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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-08
HE is BEGINNING YOUNG.
Jake Schaefer, Jr., Is Training For the
Billiard Championship.

Chicago. May S.-There are not
many bows who can boast of the fact
that they are going to school TO learn
the game of billiards. This is the case
with Jacob Schaefer, il, the twelve
year-old son of the wizard Of the
worries.
Young Jacob is at the present
time attending St. Waters college, Jol-
let, ILL., For four hours each day ne
studies the lines, angles and English
that go to make up the fine points OF
the game of billiards. incidentally ne
is being tutored in some or the
branches of the English language.
His course in billiards has been
mapped out for him by his father. one
of the best straight-rail billiard play
ers of Chicago has been hired to con-
duct this course. Playing form, tech
nioue and touch are looked after as
carefully as if the lad was studying in
one of the best of the modern musical
Conservatives. Once or twice each
month Jacob, sr., goes to the college
and holds rigid examination OF the
young mans progress.
The table and ivory balls with which
the young student plays are of the very
best The largest manufacturing con-
Germ of the world has provided one of
its best billiard tables for Jacob, 5r. s,
especial use The balls have been turn
ed out of selected ivory under the SUI
pervision of the senior Schaefer. The
cue used is one with which the father
won the 1871 balk line worlds cham
niOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-08

Springfield will open up here tomor-
row for four games. The Springfield
| team is known as Midgets but the rea-
son is not very apparent to one who
now very well posted on Western AS
! ISOLATION affairs. In the recent parade
at Oklahoma City at the opening of the
season the team looked more like a
freight train than a bunch of -MidgetS.
team from a team of Midgets to Giants
is fascinating story and shows the
decline of Springfield from the banner
town of the old Missouri Valley league
to a weakling in the Western Associa-
ton A few years ago Springfield was
known all over the west as a great
baseball town with pennants galore
flying from her masthead. But a met
palmy days of what was called the
Queen City. No longer do remnants
deck the Springfield grounds. The
team has a struggle to keep in the
race at all. A look at the Midgets with
their present lineup shows that the
team is now misnamed, as most of the
players hover round the 200 pound
mark. But in the olden days before
liZed in the air castles of Doc Shively,
the team used to play ball, although
their team only averaged about 1870
pounds. Tommy Smith is the only
olden days. He is playing second, his
old position, but for two years he has
not been in the Western Association.
Mig Perrine, another small person,
played short and was a star, as he still
continues to be only in faster company.
Another little man who used to pluck
flies out Of the clouds on the Queen
City ball park was Dicky Bayless, now
with Wichita, while Dutch Persch, not
so big but that he can get into small
sized suit of clothes, played great ball.
Bobby Byrnes, who heads the St.
Louis Cardinals in batting; ShiDke,
who later went to Leavenworth and
from thence to Cleveland, was a star
infielder. In the pitching staff were
Red Craig, Harry Kane and Merriwen
Speer. Compare this team with team
of big awkward farm lads such as they
have at present. Goes behind the bat,
welter on short and Cuthbert on third.
With only one good pitcher on the team
this year how can the Midgets hope
to attain their former glory and arouse
the latent enthusiasm of the once
great Springfield fandom. Thu old ball
park has been leased and the fans must
90 to the fair grounds to see the game
played What a great change can be
wrought in a short period of time
What would Shorty Hurlburt think if
he should land in Springfield now.
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JEFF,RIES is HEARD FROM.
The Big Fellow May Come Out OF Re-
tiremcnt to Fight Squires.

