The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-05
Where they play Saturday:
lola at Topeka
Fort Scott at Joplin.
Sedalia at Springfield.
PittSburg at LeaVenWOrth,

A special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer from Omaha contains the fol-
lowing:
President Sexton, of the Western
League, will call meeting of baseball
magnates in Chicago next winter to
discuss and act upon a plan he has
formulated looking to the organization
of every minor baseball league of the
second class in the country and the re-
districting of the entire baseball terri
tory between the Atlantic and the Pa
cific coasts. The leagues affected by
this plan are:
THE Eastern, the American Associa-
ton, the Western and the Pacific Ma
tfonal. The plan in detail contemplates
more belts, the best cities of each belt
to be allied in one league regardless OF
the present affiliation and each league
to be supreme in its territory.
Under Sections plans the Eastern
will extend further east and take in
eight cities able to support b class
baseball The American Association
will occupy the territory, west of the
belt occupied by the Eastern and east
of a line running north and south
through Chicago. The Western will oc-
cupy all the territory between the Chi
cago line and west bank of the MIS-
SQUIRT river. Denver, Colorado Springs,
Pueblo and other western cities will be
another zone, and here will be an OPP
ening for a new league that will take
in these cities, together with Cripple
= H.
or two other cities now in the Pacific
National. Salt Lake and two or three
other clubs of the league are SO far east
that the travelling expense Will be a
factor there also. The Pacific National
can take in other coast cities and be
better equipped to buck the Pacific
coat organization.
cit is a great undertaking, will en-
tirely deface the present minor league
map, but President Sexton has conf1d-
ed his plan to magnates of several OF
the leagues that would be affected ana
their Endorsement has been almost I'M
animous."
There are two chances of this propos-
ed rule to affect Topeka and the Mis-
souri, Valley league. President Shiveley !
Joseph and Lincoln into his circuit next
year, which would put the Valley into
the same class, namely &C., with the
Western league, and would therefore
confine to the Valley to a belt, as
spoken of in the Enquirer dispatch. |
From this nothing will come, because
the Valley league has no aspirations
outside of the banks of the Kaw and
to DE considered, and while it is mere
it is worth thinking about.
ION the table, of the Western league
proceedings lies motion to include To-
peka in the Western league If Sunday
ball can be played here. This was
made this spring at Sioux City, and
was laid over to be considered at the /
fall meeting at Omaha By this divis-
ion of the minor leagues into belts,
both Colorado Springs and Denver are
taken away from the Western league,
leaving that circuit with only four
clubs, instead of the desired eight. That
puts the Western league up against the
of getting new towns. To
go north would mean big railroad bills,
the very thing which President Sexton
is trying to wipe out So the natural
;0I, Lana /
mates would do, would be to look
towards Topeka and Lincoln. They
don't want to get into Kansas City,
because the American Association team
the head, is too tough a proposition to
buck up against. 1t will simply put
the Western league "out town hunt
ing and this city lies right squarely
in the belt.
All the Kansas state papers are hav-
ing fun with Topeka over Judge Ha-
zen's decision allowing Sunday ball.
Here is a Jolt from the Manhattan Ma
tionalist: I'm a case involving the To-
peka baseball club, Judge Hazen has
decided that the Kansas law does not
forbid playing ball on Sunday. But
since the Topeka team has not played
ANYTHING resembling baseball this year
ii is not likely they could be held under
any law unless it might be the act for
bidding the obtaining of money under
false pretenSeS.
Baseball students who never saw the
Fort Scott team, brought here from st.
Louis by Jake Bene early in the sea-
son. can get a fair idea of its makeup
bv putting its players on the same foot
ing with Lining, just released from
The Saints. Lining, like the whole Bene
! ggrega ton came from the trolley
eague in the Worlds fair city. 1t is
heir first year in league playing under
The National agreement Several of
hem made good with Fort Scott, but
the majority went back to the Mis-
souri, metropolis. Lining has been
found wanting here, not because he
1919 the stuff in him hut hecause he