The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-26
BACK TO. MINOR LEAGUES.
Many Star Players Go to the. Scrub
brush This Season. -.

Many Star HlayeFS Go to the Scrub
brush This Season.
New York. March 26.-The passing
of famous baseball stars will be more
pronounced thissyear than ever before
| 1t will be back to the minor leagues
for them ;, and then, when they have
outlived their usefulness there, obscur-
ity- Baseballs fans will miss the IA
niliar features of Billy Gilbert, Doc
Newton. Heinfe Peitz. Joe Kelley, Jim
Jackson, Jimmy Sebring, Bob Wicker,
Kittredge and others who have seen
their best days as major league play
ers. Gilbert not long ago had a big
following in this city when he played
| second base for the New York Ma
ttonals, form ers worlds champions. His
friends Landed him to the skies until
Gilbert believed that much of the sue
| cess of McGraw's men was due to his
efforts. But without the slightest warn
ing McGraw has cut Gilbert out of the
once great team, and has sold his re-
lease to the Newark club of the East
ern league.
Doc Newton, who was suspended by
the New York americans last fall, has
been practically forced out of the big
leagues, and has accepted the terms of
the Montreal club of the Eastern
league. Newton has been noted left
hand pitcher, playing with the former
champion Brooklyns, and also in Calf
fornia. But his habits have not been
the best. and the big managers have
passed him up : y
Heinie Peitz, a. star catcher in his
day has dropped from the Pittsburg
club to the Isouisvilles of the American
association, but he may not play ball
again, as he does not care for the terms
offered to him by Louisville. PETIT
made his mark with the Cincinnati
team. WithsT Theodore Breitenstein. he
helped to form the famous "Pretzel
battery" and both became favorites
wherever they went. Cincinnati let
him go to Smokeville two years ago,
foy fT1ea T0rn fuse
team for some time. But at last PETIT
began to slide down the toboggan in
such a way that 1t was apparent to
everybody that he had reached the end
of his career.
Joe kelley, another famous player,
has left the Cincinnati team to take up
the managerial reins at Toronto, an
other Eastern league club kelley was
a young player of promise when nan
Ion got him from PittSburg in 1893 in
exchange for Van Haltren and $4,000.
Kelley as left fielder of the Baltimores
became a star, and in two years time
his release could not have been pur-
chased for $4,000, and perhaps more.
James Sebring had a brilliant future
when he broke into major league ball
som etime ago as a member OF the
Pittsburg team. Then he was traded
to Cincinnati where he became diSsat-
isfed and soon, jumped his contract to
join the Williamsport club of the Trf-
state league, at that time an outlaw
organization. When the Tri-State was
admitted to protection under the ma
tional agreement however, Sebring
wanted to get back into the National
league to play with the Chicago club,
which had purchased his release from
Cincinnati in the meantime. But the
National commission, after subjecttng
him to a trial. decided that he would
have to remain in the Tri-State for
life, or until his playing days were
over.
bob Wicker; for years one of the
Chicago cl44b's best pitchers and
high -salaried} player, wound up his
ma tor' lea que career In Cincinnati last
year. He did not come up to the re-
quirements Of Hanlon. who sold his
release to the Columbus club of the
American association. Jimmy Jack
son will also play with Columbus this
year, as the Cleveland Americans have
concluded that he has outlived his use
fulness in the Forest City.