The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-11
To Be REORGAN|zED
Kansas State League viii Be
Put on Firm Basis.
TOPEKA WON YESTERDAY
Mass Meeting Called For
Friday Night.

There has been mass meeting called
for Friday night In the city hall to see
II the business men and merchants care
70 continue having a baseball club. On
Tuesday night in Topeka there was
mass meeting called 81 which over one
hundred of the business men there signed
a contract to give IS per month until the
close Of the season in order that their
men at the head of the movement do
not expect 10 ask as much as they did
IN Topeka, but they would Ike to have
a good attendance and see If some kind
OF plan cannot be devised whereby this
city will continue through the balance
Of August and September. Everybody
is urged to come out. Wichita certainly
won't be behind Topeka
The Wichita and Topeka teams left last
evening for Topeka, where Wichita will
play three games, when Topeka will re-
turn here for a series of three games,
opening next Sunday. While In Topeka
Managers McCloskey and Fear will try
and reorganize the Kansas State League
by getting Ottawa and Junction City TO
join. The players who were with the Sa-
linas and Atchison teams will be sent
to those towns to help strengthen them.
Lawrence, Coffeyvile and independence
have been IN Communication with the
Topeka and Wichita arrangements, ask
ing about the details necessary TO come
into the league. Now that Wichita is
Strengthening itself out basebalhcally It
would be a slam on the town to let the
team disband, which II will have 10 do
unless something is done to maintain 1t.
There is something more TO keeping the
present organization intact for the bal
ance Of the season than would at first up
pear. Several men will in all probability
take hold here next season and join the
Western Association and put in fast
team. If it is done it will advertise the
town in a way that it could not be done
In any other manner.
YESTERDAYS GAME.
Yesterdays game was the most excit-
ing of all that have been seen on the
home grounds this season. The bleachers
and cranks yelled themselves hoarse.
They pulled with all their lung power
and 1t was stronger than any old cal
loiope Barnum ever had for victory, but
it failed to perch on the home banner by
one score when it looked like a sure
thing.
1t was the fastest, snappiest, quickest,
most sensational, enervating game of the
year. The home boys played a gallant up
hill game and came very near to record
ing a defeat to "Kid" Fear and his
band of Indians. It started out in To-
peka's favor and 1t stayed that way, but |
it gave the Topeka boys the shakes at |
the last moment. For five innings NJ
Grevey was in fine fettle At the end of |
the sixth inning only two hits had been |
made off him. and not one Wichita boy |
three and out Topeka, in the meantime. |
had faired better. Griffin, the first man |
up, had had two strikes called on him |
when he lined it out for single. Bailey |
hit a bounder to Donovan. who had a |
beautiful chance TO make double play, |
but he proceeded to make an error. |
Rebesman then hit for a single and |
scored Griffin, another hit, by Kreuger, |
scored the big first baseman before the |
side was retired. Not run should have |
been scored. Topeka took another in the |
second inning. They were blanked in
the third, but got two more in the fourth.
For the next three innings they failed to
get man across the rubber. In the eighth. |
with two men out and two on BASES,
Kreuger lifted the ball over the fence for
q home run. Wichita did not score until
the seventh inning. when, with hits by
Spencer and Mayer. together
with an error, two stripped legs tailed. /
They were BANKED in the eighth, but in
the ninth they made five runs. In this
inning Donovan had been given his base
on balls. He went to second on a nice
hit by Menefee. Hoover tried 10 sacrifice
and fouled out 10 first base. Montgomery
was called out on strikes. Still the two
men were on bases and It only needed a
single to tie and probably. 10 win. Nc
Closkey came 10 the bat. The first ball
was a. strike. the second ball, the third
be leaned back and struck the ball into
the shape Of an egg. It was a foul and
Kid" Fear. after a run, caught It and
the agony was over.
There was some splendid fielding in the
game, and the Wichitas did the best.
There were phenomenal stops and catches
made. Hall and Spencer doing the best.
In the second inning Spencer deliberately
robbed Ash OF a hit By a great run and
stop OF his hot grounder. Bailey made a
great catch in center OF Menefee's long
lrlve. Donovan smashed one fair and
square and It hit the trees in right field
ind dropped on the inside Of the fence
md he only got TO first when he should