San Francisco, May s.-Jim JEFF
fries has passed his word to James
w. Coffroth, the San Francisco fight
promoter, that he will come out of re-
tirement in case Bill Squires, the
Australian, defeats Tommy Burns,
with whom he has been matched to
fight at Colma, just outside this city,
May 80. According to Coffroth, who
visited Jeffries at his ranch, the big
fellow wants time to get into shape,
but will fight in September.
Burns is certain to be Squires' op-
ponent unless he is knocked out by
O'Brien Wednesday night in the
south. Much interest attends the an
nouncement that Jeffries is likely to
re-enter the ring, because of the
many statements as to the condition
of the ex-champion.
Jack Grant the Portland referee
who recently saw Jeffries, states that
the stories of his being out of shape
are all bosh. With Jeff in trim,
Squires would not be credited with
much of a chance, and there is a wide
difference of opinion as to whether he
will be able to defeat Burns or
O'Brien.
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American Association standin,
OUTLAWS GETTING GAY.
Atlantic League Plans to Occupy
Gotham and Philadelphia.

New York, May S.-With the past
week a movement has been started
among the Atlantic league baseball
magnates for the Incorporation of
New York and Philadelphia in its cir
cult. People interested in the game
in both of these places, 1t is said have
been approached and have consented
to go in on the project. It is declared
that good financial backing has been
secured in both places.
President A. Philetus Konkle of the
Newark club was one of the prime
movers in the new deal, and he de-
clares he has every assurance that the
project will go through. Whether
teams will be placed in the cities
a matter yet to be determined. 1t will
all depend on how the clubs in the
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POE IN A REAL WAR
Princeton Football Hero Captain in
the Honduran Army.

San Francisco, May S.-John D.
Poe Jr., a member of the famous
football family and star half back of
Princeton's football team of 81 and
1872 reached here on the Pacific Mail
company's steamer City of Panama.
after a month of service with the
Honduran army in the late war with
Nicaragua. Poe was captain in the
Honduran army and commanded a.
little fort guarding Anapala harbor.
When the little Nicaraguan gunboat
Momotombo came steaming into the
harbor he thought that his wish
would be fulfilled. The gunboat car
ried a five-inch Krupp gun, but the
few shots that were fired from it went
sailing over town.
Poe trained his guns on the minia-
ture warship, but they were of such
small caliber that the shells fell short
of the mark. The resistance offered
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Was a Partner of Ten Eyck.

Worcester, Mass, May S.-Charles
H. Lewis, of Worcester, the famous
sculling partner of Ned Ten Eyck,
with many records to their credit,
was picked up for dead near Polls
theater, where he now works. A
police ambulance was called and
Lewis was taken to the city hospital.
Some hours later he came round.
Heart trouble was responsible, hos
pita1 doctors said, for his sudden col
lapse on learning that his mother had
lust died
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Umpfres say ssNone for Me. "

South Bend. Ind. May s.-Umpires
Llewellyn and Mcfarland, finding UNI
piring in the Central league too
strenuous, have resigned. Jack Grim,
for several years with Brooklyn and
for two years manager of the Marion
Central league team, has been ap-
pointed to replace the latter at
Springfield. Terre Haute has signed
Outfelder Kearney, of Normal Park
Ill, to replace Donavan, of Cleveland
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battle between Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien- ana F8nnAy Burns at Los An
geles, Cal, May 8. Jeffries demanded
$1,000 for his aervices and as Match
maker McCarey said he could not give
MIN that much money Jeffries told him
TO get another man to judge the bout,
and McCarey Immediately selected
charlie Eyton, the clubs official ref
cree, to be Judge of the encounter
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circuit now make out. If some of
them prove financial failures this sea-
son it is very likely that the fran
chlses of two of the teams will be
transferred. Next season, however,
new York and Philadelphia will be
surely represented. This will give the
two cities three big league teams. one
representing the National, the second
the American, and the third the At
lantic league.
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cOcKROACH PLAGUE
Stearns' Electric Paste Guarantees IN
Clear Them Out.

Nothing can be easier than to rid
the kitchen bathroom, or any nIace
infested with cockroaches, IL Stearns'
Electric Rat and Roach Paste is used
Place 1t in sinks and on the shelves
and In the morning you can sweep m
painful of dead cockroaches. ~
Stearns' Electric Paste is sold under
1t also Kills OF rats. mice and other
,Stearns. Electric Paste is sold by drug
OF; box Csc, 16 OF. box $1.O0. Stearns:
Electric Paste Coz Buffalo. N. r. (for-
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PhiIadeIphia 3. Boston 4.

