The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-12
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(By Clug)

Despite the fact that President
O'Neill of the Western League has
Numbered and contradicted himself a
thousand times more or less in state
mentS about the league schedule, and
despite the fact that said schedule, has
not yet been announced, the Topeka
State Journal today gives the fans the
complete schedule for the first time.
No other paper on the Western
League circuit has far published
this schedule, and the State Journal
is indebted to no one for this eXclu-
sive privilege. Here is the way the
State Journal "beat them all to it,:
On April the ST. Joseph Gazette
prevailed upon John Holland, owner
of the ST. Joe club, to announce the
at home and abroad dates of the St.
Joe team. Along about the same time
the Des Moines Register and Leader
extracted the at home and abroad
dates from Frank Isbell and published
them.
Saturday the papers in other West
ern League towns made a howl to
President O'Neill. and the laundering
PreXy authorized the Associated Press
to inform the papers that they could
get their at home and abroad dates
by paying the telegraph charges on
them from Chicago.
The State Journal and other papers
ordered them, but before the dates
were sent out O'Neill, who is noted
for his discrimination against after
noon papers, announced that these
dates could not be used until after
o'clock.
This cut out every afternoon paper
on the circuit. But this wasn't all.
O'Neill also announced that the COM
plete schedule would be released ex-
clusively to morning papers Wednes-
day morning.
ize that the schedule was public prop
erty Saturday night to anyone who was
willing to do a little work to get it.
All that was necessary was to get
the at home and abroad dates of the
eight clubs, make 64 squares on a
And this is what the State Journal
did. 1t was a very simple matter-it
didn't take over huors of hard work
to do it-and the State Journal claims
the honor of showing a league official
that he can't get by with his rank
Determinations and favoritisms all the
time, anyway.
Now Mr.. O'NeilI can bottle up the
rest of his schedule until doomsday
if he wants to. The State Journal
as giving the, news first is the princi-
pal object of the State Journals eX-
istence, that is all that it cares about.
John Movers, the official first base
scorer for the local fans, is one of
Topeka's bluest blooded baseball bugs.
Mr.. Mowers keeps complete score on
every game he attends, and has old
score records running back to the
time when Goldsby'S Giants were the
talk of the western baseball world.
A. 3. c. butcher has gotten into
true fan form again. Mr.. butcher
has seen the Savages play for three
straight days, and he says they look
good to him-good enough to be con-
tenders for the w. L. rag, and pos
sibly good enough to cop it.
Superstitious fans had little trouble
in assigning a cause for the loss of
Saturdays close game. Just as the
ninth inning was drawing to a close
very detestable animal, commonly
known as a skunk or a pofecat, entered
the grounds and made his presence
known by charging the atmosphere
with a very unsavory perfume. Cy
Forsythe is thought to have been en-
ga eed in turning up his nose to a