The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15
SIGNS rs PLAYERS
Gear Has Big List Of TryOuts
on Hand.
Good Dope Reaches Him About
New Men.
SOME HEAVY PITCHERS
Infielders Are TOuted as Fast
Ball Players.
Outfielder'sWork BringsDreams
of Big Leagues.
SOME HEAVY PITCHERS

Twenty five players have already
been signed by the Kaw management
according t. a letter received by the
sporting editor Of the State Journal.
The twenty fifth was Second Baseman
Krepps. whose signed contract has
Just reached the new manager.
Gear is not going to have a midget
team If the pitchers he has lately sign
ed up are to be taken as guide for
the rest of the team. Howell, the Cali
fornia recruit will probably be able to
I'LL out q uniform whether ne gets q
place on the team or not. The Hon.
Howell dumps the beam at the 24i
pound f. o. o. mark. Gear hasn't said
whether he will ship him as live stock
OF farming machinery. Anyhow, ne IS
to be placed on inspection here In the
spring.
Another prospective Kaw player on
whom there may be excess transporta-
ton charges is Rose, a pitcher obtain
ed from the Cleveland team. 1t is
planned to have a special berth made
for him when he leaves the Ohio town
and lease it during the Western League
season Roses bloom in the spring ana
perhaps judicious tending will prevent
his fading under the whitening rays OF
q Kansas summer sur. The Rose mas
already grown to height of feet and
3 inches. And spring is two months
away. The laws of gravitation do not
pull so hard on him as they DO on
Howell, however, and he weighs only
$50 pounds.
InfieIders Look Good.
Gear IS enthusiastic over reports of
the work two of his tryouts, Merrill.
shOrtstOp and Fisher, a third baseman.
1t might as well be said here as any
where that classy third baseman Will
be required to remove the Emory taste
left from last season. EnOry's work
was the one de1ectable morsel in
more or less disappointing stew cooked
up for the fans of last year. Always
easily managed and fairly sure fielder
he looked at the close of last season
like as good q bet as there was IN the
league for the third corner. If F1sher
has it on Emory let's see the rest OIL
the team
Cy Young and Eddie Noyes saw Sin
gleton. one Of the outfelder tryouts
at work and they are still telling OF
what happened. according to Gear
CALDWELL another guard of the outer
garden in prospect has been Wen spo-
ken of. Every time Gear thinks OF
this pair he can shut his eyes and see
another Zach Wheat climbing into the
big show
Two Gr1diron Stars Signed.
Caldwell, the manager says, was Sc
cured from Louisiana college by the
scout who uncovered Gandil of the
Murphy aggregation in the lake shore
b1rg. The same scout discovered Mr..
Harmon lately attached to Bresnahan' s
pitching staff. He has also recon-
mended wainwright u young pitcher. TO
Gear Both men were recently picked
on the all-star football team of the
south He expects both men to show
up well.
Exhibition games for the Kaws on
their southern training trip are now
being contracted Southwestern uni
versity at Georgetown, Texas, has late
" Signed for two games, one March %
end another April ..
The men viii probably be required II
report March 20