The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-18

contests or nearly one out of every
four games no ball apparently found
its way there. Durrett has played
nine games and only once has he had
no work cut out for him in center, and
has nabbed % drives. All of which
goes to show that a man as fleet as
Durrett can find plenty of work in the
outer garden if he goes after it
President Bero of the Kansas State
league has it figured out that the
Western association Will want several
players now with their association and
that the Kansas State league will be in
shape at the end of the season to make
several advantageous sales, mong them
Fleharty, for whom Wichita is said to
have offered $500. As to the plans for
the management of the Kansas State
league he says Every visiting club
was guaranteed $25. and IS, must be
paid to the president of the league
every time a scheduled game is played,
making a total of $31. If, however,
the gate receipts are $50 or over, one
half goes to the visiting clubs. The
grand stand receipts are not shared
with visiting clubs, remaining a per-
quisite Of home clubs. When clubs
are at home. each player pays his
owners of the club pay all expenses in
Guiding railroad fare, board and sal
aries
Manager cooley OF the W mite SOX mas
decided in the light of events which
have transpired during the last week or
so that to be in the clear that it will be
/ necessary for him to have another
pitcher within calling distance and has
ordered Cheney who was farmed out to
i Gus Alberts of Bartlesville at the be-
ginning Of the season to report at once.
At the time Cheney was loaned to AL
berts he was far from being a poor
pitcher and Cooley feels that his recent
work viii justify him in placing him
on the staff Of the leaders again.
The work of the quartette of pitchers
who have been twirling for the Cooley
crows has not been what has been ex-
pected Of them of late and there is more
than a possibility that one or two of
them Will be released within the next
few weeks unless there is a marked inn
/ provement in their work. Just who will
go has not been decided upon and their
work during the next few weeks will
1 in a measure be responsible for the ae-
| ton taken by the management of the
/ COoleycrows.
The last games of the series played
/ between the Cooleycrows and Hutchin-
son were of that disgusting class usually
/ termed bad.
The teams should come in for their
! share of censure but the prime cause of
I 1t all was Umpire Goodman who appar-
/ emily does not possess any backbone.
/ The games were farces almost from the
first and the rankness Of the actions of
the umpire increased as the game prog
] ressed.
Just such exhibitions as those Of the
teams at the two games referred to is
/ what causes the gate receipts to drop
/ and the attendance to become disin-
/ terested lot of spectators who attend the
game for tie sole reason that there is
no place else to go.
With power that is almost absolute
the umpire by making a show of exer-
i cis'n~ it could at any stage Of the game
4 call a halt on the rowdyism that was
INDUCED in by both of the teams. His
/ decisions were hooted and he was treat
ed like a dog by the players, and in
the game Sunday ne did not offer to
protect himself and the patrons. A few
fines distributed TO the more obstreper-
GUS of the players would have had a
soothing effect on the entire bunch and
the game would not have drifted into
a disgusting exhibition.