The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-31


or three days, and it may be for two
weeks. Whatever it is, the fans Should
stand by the team, for It has already
demonstrated what it can do when It
is right. In adversely is the time to be
a friend. The man who only knows you
when you are on top Of the heap is
mighty poor specimen to hook up with.
The Leavenworth Post thinks it has
dug up a BLACK and Ugly conspiracy
against Webb City. AS follows: Webb
City is having troubles Of her own. In
spite of the fact that the Jiggers start
ed off like a Whirlwind and took ev-
erything before them, the people there
have succeeded in finding something to
complain about. Not having any OPP
portunity to land on the team the Sen
tinel wreaks its vengeance on the Jop-
lin newspapers, which it claims, are
trying to break up baseball in Webb
City. Here is what the Sentinel has
to say:
The organized efforts of the Joplin
papers to knock the Webb City base
ball team is being eagerly seconded
by the home papers of those teams
which have already fallen before the
weakest team in the league"
But despite the effort to hammer
down the Jiggers, Webb City hangs
onto first place along with the miners.
According to Joplin papers Umpire
Lewinson and the injury to Catcher
! COrDln ana mcdowell lost the TrSC
game for the locals" The NeWs-Her-
aid says that Pennington pasted the
/ first ball of the season over the fence,
scoring two runs, but that Lewinson
called it foul even against the protest
/ of Webb City fans who knew better
! The Globe says that webb City would
never have won but for the injuring of
/ Corbin and Mcdowell and the News
! Herald winds up by saying that
"Rohn's bunch was out-classed until
/ Corbin was hurt"
Again the Leavenworth papers say:
/ Something is wrong with the scorer
/ at Webb City, whose work should be
| called to the attention of DR.. Shiveley.
/ In the first game he credits Ieaven-
worth with eight hits and Webb city
with nine. The Joplin score keeper
who attended the game and is an ex-
! perienced scorer, credits LeavenWorth
with ten hits and Webb City with six.
yet both are agreed on the number of
/ errors. In Sundays game the locals
! got two infield hits which were never
credited to them and yet the Webb City
scorer failed to give errors to his home
team. How he makes his score balance
is beyond imagination.
The Pittsburg Headlight has an idea
that Pittsburg will get into the West
ern association:
If present rumors are true. perhaps
! Pittsburg made no mistake in allowing
1 its club in the Kansas State league to
] 90 10 pieces ana us IldncnlSe 10 revert
/ back to the league. The latest is that
Pittsburg is to have a franchise in
Doc, Shiveley's league, the Western
4 association.
/ Although this report is unofficial
and SO far as is now known exists sim
| ply as a rumor, it is not wholly i'm
/ probable. Ever since the present sea-
son opened. it has been known that
President Shiveley was not satisfied
with the support given the clubs in this
league at both Oklahoma City and st.
Joseph. No, and he has been looking
around for a city to transfer one and
! perhaps both Of these franchises
Pittsburg formerly supported a team
/ in Shiveley's old Missouri Valley
league. This was three years ago
when Shiyeley first started out to be a
baseball magnate. That season was