The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-27
FANS ARE ANXIOUS
Desire to Know What
Savage Is Going to Do.
There Is No Doubt That Ma
iOrity Want Team Here.

"Why don't John Savage come out
of his winter quarters and tell us JUST
what he intends to do this spring
The above question was asked oy i
local fan this morning. and many otn-
err baseball enthusiasts YOU'D UNI
doubleday ask the same question ~
they thought any enc could answer H.
Topeka fandom is beginning TO stl.
and wants to know what is 10 De Oh
the rail for the lizard this summer.
The smack of spring is now getting
into the air every row and then Al
nature is beginning TO KICK at th%
kinks caused by he winter sleep, anu
baseball fans in Topeka want Savage
to out do the grounding ana give
them something definite. Naturally
most of them want to see MN keep
his Western league club here, but II
he is not going to do so, they want TO
know it so that they can begin plan
n q FOR other baseball organizations
There is no doubt that Topeka Is
determined to have some kind OF base
ball during the coming summer
Many Have Plans.
Fully a score of diamond bugs are
looking over the local situation with
the idea of forming strong semi
pro organization here if Savage does
not keep his club in Topeka, but most
of them believe he will be toollsh not
TO do this and therefore, they are
holding off until they t;nd out Ioi
&c ain.
Several inquiries have been received
at y d., sport desk of the state journal
asking for inside information as q
plans of Savage, and a nunloer u
semf-pro boosters have made known
their plan to organize teams II saw
age does not give the city Wester
league baseball. carl McGrew mas an
nouncod that he will put a seml-pro
team in the field if savage leaves
-, oDd a number of others have
stated that they want % do so.
DR. F. J. Ernest. one of the dyed
in-the-wool fans, says he hopes cav
decides to remain here and thai
he will do anything he can to ooos,
for him if he does. but Doctor Erne9'
has an elaborate plan Cor making the
semi-pro game n big success II the
w /. magnate leaves the city on 1t:
back. -
The general opinion is that none Of
the cities Savage contemplates tax
ing his team to will prove as attrac
tive as Topeka. Apparently the Pueo
10 and Hutchinson propositions nave
been dropped, and there Is hothlhg q
indicate that Joplin will make suffi
cient inducements to take the iran
c1ise to the Missouri mining town
Savage asked Joplin 10 raise 81. OO'
and up to the middle of the week
was said that only $500 had been sub
scribed Later on in the week anothe
$500 was raised.
Joplin Has Drawbacks.
Joplin can never hope to get any
where with $500 enthusiasm. Ever
should the town raise all that Saw
age asks, it would be a dubious un
dertaking because of the fact that i
is so far removed from the other cite
of the loop and railroad fare would
be a big item that would burden it
club.
If Savage should decide to remain
4 6e mill ha ed hack
a warm welcome. merchants. bushes
men and fans indicate. But he canno
expect the city to put up several thou
sand dollars to get him back
There is no more reason for us t
bear the losses of the ball club yea
after year than there is for US to bea
the losses of any other proposition.
one business man said this week il
discussing the baseball situation. ct
the team makes money, we do not ge
it, and if it loses, it seems, we are ex
pected to bear the losses. There i
no more reason for us to do this thai
there would be for US to bear the losse
of a show Crawford might bring t
Topeka if the show did not max
money. A show is an amusement jus
like baseball is, but no one woul
think of asking business men to sup
port theater venture by maxim
donations"
Will Know Soon.
7 savage undoubtedly Will have to d
Il something within the next two weeks
i because the schedule meeting of tn
II league will be held early in February
and it will be impossible to make II
] the playing dates before the Topek
proposition is definitely settled. Blu
7 Topekans are anxious to know what
+ to be just as soon as possible.
/ Come on Jawn, lay your hand dow
7 on the table. If we lose the NOT W
want to know it.
3 Weinert to Meet Fulton in New YorL
New York, Jan. 27.-Announcemen
I has been made here that Charlie
Z Weinert, of Newark n J.. and Ere
( Fulton, of Rochester, Mimi, hav
si-ned to meet here on February /
in the first of a series of boxin
I matches to be held in Madison Suuar
garden in an elimination contest 70
( the selection of II challenger for tn
! heavyweight championship of tn
world.
Soldiers to Play the Cubs.
+ Chicago, Jan. 27.-Captain Frankli
r. Kenney, of the United States arm,
in charge of the recruiting office her,
has notified the management of tn
{ Chicago Nationals that he is maxim
arrangements to have a team mad
I up of United States soldiers, statione
at Ell Paso, play the Cubs on their re
Z turn trip from Pasadena, Cal.