The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-27
SPORT NOTES.

| Gear is beginning to divide the sheep
from the goats in the practice games.
In the lineup with the Denison team,
! Ollom led off and played second. Dulin
at third, followed in the batting order
Forsythe in left McLarry in right.
and Rapps on first, followed in their
respective order. French was at short,
Gear was in center. which Will be
guarded by one of the other men as
soon as Lee reports, but that will not
be until the team reaches Topeka. The
other members of the team, probably
excepting tn pitchers and catchers.
are playing with the yannigans-
The Denison papers claim that Gear
has three cracking good first basemen
in Rapps FOrsythe and McLarry. The
former will hold the bag regularly
and the other pair will be worked in
the outfield so as to retain the batting
strength IF the team.
Gear claims that Forsythe will hit
better than McLarry. The latter bat
ted .361 in 20 games with Lincoln last
fall and .294 for the season in the
Texas League. Forsythe hit 1920 with
Dallas in 14O games in the Texas
League. Forsythe stole "a bases and
McLarry stole q.
Lou Wickada1 will not act as secre-
tary of the team this year. Gear has
got Bill Rapps to fight the oral bat
ties and Gear will do the work per-
formed by Wickadal.
Negotiations are pending for the con-
solidation of the Baseball Players fra
ternity and the White Rats, which is
composed of theatrical players. This
looks like an effort to get all of the
bad actors in one organization.
Thirty men will leave Chicago Oc-
tober IS with ComiSkey on a world
baseball tour which will last four and
one-half months. The men will play
games while en- route to San Fran
cisco and will sail for Honolulu No
Vember g.
Walter Johnson and Clyde Milan are
the oldest players with Washington.
the most valuable players on the team.
Jack Love, of the Kansas City Blues,
has been sold to Memphis of the South
ern Association. Love is an aid West
ern Association player and was sold
to Kansas City about six years ago
by Oklahoma City. He has played in
every position excepting as a catcher
or pitcher since being with the club.
utility outfielder with the Maps. His
hitting ability while on the training
trip and his work at first base has
created a favorable impression on Man
ager Birmingham.
Before leaving San Francisco to ioin
the Giants on the training trip RUDE
Marquard caught ball dropped out
of the tenth story of the Call building.
The ball dropped a distance of $50 feet
and attained such a velocity that it is
estimated the force of the weight was
mounds, in !
Dick Gossett will not stick with the !
White Sox and is on one end of
trade with San Francisco. He has
been showing remarkably well, but !
Comiskey thinks another year in the |
minors will do him some good.
Outfelder Lynch. who finished the !
season with Sioux City in 1872 has |
been sold to Racine, Wis, on an OPP |
tional agreement. Old Bill Fox, of |
the Western League, is manager of |
Racine.
Cy Young is cutting capers with the /
Sioux City team in Oklahoma. He and !
Farmer Allen and Paul Brown are the !
only pitchers who are sure of their
job with the Packer squad.
We have the salivated fling, the cork
screw twist, the fadeaway and a num-
Der of others, but it remains for some i
slab artist to invent the parcel post 4
delivery.
Dutch Leonard is counted on as one
who will be given a regular berth with
the champion Red Sox this season. He
has performed we'll on the training
trip that the management is expect ,
ing great things of him this season.
Ed Harris, brother of Ben Har-
ris, of the Grizzlies, will be given a
trial with Denver. The youngster was
captain of the high school team in /
Kansas City, Kan, last spring. He |
has been offered a contract and will
pitch at least a part of a game for |
the Grizzlies during the games with |
the Blues in Kansas City.