Boston, May s.-McGee,s superb field
ing enabled Corridor to hold the local
players to a single hit and his three
base hit in the tenth brought in two
runs Philadelphia winning by to l.
Score by innings R.H.E
Philadelphia ......1 5000 5000 pa Ii 8
Boston ..........,...0 90 1000 OIL
Batteries-Corrfdon and Jacklitsch;
Yong and Brown.
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schreclz signs for One NIore Bout

Cincinnati, May 8.-Mike Schreck
and Marvin Hart have signed an
agreement in this city to meet in a
finish fight or limited round glove
contest. The agreement Will hold
good for thirty days. and il no purse
is offered in that time the match will
be void They will not sign final ar
ticles of agreement until some club
offers a purse. They expect to hear
from the Tonopah club by Tuesday.
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Western Association Standing.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
New York ? BroolxIyn 4.

New York, May. S-New York defeat
ed the Brooklyns in the final game of
the series, a passed ball and a wild
pitch being responsible for the victory.
Score by innings: R.H.E
New York ....,.......0 OIL 90 20 6 o
Batteries-BelI and Butter; Amts and
Bresnahan.
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National League Standing.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Detroit 4. St. Louis 3

st. Louis, May S.-The Detroits won a
good game on wet grounds from ST.
Louis. Both pitchers were hit freely,
though only one hit was made off
jacobson up to the seventh inning.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
st. Louis ...........2 100000 8 2
Detroit -................0 0 @ ! O. 2
Batteries-JacobSon and Spencer;
Sievers and Payne.
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Chicago o, Cleveland 1.

Chicago, May S.-Chicago had no trou-
BILE in defeating Cleveland. Sullivans
hitting and a fine catch by Birming-
ham were the features.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
chicago .-.--....-...1 - IL z
Cleveland ............. o o o O 0 o OIL 3 2
Batteries-White and Hart; Rhoades,
Bernhard and Wakefield.
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Western League STANDING.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

At Kansas City-Kansas City, 6; In
dianapolis, 2.
At Columbus-Columbu Minneapolis
game postponed, snow.
At ST. Paul-St. Paul, 6: Toledo, 8.
At Observation-Disclosures 1; Louis
Vile, 4.
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SCORE BY INNINGS.
Wichita ............t- o @ 2 -
Leavenworth 1911 o Q O-3
. The SUMMARY: Earned rurs-LeaVen-
worth l, Wichita 4. Two-base hits
Milan, Mclean, Hettling. First base on
balls-Of Becker 2. Struck out-By
Allison 2, by Gilbert 2. by Becker 6.
Left on bases-LeavenWorth 8. Wichita.
4. Double plays-Ling to Gilbert, Woo
ley to Seebach. Wild pitches-Gilbert
?. Passed ball-Fischer. First base on
errors-Leavenworth e. Wichita 2.
Sacrifice hit-Laughlin.5 Stolen base
Milan. Umpire-Ver Shuae. Ttme-1:45.
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WESTERN ASSOCIATION
JopIIn54. springfieId 0.

/ Ioplin. Mo-, May S.-Joplin won from
Springfield bysa score of to o. Despite
the recent rains 2the new diamond was
almost dry and the game was fast and
snappy. n the sixth inning Joplin
touched Uhren for two singles and
nome run Root of Joplin allowed
Springfield three[ scattered hits. The
.f1eldlng of Olson, Smith and Fleming
was brilliant. The score:
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Wichita =. Leavenworth 8.

