The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-31
Where they play Thursday:
Leavenworth at Topeka.
Sedalia at Fort Scott.

1
Dutch" Henry, president of the Sc
dalia baseball team, was in Topeka on
Tuesday for the ostensible purpose OF
1 Strengthening his team by trading with
| the Saints. He first made a proposition
to Manager SheaFd of the Celestia1s to
| give Stoner and McDiH for Big John
| Schrant. This. was turned down cold.
Stoner likes corn Juice too well. and
| McDill has not hit worth a continental
during the last fifteen days. Two good
ones represent about the total gate re-
ceipts for the youngster in that time
Then Mr.. Henry proposed trading Nc
| Dill for Freil, Topeka'S utility man.
But that, too, met with frigid reception.
Mr.. Henry will not leave this town
strengthened with additions from the
Topeka team. He will have to look
elsewhere. He thought that inaSmuch
as Topeka is a tail-ender and practical
ly has the second last place ciinched.
it would not care for the surrender OF
| a good player or two to Sedaiia, to
keep the Gold Bugs from falling out
of the first station. But he forgot that
Topeka is building. for next year, and
will hold every man now on the, team
for 1905.
The fall meeting of the Missouri Val
ley League managers will be held IN
Kansas City in November. At that
time the principal work will be the re-
session promises to result.
Inc S6Qal1a team and 1IS poor pldylHS
has turned the stomach of the Sedalia
papers. The following appeared in the
Sedalia Sentinel on Sunday relative to
the Gold Bug-Pirate game in Sc
the Limit-Exhibitions by the Sedalia
Baseball Team Have Grown Ranker
and Ranker-Not Entitled to Patron
age-Public Has Been Fooled Long
Can a HaIt-what Is the Matter?
Errors, dumb plays and general good
for-nothingness or worse, is the story
of Sundays game with Pittsburg. The
team is not worth the space necessary
to describe it in thi spaper, and SO no
account appears this morning. Inc
Sentinel all season has pushed the sport
but it declines to be a party to taking
money from the public without ade-
Quate return and that is what the Sc
dalia club is doing. The games are
less paying money for that privilege,
and the people of this city should de-
cline to patronize them longer.
From the Topeka Capital: "a. H,
Baker, of Joplin, wants to succeed
Doc Shively as president of the Mis-
souri, Valley league and will be a can ;faI1 :
didate at the meeting next spring s Inc
know Mr.. Baker personally, but any
relief from Snively's administration
would be acceptable. The tnlng tne
Valley league needs most now is to rid
itself of Shively."
To this the Joplin Globe replies: TWO
questions are involved If it is true that
A. H. Baker, president of the Joplin
association, is an aspjrant or would &C
-cept the presidency of the league. Ihe
first question is why there should be a
change, and the second is whether a
better man than Baker could be found
for the place. The answer to the first
is. "There should not" and the answer
to the second is, There could not"
The addition of Pitcher Henderson
of Fort Scott to the lola slab-staff
has aroused some very peculiar talk
over the circuit namely that the
Giants have simply handed Henderson
over to the Gaslighters to help the
latter win the pennant. Springfield
protested Sundays game with lola on
that account. saying that the league
rules do not allow players of the
league to change clubs at this time of
the year
In the way of comment on the two
defeats which Joplin received at the
hands of the Saints last week, and the
only defeats for the Fillmanites by
Topeka for the year, the Joplin Globe
has the following interesting stuff: