The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-25
National League Magnates Are
Being Beaten.
Compelled to Adopt Desperate
Measures at Boston.
PLAY DOUBLE-HEADER
And Reduce Admission IN ViO-
IatlOn Of Rules.
Kid Nichols HumbIed by SOden
and C0nant.

New York June 25.-Soden Conant and
Billings have surrendered to the Arnerl-
can league after q vain struggle Tor pa
Eronage and cut the price Of admission 70
1he Boston National league grounds to %
cents. Besides that. IN their desperate
Efforts to retain prestige, they have re-
sorted to playing double headers. but are
still playing to empty benches, While
across the way SOmers' American league
team is packing the grounds At Phila-
delphia. Colonel Rogers has put on double
bills in his fight against the American
league, and only Hart holds out against
the new organization
The American league is claiming victory
over the National already. Johnson eL-
firms that the National league lESsts ltS
IS depleted to an alarming extent " beth
has suddenly awakened 20 the tact tnat
It's tpubiic-be-damned policy mas GRIP
lsied Il in Boston and Philadelphia, ana IS
reaorting to desperate measures
Rogers effected a coup on the American
league on FRIDAY py securing i19 ~ ,, = -
Nings 10 play nrst base, because Mce5rsW
made a fight for him and took him away
from Connie Mack While the america
league magnates We're q9a1feIlns ENo2geIs
stole a march purchased Jennings from
Brooklyn and signed him to play with the
Philadelphia National league team thus
greatly strengthening the Quakers.
NIcCfraw's action in claiming Jennings
american league McCraw never had a
Just or any other kind of title to Jen-
nings. who had accepted Connie Mack
terms Johnson refused to allow Jennings
10 plav in Baltimore. and the latter
Jumped back to the National league.
no show how desperate the National
league magnates are getting only the fact
that double headers are being played IN
philadelphia. and Boston Is needed inc
National league. at its annual meeting
passed a rule forbidding all clubs to play
double headers except on the flnal trip
OF the season. That rule has been Flo-
lated repeatedly. and it is only fair to
suppose that. as a war measure, the
league has taken a secret vote and de-
ctced to reSc1nd the rule. HAD the Boston
National league club cut the price to p
cents at the start Of the war II would
have been a good move. but, after de-
3u Boston and pooh-poohtng the idea that
the American league would meet with
success. the action OF COnant, Soden and
Billings taken at this late date, is merely
q confession that they are whipped.
Boston people are not prone to take up
with things western. but they have given
wonderful support to the American league
team there Collins and his men have out
season and, more than that, when dates
COnf1lcted. and the quickest way TO make
the triumvfrate realize anything Is TO
touch their pOcketbOoSs-
Friday which shows why B0stonians have
no love for Ccnant Billings and SOden-
Kid Nichols, who has been pitching for
them for "a dozen years and whose willing,
Boston has captured. brought a friend to
the game. He entered the ground through
the players gate. approached Soden and
Conant. and asked for pass for his
rowed 90 cents from Frank Seize, and
bought "a ticket for his friend Yet some
people wondered why Collins, Stahl and
others jumped the Boston team when Op-
money to join the American league and
IS refused a pass