The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22


many of the team.
Ebbets, that because I Numbered a
little such a name should be Saddled
on a ball club that is going to finish
in the first division. Every time the
team is called Infants some one will
ask why. and then the story of that
Internal speech will be told over again.
Barney Dreyfuss heard of Ebbets'
kick and said:
HE has no complaint. Twenty years
ago a Pittsburg player was accused of
stealing couple of bats, and they
have called my team the Pirates ever
SINCE
Western League fans care very little
how many games are played in the
baseball season. They have few COM
ments to make on the frightening of
the season to 16S games. All they de-
sire is that good baseball be played
in the league and that they be given
first division team in the city in which
they happen to reside.
The attention of the fans the country
over will now be turned from the hotel
corridors to the diamonds. The mag
mates have finished their work and the
players will now begin theirs. Several
of the big league clubs have COM
menced training in the south. The
Western League fans are becoming i'm
patient for the arrival of their squads.
Just about month from now the
Des Moines players will begin to gather
in this city. President Higgins within
the next month must get together sew
cral more first-class players. He must
secure two or three pitchers, who will
be able to stand the large amount of
work required in the long, hard sea-
| son in the Western League this year.
/ An inf1elder and outfielder will also be
added to the roster without much doubt
| Denver has just about completed it's
| team by adding another good pitcher
Yount of the Boston Americans has
| been secured. DenVerS pitching staff
| now includes Olmstead. Adams, Lower,
| Schneider and YOunt-all good men
not to mention several recruits who look
| to be good. Denver is going to make
! things hum in this league next season.
| Des Moines Register and Leader:
| George Clark has been added to the list
| of umpireS in the Western League. He
and Haskell are the only ones who have
| been announced as indicators thus far.
| Clark did go work in this circuit last
year and should be better this season.
| Mullen, the little umpire with the deep
| voice, has not been signed up by the
| National League. and it is possible that
he will be back in this league.
| Omaha Bee: It is bad thing for a
! man to become known as a chronic
kicker. Don Despair, the young man
| who burst into the baseball business
| at Lincoln toward the close of last
| season, has assumed this role in the
Western league. If he pursues it it
will bring up to his ruin, but will not
have much effect on the league. Pur-
suant to his espousa, Despair kicked
on the league schedule meeting being
held in Chicago. He insisted on its
going to st. Joseph. In this he simply
| made himself ridiculous, for his ig-
norance of what is best for his club
and his league. At the very time
when the Western league magnates
were meeting in Chicago the mag
mates of the big leagues and the Amer
lean association were there in BUSH
ness up to their necks. There was the
opportunity for Despair and his col
leagues to get in on the ground floor
| of some good deals for players, and
it afforded him the splendid privilege
of rubbing elbows with the men who
are really running this business of
| baseball; to hear them talk, to get
their views, to become acquainted with
them. Any man just entering a BUSH
ness he knows nothing about could
| scarcely ask for better advantages.
Lay these over against the benefits of
meeting in st. Joseph. What have
you? Absolutely nothing tangible. The
only reason in the world for ever
| thinking of St. Joseph as a meeting
place was purely sentimental. 1t
was simply an impulse of good-fellow-
ship to give st. Joseph the gladhand
and cheer it on for the fine showing
it has made in its re-entrance into the
Western league. 1t was a good SEN
| timent, a magnificent sentiment, but
one that not even st. Joseph could
| seriously urge as a reason against
such reasons as existed for holding
the meeting in Chicago. If Mr.. De-
spain, in this morning of his baseball
experience, aSpires to be brusher all
his life he has taken exactly the right
tack But if he expects to become a
| baseball man he will have to broaden
his views and start out on a new line
of action. Bigger men than this one
| have discovered the folly of setting
themselves up as the monitor of the
| Western league. A certain seasoned
veteran who preceded Denny as own
er of the Lincoln team, not so many
iyears ago, has found, even in the even
ing of his varied career, that it won't
go.
Whatever the players may say of it
Western league fans will welcome the
16S-game schedule adopted by the
magnates. 1t will give them twelve
more games in the season, lengthen
the playing period about a week a
each end. Now that the schedule il
disposed of, we may sit back and wal
for the sound of the gong. In thu
meantime the team owners will hav'
nothing to do but complete their ros
| ters and get ready for the try-out da,
to come. We observe from the SEIZED
| ule that Omaha gets one game a
home on the Fourth of July, playing
in the morning at Lincoln and in tn
afternoon at home, which will put
| rather good sized days work up t
4 the men of the two teams. We ais