The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-15
Will Raise Awful Fuss in st.
Joe at Opening.
Two Days Festival With Many
Bands and Visitors.

ST. Joseph. Mo-, April 15.-Since ST.
Joseph was readmitted into the West
ern League it has been a pacemet--7r
in raising a fuss over the annual
opening of the baseball season, says
Sec. TAYLOR of the team. Each year It's
citizens, assisted by the ST. Joseph
Boosters club. have tried to Guido the
attempts of the year before. So 1t is
again this spring.
The fourteenth annual championship
race of the O'Neill loop will be ushereo
in Friday and Saturday with a two
days spring festival here in winch
baseball. parades, band concerts, boxing
and revelry will each play important
parts.
Friday will be the big opening day
The ball game will be preceded by
big automobile parade, $50 machines
from st. Joseph and vicinity having
been pledged to carry the players,
booster club city. county and state
officials to the ball park. Governor =.
w. Major, of Missouri. will toss the
first ball. At night a musical festival
will be held at he Auditorium. at which
a fifty-piece band, a chorus of 501 per-
sons, and the best soloists of this city
will participate. The ball players and
their wives will be seated in boxes.
However, Saturday. the second day of
the pennant race is really the big DAY
of the week, as all the travelling men
to be the guests of the local ball CLUB
and the boosters club. This Is In re-
turn for the day the travelling men
gathered here three years ago and vol
unfairly attended the St. Joseph game
at one dollar per throw, in order %
help the club because it had been
named the Drummers, in their honor
A country band contest will be held
on the business streets during the
morning, ten bands having entered. In
addition the band of Highland college
and the suffragette band of MaryVllte'
Mo, which headed the suffragette pa
rade in Washington early in March,
will be here to help local bands fur
nish the music.
Prior to the afternoon game big
industrial parade will be held, in which
all the bands, the visiting travelling
men, the ball players, and the various
industries of the city, both retail and
wholesale, will participate. The various
bands will combine as one at the ball
park.
At night a carnival will be held on
two of the main streets of the city:
The Ancient Gods" which is being pro-
NOTED under the auspices of the
Turner's club. The official costumers
of the Omaha Aksarben and the KAN
sas City Priests of Pallas have been
retained to handle this affair. In &C
smoker has been arranged for the
Auditorium. Milburn (Young) Saylor
of Indiana polls, Ind. and Bobby
Waugh, of Fort Worth, Texas. light
weights. will box fifteen rounds to |
decision Il addition to this there will
he a ten-round semi-windup and six |
round preliminary between good boys. |
The Boosters club has posted forfeits |
with the various railway companies to |
guarantee special trains to carry vis1- |
tors home Saturday night on the |
branches and lines which have no regu- |
lar train service at that hour.
The St Joseph club will lineup as
previously announced for the opening |
game. with one exception George |
Watson will not play in right field, as
he is seriously i'll. However, Rein |
hart. the recruit outfielder, who will |
relieve the veteran Watson, has been |
showing good form, and the team will
not be BADLY crippled.
The batting order follows: Kelly. If. |
and captain: Ochs, 2b.; Zwilling, CT; |
westerzil, 3b.; Brewer, 1b.; Meinke, IS;
Reinhart, IF; Ketter, c.; and Crutcher
or Chellette, p.