The record-union., 1898-07-27
STOCKTON PAPER WORKED UP
"INDEpENDENT'' HAS BASE
BALL MYSTERIES.
Because It's One-Horse Outfit Got
Walloped Here the Paper
Goes Mad.

The 1900 or more Sacramentans who
witnessed the pitiful spectacle the
Stockton baseball team furnished at
Snowflake Park on Sunday will enjoy
reading the following howl, printed in
the Independent" yesterday:
''The Stockton baseball team visited
Sacramento Sunday for the last time,
and from all indications it has played
the final game in the Pacific Coast
League. The management has been
carrying the club under all kinds of
difficulties, and has been compelled to
pay the salaries of the players when
the gate did not begin to meet the ex-
penSeS. Sunday was a chance to
more than pay everything, but Kripp
of Sacramento would not allow Man
ager Campbell to put a man on the gate
to see that all of the tickets We're ac-
counted for, and consequently there
was a deficit when settling-up time
| came.
The team was beat in many ways,
but the most serious was the beat out
of money due it from that taken in
at the gate. The loss of the game was
bad enough, but when money due the
players was taken away from them
there was a howl, and rightly SO. This
man. Ed. Kripp, who has charge of the
park, showed himself to be one of the
| lowest that ever breathed the
breath Of life. He struck Manager
| Campbell when he was talking to him,
and two Of his henchmen who We're on
the gate, joined him and kicked the 10
cal manager after he had tripped over
a piece of wood and had fallen to the
ground.
11I My
arrived at the park Kripp was in
T. j. O'Neill would look out for his in
| terest on the gate. Kripp notified Mr..
Campbell that he could not have man
| watch the gate, Notwithstanding Pres
ident Bert of the League had written
Mr. Campbell that he was entitled to a
representative at the entrance to the
grounds. Kripp commenced swearing,
and assured Mr.. Campbell that no one
would stay on the gate. He said that
the Stockton manager insinuated that
the Sacramento managers were crook
ed and as a guilty conscience needs no
accuser, he did not wait for a reply,
but struck Mr. Campbell, turning him
almost around.
"Kripp's representatives on the gate
took a hand and the three Of a kind did
their best to put the local manager
hors de combat They were so aWk-
ward that few blows were landed be-
fore several of the Stocktonians put in
an appearance and would have given
the trio good beating, but the dunn
my policeman, who witnessed the
whole affair, stepped in at this point
and separated the combatants, though
| he made no effort to stop the trouble
till his push were getting the worst Of
| the affair.
Manager Campbell called his team in
| from the diamond, where the boys We're
practicing, and had them take off their
uniforms, as he had called the game off;
but he finally turned the team over
| to t. j. O'Neill, the Secretary of the
local club for the day, having previous
| ly released all Of the players.
The dispute had taken all the heart
| out of the team, and the boys We're told
! to take their time, as the guarantee
was all that they could count on, as
Kripp would never see another dollar
| leave Sacramento, and it was afterWard
| learned that he was credited with re-
ducing that amount several dollars.
Mr. O'Neill settled up after the
game and, as was to be expected, Sc
cured what the Sacramento gang was
willing to give him. He stated yester-
day that he saw one of them slip 100
tickets out of the count, thus reducing
the gate SD, and there is no telling how
much more was smuggled out Of sight.
1T has been proven that Sacramento
contains some of the crookedest peo-
pie in the West. The Capital City
Wheeelmen had to turn over the relay
trophy on account of smooth work,
the High School football team gave the
local eleven the worst Of it. Now the
baseball club joins or has always be-
longed to the same crowd.
This is the second time that the
Stockton club is believed to have been
given the short end of money mat
ters there, and it will be the last as the
home team Will never play there again
unless this affair is Strengthened out.
If Kripp and his stripe Of people are
to control this League and beat the
teams out Of their just dues, this city
will drop out of the combination at
once 1t is useless TO attempt to pay
the players and lose the benefits of
| large gates.
The entire matter will be placed be-
League, and with them rests the re-
| sponsibility Of keeping the League to-
gether Stockton will not play another
| game till this matter is settled. All Of
| the players have signified their inten-
ton Of standing by the management,
and no bunko work will go hereafter
Either the management will have a rep
resentative on all gates or the team will