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

reached the big fellow and it is likely
that he will sign up with Izzy's job
bers. Nothing but good reports have
come from Stoffer and Cooley will be
surprised at other than a splendid show
ing by the youngster.
Frazier, pitcher. blew in yester-
day and signed his name to a Cooley
contract. Frazier is a unknown guam
tity, having played only serni-profes-
sional ball in Illinois. He carries some
nice literature concerning his prowess
and Cooley, unable to forget the. case
of Hagerman, signed him on the spot.
Frazier is husky as the usual candi-
date for the mound who pleases Cooley
and will be given a tryout this spring.
President Lynch, of the National
league, has SO far failed to ask Umpire
Mullen to sign a contract.
E. r. Wolfe, bacIzstop for Des Moines
in 1908, has been signed by Jack Hol-
land for the Drummers-
]. P. Fitzgerald, a pitcher who jump
ed the Pueblo team two years ago and
went to Fresno. Cal. in the outlaw
league. has been reinstated and signed
a contract with Jack Holland.
Pitcher Brennan, who was bought
from the Wichita club by Cincinnati
adelphia team in the National league.
Brennan is left handler, who was
foiled in an attempt to elope with an
heiress of Colorado while In Denver
last summer. He is a promising chap.
This is the season of the year when
every man at the head of baseball
team causes the fans to believe he will
produce a pennant winning bunch. and
just one-eighth deliver the goods BASE
ball managers are qualified for menu
hership in the Ananias club just the
same as men of any other vocation.
The cornerstone of the new baseball
park of the White Sox will be laid ON
st. Patrick's day. The new south side
park will be one of the best in the
country.
The u1npires of the National league
want more pay for their services. It is
said they will press the demand should
the schedule OF 1853 games be adopted.
Umpires KLEIN, Hand O'Day. Rigler aud
tombstone are the men who are pushing
the scheme.
Mattick and Dalton, of last seasons
Des Moines team. will get a tryout with
the White Sox this spring and will be
taken on the training trip to California.
The dope writers of the windy city pre-
dict that these men will be the last to
suffer the axe when the wedding out
process begins and that they may get
to hang on for the entire season.
Willis Cole, who was bought from
the Wichita team by Comiskey during
the middle of last season, will be one Of
the regulars this season.
George Mcbride. of the Washington
team last year, has not missed a regu-
lar game in two years.
A Lincoln dispatch says: The West
ern league needs at least three COM
petent handlers of the indicator-pro-
viding Mullin is retained by the Ma
tional league. The belief is strong in
the minds of the local fans that Presi-
dent O'Neil delegates the selection of
umpires to Jack Haskell, who has been
known for the past two or three years
as chief of the Western league UNI
pire staff.
Haskell has been a popular umpire
in the Western league and still retains
a large per cent of the fans friend
ship, although it is feared that Jack
is not as strong with the indicator as
he used to be. Haskell can select the
umpires satisfactorily if he wants to,
so it is simply a question of using the
necessary energy and will power on his
part to meet the approval Of the pa
irons of the game.
If the protest of the local manage
ment is an indication. the reappoint-
ment of Clark is bound to stir up a
tempest. The matter is slated for an
airing at the coming schedule meeting
of the league, at which time an effort
will be made to force the selection of
competent men for umpires. The pro-
test against Clark is not made in any
sense on personal grounds. nor as
result of any feeling that Clark had it
in for the Links or attempted to hand
them any raw deals. He no doubt
meant we'll enough, but he appeared
simply to be deficient in those neces-
sary qualifications that go to make up
a successful umpire. When an UNI
pres work is so raw that he has to
be locked UP in the club house one
night to protect him from a rush of
enraged fans and the next escorted
from the grounds in a patrol wagon
under police protection-all this in
Lincoln, where the rough element and
mob spirit is decidedly absent--why
something must be wrong with that
work.
Mullin would be welcomed back to
the league next season, while Glen
alvin would be fairly satisfactory, al
though his work did not rank as high
in popular opinion as that of Mickey
Mullin-the man who made a good
umpire without having risen from the
ranks of ball players. Glenalvin has
already signed in the south, so his
place must be filed. 1t is conceded
that the task of securing satisfactory
umpires is gigantic, but Nebraska has
a string of amateurs who could beat
some professionals we have seen in
the Western league several miles.
No new acquisitions were made to
the ranks of the Links last week.
Western league managers seem to be
holding back for the major league
discard. The new rules cutting down
the number of players to be carried
by the big leagues encourages all
minor league clubs to hope for better
material than for some time past
President Despair is still angling for
a classy second baseman to complete
his infield.
Playing first base for pennant