The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-10

| "Ole' Olson, last years crack short
/ stop, was on Saturday night sold by
/ Topeka to Joplin for 500. This ex-
plains President ShiYeley'S visit in To-
peka the other day. He came here to
make arrangements by which Joplin
could make OVertures to Olson. and
1 the advances were evidently favor
! ably received" Some doubt seems to
exist, however in the minds of the To-
peka ma2nates as to whether Olson
will join the Miners. He stated posi-
i lively in a recent letter to a Topeka
I friend that he would play ball in no
town other than Topeka and that if
\ not allowed to play here. he would
not play at all. In case he refuses to
go to Joplin, his possession will nat
urally revert to Topeka President
1 Sheard says that if he monkeys" any,
he viii be blacklisted. The fact. how
ever, that Joplin has announced his
I purchase would indicate that Olson
has agreed to go. He will be played
on third base. Joplin recently brought
PendFy out from Cleveland, O., to fill
I that sack. but Olson looks better evil
IDENTIFY than the Buckeye boy. Man
1 ager Fillman thinks that he has made
/ a great raise" in securing Olson, and
1 the Miners expect much of him. The
! Topeka management on the other
hand, seems to be rather glad of the
! ''disp ossession." For some reason or
other, both Sheard and Logan are
rather adverse to the little fellow and
I
opinion. The latter says: "Olson has
a swelled nut. The fans and newspa-
pers spoiled the kid last year. Then
don't think he will ever make a ball
player He don't look that way to me.
He has no arm and look how nervous
/ he is and how he kicks the ball
around" The real trouble, however,
i seems to be, so far as Abbott is con-
cerned, that he is jealous of the little
1 SWede'S popularity. Olson is pri-
marily a gentleman. His conduct all
/ last season proved that in every way.
/ He was willing and worked all the
| time. He never sulked. or blamed
| other players when the fault was with
himself. He had the spirit and that
caught the fancy and hearts of the
crowd and he received the appreciation
which he richly deserved. But taking
the adverse feeling which the man
agement has Matched up against him
here in Topeka, it would really be the
best thing for the youngster to not
| play ball here this summer. Joplin is
glad that he has been sold to the
| Miners. Fillman calls him a lind, -
and Fillman's opinion is worth a good
deal more than some of the managers
who have drawn salaries from Topeka.
Men who bat 17S are kept while Olson
must go.
Charley Crum reported on Sunday.
That means that all of the players
| which Topeka has signed are now
here. The big fellow had to go back
to Kansas City last night, however
and will not be able to show up again
| in this city until next Saturday. He
has job in the Missouri town and his
| employers asked him to stay a while
longer. He is a valuable acquisition to
! the Topeka team-the same old noisy,
hard working Crum.
The contingent of Topeka players who
went to Atchison on Sunday to play
Earl Green's Independents, were defeat
ter and Lynch pitched for Topeka. Stew
art caught.
Wichita beat Paramount college Sat
urday by a, score of to 2. Walter
| Frantz of the Kansas City Blues who
is coaching Paramount, pitched for the
collegians.
The next ball game in Topeka will
take place Tuesday, Washburn against
the Topeka professionals at Washburn
park. Griggs will probably be with the
| collegians
John Schrant, the weIl-known catcher,
will not play with Sedalia this year. He
must go to Syracuse in the New York
| State league. At a meeting of the board
| of arbitration of minor leagues the
/ award was made on Friday. Schrant
made a conditional promise that he
would go to Syracuse before he left To-
| peIa. President Sheard traded him to
| Sedalia for Roy Bevis, however, just at
| the close of last season. Schrant then
wanted to join the Goldbugs, and gave
up all thought of playing with SYRIA
| cuse. But the New York town raised