The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-31

Eldred N. Harrison is the new man..
ager of the Sedalia baseball club. E.
again been elected to the position. Hen
ry Leist will continue as president. He
holds the largest amount of stock.
Vanderbilt, JopIin's catcher, is all right
again and will be back in the game in
a day or two. ''And why shouldn't he
be?" asks Pitcher Smith. Hes been
running around ever since he has been
out there at the pest house and taking
all sorts of exercise. In the morning he
goes out into the wilds and throws
rocks at the birds while in the after
moons he tears up stumps and INDUCES
in log-rOlling to improve his strength.
Vans all right in every way and you
couldn't tell from his appearance that
he had ever had the smallpox"
From the Wichita Eagle: According
to a dispatch from Mexico, Mo-, Red
Clark, formerly a Missouri Valley
Lacquer and later Western Lacquer,
who has been playing independent ball
this summer, will come to Wichita.
Clark is a southpaw and Kimmel had
been after him for some time before he
found Farmer Willett. If the Farmer
proves good Clark will hardly be used,
unless Gehring has to report to Mime
apolis later in the season.
From the Sedalfa :Trestail,
who was with Sedalia about four weeks
ago, coming on from ST. Louis, is now
with Hoisington, Kan, in the Kansas
Stale league. He was knocked out of
the box in the first inning yesterday at
Ellsworth. Those Kansas leaguers GER
tainlS do play baseball with venge-
ance. ~
Oklahoma Tfmes-Journal; The follow
ing notice was posted on the score board
at vickers & Carson's store Friday:
Isl 900 to wager that Oklahoma City
will finish stronger than Wichita"
Wichita Beacon: "Willett, the rural
pheDom, has only been playing ball for
professionally. He has pitched 80
games this year for the small towns
in the southern part of Kansas and
northern Oklahoma and won Is per
cent of them. A short time ago he was
pitted against the southpaw Price, who
tried out with Kansas City and Wich-
ita Price pitched for Anthony and
Willett pitched for Wellington, The
game lasted 16 innings during which
time Willett gave the Anthony batters
only one hit. and Wellington won the
game by a score Of to o. He pitched
at Clearwater on Saturday and Sunday
winning both games, and was leaving
for Great Bend to join the Kansas state
league when Kimmel nabbed him"
Though slated to go out OF the
league next year, the Sedalia fans have
organized a stock company and Will
try to get things to going. Subscrip-
tions are now being solicited. The
Sedalia Capital has this plea in its
Saturday issue: Sedalia never had a
losing ball team and it is assured by
the new company that they viii have
nothing but the best. The team at
present is made up of material that is
fit to win the penndnt, and it would
surprise no one to see them near the
top when the season closes. Next sea-
son will be a banner one for a baseball
team in Sedalia, as the town is grow
ing and getting better all the time,
and by that time the new shops will be
nearly completed and will increase the
population of the city several thous-
and. That is bound to mean better
baseball crowds. and if the baseball
loving citizens of Sedalia do not grasp
the league they will have no one to
blame but themselves.
Roy Bevis will probably go to Min
neapoIis in the American association
next year. Watkins is dickering with
wichita for him now.
Bobby Byrne is doing the bulk of
the receiving for Springfield these
days, Sebeaugh having struck an un-
lucky streak and being out of the
game a great deal of the time with
injuries.
A few more gobs like this from the
Joplin Globe will really make Guthrie
believe that it will win the pennant:
Probably if Companion had been the
B. P. O. E. (Which means best pitcher