The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-22
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Bobby KalIl First Topeka Play
err to Report.
Must Fight Out With Stoffer
for Second Base.
KAUFMAN COMES in.
Leaves Jackson and Young Only
Two HOldOuts.
Will Get $500 Bonus liz He
Wins % Games.
KAUFMAN COMES IN

Bobby Kahl. last years second
sacker on the local ball squad, report
ed at baseball headquarters yesterday
and will begin working out with the
ball players who wintered here today.
Kahl looks as if he had been taking
good care of himself this winter and
says that he has. Kahl says ne mas
been grooming himself for the strug-
gle this year and that he will play the
game of his life. He is anxious for
the workout to begin, he says while
the good weather lasts in order that
he may be in the best possible shape
when the season opens
Kahl is the first of the out OF town
men to report. More of them are
expected to arrive today and tomor-
row all of the candidates with the eX-
ception of two or three are expected
here. These include Reilly who Is
working out daily with the New Or
leans crew, and a couple of holdout
pitchers.
The return of Johnny Kunkle to the
fold leaves the fight for second base
between Kahl and Stoffer, youngster
whom Cooley has many good reports
from. One of the men VIII nheIy
play second and the other will prob
ably be carried as utility 1nfielder.
Stoffer will have it on kahl IN tnaL ne
can play short or third as well as sec
tond according to early reports, while
BOBBY" is most at home in the ter
ritory around the center sack.
Young Reddick whom Cooley pur-
chased from Tulsa last winter Will not
report. The big boss declines TO say
5ust what he heard, but 1t was some
thing which caused him to allow Red
dick to ramble without putting his
name on a Topeka contract. Hence
no Reddick this year.
Bolivar" Kaufman has made both
q wise and popular decision He Will
report this week for practice and will
attach his name to a Cooley contract.
This decision on part of Bolivar" has
caused considerable joy about the
ball tossers hangout and will cause
more now that it is generally known.
The big fellow will receive the same
salary he received last year, and in
addition will get bonus of 5000 If
he wins 25 games. This compromise
was effected late Monday after both
Kaufman and Cooley had worked the
wire service out of Topeka almost to
the point of collapse.
Kaufman was the ''old reliable
last year and according to Pa Rourke,
one of the three best pitchers in the
league. In explanation of his desire
10 fix matters up with Cooley Kauf-
man said that his arm just Etched
TO be pitching ball.
There is not a great deal of time
left for holdouts Jackson and Young.
More delay will probably cost them
money and both of them seem anxious
for plenty of the long and filthy YER
dure. Jackson has wanted more from
the first than Cooley thinks he is
worth or can afford to give him. His
only plea has been that his family
lives in Colorado and that it will cost
him considerable to move. Cooley is
sorry of course, and it is to be re-
GREETED that Mr.. Jackson rode the cars
through Kansas and settled in a bum
state like our neighbor on the west.
Sometimes a man makes such mis-
takes and they follow him to his
grave. Jackson pitched pretty good
a disposition to forgive him for past
mistakes in case he shows willing
ness to mend his ways. But the big
Fellow can not be forgiven unless he
at once leaves the state to which he
Tyas lured on the pretenses that there
WAS a ball team there, comes into the
fold and begins winning games.
Young and Cooley were almost to-
gether. The difference between them
was originally $50 for the season and
this would have caused no trouble.
But Young came across with a de-
mand for $3.50 more for the season
and Cooley wrote him to go on driv-
Young will come across. He is now
offered more money than he received
last year Young has had a fling at
the majors and in the same class
with most of last years Des Moines
team, was chased back to play among
the roots and brushes. He's a good
pitcher. but 1T is unlikely that he will
ever be any better than he now is.
And unless Young and Jackson sign
up soon Cooley says he will cut their
salary instead OF boosting IL.