The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
Clubs of the Circuit Busy Get.
ting Ready for Race.
Hartman Will Be Sold When
Champs Clear Decks.
HAVE $1,000 OFFER.
Seven TwirIers Are Lined Up
for Packers.
Two Catchers and a Full Quota
in and Out Named.

Sioux City, Ia, Dec. 30.-When the
bell taps for the season of 1911 it
is probable that Chick Hartman, the
former Denver player, will not be at
his old position with the Packers. An
eastern league manager has offered
$4,000 for Hartman and the Packer
bosses have just about concluded to
accept it. They feel that they can part
with him as they have Tom Reilly to
take his place. If Tom shows the
form he displayed with Sioux City last
year he will be an acceptable SubSti-
tute. This winter Hartman is travel
ing with an indoor baseball team and
writing to the local management says
that if he could play on a sodded dia-
mond as well as on the boards he
would be in a major league.
Gus Steno, an outfielder who played
last season in the Kansas City, Mo-,
intercity league, probably will be
given a tryout on the Sioux City team
Last summer he batted .409, is a good
man to lead off in the batting and a
speedy base runner. He is recon-
Inended by Johnny King.
Frank Barber, a pitcher, for whom
Dal Alderman was traded, writes to
President Fairweather that he is glad
he is to be with the Packers next sea-
son and promises to do his best to-
ward winning another pennaut-
Ollie Pickering, a former major
league star and late of the American
association. who now is a free agent,
wants to join the Sioux City club.
A letter from the manager of the
Hannibal. Mo, team, states that
Pitcher Joe Vyskocil, who is late
Packer recruit, is a dependable pitch
err a man of good habits and one that
should be able to hold his own in the
Western league.
The architects plans for the altera-
lions at MiZZou park have been COM
pleted and will be passed upon when
Fairweather returns from Cherokee,
where he went to spend Christmas.
IsbeIl Wants Reilly.
Foxy old Frank Isbell is sweet on
Tom Reilly. He has written to Fair
weather and Towne asking if there is
any chance to get this popular player.
Harry Myers, whose work with the
Packers last season was the sensation
of the league, has not yet signed a
Brooklyn contract. If he must come
back to the minors, Myers says there
is no place like Sioux City.
The spring training of the Packers
calls for one week at Vermillion, S. D.,
where games will be played with
Coach ]. A. PipaIs varsity team. Fol-
lowing the Vermillion engagement,
Manager Towne will pilot his pro-
teges to some nearby South Dakota
towns.
Sioux City will have first crack at
Milwaukee's surplus pitchers. A let
ter from the manager of the Brewers
says that he expects to have few to
be farmed and the Packer bosses can
have their pick of the lot.
Just what will be done with Jimmy
Freeman is not known. Chattanooga
offered to trade Siever, an old stager,
for Buck, but the local owners would
not even consider the proposition.
Freeman is in Sioux City for the holt
days, Mrs F'reeman's home being here.
The Packers lineup at the opening
of next season is expected to be some
thing like this: Pitchers, c. Freeman,
Biesser, Wilson, Miller, Vyskoci Bar
Der and Fisher; catchers, Miller and
Towne; first base. Stem; second base,
Andreas; shortstop. Reilly; third base,
WEIGH; outf1elders, Breen, Wooley and
Neighbors.