The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11

| Grover Gilmore, the real speed mer-
| chant of the Western League, regard
| less of statements to the contrary, is
| holding out on Jim McGill and to date
has refused to report to the Grizzlies
for spring training.
1t is no certainty that Omaha will
| stage the big opening day celebration
| contemplated. The disaster, which ov-
| ertook that city on Easter Sunday di
verted the attention of citizens who
| had the plans in hand, and just an
| ordinary automobile parade may be the
| order of the day.
Dale Gear says he has disposed of
| all the players on his club who do not
| have good dispositions" Great Now
we kid the Kaws all we want to
when they come to town and not a
man of them will get sore. And won't
the umpires be happy working with
that bunch, too?-Wichita Eagle.
Jimmy McGill, owner of the Bears,
will get his first glimpse of his new
team at Topeka on opening day. Nc
Gill has just returned from a lengthy
sojourn on the Pacific coast, and will
not join the squad in the south, as is
his usual custom.
Eddie Gagnier has shared a perma-
the Newark club in the International
League. Hank Myers, the former
Sioux City pastimer, is playing center
field for the same team. Newark de-
feated the Brooklyn National League
club in an exhibition game a few days
ago. The score was to 1. Both Gag
nier and Myers were in the Newark
lineup.
Sir Richard Cooley has located him
self in San Diego owner of the
franchise in the Southern California
League, and Spencer Arthur Abbott.
who has been stringing along with
Cooley since HEX was a pup is his
manager. Jack Thomas, another ex-
Western Lacquer, is a rival manager
in the same circuit. Incidentally, Sir
Richard is some baseball financier. He
cleaned up three years ago at Topeka
and duplicated the trick at Salt Lake
last fall, selling out his Union Asso-
citation franchise at a fancy price. 1t
is a rather frigid day when Dick Coo
ley isn't looking out for No. Lin
coin News.
For the first time since he has been
running ball club in ST. Joseph Jack
Holland is claiming pennant. The
Drummer leader believes he has assem-
bled a notable array of talent and he
expects to enter the race April IS with
the best team he has had here, not
withstanding several youngsters are in
the lineup. Holland is dickering for
another first-class pitcher and when
he lands one he apparently will have
a well balanced team in every depart
ment.
Most baseball players blessed with
names referring to the great national
game have succeeded in living up to
their monickers. For instance, Fielder
&c IaI hnn
fielder while Neal Ball knew what to
do when the bases were filed with
none out and he caught a line drive
Even Harry F'anwell, once Nap
pitcher, believed in living up to his |
name. He turned the trick graceful
ly and carried off the BOBBY batting
average in the league last season
Frank Chance was always willing to
take one, while Leon Ames of the
Giants is noted for his control Ralph |
Works, late of the Tigers, had one
fault. At least Hughie Jennings al
ways said: He works too hard There |
have been several players named Rapp
and Rapps, but not one of them was
a slugger, while Pitcher Hit was any
thing but hitter.
Governor John H Morehead, Ne
braska's executive, is qualifying for |
membership in the Order of Red-hot |
Fans. Besides serving as treasurer of
the Mink League during two years and |
appointing Prexy Tip O'Neill as one of |
his colonies, the governor has con-
scented to heave the first ball when our |
Antelopes and the Wichita Witches i
lift the lid on the 1913 season Friday |
April %, at the NJ street yard. State |
Senator Henry Bartling, representing
Otoe and Cass counties in the upper |
branch of the Nebraska legislature and |
father of the Sunday ball bill which |
is now the law of the commonwealth. |
is to be Governor Morehead's battery
partner.
Brighten up. Use Sherwin Williams |
60. s nainfS cI,xll |