The Topeka state journal., 1913-05-17
IN STATE LEAGUE
Season Opened Under Most
Favorable Conditions.
R. C.. Gafford Is President
All Teams Well Balanced.

The Kansas State League schedule
opened yesterday under more favor
able circumstances than at any time
since organized baseball was started
in any of the towns on the circuit.
Every team is believed to have been
successful in getting a capable man
ager, all are in good financial con-
d1t1on and crop prospects looks goou
enough to insure one of the best sea
sons ever experienced on the circuit
r. c. Gafford of Minneapolis, has
been elected president of the league
again and needs no introduction. Roy
as he is more familiarly known, Is
one of the best baseball boosters IN
the state and he does it for the love
of the game. Mr.. Gafford was instru-
mental in organizing the first state
league circuit a numb OF years ago
and has been in the thick of the flght
ever since.
President Gafford knows the fans
He just won't allow the farmers to be-
come so deeply interested in the corn
wheat or livestock that they will for
get to go to the baseball game occa-
sionally. And the farmers respond 10
| his call.
Fred Moore at Manhattan.
Fred Moore is in charge at Man
| haitian and has a mighty good team
| behind him. He is very popular with
the fans in the Riley county town and
| this is just because he is reSponSloie
for placing the town on the basebali
map. Leave it to Fred Moore, he VIII
keep it there, too.
team. This aggregation should play
a good game from the very beglnhMln M .;
He and his recruits 'swelled up" and
went down south on a training Zip
| Their success on the trip was remark
able.
Mr. Ury has had several years ex,
perience as player and manager anu
| has always been successful
| Nelson is in charge of the Lyons
| team again this year. He was at the
helm of the team last year and mas mas
collected a bunch of players Inls
spring which will make a team that
will be serious contenders for pen
nant honors. Pennants are not strang-
| ers in Lyons as the team has been IN
| the habit of meeting such things mere
| tofore.
| the team at Junction City. He is the
Youngest of the Price family Whlcn Is
known in every hamlet in TINS sectlon
| of the country. Ted and Howard are
his brothers and they are we'll known
as PLAYERS and managers over all OF
4 the circuits between st. Louis ana the
i Rocky Mountains. Norman frlce
/ will succeed Cecil Bankhead, VINO nao
the team last season. He was Win
1 York in the Nebraska State league
last season.
Clay Center, after being out of base
ball for a year, is back IN the saIne
and Max Addi1 ton has charge OF tne
/ affairs. He played third base with
MINNEAPOLIS last year and is not a ne"
man on the circuit.
Atty Wilson. familiar to the stats ate
leagues and Western associations mas
returned to Great Bend for his thlro
consecutive season. His team won on the the
pennant last year and was fair IN the
lead in 1911 when the league blew
up but Lyons and Great Bend are are
the only teams on the present c1rcul'
which were on the circuit at tha'
time.
President Gafford has employed
Frank Quinn, Harry McLear and rom
Whalen as umpires. Whalen WORKED
in the Central Kansas league three
years ago and has been working IN iL
Michigan since then. Quinn was W1tn
the circuit last year and Harry NC
Lear is not a stranger in the commun-
itv. He is more familiarly known az
sScrappy" He has played profession
al baseball in the Western League
the western association, the TeXas
league and the Kansas state league
It is believed that this trio will glVe
good satisfaction. The season VIII
o1oea August 13.