The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-10

hard hitting outfielder, who finished
last season with Pueblo, will not come
to st. Joseph, are denied by Holland.
This is the season of coquetry among
ball players and they're simply decker
ing and feeling their way with the new
manager. THE trouble is that some of
these fellows had pretty soft thing of
it, and I'm going to cut out some of
the luxuries. They're hard losers. Why,
Pueblo gave some of its men two rail-
road tickets each way on the trips so
that they could take their wives along
and allowed them all sorts of other
extras. They can't do that with me.
and they're beginning to find it out.
Then Holland read a Letter from play
err to show the sort of thing that leads
to rurnors of brewing trouble. The
epistle was full of Now, Jack, we are
going to have the best team in the
league and We'll, friend Jack, am
in better condition that ever" and IT
wound up with a request for $50 in
crease. when wrote that fellow that
he is expected to come on at his ola
price, lie will begin telling around that
he won't be with St. Joseph this sea-
son." concluded Holland, but theyH
all show up, just the same"
Jack Holland has signed Harry Nc
Lean to a st. Joseph contract. scrap
py'' is spending the winter "racklng
balls in Johnny Kings pool hall in
Kansas City. He was a free agent
when the season closed last year. He
was in the Western league once be-
fore, in 1907, when Wichita sold him
to Des Moines. after Beals Becker
had been "discovered' as an outf1eld-
er. He was released the next spring,
drifted back to the Shively circuit
and from that to the Texas league
and Central association. While not
a star fielder by any means, Holland
always has considered the crab worth
hi caIa a sacrifice hitter.
Lou Ritter the former Brooklyn
catcher. last season with Kansas City
has been called to the management
of the Johnston club in the ITl.State
league. He will have little dlfflculty
getting his release from Tebeau.
Pat McCauley, the old Jersey City
catcher, declares that there is dis
tinction between catchers and mere
backstops. king, Bresnahan, Sulli-
van, Gibson and men of that stamp
are catchers. Most of the others are
backstops And McCauley is pretty
near right about it,
After Detroit won its 1908 pennant,
st. Louis bought its first baseman.
Claude RosSman. Now the same team
has purchased Bill Abstefn. Pitts
burgs championship first sacker-
In less than -FOUR weeks from now,
the big leaguers will commence re-
porting for the practice season.
Frank Isbell's address is Room B,
on the second floor of the Kos Harris
building, Immediately above the Hol-
land & Isbell smoke house recently
sold to Dick Dorr. Mr.. Dorr will use
the old baseball office for his own
private office. On Tssy's door will
be painted this sign, ''W. F. Isbell. A
Free Man"
Pittsburg has sold Ham Patterson,
the former Pueblo manager, to Chat
tanooga in the Southern league.
Jack O'Connor, manager of the st.
Louis Browns, has sold Hobe Ferris
to the Minneapolis club of the Ameri
can association. Yet it doesn't seem
so long ago that Ferris and Freddie
Parent were the Unfolding stars of
the league. when they were with Bos-
ton. Now both are passing. That's
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