The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-15
they MEET AGAIN K. U. WINS EASILY
Remarkable Held in Defeats State Normal by Score
Topeka Last Night. of32 tee.
Members Of the Topeka Ball Goal Red and Blue Never
Team of 1879 Danger
CROW OVER VICTORY
How They Scalped Red Socks
Burden of Their Song.
Prominent Citizens Again
Dream of Strikes and Fouls.

when Red Socks We're scalped'
might be an appropriate title for the
jolly good time which the "old boys
had last night at the home of F. d.
Hahn at 633 Buchahan street 1t was
a reunion of the Topeka baseball team
Of the seventies which played under the
name CO Westerns
Back in those days boys played ball
for the glory of it. There wasn't a
small town that didn't have its team,
and there were not two towns within
decent distance Of each other that were
not bitter rivals for the coveted honor
of being the "champeens.'
In 1879 Ottawa and Topeka were at
swords points relative to the compare
tive ability of their baseball teams. So
on September of that eventfuI year a
match game was scheduled at Ottawa
between the Topeka Westerns and the
Ottawa Red Stockings. After the sun
had disappeared behind the hills and
the dust cleared from the field of COM
bat, the Westerns had won by the phe-
nomenally low score, for that day, of
to 8.
Grow. did you say? Wen, you just bet
that Topeka contingent did. They have
been swelling their chests ever since.
/ Last night they gathered once again to
and victory and flap their wings in the
/ jubilee of glory.
The personnel of the two teams which
played the. game was as follows:
Westerns: Phelan, 2b; West, catcher;
r. dileham. If; Cation. p; Hahn, IF:
Xix, 1b; Richie, IS; Knight, eff; E
1 1dilehaTn, 3d.
Ottawa Red Stockings: Keefer. 1b;
Sears, 2b; Smith, catcher: Waddell, 3b;
Brown. IF; White, p; shirar, IS; Hall,
Umpire. z. H. Becker of ottawa.
/ Scorers George d. Butts Of Topeka
and DR.. ". H. Gilley of Ottawa
The score: R.H.E
Westerns .....1 0 . 0 Is II 8
Red Stocking 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 Is 8
4 OF the team of 1879 but three mem
bers We're present at the gathering last
night. They We're Hale Richie. now
"a contractor in this citys7 #. d. Hahn,
who was the host, and Frank Mile
ham. who is now connected with the
Santa Fe railway. But men who were
members of the team in previous
years were at the gathering. They
were D. A. Valentine now clerk of the
/ supreme court; Robert Thompson, a
Topeka furniture dealer: Peter Smith,
president of the 1873 club; Henry
/ McAfee, q Topeka horseman; George
/ Butts, the official scorer, now in the
/ piano business in this city and Simeon
nected with a telephone company, and
J. NJ. Mcfarland, capitalist.
The absent ones We're Dick PhelaD,
who is still playing ball in the south
and is located at New Orleans; Charles
West, who is with the Rock Island.
Billy Cation, who is now in Boston.
Frank Xix of the Citizens State bank
at Hot Springs, Ark: J. c. Knight,
who died in Omaha this last summer,
and Elwood Mileham. who died IL
+ Topeka a few years ago.
The "oId boys" sat the evening
/ through smoking good cigars and
swapping yarns. John Waters, young
Johnnie, who was designated a latter
| day rooter and consequently invited.
was also present. Waters tells this
story on Sim Bear and Jim McFar
/ land:
/ zone day / watched a game" he
said. which Bear was umpiring. Nc
Farland was running to third, Bear
/ forgot his position and yelled Slide,
Jim, slidei' It pretty nearly broke up
4 the game. and Sim came mighty close
to losing his life
/ The walls of the house were deco
rated with scores of games played by
the team. Some of them ran up to
the hundred mark Those We're the
days of big scores. At various in
! tervals throughout the rooms on the
i lace curtains were pinned small red
t baby stockings
''What are they for?" was asked Of
/ Mr.. Hahn.
Those are the scalps.' he replied
I'VE wore blue stockings the day We
played Ottawa. The Ottawa boys had
planned to carry around blue baby
stockings in case we lost. When we
won we promptly bought all the red
stockings we could ind in Ottawa
I We called them scalps.'
A o'clock dinner preceded the
smoker" Mrs Hahn directed this.
1t was distinctively a baseball affair.
] The table vas decorated with center
piece of four bats traiIed with snilax,
ferns and blue larkspur.
The menu was as follows;
Oysters
I Consomme with breadsticks in the
forms of baseball bats
Fouls or chicken, with potatoes cut
in the form. of baseballs
Green peas Roils
Picked peaches in the form of
baseballs
Rolls Jelly Celery
Salad course Tomatoes
Cheese baseballs
+ Ice cream basebalfs Cake in balls