The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-20
Has Long Conference With Coo
ley About Topeka Situation.
Promises That CO0leysox Will
Be Treated Fairly.
HE ENTERS A DENIAL.
Says That He Has No drudge
Against Cooley.
Victim of An Unjust Prejudice
Here.

| - - ANA. A'AAsCAys pTCSluSII VI ClC
Western Association. was in town last
night and a part Of the morning try
/ ing to pour oil on the troubled waters.
Just how well he succeeded will be
demonstrated at the game this after
noon.
Shively came up from Kansas City
| last night in response to an urgent
| request over the telephone from Rich
ard Cooley. Shively was about to start
for Hutchinson and stopped off in To-
peka.
The two met at Cooley's drug store
last night and Cooley entertained the
doctor in his most elaborate fashion.
Cooley grew very eloquent and deliv-
cred the Kansas City ex-coroner an
of LaFollette's in length. AS Cooley
passed the climax in the peroration
the starch was all removed from his
guest and the doctor waXed exceeding
ly meek. He didn't admit that he was
trying to give Cooley the worst OF IT.,
nor did he deny it. When Cooley fin
ished talking there was no room for
denial and affirmation was superfuous
Cooley was very much Sdt1Sned with
the interview he had with Shively and
is looking for fairness in the work OF
the umpires.
AS soon as the game was over yester-
day, Cooley communicated with Shively
and arranged for meeting last night.
In fact Cooley rather surprised UNI
pire Alloway as the meeting was I'M
known to the umpire. Alloway had
wired Shively notice of Cooley's fine
; and suspension but the latter was on
the way to Topeka at the time and
failed to receive the notice. AS re-
! suit Cooley got to Shively first.
: All this happened unknown to Mr..
! Alloway. This morning Shively had a
heart to heart talk with Alloway in
private. Cooley thinks this confer
ence resulted in a slight change in the
| instructions for treating the Topeka
| team.
! This morning Cooley in talking of
| the results of this conference said:
II was very glad to have Shively up
| here last night. 1t is the first time I
have had an opportunity of talking to
| him since the season commenced. He
! was in Oklahoma City when we
were there but carefully avoided see
/ ing me. He spent the entire time
there with the Oklahoma City players.
1 have been wanting to tell him few
| things for some time and l had my
chance last night He got a few eye
openers, and other frills of converse
ton which made him change his front.
| He promised to see that the Topeka
| team was given better treatment at
home and on the road and 1 am will
his promise. All my fines assessed
yesterday were raised and 1 was really
glad for l hated to see a stringency in
the local money market. All asked
| of Doc was fairness and an even break
no matter where we were playing"
Said Shively in talking to the State
Journal reporter: 81 am very much
| disappointed at the conditions in To
peka. 1 have no grudge agains
Cooley or any other Topeka player
and 1 don't think they have had any
more than they deserved. There is nc
foundation for these ugly rumor:
which have been printed to the effec
that 1 have been trying TO hand it tt
the Topeka team. The Topeka paper.
have been prejudiced against me. MOI
did 1 take any hand in the Holdings
worth affair as reported. I dom
thinks the newspapers of Topeka have
treated me fairly and 1 consider my
self the victim of an unjus
prejudice"
Asked why the umpires alway'
handed it to Topeka on the slight
est pretext, Shively evaded an answer
From Hutchinson, complaints of IL
treatment at the hands Of the umpire:
| with Jay Andrews as the victim, ar,
emanating. E. H. Moore, one of the
stockholders of the Hutchinson team
and newspaper man Of that city is in