Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-11
BASE BALL STARS
FROM OKLAHOMA
Adams and McGinnity Were
Products of the New
State.

GUTHRIE, Okla, December 10.-Al-
though all of the league teams in Okla
homa have disbanded for the season. the
base ball season in this state is not over
by any means, as the mild climate makes
it possible to play ball until late in the
fall, and that fact is taken advantage of
by large number of independent and
semi professional teams in various parts
of the state.
Many of these games are as good as
some of those seen during the regular
seasons, as an unusually large number
Of professional ball players make their
homes in Oklahoma, and most of them
are not averse to picking up little
spending money by playing with the inde-
pendent aggregations at or near their
home towns after their own season has
closed.
The result is that many of these teams
are composed almost entirely of profess
sional players at this time OF the year. AS
an example, a team when plaEed at
Muskogee recently included Bruce Ross
the Indian outfielder, who has play
ed with Joplin in the Western Association
and Columbus in the American Assoc1a-
ton: Lon Try, who finished the season
with Kewanee, in the Central Associations;
Paddy" Mayes, another Indian player,
delphia Nationals: Peck Harrington, a
Three-I League catcher; Frank Taylor.
who pitched for Sapulpa and Guthrie IN
the Western Association this year; john
ny Hendley, who has PLAYED with various
Western Association teams and umpired
in the association this year; Sammons. a
Kansas State League player. and Ole OLE
SEN, formerly a Western Association star
and now a professional wrestler.
Mayes lives at Pryor Creek and Ross at
Tahleuuah but the others all claim Mus
kogee as their home. AL Nickel, who
played in the Three-I League this year.
also lives at Muskogee, but has not re-
turned home as yet.
ball, who managed the Newark team in
the Eastern League this year and came
SO near getting away with the pennant In
that league, lives at McAlester and owns
a big foundry there
stay behind the bat this year, lives at
Wilburton. Dale Gear, former big
Lacquer. who has been very successful as
the manager of the Shreveport team, In
the Texas League, has farm in the
Big Pasture, near Chattanooga. ana
spends his winters there. Chick Bran
dom, turned back to Kansas City by
Pittsburg during the last year after sew
eral seasons with the Pirates, lives at
. CLYDE Geist, farmed to Louisville by the
Chicago Cubs for next year, lives at Enid,
as does Walter FrantZ, formerly 81.
Louis player. and more recently. with the
Texas League. Sled" Allen, who caught
for the St Louis Browns large part OF
this season and is now with Louisville,
lives at Geary .,.. .
Oklahoma City has big base ball col
ony. Including Gus weighing and Chap
pie Charles Mcfarland. both former big
league pitchers; DR.. Jason Andrews. VINO
managed the Oklahoma City team TINS
season and will head another Texas
League team next season; Grab Wo-
mack. who has appeared with Western
Association and Three-I League teams,
and Bandy and Drohan, Texas League
Howard Price. manager Of the Guthrie
team of the Western Association, ana
hts brother, Norman. Price,. who mas
played with Guthrie and with Chattanoo,
"a. in the Southern League. live here, ana
TED Price, who managed the kenawee
team in the Central Association this year;
lives at Enid. Nels Jones. who finished
with wichita, in the Western League
lives at Mlnco: Gene Packard an Ameri-
can Association pitcher, at Cherokee'
Jesse Chiffon OF the Guthrie team al AVA
and Otto white of the Enid team al
A number of players who are now star
ring in the big leagues, including Edgar