The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02


Topeka when it comes to skirts in
baseball. W. P. MacLean says he is
developing a number of female Cobbs
and Mathewsons in the city grade
So
According to the statement of Mac
Lean it will not be long before the girl
teams of the schools will be able to
compete with the boy teams on an
equal footing.
Herbert Hall, Topeka's premier
pitcher, returned from the long road
trip wearing red socks and as much
of the old confidence as he took away
with him. And the fist thing he in
quired about was a letter with an
Arizona cactus thorn in it
Lefty Sproul, the K. U. first base
man pitcher who was signed by the
Savages early in the spring, is. ex-
pected to report at any time now.
Pitcher Rehm of the Emporia Normal
school. who worked with the team be-
fore the last road trip and who has
since been pitching college baseball,
also is to be given a chance, it is an
nounced.
Having given every club in the
league the once over and having tax
en- the short end of most of the series
with the northern division teams, Saw
age and baltimore both predict that
sioux City and Denver will be in the
running all the way
Savage also believes that Lincoln
will continue to hover around the ton.
but baltimore is inclined to believe
the Ducklings will find the going
rather uphill in a short time Tatti.
more also predicts that Omaha will
make her rivals bite the dust on MANY
occasions.
1t would be interesting to know lust
what state has furnished the greatest
number of star baseball PLAYERS IN
sass principal claim in this field lies
in Walter johnson and Joe Wood. al
though the state has produced MANY
other players who have been more or
less famous in the big leagues.
Although there are no available sta
tistics on the subject, it is probable
that if such existed they would show
| Ohio at the head of the list of dia-
mond star producers. A fair idea of
the production of the Buckeye state
along this line may be gathered from
the roster of the Savages Manager
baltimore, Al Schweitzer, Graham
Snow and Joe Agler are all Buckeyes
and Bugs" Grover, recently sold TO
Sioux City, halls from the more or less
famous rubber center of Akron
Among the players now in the lime
light in the big leagues who hail from
Ohio may be mentioned Sisler, Lee
Magee, Weilman, Hank Gowdy, New
ers of Brooklyn. Peckinpaugh, Viox.
Leonard of the Red Sox. RUDE Mar
guard, Erskine Mayer and Slim SalIee.
1t is also said that Iris Speakers
great great grandfather once sent an
| Ohio tom cat to one of the ancestors
of Ty Cobb which gives the Buckeye
commonwealth a slight claim on these
two stars
who is too great to include in the list
above. Therefore, a separate wheeze
is created especially for him He
halls from Middleport and his name
is Benjamin Bragadoshia Kauff
The resignation of Umpire jay An.
drews after his squabble with the
players and fans in Sioux City has
prompted the Wichita Eagle to sug.
gest that the league might leg along
in some sort of fashion if Umpire
Pontius also would quit the staff
However, Pontius has not been &C
cused of appearing on any field in
condition unfit to work, and from
| what has been seen of him here h,
appears to be as good as the average
| Anent the howl losing clubs hav
been making about cheese umDirinf