The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-13
''Spec" Hurlburt Is Going to
Umpire in Union Association.
Cooley and George E. Should
Have Great Times.
WICHITA WANTS IN
Seeks to Recover Lost Berth i'm
Western League.
Jimmy Barrett May Manage
Des MOines in 1912.


noise Ike baseball town and the good
example OF Topeka in gamely encourag-
ing losing team in order to stay in
the Ieagte and give the management
q chance to pick up winner is being
dangIed before the fans of the peerless
princess There is some talk of buy
ing Western League team that is
supposed to be for sale but as yet
there is no display Of currency 1t is
declared that portion of the money
mas been offered providing the proper
man can be induced to head the new
undertaking Who would be the proper
man since Frank Isbel failed to make
baseball go2
Some Topekan has offered to buy the
SalIna franchise in case that town
gets into d Kansas League which is to
be organized out of the old central
Kansas circuit and the defuuct State
League Salina is a good ball town
and the people there fall for any half
way good aggregation They have been
pretty well gold bricked in the past,
however, and q manager may be re-
qu1red to show something beside good
intentions in the future. But Salina
is good ball town and will support
a fighting team to the extent of sew
eral thousand simoleons.
Jimmy Barrett. formerly with the
Milwaukee A A team is slated TO
manage Comiskey's Des Moines cast
Tip O'NeiI, nominal head of the one
time Higginses. Barrett. however,
would want real money for his sea-
sons work
Spec" HurIburt, former Topeka ball
player, Wabaunsee county farmer, and
Texas League umpire. has secured q.
job uInplrlng in the Union Association
This is the league in which Dick Coo
ley's Salt Lake team plays Can't you
see Richard walking out towards the
plate where spec" has just called a
low one on the batter and hear some
of TIE complimentary remarks he will
make concerning Hurlburt's ancestry
and eyesight?
Denver News: Hey, Fans! Thomas
o Brien and his famous quartet of
American League baseball singers are
coming to Denver in the latter part of
February or the first of March The
gladstone tidings were conveyed by
Buck in q letter which reached this
city last night. According to the in
formation contained therein the quar-
tet is booked on week stands through
New England right up to February
on the Keith circuit. Already they have
been offered renewal of their contract
comrades are anxious to see Denver be-
fore the spring training season begins,
and so they are coming out here.
optimistic concerning his pitching staff
for the season of 1912 and believes that
it will be winner With Chellette.
Crutcher. Freeman. Johnson, Wheat
ley, Gif6n and Malchan and a good
southpaw, the Drummer boss thinks he
will be able to land another first d.
vision berth for ST. Joseph. Last year
the Drummers went practically all sea-
son without a lefthander. Burnham
proving a disappointment Boss Jack
realizes that q portside finger is a ne
cessity and he intends to purchase a
pitcher with the southside delivery He
is in the market now for such a player.
Omaha world-HeraId: There was a
time, and not so very long ago, that
Coach Folding Yeast of Michigan put
forth an eleven which could have torn
the coat, pants and veSt=Off'n any
similarly inclined gang on the spherical
surface of the planet earth. Harvard,
Yale, Princeton and the other huge
eastern schools just screamed for a
chance to play him-NOT. Talk about
it intact. Did Walter Camp give it to
emf Bet your ife-and lose it.
Now honest, Walter, couldn't you
come out here some time and find out
what you're trying to talk about We
would be delighted to see som ebody
who could crab Owen Frank in the
back field We'd like to allow our lamps
to roam over the vista of a huskier
Tackle IMAM zap CHOHkd. anu we q ike
to perceive the gent who can trot
around the end in more abrupt fash
ion than Chauner- We know were a
lot of buckwheats, but why not show
US?
Denver News: It seems now as If the
owners Of the circuit have at last de-
cided that they cannot bluff Jimmy Nc
Gill out of the championship by threats
OF salary limits. so they are proceeding
in the more sportsmanlike manner OF
getting good ball clubs together.
1t is worth noting in passing that the
present outlook forecasts a decidedly
sitter season in the Western League
next year than last. Dale Geers. the
new Topeka manager is bringing some
fast men with him from the Texas
League.
ROW THREATENS BASEBALL.