The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19


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If the Booster day plan is adopted
rs means of raising money for the
purchase of additional strength for
the Kaws Topeka will be doing for
her ball team only what every other
city in the league has, at some time or
other, adopted as plan to strengthen
the team and assist the men whose
money is in baseball. ST. Joseph, ad-
1nfttedly the best town in the league,
has such program Des Moines has
a. Booster day proposition. In Omaha
the Ak Sar Ben and other organiza-
tons put on a stunt which means
money for Rourke. Lincoln is plan
ming a big stunt for the new owner
of the club.
In Topeka the men whose money
is in the club are working only to
make the team a good one. No one
is after a nickePs worth of profit.
The directors need more money and
ask the fans to do what the fans in
other towns have done-make them a
donation of enough money to put the
team in the running. The fans want
a better team and little more money
will get it.
If the men in charge of the Booster
day affair, provided such a plan is
decided upon, work it right, they can
bring in 1000 fans from outside To-
peka for that day. Get the railroads
to bring them in on trains which will
insure quick trip to and from To-
peka and they will come. The num-
Der of out of town fans who are loyal
to Topeka and want to see the team
win will surprise the directors.
At least $4,000 worth of the Booster
day tickets should be sold in Topeka.
Another thousand tickets should be
and with this money the expense of
the club can be kept up and the new
players needed to put the team in
the fighting can be purchased.
The rains. which meant so much to
Kansas crop growers last week, cost
the Kaw management at least $1,000.
They came at a time when the base
ball men had a right to expect to
make a little money. The club had
pensive trip. And while the associa-
ton is not broke, IT doesn't intend to
go broke and the fans have been
asked to grant the Booster day at
this time.
The more fans out tonight the
more plans can be suggested and dis
cussed and the more the good that
will result to the team
Manhattan has gone into first place
Tor the first time in the history of
that town in the Central Kansas
League. The fans there are giving
the management a Booster day, at
which It is believed $4,000 will be
raised. If Manhattan can raise $4,000
for a ball team Topeka ought to
raise $4,000.
Over in st. Joseph the business
men have a system that gets them
good results and helps the ball club.
In some stores the clerk who does
the most business in a month gets a
season pass to the games. This pass
is paid for by the owner of the estab-
Hshment. Other prizes, all dealing
with baseball are given. In some
cases a good record means only one
game at the employers expense dur
ing the regular working week. These
plans have worked in st. Joseph.
They might work elsewhere. In st.
Joseph the business men pay SIS per
year to belong to the Booster club
and there are several hundred of
them. Holland is running his ball
club for personal gain. The Topeka
men are running their club to give
baseball to the town.
Oklahoma City, the burg aspiring to
a place in the Western League, doesn't
support her class ''D'' team. The fol-
lowing clipping from an Oklahoma pa
per shows conditions there:
No disposition has as yet been made