The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-11
BITS O, BASEBALL TALK

Z EVENING", APRIL IL, 1911
BITS o, BASEBALL TALK.
Abbott Glad Salina May Break Into
Kansas State League.
The Kaw team as selected by Man
ager Moore will be taken to Wichita
the day before the opening game of
april u The team will travel over the
santa Fe- This road and the Rock Is
land are both working to round up a
carload or two of fans to make the
Trip FOR the opening game. A number
OF boosters say they will stay the three
games out and get q good line of the
team
Spencer A. Abbott is one Kansas
State managers who is glad Salina has
broken into the league, taking Newtons
place. The trouble with Newton seems
TO be that there is no hotel there ex-
cept the expensive Harvey system house
where ball players can find accommo-
cations equal to their fastidious tastes.
Apnott tried the town to his ample dis
satisfaction last season when he man.
aged Arkansas City. This year he has
Lyons.
The big leagues open the season to-
morrow and as usual the State
Journal will bulletin the results of
these games each evening on its base
ball score boards in the front window.
The Washburn game with the Kaws
scheduled for next Saturday, has been
called off. There's a reason.
Manager Moore of the Kaws. soon
will begin the final wedding out of his
ball club and the fans will see what
sort of a squad he intends to lineup at
the opening Of the season. There will
not be many to go, however. Five men
perhaps will be out of a free meal
ticket by the end of the week but the
Kaws are not large tribe with them
all in camp.
The deal for OutfeIder Dalton, now
with Brooklyn, has fallen through ow-
ing to the stipulation quoted. The price
asked was somewhere near 81 500 and
the local management could not see it.
This leaves the Kaws still scouting for
a sun fielder. Moore has a couple of
promising negotiations under way but
does not disclose the names of his pros
poets. Sioux City has some out1elders
to let go but likely these are not the
caIibre Moore wants
Jay Gould has won the National
Court tennis championship at Boston
for the sixth successive year. The Mis-
souri, Pacific doesn't worry this Gould
much when there is a tennis game on.
John Higgins has finally settled the
managership Of DeS Moines by the ap-
pointment Of Bill Dwyer, the clever
first sacker. Dwyer managed the pen
nant winning team of 1909 but gave
place to George Davis last season. The
reappointment of Dwyer is a boost to
the game as the conditions now are at
the Iowa capital.
Jack Johnson midway in his term
behind San Francisco bars, promises
he'll fight as soon as he gets out His
the dashing LIZ Arthur is a down
cast smoke. He will fight Jack O'Brien
in Philadelphia before going to Paris
and he says he may fight Hugh Nc
Intosh but the latter will have to supply
1000.
Denver players are basking in the
Texas sunshine from day to day and
show a vein of appreciation of the
training trip. On the 5th at Cleburne,
the crowd was mostly negroes WHO
handed the northerners bunch of
bleecher comedy, quite new to them
Casey sHagerman won the game, to
President Tom Lynch, of the National
League, which opens it's schedule to-
morrow, is generous in his prediction
of the pennant winner. He makes the
safe guess that six clubs are apt to
win it and the two which are less like
1y are the same old Boston and st.
Louis teams.
1, allowing four hits. On the follow
ing day the Austin club bumped
Ehman for four hits and two runs in
the ninth, winning the game to 3.
An incident of the trip is the release
of Bill Yohe, a recruit infielder who
will give place to Tommy Nee, the
former Brown. Yohe tried out with
the Kansas City team of the Amerf-
can Association last year.
The Des Moines News has it in for
Frank IsbelPs bunch. After COM
menting that two weeks of the season
should be about all that Danny Claire
should last at third, it says that
Charles Hughes had nerve to bubble
with IsbeH about the salary question
when he ought to be glad they let
him play in this circuit. Yet we think
that Des Moines could probably use
both Hughes and Claire to great adj
vantage.
Harry Steinfeldt announces that
rather than go to st. Paul, he will quit
baseball for good. Steiny was thought
to be on his last legs, and not to be
a valuable player at that when ne
came to the Cubs some years back.
He blossomed out with his new club
and was one of the greatest third
basemen in the game, probably the
best in the National league till last
year. Either Zimmerman or Doyle
will suppIant the veteran
Omaha News: A deep, dark mystery
that has absorbed the minds of the
Rourkes since the squad first reported
has been dispelled at last.
When the team sat down to their |
first breakfast at the hotel, Ollie Pick |
ering ordered a bowl of oatmeal and |
nothing more
Whats the matter, Pick?" asked the
Goat
mo more high life for mine,' an
swered the only man in the Western |
league who ever made 200 hits in sea- |