The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-17
Grow and Cooley Buy AssOcia-
tiOn Park.
Paid 50, 400 for Improvements
and Lease.
AMICABLE MEETING.
SeW Owners to Make Important
Changes.
VIII Move Diamond, Build Boxes
and Club House.

The Athletic park has been sold by
the Baseball Park association for
consideration of 81, 400, to Richard
Cooley and Herman Grow. owners Of the
Topeka franchise of the Western associ-
alton. The deed for the property will
be registered Monday when the formal
transfer will take place.
The agreement to sell took place Sat
urday afternoon, 14s out OF a possible
165 shares Of the ball park stock being
represented. Every one of the share
holders present voted in favor of the
transfer.
The meeting was amicable in every
way" said W. F. Logan of the Bah
Park association. 1--WE agreed to make
the sale, though there was some slight
difference at first over minor details.
The investment really represents an ex-
pendituTe of about $S,000 counting the
subsequent money put in for improve
ments and extensions Of the grandstand
and bleachers.
Il presume that $4,000 was expended
but it could be duplicated for less if
the improvements had been made at
one time ana not piecemeal,' said Her
man Crow, one of the new owners.
we expect to make some new inn
provenents, he continued. 1--WE viii
build on ten boxes in front of the
grandstand to be used by those who
don't like to get in the crowd of people.
We will also shift over the diamond to-
ward the east, bringing the homeplate
about twenty feet further eastward.
This is done to avoid the sun, which
bothers the players late in the after
noon. We will also build a kind of
club house for the players underneath
the grand stand where they may dress
and clean up before they go down town.
A tank will be fixed up on top of the
stand and the water will be drawn from
that for showerbaths. We will prob
ably build a roof over the present
bleachers and construct additional
bleachers. A system of draining the
grounds viii be installed to carry the
water off into the Shunganunga creek
near at hand
The sale Of the property has been at
tended by many vieissitudes, and for a
while it looked as if the deal would fall
through owing to a disagreement re-
garding the price to be asked for the
grounds. Herman Grow and Cooley
considered the terms as first proposed
excessive and threatened to build new
grounds.
The management of the ball park
which has been maintained separate
and distinct from the ownership Of
the baseball franchise has been a
money making investment. This past
year the amount of rental based on
the percentage of the gate receipts re-
turned an interest of rs per cent on the
investm ent
The total number of shares issued
were 1875 each having a par value OF
$40. The stock was divided among
fifteen different persons, principal
among whom were ". F. Logan who
held 10 shares. Thomas Sheard own
ing 65, James. NIacFarland who owned
SO, Herman Crow who had 10 and
Frank Grimes and F. r. Nipps who
each held five shares. The remainder
were distributed among George NJ.
Noble, jr., Frank Whitteker, AL Huletts
H. c. Lang, c. T. Trap, Arthur Cap
per, Curtis Bailey, S. e. Barber and
Frank Crane.