The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-28
Where they play tomorrow:
Leavenworth at Topeka.
Springfield at Wichita.
Hutchinson at Joplin.
Webb City at Oklahoma c

The LeavenWorth Woodpeckers OPEN
ed here this afternoon. The boys from
the convict town are playing much bet
ter ball than they did when they were
here before. Nick Kahl has taken
charge of the team and is playing In
the field. Rand new shortstop has
been playing with the team for some
time. With link, Bob Kahl, Rand and
Vaughan the team has fast 1nfeld
and Wooley, Harrington and Nick Kahl
make z. very fast outfield. They will
not be the easy picking for the team
which they were on their last visit to
Topeka when they dropped I'VE straight
Roy Loman, who has been catching
for Atchison in the village league
around that section of the state has
been signed by Wichita and viii report
with the Jobbers Immediately. Loman
is an old hand at the business and was
a star in the old Kansas State league
of several years ago. He IS now en-
gagged in the printing trade at Atchison.
Loman caught Dummy Taylor when
the now famous Giant was playing in
the brush leagues in this part of the
country.
Manager Frank Genins Of the Hutch
inson team was very much displeased
with his treatment here. Just before
leaving Topeka last night while talking
with State Journal reporter he made
the following statements Somehow or
other I hardly see why it should be SO
season given Hutchinson the worst Of
the deal. everytime we have been here.
The first time we were here Goodman
was umpiring and he gave US the short
end of everything. In one Of the games
of that series Abbott was put on the
bench simply because he had taken ex-
eeptionS to a decision OF the umpire.
In the same series Forester threw hts
glove at the umpire and Hurlburt
grabbed q hold Of him by the mask but
both were allowed to stay In the game.
At the last series we were the victims
of new umpire, One-arned man
whose baseball knowledge was quite
deficient This time 1t has been the
worst ever. Every time we took exeep-
lions to the -unplre's decisions we were
put on the. bench. When any of the
White Sox spoke up they were simply
told to get back into the game. Casey
who is one of the best and most gen.
put out of the game twice during the
series just closed PettigreW has been
benched nearly every time we have
played here for disputing the umpire's
decisions and in the same games Henry
has walked clear down to the umpire
and cursed him for his poor work and
yet was allowed to remain IN the game
The reason I took my men off the field
yesterday was because the umpire was
drunk. His breath was so strong that
1t pervaded the whole diamond. When
drunken umpire puts man out Of
the game for q mere trivial offense and
1 refuse to play longer and it is for this
reason that I quit the field yesterday.
It looks as though Cooley had all the
umpires In the circuits bul1dozed. I
suppose he thinks that because Hutch
fnson Is the tail end team that they
have no license to win a. game and
that they can be robbed of 1t to help
another team to win the pennant. We
have received worst treatment in To-
peka than in any other place"
Connie walsh. who pitched for
Hutchinson IN Saturdays game, was
with an independent team in Alton III.
last season. He attracted attention Of
l-the league managers in that section
of the state by pitching an eighteen
inning game against the Springfield
team Of the Three-I league. In the
eighteenth inning with two men out
and two men on bases Connie walked
q man much to the disgust Of the other
players on the team, but when he
famed the next batter, they saw the
/ wisdom Of his course. When his team
came to bat In the last half of the in
ming. a home run by one Of his team
mates won the game. Connie had sex-
| eral offers to play in the aThree-I this
year, but preferred to play IN this
/ league He Is a good pitcher and next
year with a good team to back him he
viii make valuable man.
webb city dropped three straights
to Wichita. most Of them hard luck
games.
George Graves has had q great deal
l OF trouble lately. He Is at the present
time laid up with a bad leg which
makes It hard for him TO get around.