The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-28
FEEL some BETTER
Topeka Baseball Management
Resting Easier.
Suffered Near Fatal Stroke of
Sundayball Ataxia.
DOSE WAS So TO So.
Moore Regains Optimistic State
of Mind.
Still Angling for Big League
Ball Players.

Now that the Topeka baseball man
agement is convalescing from the terri
bic fright of that s. TO 80 vote on the
floor Of the house, their attention is re-
Verting again to the business OF get
ting somebody to play.
Not that the recovery from such a
malady is easy for baseball In all Kan
sas towns is not SO peacefully organic
ed as in Topeka and Wichita, or the
brush leagues, for that matter. The
Sunday recreation in some obscure To-
calities from which. humanely enough,
representatives are permitted to come
and make their baleful outcries is said
to have degenerated into an occasion
for community warfare.
In these localities, it is averred UNI
pires, armed to the teeth, rob teams OF
alleged ball games and turn the booty
over to the village which has paid him.
a fractional fight and the ultimate dis
credit of the national game as a past
time These conditions were sorrow
fully deplored by the pious members of
the house.
On the other hand, arose exponents
of the great game and hailed it as the
only salvation of the peace and quiet
of the hamlets and the preservation OF
the morality Of the village youth. Take
the ball game from Them said one Of
the members. land where will you find
your boys? You will find them of a
Sunday in the back stall at the livery
barn shooting craps. Or you will find
them around three or four kegs of beer
on a creek bank" The prevailing i'm
preston seemed to be that the Amer1-
can youth is evil in his tendencies and
the final vote may be taken as a
choice between these evils.
It is expected the same bill will be
back at the next session of the legis-
lAature. But it is hoped that by that
time the evils of baseball will be so
lessened that the bill will be ditched in
the committee room. The Speeding of
organized baseball will have that tend
ency. The three class 'D' leagues Of
the state have already done much to
replace the disorderly brand of Sunday
ball. Town fights have been gradually
worked down to an occasional running
| fight with the umpire. The umpire US
ually is citizen Of nowhere and could
reasonably claim no supervision by the
| legislature. Eventually the state will
| be civilized.
Roy Beecher Signs Up.
In trying to forget the terror of the
past week, the Topeka management
has discovered in cropping for new
start that Roy Beecher, the crack
twirler of Rochester in the Eastern,
has sent in his sigaed contract with his
best regards
This man, says Manager Moore, is
likely to be the dependable one of the
staff. But Moore has a. bunch of ma
days. Whenever anyone asks him how
things look, meaning merely to pass
the time of day, Moore makes him sit
down while he gets out pencil and pa
per. He has such a string who have
come to terms and another which he is
angling for that he has to stop and
write down just the size of his chances.
NOW" he will say, there's Fugate.
don't know him personally. but they
say here he is a dandy left handler.
Then there is Ovitz. 1 am banking
| half my pile on him. McGrath is a top
liner and if he isn't he is a conner.
Beecher will burn it up No, Kid, just
stick around and remember what
| told you. He had a broken finger last
season and didn't get to work much.
Then there's-well, I can't tell you his
name, but am going to get him from
I can't tell you where from
either Not yet. But he is the best
man who ever thought of coming out
here Leak. I didn't get him myself,
but Johnnie King says he is good
enough for the Western any day.
And" so he rambles and if one waits
he will get ready list and an I'M
named one for the inf1eld and the out
field and the back-stopping and finally
will have to admit that it looks good
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