The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-14

Deen SUSpend-
ed Tor a few days on account of insub-
ordination. Hatch is a good pitcher
anu ms loss Will cripple the Indians.
datch is not with the team in Lin
com having been left in Sioux City.
is thought that he will return to his
nome in Vermont and not pitch any
more this season.
+h 1t is certainly 4s beginning to look as
Lhough the players in the Western
League would soon learn to submit Ia
the rules of discipline laid down nv
the managers of the different clubs.
Inc player is in no possible way to
come out ahead. For instance fbere
are Gillen and Zalusky of the Denver
team, who are now practically out of
organized ball. There is Hatch of Pm
eblo, Brennan and Aitchison of Wich-
tia, who got in trouble with Holland
and Burnum and McManus of the To-
peka club. In some instances the man
agement may be at fault though If isn't
at all likely that in this day with pIav-
ers as scarce as the fourth dimension
that any manager will suspend OF fin
ancially cripple a player without good
grounds. At any rate it shows that
the day OF the unruly player is gone
ana that ball players in the Western
of decorum.
Denver News: Denver baseball fans
need feel no apprehension that this civ
W III 4OoC IT'S pace IN the Western
League, in case of the removal of the
Pueblo team to an eastern CITY. The
elimination of Pueblo would have abso
lutely no effect on Denver's member
snip IN the league, except to send up
the travelling expenses and make If
lnconVenlent, but it would not make
baseball in this city impracticabIe.
In the event of the Indians going to
81. Joseph Denver would pair with
Lincoln. There is too much money in
vested in the Denver plant. there is
too much money to be made. and being
made, out of the nation game in this
city to make the removal of the Dem
yer team even possibility, The only
condition under which this could occ1lr
would be the development of conditions
similar to those existing at Pueblo
namely, losing enterprise from a fin
ancial point of view So rest easv
gentle fan, Papa Burke needs the mon
ey and will be right there with a bali
team so long as some one does not
steal his Broadway bali lot.
Although he has dropped back to the
minors, Dummy Taylor, a Kansas lad.
is pitching great ball for the Buffalo
team in the Eastern League, and is
winning most of his games.
The Omaha Bee says that Topeka
played as If in a trance while there.
The trance is now over and the Topeka
boys are playing some classy ball.
Omaha had a trance like style of pIav
while IN Topeka a few days back
Old Lady Bill Hoffer is pitching for
the Cedar Rapids team in the Three
Eye league. Hoffer will be Remembered
as the one who tainted when a non
bottle passed near him at the local baiI |
park one day last season.
Lincoln News: Snapper Kenuedav is |
playing a waiting game down at ST |
Joe, being confident that the Pueblo |
club will soon be transferred to the
old Missouri town. The Pueblo dfrec- |
tors priced the club at $1,000 rot long
ago to Snapper, who promptly said nix.
Snapper has the notion that he will |
eventually get possession at a much
smaller figure. He points TO the fact
that the present trip of the Puebs will 1
last four lcng weeks and he has doped
it out that the best the anagement. /
which already has lost some of its hest
dates because of rain. can hone to dol
is to pay travelling expenses while ON |
the road. The salaries are going on ali /
the while. and the payroll for fonr
weeks for the club exceeds $1,000. The
directors are now in the hole and
Snapper has a notion that they will
throw up their hands rather than digI
for the extra s., COO. when the blovvr1
comes, the directors or the league viii
have to come to me, says Kennedy
for there isn't another available CITY.
It will come in time. so I can wait"
For once it wo-r-d appear that Lin
coin wasn't stunG on trade. Hogriev- !