The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-04
The Topeka Players Ordered to
Report March %.
Notices to This Effect Sent To-
day to FOrty-Nine Men.
ARE SIXTEEN TRYOUTS
Cooley Has Thirty-Three on
Roster of Known Ability.
First Game on Home Grounds
Is With Washington.

Just three weeks from today and the
last vestiges of the baseball hibernat-
Ing season will have vanished for on
that date every member of the To-
peka team is expected to report for
practice. This morning Peggy Rob
bins, the secretary of the local club,
communicated with every member of
the Topeka official roster and named
March %, as the last day. A few days
earlier, he added, won't make any diff
ference.
This means a big business at the
local baseball lot. There will be just
forty-nine players at the present ac-
counting who will be here. If one
third of these men prove to be of West
ern league caliber, Cooley will have one
grand team.
The team will have the first good
workout March 25, the day on which
every one is expected to be here. The
next day a game has been arranged
with the State Agricultural college
team at Manhattan and the following
day-Saturday-the team will play with
the Catholics at st. Marys.
The first game on the home grounds
will be played with the Washington
team Sunday, March %, in fact three
games will be played with Cantillon's S
bunch. A good ante-season string of
exhibition games has been secured.
Of the forty-nine players who will
report, thirty-three are experienced
players. some of known ability, and
some who are still in the experimental
stage. The remaining sixteen of the
number are new men, who are merely
tryouts and have never had any eX-
tensive experience, but from whom
Cooley may develop a gem of the
purest ray serene.
We'll Supplied With Catchers.
In the catching department Cooley is
we'll fortified, having as the leading
catcher, Frank McManus of Boston,
who has ten years of experience. 9th
ers who were notified to report are:
Eddie Brennan of st. Louis, Mo-, H w.
BARLEY, Powhattan, Kan; AL Schissel,
Indianapolis, Ind, and H. B. Kerns,
st. Louis.
The pitching staff is the strongest in
numbers, the following players having
been engaged for tryouts in this posi-
ton; Fred Burnum, Culman. Ala:
John Beltz. SarcOxie, Mo-; Roy Arnold.
Superior, ILL.,; Arthur Thomasson, Lib
erty. Mo; Rhody Hendrix, Bonham.
Tex; Burt Jones. Golden. Colo; c. R.
Jack Root Thurrnont. Md; John
Roach. Peoria, ILL.,; O. B. Scott, Paris,
Ill; Jake Valz, San Antonio, Tex; A.
Baird, Salina, Kan; Art F'urey. Mil
tonvale, Kan; and Louis c. Hall,
For infield honors the following play
ers will contend; w A. Jacobs, Wilkes
Barre, Pa: D. G. Cooley; s. Olson,
SdNOnDerE, hdn.s jay AnQTSMS. 11ulCI-
inson, Kan; J. A. Cullen. Indianapolis,
Ind; A. J. Nagel, Bartlesville, Okla.
Bob Kahl. Coulterville, Ill, and R. C..
Funk, Kelly, Kan.
The remainder of the thrty-three who
are prospective outf1elders are: c. R.
Cole. Springfield, Mo-: Danny Green,
Sioux City, Ia; Art Fenlon, Sutton,
Neb.; A. T. Long, Tulsa, Okla; Elijah
Wooley, Leavenworth, Kan, and Ray
Marshall, Champaign, Ill
Many TryOuts on List.
The above lists do not include the
tryouts, many of whose names have
never been announced before as pros
pective tryouts on the Topeka team:
Reid Williams, outfielder. Marceline,
Mo; Louis Wagner third base, Rock
ford, Ohio; G. B. Speer. outfielder,
Narka, Kan; Cy Terrence, pitcher,
Kansas City, No; T. T. Scanlon, pitch
er. Chapman, Kan; Tom McNellis, sec
ond baseman. Rochester. N. Y; Harry
T. Kemp, catcher, Crofton, Neb.; H.
H. Lewis, pitcher, Brookville, Kan; G..
A. Hoss, pitcher Arkansas City, Kan;
Samuel Brennan, pitcher, Pittsburg
Pa; E. L. Chatfield, catcher, Winslow
Ariz; r. NJ. Cochrane, pitcher, Kansas
City. Mo; G. G. Bazeil, pitcher, Wins
low, Ariz.; H. H. Bauer, outfieldef, St
Louis, Mo-; Sam Agnew. catcher, Sun
rise Wyo., and E. NJ. DruckenmiIler,
fnf1elder. Edmonton, Ala