The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-26

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WESTERN LEAGUE GOSSIP.
The Cooleysox. battered and stain
ed, are in Topeka this morning, pre-
pairing for the opening of hostilities
with Mr.. Hollands Drummers at
League park this afternoon. And they
are the same as before the season be-
gan-certain that they are the best
team in the league and that nothing
them. If Cooley is optimistic the
team must be- the personification of
optimism. No matter what has hap
pened the players are confident that
anything ION" them but luck-and
this is going to turn, according to the
local athletes. The players admit that
1t will be nice to go out to play with
the grandstand filled with friends
rather than enemies and their hope is
for lots of cheering. Give us a little
boost at the game" said one of them
today, land see what a difference it
makes We've had a bunch of hard
luck but the fellows who played us
are lucky that we did,
Arthur Pennen, the fast right
fielder and who is, despite appear
ances. some wielder of the willow, is
the sorest man on earth at his hitting
luck. Arthur doesn't believe he could
hit Jeffries with a bat. He has hit a
thousand of them, according to the
players, right on the nose, a mile a
minute and so fast at some in or out
fielder that said in or out fielder
couldn't get out of the way if he tried.
Pennen always did bust the BALI
and he is whanging it at a frightful
rate this year-right into some ones
hands. But it is bound to light safe
after while and Pencils batting av-
erage will come forward by leaps and
bounds. Meanwhile the big fellow is
playing the sun garden in very ac-
ceptable manner and trying to jolt
the remains of the horse who wore
the hide around the ball every time
he gets up to the plate.
"Patricus" Folbre is with the Cool
ey aggregation having joined the team
at Lincoln. Folbre is well known to
with the Oklahomans, once so dear to
our hearts. Folbre has been pitching
with Memphis this year and was re-
leased. Cooley is giving him try at it.
Now we have chance to see them
at it instead of being compelled to
watch the scoreboard and wonder
what has happened and how.
Holland told the st. Joseph scribes
that he might bring the team home
in first place, but that, one could new
err tell what would happen. This is
especially true with teams Holland
has brought to Topeka, but Holland
seems to have different bunch this
year. What a battle should rage at
the ball park during the next four
days.
st. Joseph News Press: If there is
series during the season that we
would rather take than the coming
quartette with Topeka we don't know
it. And if there is a series at home
that we would rather take than the
coming one with st. Joseph we are
not aware of its existence.
Get underneath the ball team and
shove. Now is great chance for the
uplift.
Holland says he is on the lookout
for more good pitchers, but adds that
every manager in the league is in the
same business so that it is unlikely he
will get them. And it is just as I'M
likely that anyone else will get them
This is the closed season on pitchers.
the Tulsa team in the Missouri Valley
league, is now owner of the Tulsa
Western association team Lou Arm
strong will remain as manager. One
thing good about the Western associa-
ton Shively is no longer president.
The Wichita Beacon says: There
are hints that Cooley's Topeka bunch
has not been long on ambition. That
was hardly to be expected, for whore
is the ambition in that lineup except
what is wrapped up in Boles?" That
paragraph was not written for Sioux
City consumption. says the Sioux City
Tribune If the members of that
team are suffering from the ravages
of the hookworm it wasn't discern
IDLE while the Cooleysox were here.
FIGHTERS ON ROAD.
Jeffries Disappears in woods Tor
Long Stay.
San Francisco, May 26.-When
Jack johnson took to the road today,
Tom Little, brother of his manager,