The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-14

stock company which is now being
organized. Mr.. Leist will see to the
team until the organization of the new
company is completed and lines will
who it is thought will add strength to
the team.
From the Sedalia Capital: Topeka
for the release of Dick Rohn recently,
and made a big cash offer, but now
they have Blackburn, and the fans of
the Kansas town are willing to stake
their all that the big ball tosser is the
best first sacker in the league.
Joplin has lost its fast little mana
ger captain, Johnny Ffllman. Irwin of
the Kansas City Blooz has gobbled
him as the following from q Kansas
City paper indicates: TIE game to-
day may celebrate the first appear
ance here of -Ffilman whom Manager
Irwin has signed to play one of the
inf1eld positions. Fillman played yes
terday for Joplin of the Western asso-
citation in game with Oklahoma City.
Here is a great baseball yarn from
the Tombstone, Ariz., Protector: At a
teams of Rhyolite and Beatty, William
Griffith of Salt Lake City, playing first
base for the Rhyolite team, reached
down to stop fast grounder, with
VlSlODS Oh dn easy putOuL LOT MS team,
when the ball struck a small stone and
bounded away. While waiting for the
ball to be returned by one of the spec
| tators, he picked up the stone, which
he found to be full of free gold. The
game was played on the, property Of
the Shoshone National Bank Mining
| company. which is on the fiat be-
tween Ladd and Montgomery noun
tains. Griffith put the stone in his
pocket and late at night, with the aid
of a lantern, prospected the region
| where he made his find. With a pros
pector's hammer he knocked off about
| 10 pounds of rock and by the aid of
| his assayer's outfit learned that it ran
| 1927 per ton. Griffith conveyed the
knowledge of his find to one or two in
siders in RhyoI1te, who imme diately
negotiated for the purchase of an in
terest in the company. and secured it
| at what is considered a white chip in
Rhyolite. The company's superintend-
ent at once ordered a shaft sunk on
| the spot, in addition to the one al
ready being sunk at another location
on the property.
A bunch from the Wichita Beacon:
The boys speak very harshly of their
shabby treatment at the hands of the
/ Leavenworth fans and the ball play
ers. They say they had to give Leav-
enworth the last game of the series to
get out of the city alive. The fans
made up a purse last Saturday of $50
| to run Owens out of town if he UNI
pired the Sunday game, consequently
he did not umpire. One of the Leav-
| enworth players was substituted In or
| der to satisfy the Leavenworth gang
| The fans stole Johnny Green's bat
| Millions grip and tried to steal Mrs.
| kimmePs grip. The goods were all
returned after many threats and much
trouble. Mr. Armstrong, who was
shown SO much sympathy while here
and who was given gentlema MY treat
ment, is said by the Jobbers to have
been the worst offender. Umpire
| Owens says he was never used shah
bier in his life that he was in the Con-
| Wet town. They tried to coerce him
| into giving Leavenworth the best of il
and when that failed they tried to
drive him to do it.
! The Sedalians were sleepy. In fact
| they have always been sleepy when
they landed here. Dick Rohn takes his
| regular maps on first base between
outs. Yesterday he was fined for 90
ing to sleep and falling Off the bench
between innings. Persch was given a n
error for falling over the bats and
| Dummy Curtis was fined for swear
ing out loud. White played a good
throwing and Dick Rohn didn't assist
him any. He was too lazy to reach for
them if they were a little out of the
way Dummy Curtis succeeded in
i striking out twice. He made many
motions with his face and hands to ex-
press his dissatisfaction at Owens de-
cisions. If the Dummy could talk he
/ would be worse kicker than Abbott
of Topeka.
i Summer Colds.