The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-11
OLD QUAKERS
!, WILL PLAY IN
WESTERN LEAGUE
Red Ainsworth and Art Hau-
ger Form Batteries on
Topeka Club.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April IL
Several new forces will appear when
the Western league opens its 1918
season, May /. Among them will be
the new club owner, Spencer Arthur
Abbott, president OF the Topeka club.
There will be five new managers.
Rudy Hulswitt will pilot Joplin, John
nv Nee will boss the Topeka team,
Bill jackson has been signed to man.
age the Omaha club, and Bert VIII
liams will head st. joseph. Otto ia
cobs may be field manager for Hutch
inson and Elmer Benson may be
made captain, which post he held last
season.
The three veteran managers OF the
league will be "Ducky" Holmes OF
Sioux City. Jack Coffey Of Des Moines
and Joe Berger, of Wichita.
The new club president at Topeka
is veteran player and manager. Alb
bolt has managed several teams at
Topeka, but this is his first venture
as an owner. The only owner-man-
ager of the league will be Holmes. the
original "Ducky' of major league
fame, who has transferred his fran
chise back to Sioux City from Lin
coin.
Besides his new manager, Owner
John Savage Of Joplin will have a
new secretary this year. Harry c.
Spratt, who was secretary for Jack
Holland during Hollands last few
weeks in st. Joseph and during the
last half of the season at Hutchinson,
last year Manager Hulswitt is a
Western league player, who has work
ed in the majors and in Glass AA
leagues for years. He managed the
Columbus club OF the American AS
ISOLATION several years ago.
Johnny Nee Again.
Manager Johnny Nee of Topeka Is
former Central league manager and
is a Missourian, coming from Spring
field. In his three years as manager
of the Dayton club OF the Central
league, Nee won two pennants. He
will bring to the Topeka club several
former Central league stars, among
them Pitchers Haines and Clark OF
Z Springfield, Turner of Evansville and
Ainsworth Of Richmond Catchers
Hanger of Richmond and Kelly OF
Evansville; Infielder Cleveland Of
Springfield. and Outfielder Hanger Of
Evansville In addition he has seven
former Denver players to pick from
among them Third Baseman Wuffli
Nee will play second base.
In Bill Jackson, "Pa" Rourke Of
Omaha has signed the man who sue
ceeded Clarence Rowland as manag
err at Peoria in the Three.I league
Jackson plays first base. He is 6
fighter, and in Peoria he was the lido
of the fans. He expects to land sew
eral Central league players for Oma
ha.
Elmer Benson. captain OF thu
Hutchinson team, is a favorite in tina
town, and his play at second bas'
was strong factor in winning thu
pennant for his team last year. OFT,
Jacobs, who may be made field man
ager, is former Central Lacquer.
Joe Berger Of Wichita and Jacl
Goffey Of Des Moines are both wei
known to Western league fans. Be,
ger went to Wichita in the middle Q
the 1917 season when the Three.
closed. Coffey led Des Moines to tn
1917 championship in a post-seasol
series with Hutchinson. He is pol
ular with the fans and has prove
himself as manager both in De
MoineS and Denver.
The umpires appointed by Pres
dent Dickerson are Spike Shannon Q
ST. Paul. Johnny Mullen Of Pitts
burgh and Con DAILY and Matty Fit;
patrick Of Chicago. The circuit wi
open May l and close Sept. Is. pla.
ing schedule Of 140 games. Th
player limit will be fourteen.
With the spitball and other frea
deliveries banned by the league
President Dickerson now has starte
an agitation to prohibit the use G
steel spikes on players shoes. II
asserts that heavy losses are sustai,
ed each year through players bein
crippled by spikes. He contends tina
other means of securing solid footin
can be devised and the spiking
players stopped