The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-17
1T is NOT PLAY
To Cover Second Base and Man.
age a Ball Club.
But Hughes and Andreas
Should Show Up Well.
HENDRICKS PROMISED PAIR
Isbel Never Had Authority to
Transfer Wichita Club.
ssTessieY Alderman to Start
With "Yannigans" Here.

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In all the dope printed about the
Pueblo Wichita squabble one feature
which has never been brought out Dui
which would probably have bearl
in court is that Isbell had no right to
take the club to Pueblo in the fl ST
place. Pre- Il lent O'Neil gave his FER
mission but the league magnates did
not act on the prODGSitiOn and the
move was lot legal il baseball until
they gave their permission. Even II
IsbeH had kept the club in Pueblo TINS
year the magrates could have CON-
PEELED him to return it to Wichita Lee
gaiiy the club never was IN Pueblo
despite the fact that Wichita fans miss
ed the ball games. The club was just
as much Wichita's, as far as the rights
in the case are concerned, as was the
Topeka club which transferred Its
games the last year Cooley was here,
the Topeka Glib, or the Dies Moines
club tran sfcrred to Omaha by Higgins,
the Des Moines club. So let's forget
about it.
Jake Stahl has promised to turn over
a couple of promising ones to Jack
Hendricks in time TO give Denver
spring. They will likely be a couple of
the Bean Eaters recruits.
Will George Hughes and Red Andrews
play up to their usual standard around
the second sack and hold the manager
fal reins also? There seems to be
good deal of discussion along this Inc
There was & second Sacker in the league
last year who didn't The managemeht
got on MOOre'S nerves SC badly Inds
he collapsed time or two and dld
well to attempt to play hall 1t IS Ike
" that the cares of managing a tear.
will not worry either Hughes or Andreas
so much. Moore was in the meanest
position He was in faster company
that he had ever played in, was trying
to make good before a crowd OF fans
whS believed they had been imposed
upon and had a team in which every
man thought he knew more baseball
than the manager. If it WASH
enough his own pleasant personality
was against him with the bunch OF
men who believed his desire to be a
good fellow was really inspired by fear
that they would lick him or get his
Job. If this wasn't enough to put the
little fellow away We don't know what
trouble tastes like
Three Fingered Brown is willing II
play ball if he can play somewhere
outside Chicago and Philadelphia
That's the line he's is feeding to the
fans. Brown will play if Murphy wants
him to- and probably at the salary
Murphy offers Instead Ct the one Nor
decai demands He doesn't believe he
was fairly treated by the Cub boss
and perhaps he wasn't But warn;
weather ard the call of the "cush''
brings all of them to time.
The enlargement of the American
Association to a II club circuit and
the establishing of continuous base
ball in Detroit Cleveland, Cincinnati
and Pittsburg is one move planned on
the fight against the outlaw organiZa-
tions now under way by organized
baseball 1t will be denied for some
time for pJiicy's sake but the state
ment is declared to be authoritative.
Everything will be denied that might
tip off to the outlaws anything that
they could use to advantage The es-
tablishing Of a war fund of $4,000 a
year means sonnet hing in the way of
preparation for a fight. And there are
other signals that all is not so well
within the camp as it might be-
According to the new agreement
reached by the major leagues the Iarg-
est number of players that can be car
TieG by =. class a club is %. During
the playing season this number is cut
TO Il. Which is plenty of any Western
League cluo- Another ratification was
on the plan to prevent the wages of
big league recruits being raised more
who drift back to the minors will not
be in line for such large wages.
There is talk of a plan among the
$3.50 for players returned from the MA
jors. 1t would be as good a move as
the minors could make. The big
leaguers are getting rich by making
their clubs a clearing house for the
minor players.
The Interstate League season at
Lawrence VIII open May 5. The Law
renee team will consist largely of the
men VINO made up the strong semi
professional team of last year In
Guided in the league are a number of
the Kansas City city league teams !
The Bell Telephone company team will !
open the season in Lawrence Thus Is !
another good Kansas town getting
league ball which will educate the fans /
for something better in the way Of
Pastime after While.
Gear has returned to Kansas City |
after securing the uniforms required /
by the Kaws from Fullerton Bros and (
packing large number of them tc |
Kansas City with him. The other uni I
forms viii be left here and Tessie Aid |
errlan will distribute them. Tessie will /
probably pilot about ten of the kaws |
Reliable Dentistry /