The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-24

as good as Wichita or Topeka 1t is
hard enough to make Western league
| baseball pay in Topeka or Wichita
| without going to a town like Joplin,
and any Western league manager will
tell you the same thing. Joplin and
Topeka were rivals for many years
and we wish Joplin was bigger. bet
Ter ball town and in the league. But
the TIME is not yet.
The latest story is to the effect that
Dick kaufman has been made a
present of a farm by his father and
that he will not play ball this year.
This is the season when they all re-
tire. About all the local players have
had desire to quit the game but
Jack Henry. 81 think I'll play one
more year" says Jack, 6.and then, per-
haps, I'll make my first farewell tour"
els Wagner there" asked some one
over the telephone at baseball head
quarters
Wagner l1ere?" inquired Cooley as
he looked over the crowd.
mo" said Jack Henry. Wagner
never reports until the end of the
training season"
Abbott is laid up with a bad case of
grip. the fashionable disease for gents
just now.
Omaha Bee: I'VE have sorter got in
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season promise OF the team it will have
the coming season. but things are shap-
ing themselves now SO as to give these
promises form and force. If there is
anything in signs and signals, Denver
is ~oing to have a ball team for 1910
that will make the other seven teams
in the Western League go some. This
man McGill, who joins Gunthorpe in the
ownership of Denver is looked on as a
man of action; Gunthorpe, while not
re+1 I,1C Io1f fey q
sound business man. and the two, with
Jack Hendricks as manager of their
teams, are very likely to give Denver
one of the best seasons it has ever en-
joyed.
Hendricks is a man with a particu-
larly good record as a manager. While
it is too early for any team to be GER
tain of it's lineup, there is enough
ground already on which to base the
assertion that Denver is going to have
strong club. Nc city in the league
will do more for a strong club than will
Denver. Unfortunately, the town does
not warm up to a loser. It would not
be surprisi ing to see some radical
changes in the standings of this league
at the end of next season.
IF Sioux City falls. as did Des
Moines after its heyday OF unbridled
success, fans, generally, won't be sur
prised. Omaha is bound to be stronger
than it was in 1909. Last season was
one OIL I1dpl0SS e4DCIlIIl0uL LOT OII1dIld.
Pa Rourke was up against the necessity
of practically reorganizinG his team,
and While he came out with remarka-
bic results, under the circumstances, he
found it a rocky road to travel
He was forced to swap lead horses
in the middle of the stream and never
quite regained his footing. His pitch
ing staff was unstable and disorganized
all season and there was this and that
hard luck streak to check any plan
made for the Improvement of the team
But with almost the same in and out
fields and new material in the box,
Gonding and Cadman behind the bat,
Pa Rourke ought to have a team capa-
BILE of running neck and neck with the
BEST
Des Moines Dispatch: Watch Den
veri The call is being made again this
year, due to the great activity of own
er McGill in spending money for play
ers. The new Bear owner has either
a great band of players or he has been
David, IIarumedS numerically by his
fellow rnagnates of the big leagues. He
has at the present time the largest as
sortment of players for which he paid
real money OF any team in the league.
Omaha is another team which will bear
watching. If Rourke gets his promise
of three additional players from the big
league castoffs he will have team
which will be heard to beat. He has
the promise of another pitcher from
the majors, which. if fulfilled, will give
him the best pitching staff in the
league"
Some one has called attention to the
fact that the big league second base
men are, as a rule, good batterS. This
fact can be backed UP with some good
arguments. Here is list of the sec
ond basernen who have proved that
they can WELD the willow: Lajoie, Ev-
ers, Collins, Miller. Doyle, Schaefer,
Delehanty. and Egan. Each and every
enc Of these men is noted as q demon
hitter. 1t is probable that no other po-
siIion On the diamond can show Z
greater number of good. slashing hit
tiers than second base: certainly no
other position on the infleld.
But there are somo first base
men that are fine hitters, too, such
as Chance, Hoblitzel, Konetchy Ten
ney, Stafl, and Chase. and one or two
others can soak the ball hard.
Hendricks, the manager of the Den
YER club. announces that he is attempt
ing to trade rick Adams for Jimmy
Freeman. the Sioux City pitcher. He
must, that is Hendricks must, think
that Babe Towne is just as innocent
and easy as his name implies.
1t is stated that President Lynch of
the National League had to use physi-
cal violence upon OWnef CpoetS VI Lie
Brooklyn club to get him to agree to
the 154 game schedule. Lynch grabbed
Ebbets by the nape of the neck and
shook him until he agreed that the
shorter schedule was the better. ac-
cording to the stories emanating from
New York.
Joe CantilIon has offered to trade
''Kiddo'' Wilson, the pitcher, to Char
ley Carr for two sets of uniforms for
the Minneapolis team Carr is in the
business of manufacturing uniforms
and could supply them if he desired to
add Wilson to his Indianapolis team.
Lew Drill the former Pueblo mana
ger, is running for the position Of po-
lice magistrate in st. Paul.