The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05

long as both are satisfied, things will
move along smoothly once more until
mid seaSon-perhaps
Practically all of the major league
teams have winged their flight to
them have their entire squads warm
ing up in sunny chimes. 1t is five
weeks yet until the big league season
begins.
Eight weeks from today the Kansas
State league season begins. Can the
fans wait that long?
| Down at Arkansas City a big dance
| is to be held for the benefit of the
baseball association, all of the receipts
| going to the ball club. Work has been
| going on there for a week at the ball
/ park. A good many improvements are
| being made to the grounds and stands
| showing that Arkansas City will be up
and doing by the time the season
| opens.
Another squawk form the Nebraska
| State Journal: In justifying the reap
| pointment of Umpire George Clark,
Prexy Tip relates that Lincoln was the
| only city in the Western league circuit
| last year in which any complaint was
made as to Ciark's arbitrating. 1t is
quite evident that Tips facts are off
the trolley wire. On several occasions
Rourke, the Omaha magnate, did not
! hesitate to say that Clark was decided
| ly n. G.. This, rather, was his mean
| ing, although his exact words were
much more forcible and eloquent. Tom
| F'airweather, president of the Sioux
| City club. has no use for Clark's UNI
piring and said so bluntly to the writer
during the recent schedule meeting in
Chicago. Tip's belief that Clark will
get better with more experience car
ries no conviction. He was funda-
mentally insufferable last year and has
neither the temperament nor natural
| ability to make good. His retention
spells evaporation for players and
! spectators as We'll
| sioux City News: "Pinky' Linda
man, who was the idol of Sioux City
fans a few years ago, and who now is
| one of the maintays in the box for the
| Boston Nationals, believes that Fred
Stem, who will play the initial sack for
the Sioux City team the coming season,
| will be the class of the league. Linda
| man played with Stem all last season
at Boston ana says he is one of the
| best fielding first baSemen in the coun-
try. and in the Western league ought
| to hit the ball above the 800 mark.
The st. Louis Republic has this to
say of Griggs and Olson:
Young Arthur Griggs, the slashing
slugger of the Brown Brigade. is the
hero of the Holdout Horde of four
players, who are not exactly satisfied
with the contracts Herr Hedges has
offered them for signature.
In other words, the ball playing gen.
tlemen want q little more monev than
the employer of ball players has Of
fered them.
Stone, Olson and Smith are the other
members of the Standpat Squadron.
1t seems that these gentlemen can
stand pat until st. Patricks day, 1890,
for all Herr Hedges cares. With
Gripgs if is otherwise
Hedges is a bit stuck on Griggs. He
likes the boy and he likes the ball
player. He thinks that Griggs does
not look at his proposition in the right
way In other words, Griggs wants
some $500 more than Hedges offers.
Hedges proposes that Griggs accept
O'Connor shall decide at the end of
the year whether he (Griggs) is en-
titled to the extra $500 or not.
To the open minded philosopher this
looks like an eminently fair offer.
Griggs, however, is a young man and
a ball player, not an old man and a
philosopher. SO he sits about the cor
ridor of the Planters hotel with su1len,
worried face and refuses to come into
the fold.
Griggs says that Hedges is all right
and fair, but he (Griggs) has set his
heart on having that $500 before he
signs, pretty much as girl sets her
heart on a certain diamond ring, and
will not accept any other, Just COS.
Just like that
Hedges says that if Griggs has the
right sort of confidence in himself he
will sign in a jiffy. Robert also adds
that the fact that he will insert a
proviso into the contract calling for a
conditional $500 extra should square
things between Griggs and his little
heart.
There will not be any Texas training
trip for. Griggs until he signs his con-
tract Hedges says that no gentleman
shall go south, travel and feed and
"hop" at his expense unless his
"Charles Carroll of Carrollton" has
been fixed to a contract. Hedges is |
not caring about Stone, Olson or
Smith,
Olson thinks well of himself for |
mere minor Lacquer, and wants more |
money than Hedges thinks he is worth. |
So Olson looks like a man who can |
stay in Savonsberg. Kan, all summer. |
TO little Smith. who caught one game
and let them steal eleven bases on Bill |
Dineen, a man who could be caught by |
a child, Hedges pays no attention |
Then, whenever Bill used his speed, |
which is no more speed than Oscar /
Miller has, Smith was knocked down |
Hedges wrote Smith to sell himself |
wherever he could and that he
(Hedges) would make him a present /
of all above $3.50 he could get.
Lincoln News: Walter Elliott is the |
name of Pittsburg, Pa, player who |
has been annexed by the Lincoln club