The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
Where they play Tuesday:
lola. at Topeka.
Pittsburg at LeaVenWorth.
Springfield at Sedalia-
Fort Scott at Joplin


If Sunday baseball is played in To-
peka, under the contemplated new
management, this city will become the
best paying town in the Missouri Val
ley league. The best are now Topeka,
Springfield and Sedalia. The present
fifty-fifty division Of the gate receipts
should and Will in all probability be
changed 1t is not fair to those owning
franchises in the best towns to have TO
support the rest of the league Sunday
baseball in Topeka would mean crowds
ranging from 1000 to 5000 people, and
to give the visitors half of this does
not seem exactly equitable. In the
Western league the home team gets 60
per cent and the visitors 40 per cent
This rule has been decidedly satisfac-
tory and ought to be used in the Mis-
souri, Valley. There was considerable
objection this spring to the $3.50 plan
which was inaugurated by President
Shiveley. But the argument put forth
in it's behalf was that the league could
not hang together unless such an ar
rangement were made and carried out.
That was the reason it was instituted.
But baseball is a business and the men
who worry and work with it, should
be compensated. If a town pays good
money for the sport, the promoters
should get the benefit and not such
towns as are unable to even pay their
operating expenses
1t is limited that the sporting writer
of the morning paper will shortly leave
Topeka. 10 take a place as sporting ed
itor Of the New York Sun
The recent attempt of the authorities
at lola to legally stop baseball in that
city cost the county $3.50 and was a
failure. The court held against the
contention of the prosecuting attorneys
all the way through.
John Ulmer, a pitcher who has been
at Oklahoma City all spring, was in
structed tc report at Fort Scott by the
last official act of Jake Benz Ulmer
started Immediately. Up near the Kan
sas line he got into a railroad wreck
and while taking dinner at a hotel. the
house was quarantined for smallpox
After TIKI &c weeks Ulmer was released.
He is stil looking for job.
There is a story on the circuit now
that Red" Craig will not go to
Springfield to pitch, but will return to
Ferris, Texas, to run semi-profession-
al team. He was with Dallas all spring
and purchased his release He IS In the
Valley circuit now looking for players.
Big Cyrus Stinson has gone back to
Pittsburg, where he was last year, and
not to Springfield at first reported. He
quit the Pirates last year one day after
pitching a to 1 game Of q innings, in
which he came out the victor. For IL
innings not a hit was found off his de-
livery while in the remaining ten he
was touched for three litde ones. After
this performance Cy got bslligerent and
wanted a big raise in salary. Upon its
refusal he asked for his release and it
was given TO him without demurrer.
Roy Bevis got into the game with Sc
dalia on last Friday for the first time
since he broke his hand He initiated
his new start with an errorless game
on three chances, and by hitting twice,
one of which was for two sacks
There are a few people who cannot
be fooled by having it said that Arm
strong is a good player" President D.
NJ. Shiveley. one of the most competent
and level headed baseball men in the
west says this of Armstrong: He is a
bird and a cracker-1ack." Hornaday of
Fort Scott pleaded for him Shorty
Hurlburt calmly adds: I'll take him
any minute, you can bet"
lola has a new left handed pitcher
by the name of Ed Wilkerson. South
paws are now considered as necessary
to a baseball team as soap is on wash
day.
When the baseball days are done, and
after Doc Shiveley has handed over the
pennant to the victorious aggregation,
it would be an interesting thing to
write a chapter on the Valley umpires.
When the season started out six weeks
ago Owen, Regan, Flynn and Frank
lyn handled the indicators. Shiveley
thought he had picked out good ones.
Two weeks was all that Flynn could
stand. During a series at Pittsburg
he drew all his pay and wired Shiveley-
wife hurt in a wreck Have gone"
That was the last heard Of him Frank
Iyn was so abominably bum and scrap
ned so continually with the players
that his money coming to him was liz
Undated after three weeks of service
and he was sent out into the cold The
finale which brought about his dismissal
was never written. On the last Sunday
in May, Just before the Topeka Spring
field game. President Shiveley, Shorty
Hurlbut, Umpire Franklin and sew
eraI ball players were standing in Hurl-
butts poolroon fin Springfield talking
baeeF,sIT The day before HurIbut is