The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-17

A good bunch from the Wichita
Beacon: Poor Tom Sheard and poor
Mr. Baker of Joplin, are both paving
the atmosphere frantically because the
Jobbers are walking off with the pen
nant- Tom is sore. He has right to
be sore. He has hired and discharged
enough ball players since the season
opened to have a pennant team in the
American association and at present he
hasn't even got an excuse for team.
And Baker! He's SO grouchy that he
never did have a team. He hired a lot
of boys who make their home in and
around Joplin Their pay is very low
because they can't get any more. Bak-
team in the. association and he has,
both in price and in looks. He only
paid the Indian, Morris, half salary
when he was sick, when, according to
should have paid him in full, the same
as Bennett and Murray of the Wichita
team received during their absence
from the game. Baker brought his
bunch to Wichita on the 9Th of this
month and despite the fact that they
played a rotten game, Baker came out
ahead to the amount of $500 and to
show his appreciation for this he
wouldn't even furnish the Jobbers with
ice water for last Thursdays game at
Joplin. When O'Leary protested from
the bench he sent an officer over to
remove him from the grounds. And
the officer got the laugh from fourteen
Wichita baseball players. O'Leary
told him to run on and sell his papers
and when he returned to report to
Baker. Umpire Regan ordered the
copper off the bench and the great
guardian of the law had to move in
hurry for once in his life. Baker also
had thirty policemen, of all national
tiles, at the park during Thursdays
game to prevent riot, not among the
Wichita players, but among his own
bunch and the patrons. Baker pro-
tested to kimmeu because the Wichita
players abused him for lack of ice
water, but KimmeH gave him a few
pointers on how to use ball player.
A manager who is too close to furnish
ice water to a visiting team deserves
the cellar championship in any league.
Now the latest deal of Baker and
Sheard is to make a big howl on Wich-
| ita, because the team is over the salary
limit. Sheard is going to have the
Wichita management fined and Baker
is going to do. more wonderful things.
1t is a well known fact that every base
ball team in the Western association is
over the salary limit. Sheard and
Baker say they are not, but the public
knows that what they have are not
baseball teams. It's a case of sour
grapes and tight pockets. Sheard let
off steam through the Topeka Journal
columns before the opening of the
season about the S65 players that
Kimnell was signing and told a pitiful
| tale of woe about Wichita's having a
lot of college boys and amateurs. He's
taking another view of it now. But
let them kick for that is all they are
going to get out of the race for the
pennant.
the American association next year.
said President Shiveley to Umpire
Lewinson the other day. That means
that Mort will probably be in the Ma
tional league in 1905. Well. he de-
serves to be. They don't make them
much better. He wants to go to man
aging, however, next summer and
quit doing the indicator stunt. While
here during the past few days he has
spoken to Tom Sheard to see if he
White Sox next summer. mo- said
Sheard. ST cannot afford to pay e
bench manager"
ifielders at present-Nagle, Bayless
and Welday. They are all three hard
hitters and hard men to pitch to. Si1
members of the present Baker gans
hit from the left side of the plate.
According to one of the Oklahoma
City players here now, Gene Barnes
will not indulge in baseball another
year. "Gene is, out of it, said this
player. ut has not been a money
making proposition for him. The
town of Oklahoma City has been dis
appointment so far as attendance L
concerned. OF course it is altogether
probable also that we will not be bach
in the league next summer, but in The
Missouri Valley instead. I understand
it is the plan to transfer our fran
chise to Kansas City, Kas. But il
Tom Sheard is wise he will get busy
on Barnes right now if he wants any
Of us for next year. 1t will almost
be like finding money for Barnes to
get dough for some of us right now
from other Western association teams
He will sell now for a reasonable fig
ure, while if the franchise is turned
over to somebody else the new owner
will not be content with anything
short of a big hunk for any of us. i
he will sell at all. I aTn just putting
Sheard or any of the other managers
wise There are some bargains 70 be
had out of the Oklahoma City team
Tt was almost like strea1 Of light
ming from a clear sky to ma Milsap
back with the Oklahoma City Nets
again on "wednesday afternoon. ne
will take care of the first sack for
them. sending Genins to second. Ogee,
1.-THE Indian, will probably be let go.
MiIsap has been working under an
electric fan with ice behind" at lola.
Eut the call from the diamond got tne
best of him and he wrote TO DUO
Rjsley and azkad if he wouldn't De