The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-23
st. Joe and Denver Have High
Hopes In Baseball.
Holland Says He Can Stand Pat
and Go in First Division.
CALL In TWENTY-FIVE
Late Recruits of the Past Season
Are Boosters Show.
McGill of the Grizzlies Has Some
New Ones and Money.

T. ST. Joseph, Mo-, Dec. 23.-Althougn
he has strings on 80 or more players,
Manager Jack Holland of the St.
Joseph Western league team willsnot1fy
% men to report here in the early
spring. There is also a possibility that
he may yet acquire some additional
performers before the gong starts Off
the 1911 race at League park. Holland
believes he now has his team In sucn
shape that he can assure st. Joseph
pennant-contending aggregation and is
more than confident that he can boast
of a first division position.
There are an even dozen on the pres
ent staff of twirlers. Collins, who comes
from the Chicago White Sox, is but a
degree removed from major league
CLASS and Comiskey and Holland be-
lieve another year or two of seasoning
will put him permanently in that COM
pany. "Little'' Dick Crutcher, who
came from Enid of the Western asso-
citation the latter part of last season,
is a prime favOrite with local fans and
regarded as a puzzle by big majority
of Western league sluggers. Chellette
is new one from Fort Worth, and is
believed to be a conner. Milton also
comes from the association and while
last season as some of the other twirl-
ers, it is believed that 1911 will treat
him better.
Good Pitching staff.
Johnson, Kaufman and Swift. of
course, will be back and ought to
prove dependable.
Hanifan. who burned up the Cotton
States last summer and came here IN
time to help ST. Joseph recover from
her cellar position, is expected to prove
even more dependable. Johnny Baker
is a ST. Joseph product who got off
good" last spring but was placed with
CIarinda in the MINK. league later
xxIo he v1ff a
heavy. Watson was also a 1910 recruit
from the Central Kansas, but went
back to Larned for another course IF
sprouts. Hill is another local boy who
performed in semiprofessional ball last
year and came through with high hon
ors. Wright is the latest acquisition
and If predictions come true he will
never be seen in slower than Western
league company again.
At the receiving end Walter Bo1es.
who came from Cooley's Topeka Soy
with Pitcher Kaufman last September,
may be regarded as the most trust
worthy, but if that department is not
weak when the season starts, Boles will
probably be regarded as an infield
utility performer. Coe came to ST.
a good impression back of the plate sss
well as at the Initial corner where he
was several times used in emergencies.
Meier is st. Joseph boy who showed
up well IN the 1910 tryoutS, but was n -
needed. Cooper is touted as ''phe-
nom." who win be depended on to de-
velop the young twirIers.
Barney Reilly and MCNEIL are the
only infieIders Of last years Drummers
who come back Reilly covered third
in an admirable manner but may be
either at the keystone sack or at short
this depending largely on whether
Meinke. from the Cincinnati Reds. re-
ports. Tierney, a former Columbia
university star, was one Of the last
Holland acquisitions and he may con-
tend with Mac" for that position or
be used at second. Clarke. who comes
from the Superior, Nebraska State
team, is also a third baseman of whom
glowing reports are spread.
Comiskey has promised either Mullen
or Borden from his quota of first base
men to Holland as a part of the Cor
han-Jones deal and the local boss is
not worrying about that corner