The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
CLUB IS LINED UP
Preparations for Kaw Western
League Training Trip.
Interesting Ante-SeasOn Games
Arranged for Topeka.

Dale Gear, manager of the To-
peka Western League baseball team,
| arrived in the city this morning and
will leave soon for Kansas City, where
/ he will meet some of the Kaw play
! ers, preparatory for the training trip
to DenisOn, Tex, which will start from
| Kansas City on Tuesday next Mr..
| Gear expressed himself as enthusiastic
over the prospects of the team for the
1913 season, and is confident that the
/ Kaw aggregation will finish pretty
near if not at the top of the race for
| the pennant.
| OF the fifteen players in the To-
peka club, only seven of them will
leave Kansas City for the southern
| trip, several of the players being al
ready in the vicinity of Denison. The
| players now in Kansas City and who
will leave on the 18th, are: Rapps.
| first baseman; Mccullough, Fullerton
and Rustenhaven, pitchers; Ollum,
second baseman; Crist, catcher, and
French, shortstop. Ollum, Fullerton
and Crist are new men with the Kaw
club. All are backed by good rec
ords and are expected to make a cred
liable showing during the coming sea-
son. Ollum has played ball several
years, the last two seasons having
been spent in the Mountain States
League, an organization in the noun
tain district of Virginia and the
Carolinas. and comes to the Topeka
IL
French, who is we'll known in To-
peka, strongly recommends Ollum, the
two having played much together in
times past.
The pitching lineup. as given to The
State Journal by Mr.. Gear, besides
those above mentioned will include
Adams, Cocreham, Cochran and Niece
hee. With the exception of McGehee
the men are well known to Topeka
fans. and the latter is said to be a good
man and is considered by Manager
Gear to be a valuable adjunct to his
organization.
Games in Topeka.
Lee and Billings will join the club in
Topeka on April L Lee is busy with
his farm in New York state while
Billings is too busy with his school
work at Manhattan to join the crew on
its southern training trip.
McLarry, Rapps and Forsythe are at
present visiting friends and relatives in
the vicinity of Denison, and will join
the club there, proceeding north as
soon as the Denison engagements are
filled.
The club will arrive in Topeka on or
about April g. On April and games
will be played here between the Kaws
and the Kansas City American asso-
citation team. The Pittsburg Pirates of
the National league, who are now in
Hot Springs, will return home by the
played here between the big Ieaguers
and the Topeka boys. on April and 8.
For April Is Manager Dale has arranged
a game with the baseball team of the
Chinese university. located in the Hawaiian
Islands. These Chinese players are now
touring the country, playing in various
towns, and are said to be exceptionally
clever diamond artists. Mr. Dale is max
ing arrangements for games here with
the Toledo team of the American Associa-
ton, which opens the season of that
league in Kansas City on April 10. 1t is
believed that one, if not more, games can
be arranged between the 10th and the
opening date of the Topeka Western
league schedule, April Is.
'I believe we have the best organiza-
ton for 1913 that Topeka has seen for a
number of years." said Manager Gear
this morning to the State Journal. 81
have exerted unusual effort this year to
give the city an organization that will
reflect credit upon the town and them
selves, and 1 am certain that Topeka will
be a large factor in the Western league
remnant race"