The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23

While the season has not been a
satisfactory one from the standpoint of
the management that demands at
least an even break financially; while
ii has not been satisfactory to the
fans who demand victory and place
at the top; yet, at the same time, a
man with a yardstick would have a
hard time estimating the pleasure
and diversion it has given to the peo-
ple of Topeka or estimating the civic
value Topeka as a city has derived
since the season opened, thru her
her place in the most ancient and
most widely known of minor leagues
Attendance Here.
When asked today for a statement
as to the summers attendance, john
Savage, owner of the club, said that
the attendance at home had been
more than 10000 short of the 1915
attendance and that his club has
played to 1000 less on the road than
was PLAYED to the season before. The
exact seasons attendance here will
not be known until after tomorrows
totals are added.
1t has been a disastrous year for
practically every club in the league
except Omaha and Lincoln, and To-
peka, st. Joe, Denver and Sioux City
nave all been heavy losers. Wichita,
altho she quit cold on the last lap of
the schedule, is said to have been one
of he smallest losers of the entire
circuit.
What of Future?
AS to what will be done to put the
league back on it's feet and make it a
self supporting business proposition,
no one knows. But certainly condi-
lions cannot remain as they now are,
and it is preposterous to imagine that
teams as expensive as Glass A teams
are can be maintained when they
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eighty and q hundred people as they
have been doing here for the last sew
eral weeks.
Thursday there were less than sew
enty-five paid admissions at the game
and Friday there were only eighty,
and with crowds like these the local
club undoubtedly has lost consider
able money. Not deducting the cash
received for players sold, it is under
stood that something like $1,000 has
been lost on the gate here and gate
receipts are the only guaranteed in
come any club has year in and year
out, and, therefore, form the basis
upon which the club owners have to
figure.
So far as the pennant race is con-
cerned. it has not been a pennant race
for several weeks, Omaha having
cinched the flag more than a month
ago. And, so far as the positions of
the other clubs are concerned, there
can be no changes between now and
the end and the final curtain tomor-
row night will find Lincoln second.
Sioux City third, Des Moines fourth,
Denver fifth, Topeka sixth, ST. Joe
Seventh and Colorado Springs eighth,
Just as they are in the table today
There is nothing to be gained or
lost in the games this afternoon and
Tomorrow, but judging from the per-
formances of the last two days and
speaking strictly from a local stand
point, the real fans who want Just
one more glimpse" before the end
ought to get their moneys worth if
fhe contests are anything like the last
with the Omaha champions Thursday
end the opener with the Indians Fri
lay afternoon.
Fridays Game.
Fridays game vr>s a real exhibition.
and had it -sOt been for the one dis
a-Nrous inning that each side had, the
.wo teams might have been battling
at for the winning score. Each team
Ssade just one earned run, but in the
nnearned increment of the totals the
Indians excelled and the final count
was to in their favor.
The Savages counted the first run
Of the game in the opening frame
Lathrop getting on when Merze made
q wide toss trying to head him off al
first and scoring on Devore's single
after two were out.
The Sioux tribe tied the count in IT,
first of the fourth on LeJeune'a tE.-.-,