The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-11
WINTER SPORT NEWS.

Lincoln News: Every once in a
while comes complaint from Topeka
that Tip O'Neill, the Western Leagues
president, never visits the Kansas cap
ital. One of the Topeka scribes as
serts that Prexy Tip has been seen in
the Kaw camp but once in three
years. Now, as a matter of fact, what
has Tips presence or absence had to
do with the failures of the Kaws? The
thing that Dale Gear needs most is a
ball club. Other managers and club
owners plug along and succeed in as
sembling winning aggregations without
consulting the chief executive OF the
league. Gear didn't achieve much of
a success last season. 1t was his first
year in this league and, mayhap,
he undereStimated the speed and class
of the teams in this circuit. That is
easy to understand and a condition of
that sort was not to Gears discredit.
But, once warned, Gear should be
able to profit from the lesson of 1912
Meanwhile, the real friends of the
Western League are anxious to see
Gear and the Kaws factoring in the
coming pennant pursuit. Dale Gear is
high grade chap any place he may
be put, and Topeka is a game town,
having stuck by a loser so faithfully
that the town is entitled to a winner.
And it would be a material boost for
the entire league if Gear could gather
a nrSt division com binatiOn.
Lincoln News: Still another day has
fitted by, yet Pa Rourke and Jack
Holland are more silent than CLAIMS
concerning Jim McGill's proposition
that the Denver, Omaha and ST. Joe
clubs shall allow an extra cut of the
bleacher receipts to visiting Western
League clubs. Have Pa and Jack re-
treated from their long heralded stand
in favor of doing something for the
weaker teams?' The vote on the Nc
Gill rule, by the way, must be unsni-
nous in order to pass Will Pa and
Jack help to make it unanimous? Our
own guess is intellectually not. Yet
we hope we are mistaken.
Omaha News: The Chicago White
Sox will have a bigger proportion of
former Western -Leaguers on the roster
when they commence training this
spring than any other major league
team has ever had in it's possession
at one time since the formation of the
American League from the old West
ern League. No less than eleven of
the thirty-odd men that the Sox will
take into training have seen service
on the Western circuit. Of this num-
Der a considerable proportion are new
recruits, and the recent products of
the Western League will certainly be
given a thorough test by Comiskey' S
bunch. The Sox former Western
erly with Des Moines; Chief johnson,
the big Indian pitcher bought from St.
Joe last season; Dick Gossett, catcher,
also from st. Joe: Pitcher Wo1dring,
also with st. Joe last year; Lefty Mo-
gridge, who worked for Lincoln dur
ing the closing months of last season;
Eddie Cicotte, with Lincoln a few
years ago; Bill Borton, bought from
St. Joe last year, and who made a SEN
sational start in the big show last
fall; Chick Matticks. who cinched his
job with the Sox after several recalls
from Des Moines; Jim Scott formerly
Wichita twirler; Joe Berger, with
Wichita two years ago, and Silver
Douglas, the lengthy pitcher secured
from DeS Moines last season.
The latter part of next week will
see several of the major league teams
vending their way to spring training
grounds. The camps which have been
selected follow: Brooklyn at Column
bus, Ga: Pittsburg at Hot Springs;
Cincinnati at Mobile; New York at
Marlin Springs, Tex; Chicago at Tam
pa, Fla; Chicago at Paso PEBBLES, Cal;
Cleveland at Pensacola, Fla; Wash
ington at Charlottesville Va; Detroit
at Gulfport; st. Louis at st. Louis;
Philadelphia at San Antonio; Boston
at Hot Springs; New York at Ber-
muda.