The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-31

City in November. The franchise now
belongs to the association. If it
proves necessary, shall come to To-
peka and make that matter clear
A meeting of the Baseball Park as
ISOLATION has been called for the Cope
land hotel at s o'clock tonight. Both
President Sheard and Secretary Logan
are members of the directorate of the
park ASSOCIATE They will be present
at the meeting tonight.
There was sort of informal agree
ment between the Topeka Baseball as
ISOLATION and the Ball Park association,
which the latter body will call into evil
dence. When the park was built, it
put the money into the new park, that
they were in a sense to father the
baseball association, and baseball in
general in Topeka Their money built
the park. made Sunday baseball pos
Sible and made it a paying institution.
They are asking Mr.. Sheard to now
show nis hand.
W. E. Drechsel and Curtis Bailey, two
members of the Ball Park association
directorate, are in favor of taking the
park away from the Topeka Baseball
association next year, and the establish
ment of a Western League team in To-
range of possibility, due principally to
the fact that under the National
Agreement two different leagues can
not exist in one city at the same time,
unless the first there gives the second
q right to operate a team. Then Mr..
Sheard is one of the principal stock
holders in the Ball Park association. He
owns $500 worth of the stock and nat
uraIly has a good deal to say when
things come to a showdown, as he
ought to nave.
But from all this it may be conjec-
tured by the ordinary layman in base
ball matters how high the feeling has
run against Mr.. Sheard's apparent
re Ion, in of
peka Baseball association One man
who put money into the team and also
into the park, says that lnasmucn as
MI Sheard made what he calls the
June, that his act was premeditated
and that it was done Intentionally in
the view of his finally getting control
of the association.
Legal advice was taken today from
several lawyers in regard to MI
Sheard's right to claim the franchise.
1t was alike, namely, that any man
who had put FIVE cents into the Topeka
Sheard for any profits which the as
ISOLATION might make, and right to
voice in any council regarding the
handling of its affairs
But in the face of all this Mr.. Sheard
stoutly maintains that he owns the
association. president Shiveley trans
ferred it to myself and Mr.. Logan,
said Mr.. Sheard this morning. 1T is
ours ana we lnIellu 10 Keep IL w { {
not going to allow anybody to butt in
and take away from us what we have
made a success"
But other people helped, other peo-
pie gave money, and they are mighty
apt to kick was suggested to him.
% their kicks" was his reply.
But it will be uD to him to answer
the Ball Park association tonight.
That body feels that faith has been
broken somewhere. They feel that by
the building of the park they made
baseball a genuine go. They understood
that they were to be taken into the
baseball association, or that the two
were to be merged. and that every eff
fort was to be made to give Topeka
good baseball. They declare emphati-
cally against a money making venture.
A telegram was sent to President
Shiveley at noon today. asking him to
be at the Ball Park association meet
ing tonight. Further than that, in
formation concerning the meeting was
given to the newspapers in Topeka, so
that the wrong ones may get in line