The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-22

exact from the players Topeka has not
landed as many Of the games as the
home fans would like to have seen gar
nered but they have lost the games by
close scores and only after they have
exerted themselves to their utmost.
! They have been good losers, fought to
the last ditch and have taken their
medicine like little men, To borrow a
phrase which the Joplin Globe is using
the games have been 'indecently spec
tacular.'
There has been a rumor. says the
Hutchinson News. going the rounds to
the effect that the game last Saturday
I at Topeka was taken from the Cooley
crows and given to the Salt Packers
owing to the particular rank decisions
of Umpire Goodman There seems to
be no foundation of the theory and
there certainly is no proof of it, Ac-
cording to the rules. an umpires de-
cisiOns go and there is nothing to do
but to accept them.
Even Umpire Iewinson. who is con-
sidered one of the most level headed
indicator men in the Western associa-
ton, comes in for share of criticism
The Leavenworth Post says A Leav-
enworth man who saw one Of the
players in Kansas City yesterday
morning said he found the players
very sore over the treatment they re-
GelVGQ AT the ndn0S OF u Umpire Levin
son at Joplin last week. There seems
to be no question but that Lewinson
deliberately robbed the MOulders out
of the first two games at Joplin
Vaughn has Joined the team and will
| add considerable strength to it. It
was expected that he would join the
! team at Joplin, but the train on which
he was riding from Washington was
delayed.
The management of the Leaven-
worth baseball club has received
notice that charges for admission to
the grand stand seats should be in con-
/ fOrmity to those charged by all other
clubs in the league, and hereafter the
/ charges viii be as follows: General
! admission 25 cents, children Is cents,
| grand stand seat on Sundays and holi-
! days 2 5 cents extra, grand stand seats
on week days Is cents extra, the same
as charged everywhere else in the
/ league
Doings have commenced at Hutchin-
son and by the time the Saltpackers are
at home for a series of games the inn
prOvementS made will startle them. The
Athletic association is to commence
4 Immediately to fix up the baseball
park. An addition is to be made to
| the grandstand that will seat 500 more
people A part Of this addition viii
be filed with chairs and set apart as
reserved seats. The grounds Will also
! be gotten into first-class shape before
the team returns Hutchinson will have
one of the best ball parks in the league
! when all is completed.
Dutch Schmidt. who formerly played
with the Springfield Midgets, and who
! is catching for Detroit this season, has
I put two second basemen out of busi-
ness on account of his terrific base
throwing
Ward Isbel, who was released from
the pitchers staff by Topeka and sign
/ ed by Wichita, has had even worse
luck there than In Topeka, If such
thing is possible. and his hoodoo streak
Of losing is pursuing him.
Manager Cooley has wired Harry
Lindsay, south paw now at Sioux
/ City, asking him to report at once and
he viii probably join the team before
they leave Hutchinson. Cooley is ac-
! quainted with Lindsay, has seen him
work and thinks that he viii prove to
be a puzzler for the 1MSgnbers Of the
] opposing teams Of the Western Asso-
/ citation. A number of kilograms are out
for helders and Cooley expects to land
| a man to take the place Of Hurlburt
/ within the next few days. Good out
! helders are plentiful and there is no
| trouble to get some one to take HurI-
burt's place in the field but Cooley in
sists that he must be a top-notcher
with the stick as well, and is in no
hurry to I'LL the place as Howey has
! D6E4 QOlu5 AllG WOIA III the OuillElu,
and is in no shape to pitch and viii
not be until his injured hand gets bet
ter
A place has been made in the West
ern Association for Smith, the outfield-
1 er who was released this week by the
mana cement of the White Sox and he
has been ordered to report to Webb
| City where he will have a tryout as
an umpire. The Topeka fans and ball
| players as well hope that he viii be
able to make good in his new capacity
as he has had a hard run of luck lately
for which he was IN no way to blame
Kansans at Ann ArbOr.
Ann Arbor. Mich. June 22-The sixty