The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-21

tbs; by Philadelphia to Rochester,
Joseph A. Ward; by Philadelphia to
Baltimore, James r. Moroney.
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Where They Play Tomorrow:
Sioux City at Omaha
Des Moines at Lincoln.
St. Joseph at Wichita
Topeka at Denver.
''If you want to get present of the
best suit of clothes you ever had in
your life, show me a good ball player
l can get.'-Dick Cooley.
The offer is open to all contestants
who will enter. Cooley says the idea
that he would not buy a player if he
could get one is false. He says he will
buy anybody he can get that is a good
ball player and he wants somebody to
tell him where there is one. He has
spent a pocket full of money wiring
over the states for men.
IF my tee had gone bad on me
in the first of the season would have
had no trouble saic Boss Cooley.
But the big leagues thin out their
squads about May Is. Now can find
no players anywhere" At that he
thinks his new second baseman will be
great help and that the whole lineup
Saturday will be big improvement.
Other managers are in the same boat
with Cooley. Pa Rourke at Omaha has
hired more and fired more players than
any other and still is dissatisfied and
losing. Elsewhere in this column, is
note of his offer of a reward for a
layer. Higgins at Des Moines ran Il
close second to Rourke and Jack Hol-
lands endeavors at st. Joseph is inter-
csting reading.
The Cooleysox and. st. Joseph play a
double-header Sunday, the first game
beginning at 2:30 o'clock This is
postponed game. In the home series
which begins Saturday to last 20 days
there will be number of double head
ers to clear up postponed games.
Some more of the same. Think it
over. This by Otto F1oto in the Dem
yer Post: THE writer spent a day
with the Denver team at Topeka last
Friday and 1t is a shame that Cooley
did not transfer the games to the big
metropolis in Colorado. There was
hardly a handful of people at the game,
and If Topeka has a team in the West
ern League next season someone will
have to show Cooley that the fans will
patrOniZe the team more literally or a
strange face will be at the head of the
organization. True. Cooley is at the
bottom of the list. but how in the
world is he going to get to the top
when the fans remain away from his
POI n di4 ludNC II e11ulOSI lD1pOSSIOlS 1OE
him to get in monev enough to buy
players to strengthen the team?'
Wichita Beacon: In the four games
played at Des Moines, those Sioux City
sluggers got % hits. That is an aver
age of GA to the game. Ten of these
were made in one game-One Of the two
that they lost. The others were divid-
ed 4, and 6, respectively. Yet they
will tell you over and over again that
the short fence at Sioux City doesn't
help that big batting average the Pack
er team has. The lowly Champions
iris up" and trimmed the Packers two
out of four, too, and gave them such a
scare Sunday that TONNES sluggers
haven't recovered from it yet The fell
low who had an idea that Sioux City
had this old rag packed away in
trunk will find out that there are 9th
ers in the league before October rolls
around-and this isn't saying that
Sioux City hasn't a great team either.
Omaha Bee: Here's a chance for you:
II you know where to get a ball player
VINO can deliver the goods, send his adj
dress to PA Rourke, and yon win re-
celve a cash reward. This offer is made
IN all seriousness; Rourke is willing to
pay well for any information that will
lead him to contract with real ball
player. He has used all other means
of getting in line with some one to
strengthen his team and break its aw-
full streak of luck. Louisville announced
that it had released two players to
Omaha, and the dope book said they
were both good. Inspection proved
that Sullivan was so crippled up as to
be unable to play; he even declined on
his own motion to report, while Mo-
Rarity. who did report, is not in condi-
ton to play. The big clubs have plenty
of cripples to sell, but Pa has enough
of these nm his
Joined the team yesterday, and will
soon be in the game. Persons was re-
leased, having failed to deliver. Pa is
figuring on doing about ten days
scouting on his own hook in the hope
of picking up a player or two.
Des Moines Register and Leader: IF
Towne had a high board fence that he
could. carry around the circuit and
place behind the infie1d fence like the
one in Sioux City, he would distance
the league in two weeks. With regu-
lat1on fields, however, on which he will
be compelled to play on the circuit the
averages of his terrors are likely to be
reduced to next to nothing before they
sight that dear old fence again.
Sporting News: Jack Holland struck
something better than the Homestake
mine when he purchased the Pueblo
franchise and planted it in ST. Joe.
With second division team, the at
tendance is remarkably good and no
| more loyal fans can be found anywhere.
! In return for such support, Holland
has spent his earnings freely for classy
| ball players and sooner or later he will
have winning club in Joetown.
Rourke of Omaha has bought, sold and
| released more ball players this season
than any two clubs in the league, but
| for all this his team only holds the up
4 h1r-k In, cys1T-
| ness and injury to players, along with
the explosion of several phenoms, have
caused Pa more grief than has any
| other club he ever put together.
At the Airdome.
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