The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
MAY SELL WHITE SOx.
Prospect for Change in Ownership of
Ban Team.


II the present plans mature, the To-
peka White Sox may have new own
ers By the end of next week The
negotiations have not yet advanced far
enough to give names and details.
suffice it to say that through mid
ole man. four of the best known pat
Lons OF baseball in this city, asked T.
II. Sheard and w. E. Logan this morn
ing 70 name the price for which they
would sell their franchise. The latter
offered a figure, unoficiaIly, and
though it is q little high, will probably
meet with the approval of the pros
pect1Ve purchasers.
Mr. Sheard would not make a def
mite statement as to the sum which he
would ask. To a question on the mat
ter, he replied
es, III sell # I get decent figure
Tor It. I'll sell anything. I'm in the
tlon IS made US we are willing to let
go OF 1t. I Will not say anything, how
ever regarding the price until have
talked to Mr. Logan
w F. Logan, secretary of the COM
panys was then seen. He said that hs
deemed $1,000 for the franchise, and
$3.50 for the improvements on the
park which are being made in the
shape of additional grandstand and
bleacherS a satisfactory figure to him.
Understand he said, IT do not say
this officially. but only so far as I am
myself concerned. It appears to me
that if the lola franchise was worth
$500 at the end of last season, that the
franchise in Topeka ought to be worth
at least 81 900. Then we are building
the extra bleachers and grandstand.
Properly the latter would have be-
longed to the Park association, but it
did not feel safe to put them up this
year, so we did it ourselves, because we
nave been losing money! on big days
for lack of seating capacity
Upon being apprised that the men
who would like to buy the franchise
have plenty of financial backing and
want to take the team not so much as
a money making prosposition as for
the purpose of giving the city better
baseball, he said:
s"That is all right with me. I am
perfectly willing. That is the way
feel about the thing. I want the town
to have baseball first, last, and all the
time. If some other men in this town
think that they can do better than we
have done, they are welcome to take
the franchise"
The men Who are dickering for the
ownership of the team are well known
in this city, and can get plenty of
money to support the team Yet
they are not planning to have a repe-
tition of "Goldsby's Giants in which
so many Topeka patrons had theil
fingers burnt for a considerable amount
OF money.
If they get the team they will han
Ute II On d sane OASIS. 1n0II nISl IL
ton will be to get some good, honest
manager, to whom they can entrusi
the whole matter. He must be both
d business and a baseball genius.
For the purpose of getting the best
results the plan is to fix up an ad-
visory board of well-known fans in
this city, whose recommendation and
suggestions will be listened to.
The scheme of getting control of the
team has been in Matching for some
time. The wretched condition of the
White Sox the past few weeks has
spurred them on more than ever to
get the franchise and give this city
the best in the circuit, value received
for the money which it pays into the
box Office.
The present team is a failure. that
has been demonstrated. 1t needs 6
wholesome revision. Acting upon the
suggestion in the Topeka State Jour
nal on Thursday night Secretary Lo-
gan yesterday. teIegraphed to the de-
funct Pacific National League to see il
some good players cannot be secured
He had received no answer yet this
afternoon.
The attendance at the park has been
falling off gradually, and Topeka will
lose its splendid reputation for good
patronage unless something is done
DrettV quickly.