The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-16
GET GOOD TEAM
COmiskey to Take Good Care of
Des MoineS.
CLASSY Players to Be Sent to
Iowa Capital.
j. MULLEN SIGNS UP
Former Western League Umpire
Makes Good up There"
New Owners of Boston Must
Spend Some Money.

! Ulatowski, the noisiest man in the
/ Western last season. appearing as the
crack backstop OF the Des Moines Row
| ers, who recently declared he was. go
| ing to quit the national pastime, mas
| been induced by a larger salary to play
again He is another OF Comlskey 5
reserves which he has loaned TO MS
club at Des Moines for another sea-
son.
| Umpire Johnnie Mullen will be retain
ed BY the American League for next
/ season according to q recent announce
/ ment by PRESIDENT Ban Johnson
/ Whoever takes on the Boston Doves
will have to spend some real money
| according to the following statement Dy
I W. H. Locke, secretary of the Pittsburg
/ club: The parties who take over the
I Boston National League club viii nave
/ to expend about $725,000- Last summer
my cousin and were offered the cruz
| for Sl35. Co., but we declined Now the
price of $225.0 900 is demanded, and IN
addition there is $200. 900 mortgage on
/ the franchise. After this comes the
/ building of new stand, which would
/ cost at least $500. 900. Then after these
physical assets the new owner would
| have to go out and build up his clup-
Washburn Review: Tn their accounts
OF the meeting of the Missouri valley
4 conference last week, the Chicago han-
sas City and Topeka papers united IN
stating thar WaSHDuFn ndQ dDpAlSu LII
admission and had been turned down.
Pure Imagination. Wen tell the truth
about this Missouri valley business, ana
get il cleaned up. Back in 1909 the con
! ference invited Washburn to JOIN IN
the spring of 1910 Washourn sent It's
acceptance up to the Des MONIES meet
ing But at that time, as now, u4le
conference was too deeply engaged III
Settline certain important questions,
and decided to get them out OF the
ua,r before taking in any other schools;
AS soon as these matters are Settleo
Washbuin will doubtless become
member. nj. enc, l.
4 nerfect Jef at explaining things ana
4 regular Mutt at logic. Bur ne has
great hopes for posterlty-
e Iosenb eNws Press. Jim Reilly,
a brother of Barney Reilly OF this CITY,
who is attending the Yale uhlNersleS'
has won insignia in three dlIIerene
branches of sport this year. ReiAS -
a member of the class of II and only
one senior has equaled his recOrd-Dlck
Merritt - who was baseball captain
football quarterback and star at
hockey. Reilly won his VS. IN pase-
ball, basketball and football he IS
captain of the Yale basketball i've TINS |
season and he hopes TO build up the
game and give Yale the best team she
has had in years
Des Moines Register and Leader:
close of the Western league baseball
season and nothing has yet been done
nv the owners of the Des MOines fran
chise looking toward the re-establlsh-
nent of the game in this city. Presl-
dent O'Neill who has been maSquerad- |
ing as the owner. realizes. if Comisl2ey
does not that before even hlckerinS !
of interest can be aroused here some
action must be taken toward obtaining
new grounds and the construction OF !
f7a7d in T1faT-
condition every day between now and |
the opening of the season on which it
is nossible to work in the open would /
be required, there is seemingly no dis
position to even start such a PROPOSE
The Mashburn o1scial organ drums
on in is soulful way of criticising the
dai-- press and assures its readers there
is nothing to the State Journal story /
of the abandonment of varsity base
Ran At the local school because DIR. |
Cardiff, dean Of players eligibility, de-
MES he made such an announcement to /
this paper The Journal never claimed |
he did What he did do was to make
the announcement at Lawrence wnen
he attended the meeting Of the Mis-
souri, valley conference if a faithful
correspondent can be relied upOn-and.
what's the difference? Wait ~ d see
Western leaguers who Will try out
with the White Sox in the spring are
Record Herald
Dutch Berger is a candidate for
the shorpstop position and in the win
ter months divides his time between
hunting on the Illinois river and sell
ing "stogies' at Rock Island. Ill. He
is another who has had previous fruit
less iaunts into big league company.
He went to Hot Springs. Ark, with
Cincinnati last spring, but Esmond and
Altizer were too much for him and he
trailed back to Wichita under the Ii
rection of Isbell. whom he styles the
best bet in the game today It was the
Raid Eagle' who tipped him off to the
Old Roman.
In w r. Borton the Sox have 2
left handed first baseman- He is I'd
a gainst a stiff fight. however. for with
Zeider. Collins and Mullen ahead Of
him the outlook is not rosy. Bortor
was drafted nv Coniskey a wear a 90
from the Springfield club of the Three
Eve lea que hut was turned hack to the
St. Josenh club of the Western league,
where Tex Jones. another Sox recruit
held forth Rorton hit like whirlwind
durine the 1911 campaign. batting 245
has a special reputation as a pinch
hitter
Zoe Kelly. clothing merchant ct
Pttshurg Kan. countS on disDIacing
such fixtures as Frisco Ping Bodies
and Nattv MCINTYRE. He is a product
Of the Kansas and Western lea CUES
Nattick. another outer gardener learn
ed his came at OsIa ioosa- Ia. The Sox |
held him for a time in 1905 and since
then he has served at Des 3Ioines.
Baldwin 81: lola -.
Baldwin Kan. Dec. 16.-The Baldwin
high school basketball team defeated