The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-08

| war between Secretary Walker OF the
| Oklahoma City baseball association
| and Manager Mcfarland of the team,
while the game was in progress yes
terday afternoon. Walker threatened
! to release Mcfarland because the
| latter did not take Bandy out of tho
| game in the sixth inning when he was
| being so numerically pounded. do
| it and I will pay you a good sum-
| said Mcfarland. Then you will see
me hike to Detroit as soon as posi-
ble." Bandy remained in the game
and the controversy between the sec
| rotary and the manager ended. AS an
explanation of why he did not yank
Bandy out, Mcfarland says that he
mad nobody to send in but McClin-
| took who is new and inexperienced in
this league and subject to nervous at
tackS with veterans against him like
Army's bunch. "Bandy was tired
after long run from first to third
and expected him to settle down.
says the manager. Events proved
that 1 was right for he held his op-
ponents safe for the rest of the game.
I felt that 1 would rather risk Bandy
there than to put McClintock in at
that stage"
The series of games between the
Joplin Miners and the Leavenworth
Convicts which was to have been
pulled of in Leavenworth commence
ing with next Sunday has been trans
probable the Joplin-Springf1eld series
following will be transferred to Jop-
lin as well.
After the miserable showing on this
trip due, no doubt to excellent man
agement. perhaps the prediction that
no one in Topeka will take any inter-
est in the ball team made by Specs
pal at the beginning of the season
may at last be, realized. - as
Wichita Eagle: 1t was announced
yesterday that Cy Young and BeaIs
Becker had both been sold to the
Plttsnurg club i06 The price paid for Tor
go for $3.50. These players are to go
east at the last of this season or early
next spring. Becker and Young are
both very loath to leave the Jobbers
get half of the purchase price. No
definite arrangement has yet been
made between the players and the
management in regard to this. 1t is
also reported that Milan is not very
anxious to go to Washington and has
asked for part of the price that was
paid for his release from the Jobbers.
at one time with the Tope-
ka team, has left Fort Smith and has
Joined the Oklahoma City team with
whom he will finish the season. As
last season he couldn't hit lick.
Detroit has made overtures to the
Oklahoma City management for the
services of Pitcher Robert Bandy for
next season. 1t is not unlikely that a
deal will be closed in a few days for
the young southpaw of the Oklahoma
City team.
Specs pal has quit abusing the To-
w hi fxyna h f0 nf
ton to the State Journal. The fans
were certainly entitled to a rest es-
pecially since the excellent showing
made by the team on this trip.
Leavenworth Times: August Schau-
myer will succeed Ernest Quigley as
manage rof the local team when the
bunch leaves at the conclusion Of the
present home series. Quigley Will
leave the team and his further plans
are not known. The choice of Schau-
myer as manager is one that will
please good many of the fans.
he has the faculty of making his men
do what he says. II he can infuse
little of that mysterious but enectiVe
"inside baseball into the bunch be-
fore the season is over he Will have
ACCOMPLISHED more than Ray and
Ouigley together were able to bring
about.
team changed in six weeks 1t is the
Topeka aggregation. AS things now
move it is wonder that the team Is
as high up as it Is. There is no as
here that Crow should
have beseeched Cooley to return and
grab hold of the helm. Spec Hurl-
burt, who is in charge of the club, Is
evidently responsible for the disor-
ganized condition of affairs. He chews
the rag with all his players and calls
them down on every occasion. When
an occasion don't occur he makes
one. Yesterday he had wordy wars
with Ragan and Olson. In rapid sue
cessfon and Immediately he took
fall out of Abbott. The truth is that
most of the fans here believe Spec Is
about the rottenest man on the team
and where he has a license to call
other players for poor work Is hard
20 comprehend: He only got one hit
h the three games here and in addi-
ion made several raw plays as we'll
as an error or two. He would do well
70 retire to the farm owned by his
itch wife. He was at one time a Ia
rorfte with the fans here.