The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-09
Santa Fe Fans to Give KaWs
$1,000 if Team
Finishes Season in First, Sec
Ond or Third Place.
FORM CLUB OF 900 MEMBERS
Each VIII Pay in % Cents a
Month.
BeIden, Koerner and Craig Join
the HOIdOuts.

Working quietly along what they
believe to be the most practical lines
the baseball fans employed at the
Santa F'e offices are forming what will
likely prove to be the best booster
organization in the league. Beside
pledging themselves 20 do all of the
things the Booster club, being organ
lied under the direction of George
Godfrey Moore, are pledged to do,
these intensely loyal fans are raising
a purse of $1,000 to be given the team
if it finishes in first, second or third
place in the coming race for the pen
nant.
For several days the fans in the Of
fees have been working on the plans
Some of them have even missed shows
and dates with their girls at night to
attend the meetings held to form the
organization This shows the spirit
with which they are working on the
plan
At present the plan is to form an
organization and have every mem
Der pay dues of % cents a month Tor
the five months of the season. This
will amount to $1.25 each. The or
ganization Will not be content with
less than 500 members and the luke
warm fans will be boosted into the
proposition by those who are already
interested.
other prizes are being suggested,
such as one for the best pitcher, the
best infieIder and best hitter They
distribute the above named amount
among all the members of the team
seems to be the most popular In this
way every player who contributes to
the success of the team will get his
share of the money.
Incidentally the fans among the
Santa Fe office men are setting an
example that the down town boosters
might we'll emulate. There's nothing
that encourages like money and
there's no evidence of faith in the
team like the kind that sends a fan
into his pocket.
Gonding will help Rourke coach
the youngsters this year. And what
Johnny cant teach kids is not a nee
essary part of a course in baseball
Wichita's island has been surveyed
and found large enough for ball
park. All that is needed is the team,
attendance and the pennant.
Belden KOerner and Craig. natives
of Colorado. have thrown a scare into
the Wichita management by declar-
ing they will not come in. But they
probably will. The sentiment stuff
goes all right until time TO play be-
gins Then it doesn't pay salaries. |
Wichita has signed Bechtold the St
Louis banana merchant. Bechtold, !
according to report. is the man who |
was barred from the Central Kansas |
league a few years ago for dirty |
baseball" He is said to have spiked |
at least half a dozen men before be- |
ing suspended. His reinstatement |
was secured by a Kansas State league !
team on condition, according to the /
same authority, that he should never |
play again in the Central Kansas |
league
Manhattan is after Pop" Gramley |
as a manager for the team which was |
purchased a few days ago from Clay |
Center. The veteran player and man |
ager declines, however, to give up his |
drug business. Clay Center people |
prophesy that by the time the sun |
gets good and warm there will be |
another clerk in the drug store and /
Gramley's mail will go to the K. S.
A G town