The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
SPORT SNAP SHOTS.
(By Dan Mccarthy

1 CdtCharR
may be claSsed as veterans, and mex
season will have but one experiencet
I receiver, Alexander. StovalI will aIst
| be without veterans in the box. II,
| may have something up his sleeve. blu
| as we go to press the situation look,
dark, especially for the battery end O.
the game.
Why Jack Powell. who for year.
has been one Of the pitching main.
| stays of the St Louis Americans
should have been sent to Louisville. nc
one seems exactly to know Powell
| contends that in recognition of his
long service for the st. Louis club he
is at least entitled to pick a club fol
himself. Possibly one of the clubs in
the big league would want him, if the
Browns have no further use for his
services.
Kid Julian. the hurricane syracu-
sean, is trying to be patient while
waiting for matches. The kid seems
to be having trouble in getting started,
but he bids fair to upset things when
once on the road. Patsey Kline was
giddy with glee when Julian broke
his arm on him three months ago. Ju-
liam says he's better than ever now
after his long rest. Julian will box
Bobby Pittsley in Syracuse, February
10th.
George Sutton and Willie Hoppe
will fight it out for the 1872 balkline
billiard championship in New York
city on February 5. Hoppe, the pres
ent champion, is said to be in excel
he is playing better now than ever
before. Sutton, too, is in good form
and is practising every day.
The man who said Texans have no
enterprise will now blush with shame.
When it was announced that the
Washington Nationals could not train
at Charlottesville, Va, because of no
rooming facilities, Brownsville, Texas.
came to the front Griffith didn't
from home. 'tGive me a slice of land,
build baseball park and club
house." he told the Brownsville ennis
sary. seeking to let him down easy.
would do all this. But now word has
been sent the Washington manager
that all he asked will be granted. Griff
probably will back out, but he will be
more careful in the future.
James McAleer. part owner of the
Boston Red Sox, is having a whole lot
of trouble getting signatures affixed
to contracts. Since the players won
the worlds championship last year
they've begun to think that they must
be pretty nifty baseballists.
Another Cuban will bid for fame on
the big league diamond in 1913. His
name is Angel Gonzalez, and he will
play with the Boston Braves. Says
Pope Conte, sporting editor of the Ha-
vana La Presna, writing from Ha-
Vana: "Gonza1ez has created a sensa-
ton in this city. 1 dare say there is
not another backstop who can throw
like this human flagpole. He has al
so acquired the art of hitting and is
considered as fast as any of the men
down here, and in my opinion is fast
rounding into perfection
The secret is out now why Ty Cobb
wants a $4,000 salary this year. Ty
is anxious to break every record in
baseball He has broken several, but
he gets only a $1,000 salary, which is
81 900 less than Hans Wagner gets, or
has been paid in the past. Ty wants to
be able to say that he has received the
highest salary ever paid a player. Elev-
en- thousand beats the record, but the
Georgia Peach wants fifteen-a figure
so high that it probably never would
be beaten in his lifetime.
Alfred De Orc and Thomas Hueston
will settle the pool championship the
latter part of February. In twenty
three years De Orc has lost only four
pool matches. He has been beaten sew
eral times in tournaments, but has been
lefeat in a match took place at st.
Louis in November. 1908, when Hueston
won the championship from him.
Joe McGinnity, for many years a big
figure in baseball in the east has de- |
,ided to try his luck in western base |
oa1l, and has gone to Tacoma, Wash, |
o take charge of the Northwestern !
league club there, which he purchased |
ecently. They used to call McGinnity |
he Iron Man. because he was always
eady and anxious to pitch game. He
lad an interest in the Newark club |
# the International League for sew
raj years, but sold out last fall.
If a proposed bill which Senator w.
:. Brown, of Los Angeles, is about to
introduce in the California legislature
becomes law, prize fighting will be-
ONE thing of the past in the Golden
tate Browns plan is not to permit
oxing bouts where the principals re-
Give compensation.
81 want to divorce the financial end
rom the game altogether says the
enator Then we shall have clean
oxing without the smuggling that now
ttends it Los Angeles was disgraced
y the reports of the Palzer- McCarty
ight''
Jean Dubuc, who positively declared
OF long ago that ne "ould plIcn no
lore for the Detroit Tigers. thinks
eriously of changing his mind Moth
1g better in the way of job has
hown up.
Sam Crawford, of the Detroit Tigers,
Tho is a hold-out, just spoke right up
nd told some of his thoughts the other
ay. Some of US hold-outs thought it
Tas the players that the people came
D see and not the bleachers or he
randstand or the signs on the fence or
ven the pretty white lines around the
said Sam. 80 We figured
-e ought to get something like a fair
hare of the gate money.
High priced team? Making no mon