The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-11

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ana WHERE THEY PLAY
$40 TOMORROW.
Topeka at Oklahoma City.
webb City at Enid. ~
wichita at Joplin.
Hutchinson at Springfield.
In Oklahoma City and Hutchinson
the fans are raising a thousand dol
lars for their teams providing they
win the pennant. In Wichita a similar
plan is about to crystalline And the
question naturally arises why can't
the Topeka fans do as much. There Is
not team in the league that stands d
better chance at the rag than the To-
Gals. Inc recent additions to the team
VIII improve the chances of first place.
oklahoma City, Wichita and Topeka
remain to fight 1t out All have good
teams and any one Is liable to win
OUT. The end Of the season Is distant
oniy SIX weeks and we are now on the
nome stretch. The team that wins the
rag Is the team that receives the most
announcement from the fans. Every
little thing that can be done will help
the players and put them in better
spirits.
To this end it has been suggested
that the Topeka fans show the proper
spirit and not lag behind the other
western association towns. who arc
raising a bonus for their players. A.
thousand dollars raised for the Topeka
fans would just about land the PEN
nant and it wouldn't be noticed by the
rams. There ought to be a thousand
rams who would be willing to pay a
dollar to see the rag float in Topeka
next season. And there might be some
VINO would give more. Every little bit
would help. :.
This amount is going to be raised in
Topeka None Of the players have any
lntlmatlon OF it, and ii wouldn't be IL
pad plan to have the money all raised
by the time the team returns. or at
least I goodly portion of the amount.
Just send the amount of your sub
scrlption to this popular fund to the
sporting editor. who will hold the
amount in trust and turn it over to
the players at the last game of the sea-
son. Or II some other town wins the
rag the money will be refunded. There
VIII be no soliciting, as nothing but
voluntary subscriptions are wanted.
Cooley has combatted great odds in
giving Topeka a winning team and
here is a chance for the fans to help
him out.
Frank Barber, who has done more
than any other player to put the
Hutchinson team to the bad this sea-
son. by his jumping when most needed,
has succeeded Jay Andrews to the
throne in Saltville. The chances are
that the Packers will fall down worse
than ever now. They won't have a
manager half as popular or one. who
will get the results out OF his employees
The trouble with Hutchinson is that
the team has one hundred and five d.
rectors, all of whom have different
ideas Of running a team.
Joe Woods of the Kansas City team
has left for Boston where he will joic
the Beaneaters for the rest of the sea-.
son.. Joe will get four hundred
month IL he makes good.
According to the Joplin Globe Cobb
is hitting 1881, while according to the
averages in the News-Herald. pub
lished on the same date he is hitting
but .2S5. What is badly needed in
Joplin is a uniform system of scoring
Now what do you think of this.
Bemis, whom Shively suspended for
ten days, has been reinstated and Will
liam Methuselah Hoffer has to serve
but ten Of his thirty days suspension.
The reason is evident. Topeka plays
in Melville tomorrow.
Kansas City has sold Chick Bran
dom, the former Ok star, to Pittsburg
for $500.
Tony Vanderbilt, the veteran CATCH
er, Is managing the Blue Rapids team
in northern Kansas. Tony is said to
be getting two hundred dollars d
month for his work.
Paul C0hh tho hiUnlxy Inn1In
outfielder. has not yet been sold al
though he has received much adver-
Using space in the Joplin press for
some time. Baker has offered him to
McAleer for $4,000. and McAleer has
agreed to pay this amount should
young Cobb prove worth 1t. But Jim
my is too wise to be taken in on a
bunco game and will send his old scout
Jack O'Connor to watch the youngster
perform. Chances are that Baker
won't sell Cobb.
The fans over in Leavenworth are
talking baseball again and want an
other chance. The Times a few days
ago printed a lengthy story to the ef-
feet that Jake Beckley OF the Kansas
town which would become a member
Of the Western league. What dream
ers some mortals are.
The Joplin Globe in an article COW
ering a column and q half hands the
Topeka team the following bunch Of
posies: Topeka is the team which
seems to be best fitted for landing the
rag, and in this forecast Topeka Is
given the preference over the other
clubs. There Is but one fault with
Cooley's club. 1t is well balanced in
every department other than the pitch
ing STAFF, and there lies the chief weak
ness of the. Topeka team. Hagerman
has won at least one-third of Topeka's
victories this season. But he cannot
60 on winning games in this way for
he is weakening under the strain.
Roach. Selby, Root and Boles are only