The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-19
Where they play Saturday:
Topeka at Joplin.
Pittsburg at Fort Scott.
Leavenworth at Springfield.


G. L. Rockwell, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce at Oklahoma
City, was in Topeka on Thursday and
made special inquiry into the gossip
concerning the placing of a Missouri
Valley league franchise into Oklahoma
City. When informed that President
Shiveley, favored, such a step. Mr..
would not only be too glad to have a
| team, but would do everything to make
it a paying institution both to itself
and to the league at large. oklahoma
City, said Mr.. Rockwell, will be ready
at any time to take up the matter WITH
the Valley League managers. We should
| like to have a Valley team. We are
now leading the Oklahoma State league
but inasmuch as we have town of
| 80, 900 people with lots of baseball en-
| thuSiaSm, we believe we could make a
valuable addition to the Valley league.
We want to come in and will do every
| thing we can to get a franchise
| Mike welday has been reinstated in
the Joplin team and is back playing
center field. Sisler was released We'd
nesday.
| Nelson, from the Memphis league, is
now pitching for Leavenworth. That
makes the Orioles slant staff a little
stronger. Gates and Corbin are doing
the rest of the work.
with the Leavenworth Valley team, and
then tried to get a job at Topeka, are
playing ball at Coffeyville. 1t is get
ting to be pretty definitely known that
lola, Pfttsburg and Fort Scott may
drop from the league next year, and
Rogers and Flaherty are down in the
gas country working up sentiment for
an Eastern Kansas league, to consist
of those expected to go out of the Val
ley this year, and several other small
towns in that territory. The Coffeyville
Record prints this bit of information
Interesting to Valley league followers:
without a doubt Pittsburg, Fort Scott
and lola will be dropped from the Mis-
souri, Valley league at the end of the
season, and Kansas City, Kansas and
Omaha will be two of the towns that
will step in instead. This, it is said,
will mean a disruption of the Western
league. With the three Kansas towns
dropped from the Valley league it
will mean that new league is to be
born. Emmett Rogers, who has played
in the Eastern league as catcher and
first baseman, and P. Flaherty, former
ly second baseman with Louisville in
the National league, are in the city and
believe that it will be an easy matter
to form a Eastern Kansas league. In
fact they are in the city to get line
on the advisability of launching such an
enterprise. The idea these gentlemen
have in mind is to get a compact cir
cult with towns that will support
team and then stock the league with
league would probably include Coffey-
vile, Pittsburg, Chanute, Cherryvale,
independence and lola. OF course Par
sons would be splendid town for the
circuit and has been flirting with fast
company for some time but is not con-
sidered good baseball town on ac-
count of the location of the grounds"
In the IA to 4 licking which Pittsburg
Goldbugs used four pitchers-Curtis, Bun
ton, Lee and Rohn. They all were |
knocked out.
On wednesday one-half of the players |
of the league were in Joplin at one time. |
1eid were either there on business or |
were passing through. That coincidence |
happened once before this season at Fort |
field all drifted into the Giants town |
about two days after the season started |
Long, Shorty Hurlburt's new shortstop, !
is not panning out very well on paper |
He has played good ball, hut the records /
show six errors IN TOUR games: An he eH or
name of Nichols for the middle place in |
the left wing for the remainder of the |
season.
President Shiveley's threatened suspen-
sion of Schmidt and Zoellers for knock /
Fort Scott about two weeks ago has not /
taken place Both are still in the SPRING
field lineup, despite Shiveley,s statement |
that they must make some sort Of repa- |
ration.
1t is evidently worth a section of a
This effusion from the Record is explana-
tory: 1.-THE nearest thing to a scrap that |
c mas oG Wednesday seigle threw low one
TO Baz1khead which he could not get, and /
a spectator yelled at Bankhead, roasting
him. Millsap threw his big nit down in
q n instant and went after the gentleman.