The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-26
BASEBALL GUSSIP,
Bobby Kahl Ready to Come Into
the Fold.
Wants to Have Another Season
With COOleysox.
NOWORDFROM KUNKLE
Accordingly Old Second Baseman
May Come Back.
Items of Interest From World
Of Random.
NOWORDFROM KUNKLE

Bobby Kah1, second sacker on last
years Western league team, has writ
ten to Cooley that he is in good shape,
has taken good care of himself, and
hopes that he may play this season out
with the Cooleysox. He hopes to be
here when the training season be-
gins and said he was already
in good trim for the begin
ming of hostilities. kahl and Cooley
had trouble the last day of the season
last year and Richard chased Mr..
Kahl. 1t was announced at that time
that Kahl would not play here this
year; Since that time Cooley has had
trouble getting his infield filed out
and SINE time ago it was announced
that unless good second sacker was
secured Kahl would be retained. The
present indications are that Kahl will
be member of the local club this
year, unless Johnny Kunkle. now hold
ing out, comes through as is expected,
and Stoffer should show more class
than Bobby" Anyway, Kahl will
probably be member of the local
| team
Comiskey's Sox will pass through
Kansas tonight entering the state from
the north and stopping for short
will stop at Lincoln so that the
Despair fans will have an opportunity
to see a real ball team. Several for
| mer Western eague players are to be
members of the party and "Prexy'
O'Neil of our league will be a mem
Der of the party. He made the ad-
vance arrangement for "Commy.'
'Rube" Waddell has gone to Hot
| Springs to commence training for an
other season. If "Rube'' stays on the
water wagon he is to receive a Dig
bonus this year.
| Jim Mcclure, the manager of the
| Cleveland team, is the oldest man in
| baseball in the big leagues at the pres
| ent time. The veteran catcher isn't
much over so years of age, at that.
| Des Moines Register and Leader: If
| Des Moines wins the Western league
pennant this coming year it will be
| done only by securing a lead at the
| first. Judging from the looks of the
| schedule. After Sept Des Moines has
but IL games at home, the closing
| games of the season being played away
from DeS Moines in the camp Of the
City.
Des Moines, then, opens the season
away from home and also closes it far
from the encouraging shouts of the To-
cal fans. The opening game, as has
been printed before, is played on April
% in st. Joseph. The last game of the
| season will take place in Sioux City on
Oct. 3. There are 1853 games in the
| schedule this year, IA more than were
| played last year.
During his diamond career Norman
| Elberfeld played under Manager George
| Stallings in three different cities
| Philadelphia, Detroit and New York.
Every player on the Pittsburg team
| will receive overtime pay for work
done after October Is next. President
| Dreyfuss, of the Pirates, insists that
| the six months contracts signed by his
men terminate on that date, and If the
new schedule arrangement recently APP
proved is faithfully observed there will
be a neat bonus coming to each man.
Del Howard, who played with Omaha
on this circuit in 1904 and who has since
been with the Chicago Cubs, has been
released by the latter to Louisville.
| The Seaman family now is nearly the
equal of the Delehanty tribe in turning
out ball players. At the present time
there are four Seaman brothers playing
baseball.
st. Joseph Gazette: No city in the
| Western league Will have a better score
card the coming season than Manager
Jack Holland, of the Drummers. is
planning on putting out In fact, many
cities in the major leagues are without
| such a pamphlet as will be used a
League park In the first place it viii
be a baseball dope book. 1t will con
tain many stories by men noted in the
| baseball world. Tim Hurst, Fan John
son and others equally we'll known vii
be among the contributors. y pictur'
| of the players who will make up thu
Drummers and a schedule of the year
games will be included in the book.
Ted Sullivan. one of the deans o
, the national game. who discovered anC
developed Charley Comiskey, and il
known from Maine to the Pacific as
manager, scout and keen baseball wri
o ter. has penned a highly entertainin:
| article on the Great Teams in Base
ball" He mentions the old Cincinnati
Reds as the first truly great ball club
| and then passes down the line to TIL
Bostons of the EOS. the Chicagos unde
. | Arson in the early SOS, the st. Loui
1 / Browns, the Baltimore Orioles whel
| | Jennings was in his prime and, last o
| all, the Chicago Cubs of '07 and '0s
| Mr.. Sullivan however. awards the pain
| | for greatness and sheer brilliance to tn
| | Orioles of "a and '95. crediting then
with blazing the way in the evolution
| of modern baseball, where brains
| strategy and playing ability were s
| cleverly commingled as to make til
| Baltimore club the greatest in history
/ Nr. Sullivan then passes to neN
| topic-Charles w. Murphy, presiden
| of the Chicago Nationals. saying
J ITO close the chapter on the presi
| dent of the Chicago Cubs-which
/ written at no solicitation from hin
! but my own volition-let me say thi
, to my friends who read my articles i
= The Sporting News-it matters not
a predetermined man of the world an
= especially to a true American, of wha
a extraction or from what lineage ma
may come. In the assimilation of race
in our country the personality of
| man should rank higher with us tina
his nationality. During my man