The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-19

Lyons club broke up. The local man
agement was after him but Cooley
beat them to the youngster and sold
him.
Pitcher Rose, fresh from the Blue
Ridge mountains, and nearly as nigh
as some of them. is in camp. He is
six and quarter feet tall.
| Leo Spain, the Denver backstop, has
already recovered from the attack Of
blood poisoning resulting from step
ping on a nail last winter. This makes
the catching staff for the Bears more
like a full sized department. Denver
scribes are boosting Coffey for the
majors this fall and trying to find the
reason CULLEN doesn't get into faster
company. The Mountain town dope
sters will not admit that the Bears are
| less rapid than last year.
! Gus SoffeI, an infielder, secured from
the Hartford club in the Connecticut
State League has decided to quit base
ball and Holland will hang mourning
ribbon on the office door. He was de-
pended upon to take the place of Bar
ney Reilly The Drummer boss has
wired Comiskey to save Rath or Berg
hammer for him Coppess, third
sacker who played in the Mink League
last year has also decided to quit the
pastime. So has Ma1chan. big twirler-
All three declare they have jobs that
will not permit their playing.
The ST. Joseph Gazette wonders why
Buck" Weaver wasn't sent to the
penitentiary before he became an UNI
pire IN the western League
IsbelTs Des Moines players will re-
port March %, according to the IN
structions which the transportation
carried.
DOC" Andrews has begun training
for his job captain of the Hol-
landers. The old physician has quite
a job before him. Holes caused by the
absence of Borton, Jones ana Kelly
have to be filled.
Thomson hasn't reported from Lib
erty to Joplin, Mo-, yet. His mother-lr-
law is i'll and Tommy is keeping watch
at her bedside.
Rourke's brother Dave has seven
feet of snow to haul away from the
Omaha park. Holland is still scraplng
the white stuff off his field at Joetown'
the big league teams are Walu ,'sa,a5, |
about in sea of ice mud ana water
and the Kaws are enjoying midsum- |
mer weather at Shreveport.
They had a lot of fun out of Bill |
DIVER before he left Des Moines. Will
hailed into court. There he was
charged with stealing 1O8 bases ana
catching million flies. He was trleo'
found guilty and sentenced to buy the
treats. After this formality was end
ed he was given a pretty gold watch
by his friends.
The North Topeka ball team wants
games. John Lorden, 1905 North jack
son street, is captain. The members
of the team are Lew Flyer, first base;
bird base: Fred Morgan, pitcher; Hill
ton Hirschberg. catcher; Jock Green
ne left field; w. NJ. Hirschberg, pitch-
are lanes Gurtler, shortstop; 5. H1ggs'
nfielder; C. Higgs, right nelo; D.
Levitt, center field
The sioux plan another pennant WIN
ming team this year, Andreas has sign
al a bunch of swatters whose record
FOR the wear bids fair to equal That OF
he sioux team of three years ago, IL
past performance is a gulde LOT oope
The nitching staff is said to be the
,.ao1,est section of the team and the
,,ona cement believes it has strength
nod This department of the game Inc
sioux bunch has always been popular
arc only one club in the league out
49,, them in Topeka last summer.
49, bunch was the bear cats OF
1a,dric1xs Not a player on the team |
ie declared by the manager, IS on
- return trip. There are several |
-oI,resters on the team, among them /
3ill Horrill a former Kansas Doy, W.
-,,ov-n both in Topeka and Sal1na
,ioux scribes say the team snouiu US :
yell balanced this year.