The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-22
NEW BALL CHOSEN
The Goldsmith Is the Official
Western League ''Pill.a
Norris L. O'NeiII Makes An
nOnncement in Topeka.
ON RED SOX. SPECIAL
Moore Has Enlisted Pitcher
Harry Sybert.
A Right Handed Slabman From
Nashville.
ON RED SOX SPECIAL

The Goldsmith ball. made in Gin
c1nnati, is the official Western league
baseball for the year of 1911.
This announcement was made by
President N. L. O'NeiII of the Western
league yesterday afternoon when the
Red Sox special sWheezed in at the
Rock Island depot
While there has been some talk of
adopting this ball, there was nothing
definitely decided at the league meet
ing, the decision apparently belonging
to Mr.. N'Neill along. This announce
ment was given by the president as
the first intimation of what he intend
ed to do and was at the same time his
final choice.
There was considerable complaint
of the ball which was adopted last
season. Several pitchers around the
circuit complained that they never
could tell whether the manager would
throw out pea or a potato and 9TH
erS said they would sometimes get a
mushroom and SometimeSc putting
shot. These same pitchers were hav-
ing trouble getting them over at the
time and the holfer did not attract a
lot of attention.
Aside from adopting the Goldsmith
ball, there is a sentiment expressed
toward handing the Goldsmith people
a good deal of the uniform trade of
the league.
The recent announcement that the
Spalding people had granted the Ma
tional league a half million dollars as
again as the official ball, leads to sew
eral minor conjectures concerning the
value of the Western league sanction
to the Cincinnati concern. But that is
not open to discussion.
O'NeilI at Home.
President ONeill, so far as outward
appearances were concerned. was CIV
ing perfect satisfaction as manager of
the Boston Americans Red Sox spec
ial and trip plans for the longest
/ training tour ever taken by baseball
club.
There were rs persons aboard the
special which drew in in the wake of
the Golden State Limited and pulled
out again as second edition. These
included Manager Patrick Donovan
and Treasurer, Hugh A. McBreen and
their wives, thirty Red Sox. bunch
of material for the coast leagues who
were given the accommodate as a
favor, seven war correspondents" a
news photographer, and Cartoonist
Goldsmith of the Boston World.
The train was a replica of the
Golden State which led it on into the
west. Most of the passengers were
in the diner when the train reached
Topeka an hour and a half late. The
library buffet car was not the scene of
any extraordinary activities and Clerin
Au1AAWdlL COufQ HUI D0 -IOunQ Ln0T61n.
The war correspondents were notified,
however, to be on the lookout with
their photographer and cartoonist for
any awkward specimen of coast
league recruit, who. might report any
where inside the Kansas border.
1t is needless to say the members of
the Red Sox squad were tired and list
less with travelling. And it is need
less to say they will find their quar-
ters at the Redondo Beach hotel
cramped and dilapidated. Ball play
ers are the aptest men in the world at
fitting themselves into circumstances
and then feeling better than that.
Give ball player a throne and he
would knock on the upholstering and
the throne room tapestries. just as If
he had designed heaven.
But the Boston management prob
ably will find when the season is on
that the players are sticking to the
pennant race with a fine appreciation
they would never put into words.
The train will arrive in Los Angeles
Thursday afternoon. Friday the men
will take a light work out under Dom
ovan's eye at Redondo. The men will