The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-27
Ne Exhibition Games Scheduled
for Topeka Club.
Players Will Start Leaving for
Their Homes Tomorrow.
SOME WILL STAY HERE
CooIeysOx Will Winter All Over
the United States.
With Little Strengthing Locals
Will Be in the Race in 1910.

When the last out is made tomorrow
afternoon in the second game the To-
peka team will pass into history.
Some of the players will take the first
train out of town, and no attempt will
be made to hold the team together.
None of the players wanted exhibition
games, and the official disbanding of
the club will take place in the club
| house after the game. Some of the
players will winter in Topeka but the
majority of them will leave for parts
remote and spend the winter, getting
ready for a glorious season next
| spring.
Three of the players will winter in
| Topeka with Manager Cooley. Henry
| and Abbott consider Topeka their
| home. and these with Kaufman will
remain here. All three will probably
work at some trade or other, but thus
! far neither of them has anything in
sight.
| Butch Kerns will go to st. Louis, his
home for a few days, to visit with
home folks. Butch has two offers for
the winter. One is to sing second base
ma male quartet which is to take the
vaudeville stage. Butch's friends pro-
nounce him one of the best base sing
ers in the business, and he really has
a great voice. Butch is the life of
the club quartet, which consists of
Wooley, first tenor, Abbott, second
tenor, Henry, first base, and Kerns,
second base, and which has entertain
ed the bugs of other cities with their
melodies, before and during the
games. But Butch will more than
likely play baseball this winter. He
has the offer of a good position at San
Diego, Cal, where he will play winter
BALL This offer will likely be accept
ed. Kahl will go back to Coulterville,
ILL.,, where he will winter with home
folks. Kunkel will go to st. Louis.
where he will work with his brother
| fn-law at the sign-painting trade.
Big John Ashley lives in Chicago,
and will spend the winter there, al
| though he doesn't know what he will
do. Samuel Wright lives in West Vir-
gln1a, where his parents have large
mining interests. Thomson will win
ter at his home in Liberty, Mo.
Tom Reilly, who will probably quit
the season as the leading batter of
the Western league, lives in ST. Louis.
He will go there from here, but will
likely not stay there, as he has a good
offer of a position in the office of
large cotton mill in New Orleans. New
Orleans will have a winter baseball
league and Reilly can play in this in
addition to holding down his office
job.
Boles has already gone to Texas,
and will reopen his law practice as
None of the outfielders will winter
in Topeka. Phil Geier will leave to-
night for his home in st. Paul. Geier
is one player who doesn't have to
work in the winter time. Phil he
been playing ball for long time and
has accumulated enough prop
erty holdings in st. Paul to live on.
Wooley will likely go to Leavenworth.
He has an offer Of a couple of posi-
lions there. Jack Forester wants
i'm fO in nOn1
Landreth will winter in Kensington,
Kan, where he will operate a large
stock farm.
Manager Cooley will spend all the
time in Topeka. There was time
when Dick spent winters on the vau-
deville stage, but he has sworn off.
The pool hall and the baseball politics
in the winter time, will keep him busy.
He is planning an addition to his bust
ness, and will have all he can handle
this winter. Peggy Robbins will also
remain here all winter.
The season just closing hasn't been
a money maker. In fact Cooley has
just about broken even. eff I had
been playing in the Western associa-
ton this year, I would have been
worth fortune" said Cooley this
morning. THE Western association
club owners managed to sell nearly
realized $4,000 for the sale of play
ers. while I haven't sold a one to a |
major league club. But I'm not wor- |
rying for 1 will have a team to start |
with next season, and won't be COM |
PEELED to build up a class A team from |
the remnants of a class c bunch.
Cooley isn't worrying much about |
next season. He has a pretty good |
nucleus to start with. A couple of |
good pitchers, an addition or two on |
the infie1d and another outfielder will |
make the club as formida BILE as any |
IN the Western league next season. |
Cooley will take his time about max |
ing the changes. He isn't going after |
a squad of thirty or forty men next |
spring, but will bend all his energies |
of securing men of known caliber.
Many of the games this spring were /
lost through experimenting with I'M
seasoned pitchers, and a shaky weak
ness at short. Then in mid-season,
KahFs injury disrupted the inf1eld,
and when Geier was brought in to
play second, the outf1eld was shaken
up, and many games were lost through
the Encouragement of the tea. Cooley
will have an extra infielder and per-
haps and extra outielder next season,
which with a change or two and two
or three good pitchers in addition to
the present layout, will put Topeka in
the race from the start.
Cooley has fulfilled the demands of
the fans by landing his club in the
first division, and putting them at
good distance about Wichita. Next
season with a good start, the club
can be expected to finish one, two,
three and the old town will be on the
naSaha11 man bigger than ever