The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-18
ton game and Mullin, of Dallas, held
Waco to five.

ton game and Mullin, of Dallas, held
Waco to five.
Any pitcher who follows Walter John
/ son in a game is apt to get his bumps.
After a team has faced the hurricane
speed of Johnson for five or six innings,
other pitchers. even though they be
not ordinary look rather easy to the
| batters.
Commenting on a report that 5000
| barrels of whiskey had been washed
| away at Louisville and floated down
| the river, John Richie, of the Mime
| apolis Journal, noted that Rube wad-
dell ably would stretch a net across
the stream at Hickman, KY, and go
fishing with a derrick.
/ Manager Jay Andrews. of Waterloo 4.
one of the few team bosses in the Cen
| trail Association this year who has
been able to get practice for his men.
Ills soJourn in Des Moines was a most
| successful one and has given his men
| a lot of excellent experience with up-
per league players. The baseball pro-
| motors in Waterloo are hurrying 10 get
their new grounds into condition for
| the practice work, the rain having set
| them back badly in this undertakings
| me United States league. which
wanted 1t known a month ago that n
would raid organized leagues for plav
| - anu "Oulu respect no contra IT
now announces that it will observe the
regulations of organized baseball Per
maps this magnanimous course was in
fluenced by the fact that no PLAYERS
unuer contract to real leagues would
consent to be 'raided."
| Ducky" Holmes may add another
outnelder to his aggregation of 1y
chasers. The player Holmes is dick
ering with is experienced and ne
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batting department.
The Waycross club of the Enpire
state League will boast this season of
tne only indian manager in organized
| baseball. He is Charley Wahoo of
Atlanta, who has been signed to han
| die the local team. Wahoo has al
| ready demonstrated his ability as a
| college coach.
| Though Louis HeiIbroner inonatiant-
| ly insists that the Central League will
start its season on scheduled time
| April 20, with Fort Wayne at DAYTON.
| Springfield at Terre Haute and Grand
RAPIDS at Evansville, and finish fly
| ing, the seekers after the hole in the
! doughnut are cooking their ewes TO
windward and "calcalatin' that the
naH-portion organization will not live
| through the summer. The six club
| layout over which Heilbroner presides
| was hard hit by the foods that caught
| Indiana and Ohio several weeks q 20
Not city escaped. only some were
| harder hit than others. The Spring.
! field parks were flooded, but in each
case divers have reported that the dia-
monds still are there, while Dayton
and Terre Haute escaped so far as the
pan parks were concerned, but in each
| OF these cities the storms worked
thousands of dollars worth of damages
that will jip business activities to a
| certainty.
| Speaking of the apparent weakness
of the Bears, SANDY" Griswold saws:
| Let Denver fall down and where are
! WEI" With all due respect for Denver's
splendid patronage in the past. the
| league would manage to get along
! somehow if Denver was a bIoomer
| this year. The mile high town is not
i, by any means keeping the league on
| it's feet.
| The Denver baseball club has sold
| good old Pitcher FL KinseIIa to the
| sacramento Senators of the Pacific
! Coast League. To replace KinseIIa
/ the Bears management has purchased
/ Pitcher Mel Wolfgang, a right hand
HEAVIER, from the Chicago White Sox
Well, Jawn Killing has returned to
| the game! The baseball season never
| is fairly on until Jawn decides wheth-
er he is going to quit the diamond and
| give his undivided attention to his
Kansas City poolhall, or devote "just
one more" to the national pastime.
| This season King will be with the
| Cincinnati Reds and he ought to do
them some good. His work hasn't
| been so brilliant as it once was, since
lie left the Chicago Cubs, but he is
/ stir there with the goods. He didn't
| like to go to Boston and no doubt is
| glad that he is to become a member
| of one of the western teams of the big
| league again. However, Jawns work
always has been conscientious and of
a highly creditab1e average.
| Manager Camel of the Rochester
baseball club, has protested to the ma
! tioDa1 baseball commission against the
| formation of a club like the one that
| Ty Cobb has been managing so far this
! spring. He claims that on his ALL
| Georgia club are three International
! League holdouts, and although up TO
| the present time the Detroit team has
not suffered much account of
! Cobb's holding out, at the same time
! the Rochester team, which depends
much on Mcmillan, who is with Cobb.
| is IN a tight hole. Camel claims that
| the formation and the playing of teams
| like that managed by Cobb is in d.
rect violation of the baseball agree
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