The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-03
HOW DENVER FEELS.
President Burke Is Worrying Over
Western League situation.

Denver, April -3.-The Times says:
Denver baseball fans are apt yet to
feel the sting eff bitter disappointment.
Topeka seems almost as far from be-
ing. in the Western league today as it
did at this time last December, and
this is no April fool affair, either.
was talking to President r. R.
Burke this morning and said to him:
why don't the Western league make
out schedule. and why don't the ma
tional commission or some one else
settle that Topeka question for once
and all?" sl3
1--WE are expecting a decision by the
national commission daily now, but
until then we are simply up in the air,
clear off Of the ground" explained
Richard R. ezH
ing for a minute, because am not,
but do feel that the Western league
is being handicapped for the 1907 sea-
son by the present state of Affairs /
feWeI, I agree with you,' came the
response. stsBdt what. can I3do?s' added
the local baseball boss. - Il. am losing
out, so to speak, and it would be to my
interest to have the question settled If
we possibly could, but we can't, it
seems, and 1 admit that there. is very
serious doubt as to whether or not To-
peka will be in the Western league
this year.
ment that he would sell Topeka to the
Western league, 2 rather than release
the Kansas capital, was not MADE IN
writing, and now Shively wants to
kick out of the agreement He went
to Buffalo and said he would let To-
peka join the Western. Tt has de-
veloped within the last few days that
he did not have the power to act Tip
O'NeilI had full power to act for the
western league and we supposed that
Shfyely was invested with the same
power by the western association. But
the Western association repudfated
Shfvely's action in Kansas City and II
is shown that he was not invested with
the power to release Topeka, so 1t is
now UP to the national commission,
composed of Garry Hermann, harry
Pulliam and Ban johnson, to decide
the question of whether or not class
b league can keep a city from going
into a higher class league unless the
higher class league has LOST a CITY To
one of the majors.
1.-THE national commission may not
decide for week or more, and there
is no indication which way the dec1-
sion will GO We of the Western league
are doing all in our power TO receive
sion is rendered there can be no sched-
uIe made nor anything else done in
our league
Such a state of affairs is to be keen
" regretted It is almost ill-treatment
Of the fans in Western league cities to
then, after all that has been said and
done regarding the drafting of Topeka,
probably burst a bomb of disappoint-
ment right in their faces.
Denver lovers of the great national
sport are becoming fidgety over the
outcome of the dispute as to which
baseball association owns Topeka, and
it is injuring the game here at home,
because, should Hermann, Pulliam and
johnson decide the Kansas capital
must stay in the Western association
there will be a big hullabaloo set up
throughout the circuit, and right here
at home in particular. that will keep
some If not many loyal ones away from
the ball park.
There is no man that realizes this
any more than Richard Burke, and,
realizing this. as he admits he does,
he is urging O'Neill to use every inf1u-
ence he has to get an early verdict
by the national commission which, as
Burke says. is as apt to be against as
for the Western league.