The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-05
WESTERN ASSOCIATION GOSSIP
WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW:
Topeka at Wichita.
Webb City at Hutchinson.
Springfield at Leavenworth.
Joplin at Oklahoma City.

webb City at HUTCHINSON.
Springfield at Leavenworth.
Joplin at Oklahoma City.
President Shively yesterday an
nounced the suspension of Player Goes
of the Oklahoma City team for the rest
of the season This action is just as it
should be. Umpire batting has become
an altogether too popular amusement
among the players in this association
this season and the sooner it is effec-
lively stopped the better it will be for
the association. The action of Goes last
week in assaulting the umpire was alto
gether uncalled for and the penalty, if
anything, is too light. Goes is now out
of baseball for the rest of the season
and will thus be able to report in To-
peka for trial August 10.
Umpire Guthrie has quit his job and
has hiked back to Chicago. Life in
the Western Association brush was too
strenuous for his tender feelings. Then,
too, he had a little compassion for DR..
Shively and said that he was causing
the doctor too much trouble. AT that
however, Guthrie has nerve which is
something that very few Of them do
have.
Goes, the suspended player umpired
Saturdays game at Oklahoma City.
Mike Jacobs was sick.
What the Leavenworth people think Of
Umpire Alloway, the latest acquisition
to Doc Shively's. staff is shown by the
following from the Times: doc Shive-
ly has finally relieved the monotony Of
the seasons umpire troubles. Umpire
Alloway, who made his bow to- the cir
cult. here yesterday, Is the real article,
forty inches wide and fast dyed. Allo-
way is the former Cincinnati Reds
pitcher and twirler for Kansas City, In
dfanapolfs, and other league teams. He
is a graduate of the ball game and.
knows how to umpire. He works hard
er than any man Shively has ever shown
the leagues fans, has a clearer, more in
telligible voice even that BAT" Owens,
the erstwhile king of Shively umpires
and runs the game just as it should be
run. He never evens up for a shady
strike call and always looks before he
calls his decision. Nothing got away
from him yesterday. He has the addi-
tional recommendation to favor with the
fans Of knowing the value of announc-
ing new players when they take the
field. Alloway will do for U.S."
Hoffer who pitched for the Oklahoma
City team against Topeka yesterday is
an old timer and is one of the Oldest
pitchers in point of service today. He
commenced pitching about twenty years
ago and fifteen years ago found him
with the old Baltimore Orioles, the three
time pennant winning team in the Ma
tiopa1 league. His pitching was the
main cause of the tremendous sue
cess of the Orioles in those days. He
ranked along with Rusie, Nichols.
Meel5in, Breitenstein and other famous
twIrlers of that period. Oklahoma City
secured him from Little Rock where he
has been working this season. Judging
from yesterdays efforts he still has
several good games left in him.
Manager Quigley of the Leavenworth
team has handed in his resignation to
President Rohr to take effect not later
than August Is. Quig has had a hard
time of 1t in Leavenworth on account of
the team being so far down in the race
and the disposition of the owners not
to spend too much money in pulling the
team out of the rut. Quigley has done
about as much as any man could with
the team in its present condition and is
entitled to good deal of credit for the
heroic fight he has made against the
odds he has had to contend with. Quig-
ley asked for his release several days
ago but was refused.
Oklahoma City Times-Journa1: Just
why Topeka wishes to part with the ser
vices of Red Davis has always been
fielders in the association and is always
a dangerous batsman.
Gus Wiser, the little second base
man or the OklanOmd city team VINO
was suspended few days ago by the
Nets management, has gone to Colo
RADIO Springs, where he is to play on
the Colorado Springs independent
team which plays only Saturdays and
Sundays. He will receive a good sal |
airy and will put in the other five days
of the week in work of some kind. AS |
soon as he was suspended he wired to |
Frank Starkey who played with the !
Nets this spring Starkey is captain
of the team and wired Gus back a
ticket. Manager Mcfarland traded |
Wiser and some money to boot to the |
Bartlesville management for Jack
Love, who is now playing second base
for the team. Wiser refused to go.
President Heyman of the Oklahoma |
City baseball team is tired of the job |
of baseball magnate ad is quoted in /
an Oklahoma City paper. as intending |
to retire from the national game at
the end of the season.
Unless stock company is formed /
today at Springfield or there is some /
Idfvidual or individuals in Midget
Vile who are willing to take over the |
midgets and assume the responsible
ties of making the baseball business
in that city a paying proposition, the /
franchise of theSpringheld team of the
Western association will be trasferred