The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27


of Gear here until the Sunday before
the season opens when he will pit his
squad Of tryouts against each other
for game in order that the fans
may see the new men in action. Al
deTman may return to his Nebraska
home before the squad starts south.
and pilot the players who will leave
here and go by way of Oklahoma
City. This feature hasn't been decid-
ed yet. But the boiling out begins
the last of the week and unless some
thing now unforeseen brings him here
it is so long to Gear for a while.
In three weeks the Kaws will be en-
route for the training fields and we
shall begin to hear of what the play
ers who will represent the town are
doing And it will not have a bad
sound Real dope on what players
can do, month before the season
opens, is another innovation to which
the fans here will gleefully accustom
themselves.
After meeting the Tigers at Shreve-
port the Kaws will take the road for
a series of games. They will play at
Marshall Tex, on March 20; Lake
| View. March Fl: Texarkana. March
p; Paris. March % and "a; Austin
college at Sherman, Tex. on March
/ IS; at Dallas, March %; Fort Worth,
March ~ On March % the KaWs
I Will pay the chicago w 1l1lG DOA a.
Cleburne and will remain at Cleburne
for about ten days, with occasional
snort trips From Cleburne the team
Will "barnstorm" nOrthward, playing
at Oklahoma City on the way and ar
irving in Topeka about April 1S or Il
and will play a game with the Chica-
go White Sox on Sunday April Is
During the days before the opening OF
the season, on April 10, the Kaws viii
go to st. Marys for a game with
4 Quigley's team.
Johnny BeaI and Barney Shredder
/ have announced their intention OF MI
grating to Denver at the earliest pos
| sibIe moment The first of March hnds
few holdouts and the first of April
discloses a still smaller number
Up to date there hasn't been a sec
ond division ball team for the coming
season reported this year.
Isbelrs holdouts are beginning to be
uneasy in their firmness not to report
for less than major league salaries.
Ulato wsky is among others VINO mas
written to the management intimatlng
that he was willing to be reasonable
about it, and com promise on falr
salary In a couple of weeks more
mail carriers and dray drivers viii de-
eide that pastiTning is not such pad
occupation
The Lincoln Evening News an
nounces that Billy Sunday batted w.
600 at Canton. Ohio.
walter Mattiek is the father Of a
nine pound boy, according 70 DIS
patches which have reached Chicago
Mattick expects to stick with the
STOCKINGS aggregation this summer.
Great things are expected of Ralph
Woldring, the Michigan finger VINO
refused to sign last year. ne mas
\
announces he will be in on time.
Fairweather threatens TO reduce his
weight By shadow boxing before the
beginning of the season. 1t should not
require physical exercise to reduce the
weight of any one who faces a mud
die like the ownership Of the Des
Moines team is this spring.
Sport writers out of Topeka, Kan.
are throwing fits of joy because their
baseball yard is to be fitted up hke
a regular playing field before the open
inp Of the 1912 season. Dale Gear,
the new Topeka club manager has de-
ctded to drag his club out or the kero-
sene circuit class and into real base
ball company by sodding the 4nf1eId.
ana his announcement of this most
wonderful change in conditions ap-
parently has put new life INTO the
kansas scribes. It was on tne rope
IA skinned diamond that Paul How
ard of the 1910 St. Paul club, broke
his leg. so Paul surely viii be pleased
to hear Of the Improvement plans
st. Paul Pioneer Press
- Toseph News-Press: President
OsNeiI saws that the Western league IS
no stronger than its weakest TnernDer
and because there are several weak
cogs in the organization, he proposes
EIan to better the financial stand
ing of the league as whole lip
never loses sight of the fact that there
are eight cities in the circuit ana Wheh
naSsiney on league affairs ne looks
He says that at present conditions are
NOT what they should be and as a
remedy he has suggested that the
home clubs pay more to cups on tne
road than they do now Inaer lne
nresent system the teams aside from
Denver nav visiting clubs IL II cents
Of every paid admission. Thls IS oo
ner cent of the general ADMISSION
IN Denver the general admission IS ~
cents and the visiting CLUBS receive -
cents O'Nel proposes to raise the
amount Is cents, which would maze
Denver pay IT X cents and the otnet
o1S,bs < cents Jimmy McG1u IS not
- favor Of the plan. 1t was discussed
At the schedule meeting, but Mctilh
killed it when il came 70 vote, De
cause the constitution OF the 1eas1
n-ovfaes that a unanimous vote must
X Lad on such matters However
4,,.-e Il a provision that the magnafes
nav set aside 10 per cent OF the gen
eraI admission to all OF the pail parks
- SO lea r11e needs financial a1d. ana
80 ,-o17Id amount to four times as
10Y, money Naturally McGIH Wouio
not favor such a move ana TIE olisi
ns1ra+aS would scarcely lndorae Il
-1oer +ba league faced ruin AL OF
- owners outside of McGfl Ia
- 49, Man to increase the amount
~ belfaved that Blonde Jimmy will