The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-28
SPORTING NEWS.
Powell and O'Connsr to Open q
st. Louis Cafe.
A Downtown Resort in Which
There's Good Money.
FOR A RAINY DAY.
A RAINY DAY.
O'GOnnor Is a Veteran Who viii
Close the Game Soon.
Powell Looks Well as Ever But
Knows There's an End.

St Louis. Jan. 2S-Arrangements have
all but been completed whereby Jack
OCennor and Jack Powell will open a
cafe and saloon in the heart of the
downtown district, and the formal an
nouncement that they have done so
may be looked for in a short time. The
establishment viii be just off Sixth
street and within a block Of Locust,
and h two Jacks expect it to become
the sporting and baseball resort of the
city.
The move on the part of Powell and
O'Connor is at least in a Measure an
echo of the trouble over Powell's salary
last season, which ultimately resulted
in the latter being sold to New York.
When Powell declined to sign the con-
tract offered him he made an effort to
get into the saloon business n said
that he would quit baseball rather than
stand a cut in his salary. With the
Worlds fair coming On, 1t was hard to
get a desirable location without paying
an excessive price and when Powell hn-
ally gained his point in regard to sal
airy, though he had to go to New York
to do it, he dropped the project of going
into business temporarily.
Jack O'COnnor has run a wet goods
establishment in North St. Louis for
several years and the establishment has.
been a paying one. O'COnnOr has want
ed to come downtown, however, and
open up a hrst-class resort. Powell has
also been ambitious to get a business
which would place him in a more in
dependent position so far as baseball is
concerned, and the trouble last spring
still farther increased his desire to do
so.
In a pushes of their own the two
players will be in a better position to
say something regarding their salaries
on the diamond and both will besides
have something to fall back on when
their bail days are over. O'Connor is a
veteran at the game and he can hardly
expect to last more than a couple OF
years longer. Powell is yOunger but
pitchers do not last forever, and he has
been in the game about as long as
twirlers do as a rule. While Powell
looks as good at the present time as
he ever did, and says hat he feels just
as good, he realizes that he must drop
out some day and is preparing for this.
Mike Kahoe will. after all play in a
major league next season. When ka-
hoe was traded to Indianapolis, he rails
ed a row over the matter, and claimed
that he should have been given his I'M
conditional release. so that he could
have gone to n of the other major
league clubs. All of the American
league clubs had waived claim to ka-
hoe at the time, and it was afNational
league team to which he would have
gone. This club was no other than
Philadelphia, and now comes the news
hat Philadelphia has traded Donohue,
who last season played with the Car
QludlS III several gaines, anu wiz was
finally given to Philadelphia when an
effort was being made to strengthen the
Phillies; and Catcher Frank Roth, for
Kahoe The way the Philadelphia team
played last season, Kahoe has bettered
himself little, if any, by the change
The st. Louis American league office
has heard nothing Of the refusal of
Emil Frisk, one of the young batting
stars the team drafted, to sign a con-
tract. According to advices from the
coast, Frisk has returned his contract
unsigned, but at league headquarters 1t
was said that the contract had not been
returned at all. Probably Frisk is do
ing some of the bluffing that is popular
at this time of the year regarding the
salary question, but he is pretty sure
to be found in a Brown uniform instne
long run. 1t means going out of base
ball or signing up, and Frisk can not
afford to do the former.