The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-24
TeFre HaHte Baekstop Secured
in Trade for BARLEY.
Is a Well-KnOWn Catcher and
Strengthens the Team.
YANNIGANS ARE HERE.
Washington Team, With Tom
Hughes in Charge, Arrives.
VIII Practice at Local Park for
the Rest of the Week.

I Manager Dick Cooley of the local
team has just pulled off trade thai
will mean a great deal to Topeka be-
fore the season is over he thinks Este
BARLEY, who was a substitute catcher
on the To- eka team last season, goes
to Terre Haute in the Central league
in exchange for Lew Drill, who is one
of the best minor league catchers in
the business. Had fan suggested that
such q trade could be made, he would
have been laughed at in scorn. But
Cooley can make trades. and this is one
of the best he has ever pulled OF.
BARLEY was only mediocre catcher in
a class G circuit, and what he can do
in a class B organigaztion remains to be
seen. Drill, on the other hand, is a
the Western league where he has man
aged teams.
There is a good deal of interesting
data. that will account for the trade.
Drill was manager of the Terre Hsute
team a year ago. One of the players
on the team, Shortstop "Cuppy' Groes-
lchow, developed a strong dislike for
jDrill and several OF the players took
1.-The Groeschow side of the controversy.
Last fall while Drill was still manager
he offered Groeschow to Cooley for
Jack Root hopipr to get rid of his
rival.
/ went to Secre tary Farrell, the owners
! had given Groeschow the job of man
age. Hence the deal was off. Since that
time Groeschow has been trying to get
: rid of Drill. Cooley offered to exchange
I BARLEY. partly joke. and Groes-
chow pulled the cork under
Several other teams we're after Drill.
9 Ducky Holmes wanted him and few
weeks ago announced that he had him
signed. Pueblo wanted him for man
ager should Patterson have to go to
Cincinnati as seems probable. He man
aged Pueblo in 1905.
Il don't know that I need Drill" said
Cooley in explaining his trade. but
saw chance to get good catcher and
he may come in pretty handy Drill
will report at once and BARLEY will
leave as soon as he can get his trans
portation.
Yannigans Are Here.
The Washington Yannigans. twelve
strong. with Long Tom" Hughes act
ing in the capacity of chaperon, landed
in Topeka last night ahead of schedule.
and will be the guests of the city, or
rather the Hotel Throop, until next
Sunday night when they hike eastward. |
Down in Texas where the Yannigans
have been performing the weather
hasn't been as good as could be de-
sired. Joe Cantillon, the scrapper man. |
ager of the Nationals, got diSgusted |
and sent the Yannigans north, and he |
himself Will follow with the regulars in |
a few days.
The Yannigans will divide the use of
the local park with the Cooley squad, |
so that the fans can see some sort of
practice at all hours of the day. The I
park is hardly ready for work today /
so that the practice will be held at |
Skene's park. The Nationals will use /
the local park in the mornings after to-
day. while Cooley and his hired hands
will work out in the afternoons. Should /
the Nationals want to take some after /
noon work they will use Skene'S park.
Locals Meet Yannigans Saturday.
Saturday the two teams will oppose
each other and a good game should be
the result. The locals will have had a
little touch of team work after the
Friday and will put up a pretty good
sort of a game against the Yannigans.
The Hughes portion of the Washing
ton outfit doesn't contain many of the
regulars of the team but there are a
few. and a number of the substitutes
and tryouts, which are just as good at
this time of the season as the regular
aggregation would be a few weeks later
IN the season.
The Hughes Players.
There are twelve men with the Yam
niganS including Jerry Eddinger the
trainer, who is we'll known in Topeka.
Eddinger played baseball in these
sion to the big leagues and often work
ed in Topeka. Fer several seasons he
has been with the Nationals as trainer
and always makes Topeka with the
team. The players are: Hughes, Pick
erinS Rapp. Kaphan, Groom, Gray,
Shtpke. Meinke, Johnson and Kelley |
Mrs. Tom Hughes is with the party
Rapp who Is we'll known college |
athlete. and was at one time a star on
the Minnesota eleven, is doing most
of the receiving for the team. although
Mike Kahoe is still hooked up with
the Cantillon crew. Mike seems to
have cinch on that job. He doesn't
play much during the season, but he
is a pretty good hand at training the
young pitching blood, and can make
enough in this way to wear some pref
ty good clothes-and when he has this
accomplished. Mike is certainly the
happy kid. Kahoe has been playing
first most of the time, but he spiked |
himself a little in a game at Waco
last Saturday and he may keep a spot
on the bench in a warm condition for
q few days ]. johnson seems to play
second base about as much an any
body and will likely fill that hole
here. Shipke. who was once with the
Leayenworth Western association team
and later with Des Moines in the
Western league is playing third for
the Yannigans and has a pretty good
chance to make the position regularly.
for he played there the greater part of
last season. Meinke, who is a promis-
Ing young infielder will play the short
stop position. Meinke was here last
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