The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Cy Sloakum FOrSythe has, a new
spring hair cut and seems to be able
to get around in left field with more
speed than formerly
AS was announced in Friday after
Moons issue of the State Journal, the
name chosen for the Topeka base ball
club was the Savages. All fans and
fannettes will please take note and
speak of them accordingly.
A worthwhile ball team will mean
much to Topeka. If you are interest
ed in Topeka you can help out more
than you realize by buying a book of
tickets Monday, or whenever the vol
unteer solicitors call upon you. Owner
Savage and Manager Jackson are do
ing their part and it is up to Topekans
to do theirs.
Paddock, who plays second base for
the st. Paul team, made a good show
ing Friday afternoon against the To-
peka team. Out of three times at bat
he got three hits and two runs. Two
putouts and three assists went to his
credit with no errors tagged on. Catch
er Johnson also handled himself WE'LL
The Omahogs and Lincoln Tigers
are going to get a line on each other
before the season starts by playing a
four-game practice series. The Omaha
club is booked to play in Lincoln next
Wednesday and Thursday and Lincoln
will go to Omaha for Saturday and
Sunday games. faint fair, faint fair,
faint fair, boysi
If George Godfrey Moore ever gets
to the gates of heaven it is two to
one bet that he tries to sell st. Peter
a Germania life insurance policy be-
fore he enters, and it is an even money
bet that he succeeds. And if Tom
Powell ever goes anywhere, it is a
thousand to one that he takes a SOC
Ger ball with him. Nothing in eter-
nifty would make Tom so happy as to
see all the angels, good and bad,
spending their time playing the bloom
ing old British game.
One of Kelly's ST. Paul players is
almost worth his weight in gold. Dur
ing recent game at Fort Smith, Ark,
this player is said to have Knocked
SO many colored fans out of tree tops
outside the ball park that the black
birds finally quit trying to see game
without paying to get in. If this play
er can keep this up his pull from the
payroll Indefinitely.
This afternoon Dan Mcclellan, the
muchly touted infielder from the Tri-
State league, displays his wares in To-
peka for the first time. Mcclellan
has not had the same chance to condi-
ton himself that the other players
have, but Manager Jackson stated this
something worth while. Mcclellan
hit .301 in the Tri-State last season. If
he can come within the .001 of this
this year he will make Topeka valu-
able player.
Mr.. Kelley is at present carrying
twenty-five ball players and two
newspaper men in his st. Paul squad.
And he has only four of last seasons
team back. He has eleven men from
the New York Giants and the ST.
Cardinals. Friday morning Riggert,
Cruise, North and Steele of Cardinals
Joined him, and all of them are likely
looking men. From the Giants he has
Marshall, Johnson, Dyer and Gipe.
Dresser, who played first base against
the Savages Friday afternoon, is a ma
tive of Ellinwood, Kansas.
While the Lincoln club was not able
to win any of it's exhibition games
from teams in leagues of higher CLASH
fication-the best the Tigers could do
was to come c1ose-other Western
league clubs have been stacking up
quite satisfactorily against the athletes
from the major and double-A loops.
Denver won one game in three with
the Chicago Sox, Omaha split even
with Indianapolis, Topeka whipped
the K. c. Blues to 1 and ST. Joseph
turned a similar trick at the expense
of Jim McGlliS HOOSlerS. In the Mon
day bout between Topeka and Kansas
City, the Western leaguers outbatted
their opponents and also played error
less ball.
Philadelphia critics are by no means
convinced that the Gripping of the
Athletics will have the effect of put
ting the Mackmen out of the running
in the next campaign. This is based
on the theory that Frank
Baker will return to the fold before
the season opens, and that the young
pitchers will be able to fill the shoes
of Plank and Bender. While a great
loss is admitted in the sale of Collins,
Quaker City experts believe the team
will be strong enough to offstand this
and contend it is very apt to cut a de-
cided figure in the coming race. Of
if Baker should continue to be
obstinate and refused to report, the
situation would be changed, though it
is not plain to the average observer
why the absence of Eddie Collins from
the lineup will not prove an irrepara-
BILE blow.
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