The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
Where they play Wednesday:
Topeka Ono game-open date.)
Leavenworth at FIT. Scott.
Joplin at Pittsburg.

IF Abbott sticks as baseball men
say, either Schrant or Corr will have
to go. The latter will probably be
the victim. While the soldier is bet
ter catcher than big john" the med
icine man can bat. or at least has a
reputation of being great hitter. He
has not put the %. E. d." on that
statement in Topeka this year, how
ever. At catching he is without ques-
ton Corr's inferior. Just as two years
ago, Schrant is unable to catch foul
flies which drop in his triangle. In
Sundays game he staggered all around
two of them again, southeast by north
west, northeast by southwest, and sew
eral other ways, with the result that
ball dropped behind him both times.
He is too unwieldy. At first he played
a fair game but occasionally dropped
throws which were stuck right into his
NIT. Corr caught well. He stuck his
fingers into the sphere when it went
foul behind the bat and froze onto
it. The pitchers say that he helps
them a great deal-and that's a COM
pliment which any cage man likes to
have. At hitting the soldier has done
well, too. But the management don't
like him-and that Topeka manage
nent knows -?-i But he cannot
play any other position and inasmuct
as Schrants reputation is bigger than
Corr's work, the patrons might just
as well accept the inevitable. There
is only one hope, and that is that Abb
bolt doesn't make good. And then you
would get in trouble for saying that
G.. C. Clemens employed by the To-
peka baseball association as its attor-
ney in the threatened suits for play
ing Sunday baseball, stated this morn |
ing that if he should fail in getting
a temporary injunction, he would take |
the case before the United States Court |
of Appeals to Judge Phillips and getl
a restraining order against the COM |
pIainants for destroying a business in
which over $4,000 is. involved. I'm |
less value of the latter amount is |
represented in the facts, the federal
court will turn Il deaf ear and not |
permit a case to be made up.
Roy Bevis has the Topeka manage
ment bluffed now. The versatile field |
er wired the Topeka management Mon
day night that he will come here for |
$110 a month and transportation from
Sedalia for himself and his wife. With /
the Goldbugs he is getting $50, which
he also received here earlier in the
season. 1t is about time for Man
ager Sheard to make up his mind that
a ball player will always stick an extra
Xxx or two on his own proposition
as to the amount of salary. He al
lows leeway for a cut 1t is dollars
to doughnuts that Bevis would come
here for sos or 500 a month if some
body who knows something about
baseball went after him. AS it is, the
simply shakes its head
and says NAY, nay, Pauline" and lets
the cat die at that.
The Sedalia Capital is seeing the
light, too: Some of the score keep F.,
ers in the Missouri Valley league
towns have been in the habit of call
ing everything that goes into the field
a hit if the home team does it. Fat Il
tening the assist column is another
favorite pastime of the scorekeepers."
Harry Corbin, the Orioles backstop
and shortstop, who has been playing
with Sioux City under assumed
name has been ordered by President
Sexton to return to Leavenworth.
stating that some of his relatives were
very i'll. A little light on the sub
iect revealed that he had gone back
to his friends in the Western league.
But two clubs in the league still
have the same manager-captain with
which they started out They are Dud
Risley at lola, and Johnny Fillman at :
Joplin. Topeka has had three, AL
oerts. Cole, Schrant. Leavenworth has
has four, Orrendorf, Gates, Corbin, !
Lee. Pittsburg has had three. Bald ,
win, Abbott, Terrence. Springfield
has had two, Smith. Perrine. And the
reasons have been various, all the way
rom turning out poor teams to vague
1ints at Incorporate habits.
Since the management is trying to t
make up its mind to play out the sea-
son with the team which it now has,
it had better at the same time start I
right out to get an aggregation to- !
gether for 1905. There are two rea- I
sons why such a step should be taken.
Topeka must have a good team next
season and the present one is incom- I
petent. And nothing else than a win
ming aggregation will suit the rooters q
next summer. They have put uo with
canned goods all this year and some ,
fresh fruit had better been placed on
the table before them. To get a good
team for next year, work must be .
now and. not next spring. 5
The molasses gait of the management I
needs a fire under 1t. President Sheard I
says that he will take no steps to get I
players for 1905 until this season is .
over. Look at this from 7