Wichita, Kan, May. 8.-Heavy hitting
by Wichitas won the game from Leaven-
worth here by a score of to 8. Two
double plays were pulled off by LeaV
enworth, one in the fourth and one in
the sixth Allison of Leavenworth al
lowed two men to score on wild pitches
in the fifth inning. He was succeeded
by Gilbert. The locals secured nine hits
off Allison in five innings. The score:
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Totals
SCORE BY INNINGS

Joplin ......-.t......0 10 0 o 0 "a
Springfield ..........0 0 D D o o 90
The summary: Earned runs-Joplin
3. Two-bases hit-Zink. Home run
Fleming. First base on balls-Of Root
3, off Uhren 2. Struck out-By Root 4,
by Uhren 8. Left on bases-Joplin s.,
Springfield b. Double play-Uhren to
Welter to Stiff. Passed ball-Goes.
Stolen bases-TiAman, Olson, Cole 2.
Sacrifice hit-McKee. Umpire-Guthrie
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MAY PENALIZE DOYLE.
Umpire Connolly Complains of the
SIowness of This Pitcher.

New York, May S.-Umpire Con-
molly stated today that he had written
to President Johnson of the American
league informing him of Pitcher Joe
Doyle's actions in yesterdays game be-
tween New York and Philadelphia.
Owing to Doyle's tactics it required
three hours and five minutes to play
ten innings. Connolly said that in his
opinion there was no justification for
Doyle's slowness in delivering each
ball. and that it is now up to President
Johnson to decide what course of ac-
ton shall be taken by the umpires in
future games in which the New York
twirler officiates. The chances are
that every time Doyle holds the ball
more than the maximum limit of TWEEN
ty seconds a ball will be called on him.
This is the first time in the history
of the game that pitcher has been
reported for dilatory box work.
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ROSEBEN THEIR HOPE.
Will Carry the Money of Farrell Con-
federacY in the MefronOIifan


New York, May S.-Roseben will
carry the hopes and dollars of the
arreH-Sullivan-Johns confederacy
in the Metropolitan handicap, which
will be run Thursday at Belmont
Park.
UNLESS something should happen
to Roseben of serious nature be-
tween now and Thursday" said Train
err Weir today at the Gravesend track.
1--WE will not start DR.. Gardner. Rose
ben has been selected to carry our
hopes. If he meets with good luck he
will race well in spite of the fact that
the distance is a trife long for him."
That Roseben will be a keen con-
tender from start to finish was made
manifest by a trial recently in which
he ran the mile course at Gravesend
in 1:4O. He had big weight up, more
than he will carry in the MetropoIi-
tan, and, as he had to make four
turns. two more than is necessary
over the Belmont course, his work i'm,
pressed the checkers very favorably.
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Wooley tried to get his release from
Leavenworth so that he could sigI
with Topeka, but Rohr would not lie
him go as he is one of the best player,
in the Convict's lineup.
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Manager Herman Crow Monday re-
ceived a message from Joplin Offering
to sell Bill link to Topeka for a sec
Ond baseman. However, Crow declined
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with thanks. Topeka has Olson, who
is only about tenth as big as link
but plays a ten times better game and
who may lead the second baseman in
this, his second season in the bust
ness.
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Omaha 6. Lincoln 0.

Omaha, May S.-Omaha administered
the second shutout to Lincoln.
Score by innings: RHE.
Omaha ................0 501oOOo 50 10 Z
Lincoln ................0 o 0 o 90
Batteries-Sanders and Gonding; CT
cote and Sullivan.
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by Honduras was unexpected by those
of the Momotonbo and she withdrew
out of the line of firing.
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The vacant three days in the sehed-
ule which occurs in Septemb Der will
give the teams an opportunity to play
off some of the postponed games due
to- the rain.
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Oklahoma City Post: McFarland's
work on the slab is sure to prove a rev
elation to the fans and players in al
the towns of the circuit. His work in
Saturdays game in this city was worth
the price of admission in itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-08

President Heyman of the Oklahoma
City team offered Dummy Curtis a
place on the Nets twirlihg staff but up
to date he has not heard a word from
him. 1t is not unlikely that the dunn
my had a violent fall from the wagon
from which he has not yet recovered.
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St. ATarys 6. Baker .

st. Marys. Kan, May s.-Quiglev's
hitters pounded Mason, the Baker
twirler, for twelve hits and defeated
the university lads from Baldwin by
a score of to 2. Bakule's pitchfoS
was the feature. he striking out four
teen men.
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American League Standing.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Pueblo 3. Denver 4.

