The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
Gear VIII Be in Topeka Wednes.
day or Thursday.
NO KAW HOLDOUTS
Faust, Giants Kansas Mascot,
Is Out of Job.
Danberry Certain Locals viii
Land Cup High"

that league for two years. his batting
average looks especially good. More
pitchers go to the big league from this
league Than any other and this ac-
counts for the shortage in 300 hitters.
Lee is well liked. He played on the
Macon, Ga, team which finished a good
| second last year. His fielding average
was 1871 in 1910 and was still better last
year. Lee l. lauded as one of the best
there is in the south and Gear thinks
he is lucky to land the youngster. He
believes he can send him higher in
couple of years beside the playing Lee
will do and money he will draw to the
gate here. Gear isn't worrying any
just now about new players The price
is not given out Lee will report along
with the rest of the men and get into
shape quickly as possible. He is
anxious to come here and play under
Gear.
Gear will be ir Topeka, some day next
week, probably Wednesday or Thurs
DAY He will be at the Commercial
club part of this time and the baseball
directors plan to have many of the
fans as possible meet him then He
will have several announcements to
make concerning the lineup and his
plans for the summer and his talk VIII
be of interest to every man who likes
the national game.
The fact that the names so far men
toned in the list of players signed up
by Topeka are not those of last years
PLAYERS has caused some comment
around the circuit. But Topeka ex-
poets to have q different kind of a club
this year.
One of the things which shows Dale
Gear to be a manager, as we'll as ball
player is the fact that up to this time
be has no holdouts. Last year the club
bought a lot of near ball players and
paid fancy prices for them. Then these !
men had to be coaxed into reporting
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not have drawn anywhere else This |
year before a man was purchased ne |
was questioned by Gear as to whether |
or not he would sign for a certain sal |
arv IF a satisfactory agreement was
made the contract was sent and the |
purchase completed.
G. V. Faust, the Kansan who adopt !
ed himself to the Giants as a mascot
last summer delivered the goods IN |
splendid shape during the regular sea- |
son but the players forgot some or the |
signs during the championship series
and the mascot is out of a job He is |
zvintering in New York and threa tens |
to join the team on its training trip at |
Marlin. But he has been warned that |
he will be lynched if he DIES, and al
because the Giants couldn't hit the |
ball.
The mascot thing recalls the converse
ton of Danberry, ground tender, when ne
applied for the job which Will Keep MN
busy during the present season: u
course he said to ex-President wood
ward of the baseball association, you
gotta purity good showta win pennant
with Gear but you gotta hole lot better
once to win a pennant. That was in To-
peka and Cooley's team finished IN the
first division that year
Tony Smith. as classy a shortstopper as
was ever seen in these parts will return
to Sioux City this year. having been Sc
TrT1xr n
with Brooklyn and failed. But he should
still be the class out here He and An
dreas who captains the team and plays
second make some pretty pair on the IN
field.
Arbogast will start the season as man
ager for Rou-ke. Pa usually gets
a manager during the summer, when the
attendance begins to ease off and keeps
him over until the next year Then about
midsummer he dumps him and picks an
other goat Here's hoping Arbogast
sticks it out He is well liked around
the circuit and is capable ball player
A Pueblo dispatch in the Denver Times
is to the effect that Topeka and Denver
may get together in a demand for Pueblo
and fight the removal of the team to
Wichita Local baseball officials say they
know nothing of the matter but believe
such action would do no good The
transfer of the club last year was never
ratified by the league, they say, and
there seems to be no recourse The SYM
pathy of the local officials. however, is
with the Colorado town and they would
much rather see it on the map than
Wichita. This is explained by the TACT
that Pueblo can be made from Denver
practically without added expense, the
guarantee there is $50 per day against
$40 at Wichita, that the fans there last
year supported the team and the Wichita
fans did not and will not They believe
Isbell mistreated the men who backed
him when he was in trouble
Another clever. clean man who may get
back into the league If Ducky Holmes
completes planned arrangements for tax
ing over the Lincoln club VIII be j. E
Cunthorpe, former part owner of the
Denver team. Gunthorpe is jolly, capable
fellow and well liked around the circuit.
If he lacks anything in aggr essiveness It
will not hurt the team with Ducky lead
ing it
"O'Nein Is Angry This headline IN
a Topeka paper attracted our serious at
tention We imagined Prexy Tip was on
the verge Of a bloWup inspired by the
raw deal handed to Pueblo, but further
investigation disclosed that the 1rate MT
O'Neill is only a county commissioner in
the Kansas capital, whose show of tenn
per is aimed at some such thing as a
taxpayers league Little danger or
Prexy Tip bursting a collar over the
Pueblo deal Frank Isbell wouldn't have
started to pull it off without first secur-
ing the affirmation of the boss Of the
league.-Lincoln News
You have to give it to Dick Cooley as
being able to sell ball players Cooley
sold Kerns to the Indianapolis club in
ment could not trade the stocl1y catcher
for an old bat bag and had to turn him
loose.-Topelka Capital
After while the Capital may get around
to the 1911 season and announce that
Cooley sold the club.