The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-04
Once Upon a Time He Pitched
Good Ball.
SLATED TO GO HIGHER
Reilly and WOOley Are Ripe for
Faster Company.
Kahl Has Not Yet Been Dis
posed OF.

"Happy'' Jack Forester contract to
pitch ball for the locals in 1910. The
former Detroit, etc.. pitcher lis in
Lesvenworth now, running pool hail.
and 'Lige'' Wooley. Topeka's clever
center fielder, is working for him. The
pretty head of hair will be seen here
IN the spring and possibly later in the
season, because Forester has pitched
the best of ball for Cooley. and he
may get away good.
Forester was signed by Cooley last
summer, but the Lincoln management
claimed him and after the rumpuS
stirred up was settled he went to the
Links He secured his release with
the end of the season. however. the
Lincoln management being unable to
see in him the 5000 month his con-
tract called for.
Since his marriage several months
ago Forester has taken good care
of himself and should he continue to
do so should be in condition to do
big fellow has pitched the best ball
he ever pitched for Cooley, and this
was so good one year that the husky
blonde secured tryout with Hughie
Jennings the year that Red Downs
Cooley has number of good pitch
ers, but he is going on the theory that
he can no. have too many pitchers in
when the twirlers depended upon
went so high, Cooley will take no
chances on having one of the pitchers
do the bulk of the work until the rest
of them get into shape-they must all
get into shape. And Cooley will have
a number of them.
Forester has some property in
IIeavenworth and wants to play with
Topeka because it is near his home.
There is no doubt that he will work
hard here.
Years ago Cooley promised Forces
ter a new hat the first time he pitched
a game without walking man. Wild
ness is the worst fault of the big
season Forester will get that hat.
Two men on the Cooley squad who
will likely go up at the end of the
coming season are Reilly and Wooiey.
The likelihood is so strong that Cooley
has out "feeIers'' for men to take
their places the year following. Reilly
has been up once, but was too young
at the start and was sent back. But
Reilly is going up the ladder again
this fall if he continues to show i'm
provement as he did last year. He
hit like a fiend and fielded in as pref
ty' a manner as anyone could wish
He knows more about the game than
ever and is easily handled, He realizes
that he does not know everything
there is to be learned about baseball
and is going to make some of the
teams higher up might classy short
stop.
Wooley, who is destined to go ur
next year if his hitting continues to
show Improvement as it did the last
half of last season, is the sweetest
little center fielder in this portion OF
the tall and uncut. The only reason
Wooley has played in Topeka as lons
as he las is because of his inability
to hit. The last half of last year he
hi af ri in lie n ecsr ASaiv1 if17-
Of ball players that having learned
he can, Wooley will hit everything
that comes towards the plate in an
other year Cooley declares that To-
clever the little outielder is, and will
not realize his good qualities and the
kind OF work he does.
1t was the same way" says Rich
ard, with Downs, Olson, Hagerman
and a number Of others. Wooley
will go up this fall without doubt ii
he has no bad luck. He'll make some
body the finest center fielder in the
world some of these days. He does
what you tell him, has no bad habits
and is easy to manage, On top OF
this he's a good BAH player
There are two more players on the
local squad who will probably go up al
the end of next season. They are
Johnny Kunlzel, mighty fast little
third sacker, and our beloved Butch
I<erns, the stoeky backstop who put
in most of the summer behind tht
platter for Cooley. kerns has worked
hard and faithfully and by the end Of
the coming season he will likely have
reached the stage where he will bt
too good for local ball fans. A good
pinch hitter, a willing work and one
who plays to win until the last mar
is down, he will catch his way out Of
Topeka if he continues to improve a:
he did last year.
Kuukel made plays on the local 1ia
rnond last year that major league
scribes would have gone wild about
OF course such a player gathers more
errors than does the man who takei