The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-21
Where they play Friday:
Leavenworth at Topeka.
lola at Springfield.
Pittsburg at Joplin.
Sedalia at Fort Scott.

Fred Palmer, manager of the Western
League at st. Joseph, Mo-, in 1897, has
notified President Shiveley that he will
put a Valley League team in Kansas
City, Kan, in 1905 if the franchise is
granted him. Palmer is an old expert
enced baseball man and knows the
business from A to q. The Kansas side
| of the big metropolis by the junction
of the Missouri and Kawis reckoned on
| by baseball men as a good proposition
for the Valley. The American Associa-
| ton is an unpopular institution in Kan
sas City. George Tebeau owns it and
the team at Louisville, KY, also. That
kind of baseball ownership never suit
ed anybody. While the Blues were
playing with the Colonies there on
Tuesday, one Kansas City fan remark
| it makes little difference. Tebeau
wins either way" That is just about
the amount of spirit which the Kansas
Cityans have for their team. The
American Association is also getting
poor crowds. Palmer's request for a
franchise will state that the park will
be located in Kansas City, Kan, where
there is no professional team at the
present time. 1t ought to be a good
thing. The wise ones are also saying
that, St. Joe, Mo-, will be in the Valley
circuit next year. The financial end of
it in the Josie town is getting a bad
black eye in the Western league, and
the baseball promoters there wish to
go into league where the expenses are
less. The jump to Denver costs money
in the Western league and has done
more to knock the wadding out of the
treasury of the clubs than anything
else. Lincoln is about ripe for profess
sional baseball again and has been
making overtures to the Western league
for admission. But if Kansas City,
Kan. and st. Joe are secured, Lincoln
would probably smile good big smile
on a Valley proposition. The entry Of
ST. Joe and Lincoln are of course tine
tured with a good deal of conjecture,
yet the officers of the league seem to
have something up their sleeves on
that subject which they will not let go
of until the fall meeting. Some of the
cities in the present circuit will have
to be dropped. They would not be hard
to name. In fact this paper did name
them once, and they have not yet re-
covered from having some one tellthem
what they look like. But sufficient
unto the day." etc.
In the SpaIding Baseball Guide for
this season, the name of Frank Kelley |
secretary of the Topeka City Railway
company appears as manager of the
Topeka baseball team in the Valley
League.
On next Sunday every person who |
buys a score card to the game at the |
new park will receive a picture of the |
baseball team, printed on glazed card |
board, size ten by eight. charge of |
ten cents will be made. The team had
its picture taken for that purpose on |
Wednesday afternoon.
Manager Hurlburt has informed his |
Springfield team that he would fine |
the first man $25 whom he catches |
drinking liquor. The team played |
the Midget manager suspected some |
thing.
Lee Gramley, erstwhile of Wash |
l.. IL ca
was on the bench for talking. He is
considered a good man in the cage.
Joe Roe, Nestor of the Valley
league and one of the fathers of the |
Sedalia team, states that the filming
of Stoner was unjustifable and that it /
should have been put upon Manager
Dick Rohn. "Stoner," said Roe, sis
to ginger up the fellows. and when
the latter wouldn't do it, why he got
mad himself. And in my mind he
had a right to get sore.''
Jake Bene has revived the old
champion Sporting News club and
will now manage them. Most of the
old faces of last year are back. and
honor for 1904 for the amateur
of the worlds fair city
Some of the boys whom he brought
out here for the Fort Scott team are
again With HlHl- 1ney were alto
gether too slow for this league
I'm ready to help vote Fred
and his Fort Scott bunch
out of the league any time" said
Shorty Hurlburt after he had asked
the Giants manager for the release of
4 player whom he has on the black
list and was refused 'I have helped
him in every way, and he won't do a
thing for me. I don't want to be in
the same league with him another
year. He amt doing us any good"
The syndicate which is now rum
ming the team at Pittsburg is already