The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-16

league.
| One of the innovations at Mizzou
park this summer will be the installa-
| ton of a women's rest room where
/ the present ticket office is now locat-
| ed. Grandstand and general admission
ticket offices will be built in the open
| space near the entrance to the park.
Another innovation announced by
| President Fairweather will be that of
having the time tables of all railroads
entering Sioux City on the score
cards.
Lincoln News: 1t is tough on Tony
Smith that the Chicago Cubs have
such a sensational shortstop as Joe
Tinker on the pay roll. Tony has
been playing marvellous ball at the
New Orleasn training camp, but Think
err, of course, will land the shortstop
job the moment he reports. Nothing
short of Tinker could beat the Sioux
City graduate to it. TONY was
corking ball player last year-good
enough for any ball club in the bust
mes. If the Cubs let him go, it will
be with steel cable attachment.
Lincoln News: Jimmy Ritchie, of
the Minneapolis Journal. who scrib-
bles under the alias of "O'Loughlin"
in order to dodge the police, is deeply
grieved over the fact that the Min
neapolis club must play its spring ex-
hibition games in such water tank
towns as Omaha, Des Moines, Lincoln
and Sioux City. After 'Jimmy's' Oles
have been soundly trounced by their
Western league opponents he will re-
gale us with the annual excuse that
the Minneapolis truck-horses were not
in prime trim.
Denver Post: Barney Schneider, the
big southpaw twirler signed by the
Denver club, arrived in the city this
morning. Schneider is in the best of
health and anxious to get to work. He
is a man of splendid physique and
should make a valuable man on the
local pitching staff. He comes with a
good record behind him and is
twirler who can stand the heavy
Kelly has been received by President
McGi1l. A letter has also been receiv-
ed from Olmsted, stating that his
contract is on the way.
Hutchinson News: Dick Speer is
glad to get out of the ranks of the
champions of the American league.
81 am just where I want to be"
said Speer. Buffalo plays great ball
and is a good team to be with. I
got what I wanted in the matter of
salary. I will get worked now and
then. 1 would rather be chasing fouls
in the business than sitting on the
bench all of the time for Detroit I
liked Detroit, but I'm glad I'm off the
team Speer sent in his contract to
Buffalo. 1t is the classiest one that
Speer has ever signed. It calls for a
salary of upwards of $4,000 a year,
while Detroit didn't offer such good
inducements. Speer has been notified
to report with the team at Macon, Ga.
Speer probably will not be able to do
this, as he has received a wire from
Gus Hetling, with the st. Louis Browns
in Texas. that Speer is needed as a
witness in the Hetling assault case in
n. M. Hetling is the
who, over a year ago, got into trouble |
on a Pullman car in New Mexico, and |
who was charged with mistreating a |
woman. Hetling claimed that it was |
Speer and Bill Annis, who was with |
him, corroborated this. It was |
that the matter had been set |
tied, but the case has been brought |
up again. Hetling will be obliged to |
desert his spring training to defend |
himself.
Kansas City Journal: ''Boliver" |
leading SALESMAN for Dick |
Cooley's Topeka White Sox of the |
Western league last season, was |
visitor in the city yesterday en- route |
to his home at Marshfield, Mo-, from |
Topeka, where he went to see Cooley |
in regard to a salary increase. Cooley |
was not in Topeka and Kaufman re-
turned home with his unsigned con-
tract in his pocket. Beside Kaufman,
Wright, Jackson and "Cy' Young are
increases. This quartette |
is expected to be the mainstay of the |
club, and maintains that they will
not report on March % unless their
demands are granted
Gehering Wrestling Champion.
Cleveland, o.. March 16.-Henry
Gehering of Cleveland won the middle
weight wrestling championship of the
world here last night from Chris Jor-