The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22

WHERE THEY PLAY TOMORROW:
/ Topeka at Springfield.
Wichita at Webb City.
1 Oklahoma City at Joplin.
| Leavenworth at Hutchinson.
With Woo1ey added to the team the
outfeld is materially strengthened and
| Topeka has one of the most promising
outfe1ders in the association. He is a
good hitter and good thrower. be-
| sides being an all around man. He is
one of the few players who stands in
good shape to go up higher next
season.
Daily Oklahoman: When the Met
ropoiitansi return from their present
tour aboard there will be another new
face in =the elan. a new member. of the /,
firing squad. The stranger will be
Pitcher Swain of Dubuque, Ia, who
ranked fourth among the twirlers of
the Three-Eye league last season. Man
ager Mcfarland wired Yesterday that
he could secure Swain IL terms were
accepted at once. $500 being required
Swalm's percentage in box work last
season was .719. Percentage of hits to
game, SIS; runs. ISL; bases on balls,
So; strike outs, 247; fielding percent
age, 400; batting average, .239.
Tile patrons of the league in the
various cities in the circuit will all APP
prove the action of President Shively
at Webb City which drastic as it may
seem at first was not IN excess of the
offense committed by the Webb City
players. Painter. who led the assault
on Umpire guthrie, gets off for the
rest of the season. Collins. the center
fielder, will draw fifty less next pay day,
and Wright and Olson each get off
with twenty-five dollar slice. Man
ager Milton was fined one hundred
dollars and suspended Indefinitely.
This action will help to keep Webb
City down in the race great deal. as
it will deprive the team of some of its
best players. AS far as Umpire Guth-
RE is concerned he may have made
some bad decisions. but he is recog-
nized as one of the nerviest and most
conscientious umpires in the circuit.
Rowdyism is getting too prominent in
the Western association and the SOON
err steps are being made to route IT out
the better it will be for the game in
these parts. Milton has always been
considered a gentleman on the field
and why he should lose his head seems
strange to say the least
Leavenworth Post: The baseball sit
uation in I.eavenworth is altogether diff,
ferent now A number of the most
prominent business and professional
men in the city have taken stock in the
club, and already arrangements have
been made for the strengthening or the
team. New places have been bargaineo
for and everything possible will be done.
to make the game in .LeavenWortn
success from this time on. Among the
men who have bought stock in the club
are two county officers, a banker, one OF
the most prominent merchants in the
city and others who are determined TO
give Leavenworth a ball club that vii.
be a credit to the city and advertise the
city everywhere.
Jack LAWYER umpired in the games at
webb CITY yesterday in the absence OF
TTrnires Jacobs and Guthrie who both
refused TO work there on account of the
rowdy tactics OF Webb City. Guthrts was
kicked in the eye and unable and Jacobs
would not work when such rowdy tao
tics premeditated as they seemed and
countenanced by the owners of the cluD
were carried ca.
Daily OKlahoman: That there Is 60 ~
strong encouragement offered the Okla.
homa City baseball club TO win the
Western association pennant this year
is made evident by movement started
yesterday to raise a fund by popular
to be equally divided
among the active players of the team
In the event that they win the trophy.
It is planned that not less than ten bus
mess men be asked to serve as a COM
rnittee in the furtherance Of the project;
that the subscription fund be deposited
and the fund divided among the players
at the end of the season by the commit
tee of editors In case the team has won
the pennant... Forty dollars was ofTeren
Yesterday as the initial donation. inc
idea is a good one, and the prospect OF
a neat nestegg at the close of the season
will certainly encourage the members OF