Pueblo, Colo. May S.-Pueblo defeated
Denver in an uphill game by a score of
to 4. The locals played errorless ball.
Score by inningsc R.H. E.
Denver ...........-..-.2 o2o009QQ4 8
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Batteries-wright, Engle and Zalusky;
Hatch and Smith.
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Benefits Stable Shipped South.

Memphis, Tenn, May Sc c. ban.
nett's western stable, which left for
Louisville in charge of Thomas Men
per. has many year Odds
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my mad a violent Iall from the wagon
from which he has not yet recovered.
$780,
oklahoma City aTimes-Journal:
skinny Horton one of the best
twiriers in the Western asso citation
when he is in good condition and with
q winning team played with a city
league team in Kansas City a number
of years ago. At the close of the sea-
son he was sold to one of the other
teams in the league for 81. Joe Tin
ker, the fast shortstop of the Chicago
National league team, is also a prod
uct of Kansas City. A number of
years ago, when he was playing with
one of the teams in the league in the
KaW river city he was also sold to an
other team in the league for $3.a Tin
ker- draws a pay check. which reads
about $4,000 year now. 3
Oklahoma City has given Geist
chance to go to the South McAlester
team in the o. A. X league. The big
fellow showed symptoms of being a
good pitcher in time, but the Western
association was considered too good a
place to give him his seasoning.
The fans all over the circuit are
wondering what Wichita will do for
team next season. The papers down
in the Windy Village of the Wilder
ness have already signed all of the
players up for the big leagues.
welter of Springfield and Jones of
Webb City are the only players so far
to secure home runs this season. They
will not have the exclusive control of
this elite class very long as the Topeka
team gets twenty chances at the WITCH
tta Rabbit twirlers this season.
The Wichita Star says: at was a
bitter pill for Topeka folk when Will
lett made good and Forester lost out
at Detroit. Yet there was no compari-
son between the two" 1t was very
sweet pill for Topeka with all the bit
ter taste mingling with the saliva of
4he Wichita fans. The bitterness will
become more rancid to Wichita fam
dom as the season progresses when
Forester wins game after game for
Topeka from the Western asso citation
teams, and especially rancid will it
become when Forester shuts out the
Rabbits a few times.
Oklahoma City Post: 7McFarland's
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WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW
Springfield in Topeka.
Webb City at Wichita.
LeaYenWorth at Oklahoma City.
Hutchinson at Joplin.
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Sioux City 2, Des Mofnes 1.

A5HON1A CITY A1O5 47NOI11O5 II
Sioux City. Ia, May SIN a pitchers
battle Corbett for Sioux City had a
thin edge on Miller, the Des Moines
game, to 1.
Score by innings: R.HE.
Des Moines ..........O 0 o 0 OIL ?
Batteries-Corbett and Sheehan
Miller and Yeager.
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Doctor James Albert Berry.
observation-disclosures of the nose, throat
stomach and 1ntestines. 725 Kansas ava
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Ex-Baseban Nfagnate Dead.

Milwaukee, Wis, May S.-Gus Koch,
former owner of the Mimi eapolis club
of the American association, died sud-
denly here. Koch was wealthy, and
had been identified with baseball in
the northwest for years. His latest
venture was the disposition of the Min
neapolis franchise to the CantiIlons.
Jeffries Will Not Referee.
Los Angeles, Cal, May Slim JEFF
fries will not referee the Heavyweight
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Totals
LEAyENWORTH.

Totals ..s,.a..-... ..55 o a
SCORE RY INNINGS.
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