The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-14
Exhibition Games Will Soon Be
on Boards.
Topeka Players Will Report
Next Week.
PITCHERS ARE READY.
No HOIdOuts Among Them Says
Sir Richard.
Items of Interest to Kansas
Baseball Fans.

Less than two weeks Szntil the first ex
bibition game. Only 10 days until the
players report. Only week until the
advance guard of the Cooleysox, '1C
will come trooping to town. We soon
can begin to get a line on how the fell
lows will act this year. To most OF
the fans the teams looks fairly good.
1t does not, at this time, look like a
pennanL winner but il is better than
last years fourth place team and that
che wasn't so bad for an infant. A
few of the fans VINO are not lovers of
baseball, but rather baseball fana tics
want few thousand dollar beauties
scattered about the flower garden but
most of them recall that Cooley has
l'ever vet invested largely in such tim
her and he has COPIED out a few PEN
Iants at that. There may be changes
on the team. If they are needed Cooley
will make them.
One thing which caused trouble and
with which Cooley VIII have no trouble
this year unless certain members of the
squad jOiT the holdouts is q pitching
staff Young Jackson. kaufman and
Wright, together with young Harris
who claims to have developed a curve
bail during the winter. should be able
&c do a pretty good job at holding
down the opposing swatters. Cooley
will count upon his pitchers holding the
score of the opposing teams to low
figure this year. And beside the pitch
ers Cooley has a complete ball club to
start out with. This will help some.
In most of the towns around the cir
cult commercial clubs or booster Or
carnations of some kind are boosting
the team. selling tickets and helping
get the season started off in a, money
making manner. Nothing has been
done locally IN this connection. Why
not boost the Topeka bal. club 2 little:
Why not have the Commercial club
committees sell a few tickets? Why
Tot arrange to have a couple OF excur-
sion trains rdl. into Topeka for the
opening season? The DC pple outside
Topeka are baseball crazy and would
like to watch the Sioux and CooleysoX
clash n the opening game. Why not
boost the local ball team little as
other towns boost their teams? Let's
get together on something and do 1t
right away.
After reading the dope in other towns
local fans are Inclined. some of them,
to get down-hearted. Every town in
the league but Topeka, Wichita and
sioux City has won the pennant But
cheer up. Penaant winning baseball
must be played in June. July. August
and September as wen as in March and
February. A lot of the leaders will
tumble out of their high positions, once
playing begins and the radiator league
season closes. You can figure that de-
spite the knockers. we are going to have
a pretty good team this year and the
better the gate receipts are the more
cash Richard will have to spend MAXI
ing it a good team. Ard We'll have one
of those first division kind.
The Ellsworth baseball club has elect
ed the following officers: w. E. Sheriff,
president: B. l. Gardiner, treasurer;
NJ. L. Meek. secretary. Stock to the
amount of $3.50 was subscribed. and a
committee to solocit further funds was
named. The Ellsworth team has made
arrangements for games with the state
league as follows: Mcpherson. April q,
p 22; Great Bend. "a. 25, &c; New
ton, q, Is, %; Hutchinson, &c. May 1.
2, 3. and if nossible May and at
Lyons. The Ellsworth men will report
about April IL to 10.
Following are the players signed:
Pitchers-Woods. F'ulwider. Peoples,
Mckinney, Field. Tavlor. Robertson.
Catchers-Seigle. Sommer, Bankhead,
Spear, Watson.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Knowles, Reed,
Pickens, Johns, Cox. Rushe, A. G..
White. Hewitt.
Outhelders = Poindexter schlensker,
Carl White, Steen.
Catchers-Shartzer
Infielders-Myers. Chapman. Runbeclx,
Myers, Holcumbring. Lunchbaugh.
While in Manhattan the other day,
r.. c. Q1igley, manager of the Junction
City ball team. stated that the quarrel
between him and Gardiner had been
PATCHED up. Gardiner and Quigley had
a row at Abilene last season, and the
Salina bunch left the field. At Man
haitian QCigley stated that he had writ
ten to Gardiner stating that he was
willing to forget the matter, and Gardi-
ner replied that it had already been for
gotten.
Manager Granny of Clay Center has
about completed his lineup for next
summers team, though he has not yet
gotten 1t all worked out as he wants
At. SO can rot announce how the players
will play. Al Rohr is helping him in
che selection of some good players. Al
is the Leavenworth bridge man, has
been a baseball magnate down there
and should help considerably in switch
ing good players here. There is a move
meEt, 60 it is said. for Concordia to
buy the Minneapolis franchise. This
would please Clay Center. not but that
Minneapolis is a fine town and has a
fine team, but Concordia is so much
easier to get to from here and is a
larger town. consequently would pre-
badly give larger crowds. 1. is not
known how far the negotiations have
progressed between the towns.
Sioux City Tribune: For the first
time since last September professional
ball players were cavorting around
Mizzou park yesterday afternoon. Man
ager Babe Towne and two of his pitch