The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-02
Comes Back From Missouri Sore
and Disguised.
Outrageous Treatment by UNI
pires Characterized the Trip.
Is 1T PART OF A PLOT?
More Evidence That Topeka Is
Victim of q Scheme.
Shively Blamed for the COndi.
tiOn of Affairs.

The Topeka team has returned from
their Missouri trip in which they won
five out of the eleven games played
There will be no game this afternoon,
and many of the players are off on
| fishing trips. A small party composed
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cooley, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Kah1 and Secretary F. P. Robbins of
the local team are extracting the cat
fish from the Wakarusa
Cooley spares no words when press
ed for an opinion in regard to the work
of Umpire Shuster in the series just
closed. He was worse than any UNI
plre l have ever seen in my fifteen
years of professional baseball and 1
have seen some pretty bad ones" is the
way Cooley summarizes his opinion of
Shuster,
He robbed us of the first game of
the doubleheader at Webb City yester-
day." said Cooley. And 1 believe he
took the second game away from us
although it wouldn't be fair to say so
as the game was forfeited long before
the time for the game to end. In the
first game Hurlburt was on third with
two out and Cuthbert hit grounder
to S. Olson who threw him out at first
by step. The decision was some
what close but not so close but what
the umpire could have seen that he
was out had he been disposed to give
us fair deal. This would have ended
the game 1 to o.
But it was in the second game that
Shuster reached the limit of rotten
ness. In the fourth inning Brennan
reached first and started for second,
Cheek .heaved the ball past Pokorny
and the ball rolled clear through Hurl-
| burt's legs to the fence. Pokorny ran
| into Brennan trying to stop him but
| although Eddie had his speed slacken
| ed up he regained his feet and started
| for third. Spec hadn't reached the ball
yet as Eddie turned the corner towards
| home O'Brien, the pitcher for Webb
City, saw the state of affairs and ran
| over hurting his shoulder against
| Brennan's breast and knocking him to
| the ground. Eddie got up and hob
| bled towards the plate but was thrown
! out about three feet. Shuster should
| have allowed him to tally because of
| the interference but claimed that he
| did not see the play and called him
out. Eddie was hurt pretty bad, the
| force of his fall to the ground having
| hurt his arm. l went up to him and
commenced rubbing his arm and be-
| fore 1 said word Shuster forfeited
the game. After the game had been
| forfeited Shuster fined both Eddie and
myself and as Red Davis started to
| get on a car at the ball park he was
! arrested by the sheriff and fined eight
dollars without any further provoca-
1
| to the umpire after the game had been
/ forfeited. The crowds started for us
I, after the game and we came about the
| next thing to being mobbed.
/ I'VE were beaten out of every game
| that we lost at Webb City. At Joplin
and Springfield we were entitled to
lose the games we did. There is not a
| bit of doubt in my mind but Shive-
| ly has it in for us and has instructed
| his umpires to act accordingly. If the
| reverse were true, We would have at
| least an even break occasionally, in
stead Of getting it rubbed into us at
every jump in the road.
Il asked Shively to send Finney to
| Topeka for the coming series. Finney
| seems to be the only fair official
| Shively has and he has only umpired
/ three games for us this season. But
Shively refused to do it. He is going
to send Shuster here for the three
series which we will have on the home
grounds"
| Cooley has strings out for a couple
1 of new pitchers which he is not ready
to announce as yet. He is confident of
| winning the pennant and is not discour-
| aged over the reverses encountered on
the recent trip. Most of the players
returned in good shape. Sylvester OIL
son is having tussle with tonsilit1s
and is under the weather.
1 party of Topeka fans who accom-
i panied the team on the trip accord in
the opinion that the work of Shuster
was about as bad as could be.