The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
Where they play Saturday:
: Leavenworth at Topeka
Sedalia at Fort Scott.
Pittsburg at Joplin.
lola at Springfield.

One of the best known umpires on
the circuit, who is very close to Pres
ident D. M. Shiveley and knows the
plans of that official better than prob
| ably any other Valley league man,
states that the plans for next years
| circuit are as follows: THE Valley
! league may consist of these towns, To-
i peka, Springfield, Leavenworth. Jop-
| lin. Kansas City, st. Joseph, Wichita
| and Oklahoma City OF course to say
| this now would bring down a lot of
bowling from the towns that are to
be left out in the cold. 1 shall go
after the Wichita franchise myself and
think I can land it. Oklahoma City
has it's forfeit money ready any old
time. The st. Joseph baseball people
are now dickering with the. Valley
league for a franchise, and Fred
Palmer is contemplating putting in
team at Kansas CITY,. The towns that
circumstances are Sedalia, FIT. Scott,
lola and Pittsburg. The meeting this
fall at Kansas City promises to be
a mighty interesting one. 1t will be
crucial in the affairs of the Valley
league. Today this league is as strong
as the Western, in both playing and
the financial departments. The latter
organization would like to have To-
peka in its circuit and may make an
effort to get it. There has been a
Western league man in Topeka for
the past two days watching this fight
over the franchise. You just mark my
souri, valley and territory around it,
will be decidedly different in 1905 than
it was this year"
Sisler, once Saint and now with
Leavenworth, tells the sad story of his
downfall as a Miner in this manner:
81 had a few too many under my belt
one night over in Joplin, and tried
to make a record on a punching ma
chine, with the result that I almost
broke my right arm. thought my
wing was gone altogether, and one
day when the management got a little
personal, told the boss to go to -. 1
got my walking papers, and now 1 got
my arm back. Playing just as good
ball as ever and the sea is rolling
lovely"
Corbin has been engaged to run the
finishing the season in control this
year but can do little. Corn-juice made
havoc among the Orioles this year.
An effort will be made to cut that out
next year. "Oh, it did things to u.s.
said Corbin sadly. The latter is good
ball player and fine specimen of a
sportsman. If anybody can put the
Leavenworth team on it's feet he can
do it. Just what he will do for next
year is still unsettled. Nickel, the
Orioles crack batsman and center
fielder. goes to Kansas City to join
Fred Ulrich will try out with Column
bus in the American association. Eli
Gates declares emphatically that he
twill not be in that - town of Leay-
enworth another year. The loss of
these four men practically cuts the
heart right out of the Oriole bunch.
OF course Mr.. Corbin can get more
men for next year. But any one of
this quartet is hard to duplicate.
In speaking of the franchise owner
ship trouble which has disturbed the
Topeka baseball world for the past sew
eral days the Sedalia Sentinel mas the
following: valley league franchises
are not going begging, as some would
suppose by the discouraging reports in
some of the papers over the circuit to
the effect that there would be no Valley
league in 1905, but the contrary.
there appears to be a little grabbing in
duIged in in certain towns, in effort to
get these privileges. Conditions in Sc
dalia are similar to those at Topeka,