Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10
Base Ball Gossip
IN w estern League
Are Still Securing New
Players to Strengthen
Their Teams.

Shotten looks like the goods, judging from
the way he handled himself in a game
Thursday between the Regulars and Nuts
at st. Louis. He got one hit out of the
two made and one run out of the three
scored, He accepted four chances without
an error.
Fisher, the Omaha boy, who went to the
st. Louis Browns, has been playing on
the regulars all week and is showing up
well.
A wire has been received in Des Moines
from "Bil" Dryers wife, saying that her
husband is recovering after an operation
for appendicitis. and that he will be able
to join the champs in about a month.
The new pitchers have been signed by'
Jack Holland for the Drummers. one il
Bayer, a st, Joe southpaw, who got away
from Louisville through some mix-up be-
tween the club, and the player. and the
other is Thoresen, who played with Duluth
in the Copper Country league. HOLLAND
traded Outfielder Foutz and Pitcher Rueter
for Thoresen.
Fred Hunter, who played first base last
year with Sioux City, is making good az
Kansas City. He has displaced Jake Beck
ley at the first sack. Kansas CITY snort
writer's seemed to think Fred was not
stout enough at the game to play in Amer,-
can association class, but that was early in
the winter. They have probably changed
their mind.
Boone, the young busher, whom Isbell
picked up, seems to be of the regular phe-
nom class. He has hung one on both the
81 Louis Browns and White Sox in exhi- !
Dition games. Last season Boone pla we'd
on the prairie lots in Wichita.
Comiskey turned over Beall to Denve,
when the Sox were there Monday. Hend-
ricks wanted Cole. but the "'old Romann
evidently thought too much Of him to LEI
him so.
Walter Mattick has reported for work TO
Manager Davis at Des Moines.
A report from the Sioux camp saws All tho
are working well, and that there
are fewer sore arms at this time than
there were last year early in the season
An agreement has been reached betweep
the Des Moines club and Jack Dalton ana
VIII guard a Booster garden this season
Sioux City has been rather weak at the
BAT so far this season, but Manager Tovpe
Of the opinion that the veterans win
soon get their batting eyes and swing on
hard when the season opens.
jack Holland wanted Pitcher Mclean 70,
he Drummsrs, but Manager Babe" Tovno
MIN first and landed him for his team
FRANK lsbelIs brother, who is with Stony
-lY' is beating the sphere hard. and ho
ooSs Ike he was going TO make good with
he Sioux. WIN
Topeka and Wichita are going il prattv
iard and cleaning up most everything tbsy
ackle. The question is, Can they stick
out?" ~
unless Niehon' Des Moines' third sacker.
up Tor practice soon II looks ike he
VII De suspended. II he DOESN'T report this
ear II means that he viii be out OF base !
'aI Tor Iour years under the rule govern 1
ns sueh cases. 1t is thought. however. 1
mar ne VIII nave a conference with owner 1
Higgins before the season starts. .
President Higgins Of Des Moines got an
ther player from Comiskey last week He q
Raftis, a third baseman, and PLAYED with
N. y, last year. II Is said be ,e t
lever C%QmIskey thought enough of him t
D draft him last fall. n
In commenting on The exhibition panss )
ist week between Omaha and Lincoln tbe p
port writer for the Lincoln News SAYS {
Omahas again played like a LOT % p
ew hands on the dump. apparently moi "
moving how TO work together ana take n
dvantage Of the conditions. while Lincoln a
ZEN put up such a game a. one might ex- T
to see I'm August" Yes. Old scribe n
incoln might look like that IN August. Inn pl
ley have 10 10 better than that n tbcy al
ant 70 get near the top OF the percentage
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