The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-16
Johnny Kunkie Comes Into Fold
at Last.
Will Be Here for Practice on
March %.
READY FOR BUSINESS.
Practically All Teams in West
ern League Completed.
"Curly" Speer Happy in New
Berth at Buffalo.
READY FOR BUSINESS.


baser who was the pride of the loca
fans last year. when he settled down tc
ball playing. has decided not to hold
out. Owner Cooley has received a let
ter from him in which the ST. Louisan
says he will report for practice March
g. And so a lot of worrying over
whether or not Johnny would cavort
about the tertiary turn in the way to
home plate has been useless. More
over, Johnny has shown good sense and
the rig at Kind of reasoning ability. 1t
Johnny will so up He showed more
Improvement last year than any man
on the local team. He viii report along
with the rest of the players and there
isn't much fear about town that any
one will beat kunkle out of his job if
he tries to play ball.
A lot of more or less uncomplimen-
tory things have been said about Kun
kle since his endeavor to get more
money out of Cooley. but kunkle, with
all his faults, saves his money and ex-
poets some of these days to get out OF
the ranks of professional ball players
In many ways he is a Hkeable little
fellow, and not at all the crab some of
the fans think as a result of his ac-
tions on the diamond. Here's to you
Johnny Kunk. and we're mighty glad
you're coming.
No manager ever came into the West
ern league who received more favorable
mention from one end of the country
TO the other than has George Davis, the
rev leader of the Higgins. The New
York papers are full of praise for the
great outfelder. Saws The Evening Tel
(gram of New York: "DcS MoineS has
engaged {. good manager as far as
knowledge of the game is concerned.
Now the question in regard to Davis Is.
how long will it be before he is in
charge of a team in league little
higher in the circle than the Western
league, and how many championships
will he have jotted down in his mem
Crandum?''
Hendricks says: Chance will give
us a crackerjack pitcher: am sure OF
getting heavy hitting outfelder from
Boston and have two other stars on
the list Hendricks is trying to get
a corner on all of the stars among the
castoffs of the big leagues Tt is be-
coming more painfully apparent every
day that Denver is going to be in the
thick of the race for the pennant this
year from the start. Grover Gillen, the
former DeS Moues pitcher, has just
signed his contract with Denver after
holding out for a year.
Wichita has scheduled IA exhibition
games. Pitcher Aitchison of the Wich-
tia bunch has just signed up. as also
has Pitcher Yuravitch. late of the St.
Louis Browns
The pitchers and catchers of the Den
yer team have already reported at Ex-
oelsior Springs. The balance. of the
team will report there on March %.
Saws the Lincoln News: Manager Sui
livan and Irving Waldron lifted the cur
ts in on the local practice season yes
terday morning in a two hours work
out in the NJ street ball yard. Both
v ere i'll uniform and when Eddie Gag
nier, the ''vici kid who has been
clerking in a sI:oe store all winter, am
tled down to the yard and saw Sully
and Waldy humping the ball in batting
practice, he was seized by an acute at
tack of the fever. Hiking back to his
employer, Gag" quit his job forth
with, donned a uniform in the after
noon and was soon UP to his ears in
the practice. The gingery French gen.
tieman has made it known that they
will all have to go some to follow the
7 ace set by the Antelope tribe this
year. Let us hope that Gag is a wise
prophet.
Tom Fairweather says of his squad: |
ST am not predicting that Sioux City
will win the pennant this year, but 1
do say that we intend to have a team |
the city will be proud of. If the pres
ent bunch of players is not I'D to the |