers, Geo, v.
Colbert. shelbyville IN. and T. E. Cox
Isawndale. Ok. Contracts have been
sent to Howell and Kretzer, both of
last years team.
salina Union: E. j. williford, per-
haps the fastest pitcher Salina ever
had, is here to see Manager George
Meyer of the Salina Baseball associa-
ton. Last year, for failure to work
properly, Williford was suspended. He
then fed and became an outlaw Now,
1t is reported, he is anxious to get
back into the game again and has come
back in an effort to be reinstated. 1t
is up to the Salina management and it