The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12

ton. yesterday it is due time that the
management puts in good strong KICK
to the president of the league. Owens
disgFaceful work is running the sport
in this town. The bylaws state plainly
that any incompetent umpire will be
removed. Owens has certainly proved
himself to be anything but a person
who is qualified to Judge rightly and
without prejudice, and the management
should inform the president OF the fact,
not only for the sake of the game, but
for Owens own personal safety
A trio of clippings from Sedalia Dem
ocrat on last Sundays doubleheader in
Topeka: Just think of it, Sedalia's
Well-paid players got five hits in eigh-
teen innings at Topeka yesterday, while
Blackburn, released by Sedala, got
four hits for his team in the two games.
If Pitcher Westcott would retire lit
tie earlier than he did Saturday night
possibly he would not allow second
division team like the Topeka White
Sox thirteen hits in one game ]. x.
Kidd, who accompanied the local ball
club to Topeka, returned this morning.
He says there were in excess of 1900
paid admissions at yesterdays game,
and Sedalia's share of the receipts was
about $500, which is in excess of what
the total receipts would have been had
the game been played here.
baseball trade of great interest to
Topeka fans was made on Tuesday AZ
ternoon between LeavenWorth and Jop-
lin. The Miners gave Second Baseman
Olson to the Woodpeckers for Catcher
Charles Stewart. Both teams are in
imperative need of the very men they
are obtaining. ST. John was removed
from the Leavenworth lineup a week
ago because the altitude of the water
wagon was too high for him, and Hood
has been serving at short in his place.
| Over at Joplin, Tony Vanderbilt, rated
fF-ea1 1acf he 1f,-
cult, is suffering from badly damaged
hands, and d substitute catcher has
been doing his work. I'VE need good
catcher the Miners have been COM
planning. Il want a Shortstop, a good
one, and want him bad" Armstrong
was moaning to himself over at Leaven-
worth. The breeze was blowing just the
| right way on Monday and Tuesday and
the two arrangements set up to trade
| two of the most popular and best play
ers in the circuit. Stewart will handle
| the big NIT for the Miners. Olson will
go to short for Woodpeckers, the same
place which he played when he was a
| Topeka Saint in the Missouri Valley
League. IT like Ole" said Armstrong
yesterday after reading the telegram
| that the trade had. been effected. 'I
can get that youngster to play ball for
me all right He did great work for
| Joplin, but they were simply up against
| it. They had to have a catcher and
would have been willing to give up al
most anybody for one outside of Johnny
Fillman. 1 do not know who will play
| second for them. will Use Olson at
short and probably let Hood CO." This
trade just shows how little baseball
sense the Topeka management used IN
arbitrarily letting go of Perseh and
Stewart, just releasing them, without
even an attempt at a trade. Stewart
was only let go of last week. Joplin
was then just as much in need of a
catcher as today. Though they paid
| 500 for Ole's release, when pinched
| they gave him up, because second base
men are easier to find than catchers.
That is where the White Sox bosses
were losers. If they had junbled Stew
art and Persch together in one heap
and offered them for one rafting good
player, they would just about have
lifted the biggest fish out of the sea
obtainable. AS it was they didn't get
a thing. No wonder Army chuckled
| when he heard it.