The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16


President Shiveley gave the follow
ing instructions to an umpire who Of
ficiated here recently and who asked
that his name be not mentioned:
Don't stand for any rowdy tactics
from that Topeka team. 1 have had
enough of their actions. They have
made it so that scarcely an umpire
wants to oficiate for them any more.
If they start it any more, remember
that will back you up in any amount
of their money that you take away
from them"
This here Seigle," said bud Risley
at the Throop hotel this morning, has
lost more games for me than any man
I ever had work for me. He loses the
game in some way or other. His hit
ting is about the craziest that I ever
saw. Time and again in a pinch when
We needed safe one and he was at
the bat, he failed to connect. At
\ Oklahoma City the other day he went
to the bat three times when we had
men on the bases. and were behind the
other side. Could he make a hit? Not
on your life. He didn't even touch
| that ball. But after we were ahead
and three were on bases, what did he
do but slam the pill over the fence for
a home run. In he came, remind you
now, we were ahead before he knocked
threw him SIS. I practically won the
game by stealing second and third
successfully and was then knocked in
| by Hurlburt, but not a penny for me.
He went to the bat once more that
game. Now you big galoot, knock
out another homer and take the
money Up he went and pasted her
out another time. Five more dollars
were added to his pile. Now amt that
the limit -
| Herb Stoner. last year with SedaIia.
and most of this season with Kansas
| City, has been sent to the Louisville
Colonies. Maybe Irwin is trying to
even up with Tebeau.
bud Risley, captain of the Oklahoma
| City team will play on the coast this
fall, probably with Seattle. Speck
Hurlburt will probably go to the
Cleveland Americans next year. He is
| being dickered with.
| The theory of using the double UNI
| extent over the Western association
circuit for next year. 1t ought to be
| dropped before it goes any further.
The system has been used almost ex-
cluSively this season in the National
league and there have been many just
| ly founded complaints against the de-
cisions made. While this of course
may be placed to some extent against
seems that a more even distribution of
| the functions of the two arbiters would
make both of them more useful in de-
fining very close plays. The only
mention in the rule book of the divided
function in the same game is as fol-
| lows: Rule At: eff two umpires be
assigned to a game the assistant UNI
pire shall decide all plays at first and
second bases" If this taken as close
| ly bounding the function of the second
u.a, n . he does not have enough to do.
But tnen the system is bad anyway. 1t
sh1fis responsibility. 1t is like two
EN- Sfoyes doing the work of one, which
usually means that the tasks are never
done properly or without wrangle as
| to their respective portions. If the
second umpire is to look after only
first and second base he might as we'll
be out of the way entirely, for one
man can attend to that as well as the
rest of the work.
Before August % we can expect to
see a general scurrying of contract
| jumpers to get back under the pro-
| tecting folds of their deserted teams
in order to escape the blacklist law re-
Gently adopted by the national COM
mission. All recalcitrants who fail to
rejoin their clubs by that date will be
debarred from organized baseball for
all time after. Legislation in the past
against contract jumping has been
farce. The punishment of the in
subordinate player has been left to the
officials of the club, and he has moth
ing more to fear from jumping than
fine. Jumpers have left their teams on
the slightest pretext, knowing that they
could return when they felt good and
ready and often at an increased sal
ary According to personal inquiry
! from among managers, the only men
| who have jumped their contracts in
| the Western association this year are
Pitcher Nelson of Leavenworth; Short
stop McCreight of Springfield, and
| Centerffelder Wissner of Springfield.
Manager Joe ZoelIers of the Highlands
said that he did not think enough of
the two men who left mis- gang to go
after them. In the spring of the year
i the Leavenworth newspapers an
nounced that Nelson had left while un-
der contract and was playing indie
pendent ball at Las Vegas, N. NJ,
where he had a good job on the side.
So it is doubtful If any of the three
will be pursued with the blacklist law.
| Just one more plan has been evolved
which is intended to solve the much
discussed problem of baseball-how to
bring about more batting. Joe Can
tilIon, owner manager of the st. Paul
club of the American association and
holder of an honorable mention for
| the Cardinal rnanagership, is the au-
| thor of this latest plan. One of the
beauties of his scheme is that it is in
no wise radical and for this reason will
| invite consideration. Canti1lons idea
| is merely to amend the present foul
strike rule so that all foul balls that
dropA behind a line drawn across the
home plate at right angles to the line
from the pitchers box shall not be