The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
Cooley VIII Leave for Schedule
Meeting Tomorrow.
Expects to Secure an Extra In.
fielder There.
DO WITHOUT KUNKLE.
Says Young HoldOut Is Lucky
to Be Offered Place.
New Style Tickets to Be Used
This Season.

Cooley leaves tomorrow for Chicago
where he will confer with the A. A.
magnates On the matter of new material
for Topeka. Something which will af-
feet the team viii probably be pulled
off before the big manager returns. At
any rate a number of promising play
ers have been promised to Cooley in
case he wants them. A day or two af-
ter the A. A. meeting the Western
League schedule meeting will be held
and the matter of working out a
schedule with Denver on the list, and
at the same time avoiding bankruptcy
because of the expense connected with
the western trip will be taken up.
Cooley has thought some of secur-
ing an outfielder at the Chicago meet
ing and now that Kunkle threatens to
make his holdout good it is likely that
an extra infieIder will be added to the
list. Cooley was caught without an
extra infielder iast year just when his
team we're on the way to lead Omaha
In tho race. That kept us from quar-
rcling much with Rourlle's proteges for
the third place. Cooley sometime ago
said he would not be caught without
an extra infieder this year.
4 letter from kunkle was received
Yesterday in which the little third sacks
CT declined to play for the money Cooley
offered him. Cooley says kunkle is
any price. He declared he had taken
more off Kunkle last year than he
ccvr intended to take again off any
bah player and his reply to Kunkle,
that he did not intend to waste more
postage on the player, indicates that
he means it. Hence it is that an in
fielder as we'll as an outfelder may be
COPIED at Chicago.
Cooley has to purchase some new
style tickets this spring and this mat
ter will likely be attended TO while in
Chicago. He received samples of the
tickets yesterday.
The Commercial club yesterday voted
to give Cooley 5000 to buy new uni
forms for the team. The business men
of st. Joseph gave Holland $4,000 to
spend for new players. Which viii have
the most effect on the standing of the
teams next fail?
'Dar' Alderman has handed the
Packer boss his signed contract.
So far no signs of holdouts on the
Sioux City team have appeared. Almost
every day the mail brings a signed con-
tract. Other clubs are not so fortu-
nate Holland has one or two that are
bothering him considerably.
Holland has carpenters at work re-
building the grandsLaEds and bleaehers
at the st. Joseph ball park. The new
seating facilities will accommodate A.
COO spectators, as many as they ever
are likely to get in Joetown.
Pa Rourke of Omaha. is collecting
another lively bunch of artists for his
1910 aggregation In past years many
players have graduated from Omaha to
the big leagues and Pa thinks he has
a few on the string this year who Will
get up the ladder in time.
Sandy Griswold of Omaha, the dean
of the sporting writer's on the Wesern
League circuit, predicts that either
Omaha or Lincoln will get away in
front when the season begins. Girls
void says that St. Joseph will win the
cellar championship hands down. To-
peka and Wichita are woefully weak
according to Griswold. He says that
Denver is not much better. He thinks
that Des Moines and Sioux City will
not be as strong as last year.
Des AIoines Tribune: Fans of Des
NIoines will see more baseball during
the spring practice season than ever
before. A series of good stiff practice
games are in prospect from April until
the season of play in the Western
League DeSluS, JUST three weeks later
Minneapolis and Green Bay will fur
nish the chief opposition to Des Moines.
The Nillers viii play six games against
Des Moines. the first one coming on
April /. Then the White Sox will play a
game or two and the practice season
Will end mp with a series against the
Green Bay, Observation-Disclosures league
team, which viii do its spring training
here President Higgins yesterday an
nounced that Manager Jack Pickett of
the Green Bay team had decided to
bring his candidates to Des Moines for
early practice. 1t is probable that
Pickett expects to get the pick of the
Des Moines castoffs by so doing. 1t
Ia more than likely that the local own
ef will continue to make this team his
farm for young players. The local
owner has ordered the players to re-
port in Des MONIES this year on March
IS. This is one day previous to the