The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-28
SPORT NOTES.

| week and Sunday with the Kansas
City Blues. Following these two
games, the Pittsburg Pirates, the Chi
nese team from Honolulu and other
exhibition games will be played. The
team will be kept busy with exhibition
games for a week or more and the
remainder of the time will be devoted
to the usual training program and sig
nal practice.
Jack Hendricks and the Denver Griz-
zlies are due to arrive in Topeka three
or four days before the first game of
the Western League schedule. The two
teams will work out together, but the
KawS will have preference of use OF
the diamond.
Mike Donlin is another who has de-
cided to close his theatrical engage
ments and return to the uniform OF
sliding pads and spiked shoes. Mama
ger Doom is expecting him to join the
Phillies some time next week. With
this announcement comes the informa-
ton that Mike must make good or
suffer the humiliation of carrying the
tinware.
The Grizzlies will leave Excelsior
Springs Saturday and go to Kansas
City to pay two games with Charlie
Cars Blues and will then go to Fort
Worth to complete their training. The
been conducive to good training.
Charley Carr, manager of the Kan
sas City Blues, cannot stand the strain
and has sent five of the pitchers which
he intends to keep to San Antonio.
Tex, to get in condition. They were
accompanied by two catchers.
Owners of semf-professional teams
in Atchison, Lawrence and Leaven-
worth have agreed to enter a new
Inter-City League. Kansas City will
be represented by five teams. A sche-
dule is being made up.
The percentage of big league timber
in the material gathered by New York
scouts last summer and fall is about
the same as usual. Out of about II
new men not more than three or four
will survive the probationary period
which ends May Is. The new men who
are reasonably sure % play with the
Giants all season are Cooper, outfielder |
and Demaree, Goulait and Schupp. |
pitchers.
Joe Benz has been showing up well |
in the spring training work so far. |
His pitching in the Exhibition games |
in the north was a source of consid- |
cradle joy to the veteran White Sox |
leader. With Scott, LANCE and Benz |
showing unmistakaole signs of i'm |
provement over their last years work |
the Windy City Americans have good |
reason to believe that they will do |
better this year.
Amos Strunk, the crack young out |
fielder of the Athletics, may have to |
retire from the game. His left arm, |
with which he throws, is practically as |
useless as if it were paralyzed, the re- |
suit of an odd strain. While in San |
Ant IN nd Yo1o
ers, in a frolic, tossed about a mud |
ball. When Strunk tried to throw |
with more force, the mudball split to |
bits and simultaneously he had a sharp |
pang. Since then his arm hangs al |
most limp at his side. None of the |
consulted can diagnose the |
trouble.
Jim Thorpe will be released by the |
Giants after the first trip west has |
that comes Indirectly from Manager |
McGraw. Thorpe, it is said, is fail
ure as a ball player and McGraw |
hasn't the time to develop him this |
season. The Indian signed a regular |
National League contract in which the |
usual ten days notice of release is in |
Guided. His salary is said to be $4,000 |
for the season, or 81, 900 a month, be-
ginning April 10.
Arthur McGovern, known also as
Terry McGovern and Red McGovern,
recently manager of the Lowell base
ball team, has been sold to Denver,
and will report for duty at once. Nc
Govern is an old South Boston player,
first played on the Lincoln school team
in South Boston, and later caught for
the Boston Red Sox world champions.
In recent years he has been catching
and playing first for Lowell.
Sioux City Journal: The story from
Topeka that Jimmy Manning may buy
the Kaws may have -Sn Interior mean
ing. Manning and "Prexy' Tip O'NeilI
are old cronies and it would not be
surprising if O'Neill is ribbing up the
deal SO that he may profit thereby. To
revert to league history, it will be
that the O'NeilI faction
comprises the club owners at ST. JOS
aph, Omaha, Des Moines and Wichita
This makes tie vote on matters in
which O'Neill would like to dictate |
With a change in management at To-
peka he might gain another vote, if
becomes the club owner If
the deal should not go through before
the start of the season there's likely
to be some lively bidding. Several 9TH
ers have their eye on Topeka, but
most of them are looking for a bargain. |