The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-07
DOpesters Figure That Denver
Will Make Trouble.
Omaha Also Lining Up a Strong
Team.
THE PITCHING STAFF.
Both Teams Appear to Have
Good TwIrlers.
Items of Interest to the West
ern Fans.
A Dies Moines dispatch says:

A Des Moines dispatch says:
Watch Denver! The call is being
made again this year. due to the
great activity of Owner MaGiu in
spending money for players. The new
Bear owner has either a great band
of players or he has been David Har-
umed numerically by his fellow mag
mates of the big leagues. He has at
the present time the largest assort-
ment of players for which he paid
real money of any team in the league.
Omaha is another team which will
promise of three additional players
from the big league castoffS he will
have q team which will be hard to
beat. He has the promise of another
pitcher from the majors, which, II
fulfilled, will give him the best pitch
ing staff in the league.
O'Neill will be back in Chicago this
week and from there announce where
the schedule meeting will be held. 1t
has been announced for Des Moines
once, but the fight st. Joe has made
to get the meeting may result in
change. O'NeilI may decide that he
can do better by holding the meeting
in Chicago. .re- -5-s--5zs
Clark Griffith is to resurrect the old
pitching machine that was unsuccess-
fully tried by several big league clubs
a few seasons ago. Bob Bescher,
practicing with the giant catapult
during the winter.
President Tom Noyes is determined
to raise Washington to a more pre-
sumptuouS position in the American
league. He has ordered Jimmy Nc
Aleer to cut loose the purse strings.
As a result vivid" Conroy, Germany
Schaefer and Pitchers Witherup and
Reislin will be sent to Hot Springs
for two weeks, about February Is.
Walter Dewey, the. st. Louis anna
teur who took the last eastern trip
with the Browns last fall. has notified
Jack O'Connor that he would like to
try for first base against Bill Abstein.
The Boston Red Sox have one
young finger who should stick. He
was bought from Providence. His
name is Frank Barberitch, and he
has already inoculated a contract.
Patsy Donovan will join the
coaching lines managers this year,
sporting a uniform a la Jim Mcclure.
IT but remains for George stailings
and Connie Mack to fall into line to
make the practice a habit
Former Scout fHeilbronner of the
Reds has begun 9 new department in
agency on a wholesale basis, tipping
off his big league clients to the most
likely looking prospects.
The national commission will get
after Charley Murphy again. Chair
man Hermann has decided to call a
special meeting, at which it will be
made compulsory for all major league
owners to furnish a list of stockhold-
-ers. Hereafter it will be grave mis-
demeanor for any person to hold stock
in two clubs in the same league.
Guess this will set the two Charles
to thinking.
Jack Ryan, manager of Jersey City.
says he believes that Russell Ford
will be the pitching sensation of the
American league this season. HE
has everything, including splitter
and the best fast ball I ever handled.
And he will not have to use his spit
ter unless he want to, either, to
make good in any company"
orvie Overall. the big twirler. is
visiting at Frank Chances orange
grove in California. Overall weighs
244 pounds. This means q lot of hard
work before April IA.
Lincoln has acquired another prom
Using twirler in Howard H. Murray,
last year on the payroll of the Lam
caster, Pa, Tri-State pennant winners.
Murray won eight out OF eleven games
for Lancaster, when he was forced
out of the game because of sickness
and an accident. He secured his re-
lease and ~etired for the season. Muir
ray was annexed upon the recommen-
dalton of Pitcher John Fox, the twirler
recently purchased from Reading of
the same league. Fox informed the
local management that Murray has the
goods to make him high-class per-
former. He is wintering in Alliance.
Neb.. so h. won't have far to come
when the call to assemble goes out in
another month.
The signing of Murray gives Lin
coin seven pitchers, but President Des-
pain says that he is still angling for
one or two more, as he wants to carry
seven good pitchers on the Lincoln
payroll this season. Like MANY other
minor league magnates he would not
be averse to picking up one or two
high class twirlers from the major
league overflow. The Lincoln list of
twirlers is Farthing, McGrath, Jones,
McCafferty Maggie, Fox and MURRAY.
Despair paused long enough last