The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-06
It's moving day in the Western.

It's moving day in the Western.
Topeka left Lincoln for Denver with |
Catcher Frambes added to the roster. |
1t is Fugate'S turn at the slab and |
maybe he will fare better than he did |
last Sunday.
Moore has purchased Pitchers Cook
and Clark from the St. Paul club of
the American Association which brings
the staff up to a full quota provided
they can deliver the goods.
Owner Jimmie McGin is determined
to have the 1911 rag and has been
stampeding the big league bosses with
kilograms for more men. He had a
line on a catcher but that was about
all he could locate. The report is that
McGill will give old Buck Weaver an
other chance whenever the slim one
wants to don the clothes. Buck was
released in the spring owing to his
poor health. He was incapacitated by
asthma a great part of the last sea-
son.
Omaha World-Herald: It's a cold
day when we lose game, b'jinks
Which is kidding on the square.
A St. Louis dispatch; Catcher Joe
Crisp, taken last year from Newark
eastern League) by the st. Louis
Browns insists ne has retired from
baseball. President Hedges Of the
CWestern League) and Crisp so far has
refused to report to that club. In the
trade that brought Crisn here Newark
won RUDE Waddel and Bob Spade.
Crisp declares that in signing a contract
wit the Browns he was assured an op-
portunity to pick the minor league
club to which he would be returned in
event he failed to make good.
signment fgrom the White Sox. has
been having trouble with a charley
horse and has missed some of the play
but like all others out of condition eX-
poets to be good when the weather gets
warmer.
The Jap baseball team of Waseda I'M
iversity, Toxic, which played Chicago
university today made the jump from
Boulder, Col, where the Colorado ath-
ietes edged them off to g. stage had
the students at Chicago learn the Jap
song and sing it as welcome. Here
is a stanZa of the beautiful ballad;
Miyako no Sc, ihooku Waseda no mort
Soblyuru irakawa warenaga bokoo
Wareraga hignoronoo hofuwo sl1iruya
Shinsyn no seishlin gakuro dokuritsu
Gense wowasurenu kuwon no frisco
Waseda! WasedaI Waseda, Waseda!
Waseda! Waseda! Waseda!
The meaning of that stuff is the
same as any other college song and in
cludes favorable mention of the Alma
ideals, and athletic prowess.
Holland also has suffered from dis
abled catchers. Coe and Cooper have
both been on the hospital corps and
Gossett has had all the work to do
Just like our Tommy Hawkins.
Sporting Life: Manager Hen Barry
of the Los Angeles CPacifc Coast
League) club, has an idea which will
likely meet with enthusiastic approval
not only upon the Pacific coast, but
upon the Atlantic coast as well. He
proposes that a fund be set aside for
losing managers who go dippy trying
to satisfy the home fans by turning a
losing team into a winning aggregation.
Berry is a comedian in his way, and he
earns his bread and cheese by manag-
ing the Los Angeles team. His sugges-
ton, in a nutshell, is this: Il do not
propose that a madhouse should be
built, but only a sort of private sani-
tarium, arranged with an interior court
upon which shall be erected a baseball
diamond and bleachers. Every day for
two hours the insane managers shall
be allowed to pummel to their hearts
content umpires who have given adverse
decisions and fans who have rooted
against the home team
At the opening of the Western As
ISOLATION at Coffeyville yesterday the
teams had to compete with a street
carnival and a aviation meet. Tulsa
was the visiting team and about 1000
people saw the home club win.
Angry fans sometimes assault an UNI
pire because they are ignorant of base
ball ethics-and there is such a thing
but the Omaha players who attacked
Umpire Kneeland yesterday have no ex-
cuse. The assault is reported as the
only feature of the game, which Omaha
lost to the Champs ID to f.
quartette of Topeka high school
athletes are entered in the state inter
scholastic meet at Lawrence today. They