The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-01

The White Sox will come home on
Wednesday morning to be rudely
awakened with thorough shaking up.
Two will be released. to be supplanted
by younger and faster men. One new
pitcher will also be added. The White
Legs have been working with a short
force on the firing line ever since st.
Vrain was let go. Secretary Logan
would not disclose the identity of the
two men to be released. They are pro-
bably infielders, and may be safely
picked from this trio, Quigley, Brown
and Dunn. Quigley and Dunn get $125
President Sheard thinks that this
amount is too large to pay for the SER
vices which they are rendering. II can
not say just who they will be-" said
going to get some new men. The
changes will be made upon the return
of the team here on Wednesday morn
ing. We have been losing too many
games and something must be done at
once. We need some younger blood and
will have it too. We will not be ready
to announce our new acquisitions for a
couple of days. 1 think, however, that
by Wednesday morning when the team
comes home we will have the contracts
signed and ready"
From the Leavenworth Times: The
Topeka papers are very inconsistent.
When George Blackburn first Joined the
team and he gave out several inter-
views on how to win the pennant and
how to bat, the latter being as good as
if the mighty Lajoie had made the talk,
are. now saying unlkind things about him
and the team of which he is the head.
He is likened unto walking sign for
a brewery and such things while true,
are inconsistent with what was said
when George first came into the White
Sox camp. What Topeka needs is a
little young blood on the team, men
with pepper and who play ball because
they like it. For instance Hood and
Persch, two fast youngsters, were turn
ed loose for unknown causes.
From the Leavenworth Times Long
Tom Hughes of the Topeka White Sox,
is one of the very best slab artists in
the association. He works hard to win
his game and if the team played be-
win a great many more games. If he
keeps up his present work he will not
be in this league next year.
From the Wichita Beacon: Here is a
little comparison of the work done by
the Topeka and Wichita teams during
the last series:
TosaRs IL. ~ 3 3 e e : s )
The batting average of Wichita, was
1915 while the batting average of the
visitors was only .2S4
This is Millions day to pitch, and
Wichita is due to lose a game" is the
way the Beacon is roasting the hand
some Jobber twirler. If that wouldn't
take the heart out of player, nothing
would.
To show that baseball is an expen-
sive amusement, the Chicago Tribune
| has these figures:
lover $2,577, 900 is paid out in salaries
to the professional baseball players OF
/ the United States each year Over 81,
O.OOO is paid in other salaries and in
expenses of maintaining the grounds Of
the professional clubs about $4,000 in
railroad fares, about 100000 in sleeping
car fares, about $125.000 in training ex-
penses. and perhaps $500,o00 In addition
| al expenses.
And this is only counting the ex-
penses of the organized baseball
| leagues of the United States, registered
and recorded under the national agree
ment.
.'The total expense of operating base
| ball in the United States as an organ
/ lied sport, therefore, is in the neigh