The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-17
|@M A. Up to the Minute ~ !
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/NgG From Everywhere.
DEBATE is STAR.
Former TOpekan Sensation OF
Cardinal Training Camp.
Correspondent Compares Him
With the Great LajOie.

Topeka friends of Tony DEBATE, the
classy little infielder drafted by the
Cardinals from the Savage club last
fan. will be glad to learn that he Is
"retting ahead" at the st. Louis Ma
tionals training camp at Hot Wells'
Texas. A correspondent writes that
he looks like the only rookie VINO IS
-silre to land a regular place on the
: DEBATE was picked up by Savage on
the sand lots of Kansas City He was
brought to Topeka last spring put
baltimore, then manager OF the ciup'
did not think him experienced enough
and sent him to the Northern league
where he gained a national reputa ION
Nv his hitting. He was brought back
here late in the summer and made all
of the rest of the local infield, except
Goodwin, look like hunks OF cheese.
i since the Cardinals began tnelr
trsining at Hot Wells DEBATE has been
on the Job every day showing EN- the
kind of stuff he is made of, ana as an
indication of the impression ne Is
making, the following is reproduced
from the st. Louis Star:
u How He's Getting On.
g The big, lustrous, outstanolhs+ 1t
t.,re of the recent engagements at ftol
Wells has been the splendid hlttlhg'
fielding and base running OF Clyoe
Dictate, the recruit second dse e,.II
-purchased by Scott Eddie Herr from
The Topeka club of the western
sdn,r,,a Defate garnered one hit, a
single. out of four times up the other
Lav Yesterday he hammered out Two
-screeching doubles in four EFFORTS: ne
was deprived of a triple on ms ina !isa
essay when Left Fielder Bagedn VI tlf so
G2ronchos leaped about fou-. rect OH
- lr,oI'nd and speared his long liner
off the fence. ia 4,,o 1ifa
mt of the Texas Leaguers every tlIle
sy1e cot on base The veteran OLeary
.t.joS tinne after time to catch him off
second in the fourth and nlntn IN
.ninqs of last Sundays game, but De
fate was right on his toes and slld
hack to the base safely on every at
tempt to trap him. desplte me 60
that he was usually about thirty rect
awav from the cushion when O'Leary
called for a throw.
Is He a LajOie?
DEBATE is n right-handed inter. ne
@has a Dair of shoulders that bulge out
like pumpkins in a flour sack: he
swings the heaviest bat IN the Caru InL
as tho it was only a broomSt1ck- ms
stride is about eighteen inches, just
enough to enable him to- preserve MS
balance as he takes a good, sharp cut
at the ball. In the helu ne mas inc
graceful. swinging motion character
-istic of Larry Lajoie. His fielding
has none of the spectacular. but he
covers the territory in bang-up style
REGARDLESS of the fact that he does no
appear to be hurrying.
in the ninth inning of last Sunday
game, DEBATE. saved the Cards from
certain defeat The Bronchos had a
runner on second and two down. Earl
Dunckel. the leading swatter OF
tOLeary's team, poked a harsh
grounder thru the box. The smash
s would have torn a leg off Lefty Me
haus if he had not jumped out of the
way. Every one in the park thought
the drive was a clean single, but De-
fate got the ball about ten feet in
back of second and whipped it to first
in time to retire the San Antonio fence
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