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

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this league. I've stood for all that I'm
going to. You understand now, do
you?" wait minute cried Chic.
''let me say something" 81 won't lis
ten to you," called back Henry, going
to the door. IT don't want to talk to
you. Just keep your hands off me and
everything will be all right" With that
the Topeka catcher walked out of the
room. Now just look at that said
Chic. There is a sample of it.. I'm
not prejudiced against any of these
fellows. But they think 1 am. UNI
pred in the National league and they
I'll take care of my end of the string
all right" But, no, Mr.. Chic, that is
just what you are not doing now. You
have threatened the Topeka players
with fines and suspensions, and you
don't carry them out They think now
that you are four-fiushing with your
warnings and take no stock in them.
for what you term offenses don't say
anything about it. Especially don't say
ahead before game that IL certain
fellows don't behave they'll get 1t
where the chicken got the ak. Now
you mark, something is going to hap
pen today. Take that little Cole, that
big Abbott, that Henry. And fines
alone won't be all of it." That is what
you said before Wednesdays game. At
ter it was over, you in the heat of your
anger, handed out another COB and 1t
ran like this: THE names of two To-
peka players go to Shiveley tonight
with recommendations that they pc
suspended" Yet today you gig back
like a crawfish. That kind of tactics
don't get you anything. The players
have made up their minds that you are
bluffing. If you know. anything about
ball tossers you know that four flushing
don't scare them. Give them their
jabs and plasters if you intend to, but
don't threaten them and then lay down
| if you are not.
Charley Crum has caught on at first
| with Oklahoma City and is playing
good ball. When the Nets were at
| Joplin the other day, the Globe had this
| little note: Froggy Crum got his from
the grandstand and bleachers. In fact
other visitors had a right to feel a
| trifle Jealous from the amount Of atten-
| ton bestowed on F'roggy.
Big Porter, first -baseman of the
| Springfield I1ighlanders is under sus-
| pension for deserving the team. Sc
beaugh is out with an injured hand
and Second Baseman Byrne is per
| forming behind the bat. Olmstead is
handling the initial sack
ST. Joseph News-Press: The salary
| list of the st. Joseph Western league
| team will be reduced about $500 a
| month. Players who can play as good
| an article of ball as a number of the
| IOhherS
| Joseph for less money, and several of
| the members of the team will be re-
i leased if they will not submit to a cut.
| The Injustice of salaries paid to ball
| players can be readily seen when 1t is
! known that Catcher Babe Town, of Des
| Moines, receives but $125 month
| while Tom Fleming, the left fielder Of
| the Jobbers, finds in his monthly en-
| veIope $3.50. Town has more than earn
| ed his money. Fleming has not.
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| A jab from the Sedalia Democrat:
Four to nothing!
| Five to nothing!
Ten to nothing!
Nexti
The above is the record of the Sc
| dalia would-be pennant-winning base
| hall team in the last three games play
1 ed. 1t is reported that one player de-
| roanded pay on Saturday, or several
| fays before pay day, and refused to
] mt on a uniform till he was given to
/ understand that he must get into the
! game quickly or be fined and suspend
! ed. Two others are reported to have
ouarreled Saturday; and still two 9TH
| ers are reported to have gone to the
train Sunday morning intoxicated, one
/ of them almost helpless. Yet some
| neonle wonder why the Sedalia bunch
| don't win more games. A few, only a
1 few. are opposed to Kidding the team OF
the boozers, disturbers and dead ones,
i and replacing them with men VINO can
NAV ball and keep sober.
Sedalia Sentinel: While the fans
4 and newspapers around the circuit
have been doing things with the Sc
dalia franchise the local baseball
maenates have been saying nothing.
hut have been busy all the time, and
!. the future of the club is settled. Eddie
T,von became i'll right at the time when
he came in control of the club, and
has been in the hospital here for some
time and the team has not got along
az well as it would If it had its man.
81 arer on deck The illness of Mr.. Lyon
proved more serious than was at first
expected and day before yesterday the
franchise went back into the hands of
Henry Leist for the time being, but
| will soon become the property OF a