The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23
Where they play Sunday:
Leavenworth at Topeka
Sedalia at Fort Scott.
lola at Springfield.
PittSburg at Joplin,

Tomorrow, July "a, the first Sunday
game of league baseball, since 1897,
will be played in Topeka. The event in
itself and the new park will furnish
much of the inducement for a record
breaking crowd. For the team itself,
it is hard to say anything. To initiate
them with hot air and gasoline would
be suicide = the fans know bet
ter. For time the fans
have known the pennant to be a will
o-the-wisp, now they know it to be
an impossibility. Instead of asking for
winning team, they now negate even
this negative: Can we ever WING"
Hope is like the foam on a sea wave,
it is broken with the next change of
the waters. That is the feeling which
Topeka now entertains for it's team.
Yet in the face of all that the people
keep going out, day after day, because
they want to see baseball and are will
rather than have none at ALL If that is
the Topeka Spirit than the worm
must turn. A new management will be
secured-the cry is too general for the
directors of the association to not heed
it. An infusion of backbone and cold
blood will come with the next few days
it may be here already. The fans are
not ungrateful to those who have
worked hard without compensation to
start the team, but they see now that
in order to keep it going, experienced
men must be obtained. The people OF
Topeka are asked for the sake of the
for the sake of having the sport here
next year and the one after-for the
sake of putting the city itself into such
a relative position with other cities as
it should maintain with regard to en-
tertainments of which sport is fac
tor, to come out to the game tomorrow:
to pay the double price of so cents, IL
not as an admission to see the game,
then as a contribution to the cause.
The interest in the game is aHak tned
as never before, the town is ripe for
good baseball and town must be going
to keep 1t.
The Fort Scott Tribune tells this
story on Ritter and Killflay now mere
with the Leavenworth team. The FORMER
pitched Thursday and the latter FRIDAY.
The tale follows:
There was no extra charge for the
prize fight that came off at the base
ball park yesterday afternoon but the
attendance would have been just as
great if a ticket had been required to
gain admission to the interior of the
grandstand where the pitchers Ritter |
and Killalay came to blows The twlrl- !
ers each demonstrated the power and
accuracy of their whips and some jeff |
Fftz jabs were landed in the solar
plexus or on the tip of the chin, hard
breathing apparatus possessed by a |
yearlin' calf. The trouble arose oyer
Killalay showing some Of the other
players into Ritter. 1t was probably
and the fun hadn't gone very far until |
he called Killalay a bad name.
"They squared off and began mixing
freely. They swung lefts and rights I
with intense rapidity and with such |
force as to cause the spectators to mar |
vel at their staying qualities. After |
punching each other until they were |
about tired their friends interfered and |
the crowd dispersed. The scrap occurr- |
ed underneath the stand, in the alley |
leading to the bleachers. The men left
town seemingly on speaking terms and !
will probably know each other more |
hereafter and will therefore
get along better"
Now Pittsburg is trying the ban
ouet idea 1t fed its team last Tues
day evening, hoping, hoping. The
idea will get chronic among the tall |
enders. Wonder if it doesn't make
some of the leaders sore that they are
TOO good to have to be petted.
From the lola Register: "a story
was started last night that there was
danger of lola losing her franchise.
There is nothing in the story. Her