The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-03
Cooley Has a Husky Lot of
Pitchers.
Not One Who Isn't Six Feet or
More.
THE KIND HE LIKES.
Believes Giant Is Stuff Fingers
Are Made OF.
Wise Ones" Pick Topeka for
Cellar Position.
THE KIND HE LIKES.


1t is we'll known that Cooley likes
husky pitchers but did you ever figure
on the average height of the aggrega-
ton hired to do the finging this year?
They will average over feet and
Richard is nightly pleased With them.
Wright is over feet, Jackson a few
inches above the az inch mark, Young
is about feet and ? inches tall, young
Harris is a footer Kaufman is over
the foot mark and Frazier, the semi
profesh player signed yesterday belongs
TO the husky crowd, having measured
Up to the size requirements when Cooley
first saw him.
'These big fellows OF mine are going
to cause lot of trouble" said Cooley
this morning. I'm going to take care
OF them and keep them in shape. That
is all viii have to do this year because
l am going to sell my pool hall soon
and spend all my time with the ball
team. With this bunch of big fellows
on my pitching staff I'm going to put
some grief into the hearts of the OPP
losing players and you can take that
from mo as a straight one. Another
thing. all these clubs are winning the
pennant row. Well. that is all right.
But I'm not afraid of any of them this
year. Izzy is at Wichita and Izzy is
some strength, but none of the rest of
them look as strong right now as they
did last summer outside my own club.
good first division team to build on.
And think I've got the most promis-
Ing bunch of pitchers in the league
Appearances indicate a merry war in
the State League next year. Newton,
Larned, Great Bend and Mcpherson are
row working on the task of getting
new and better players and sending out
contracts to old ones who have made
good. Lyons expects to retain practf-
cally the same team. Bill link is in
viting people to watch his smoke"
William A. Aubrey. first baseman,
formerly with Omaha has been sold
by he Boston Nationals t. the St. Paul
club of the American Association.
Pueblo is patting herself on the
shoulder that the Chicago SoX are going
to play picked team there this spring,
and the fans will see the Chicagoans
gust the same as they did last year
when they were in the Western League.
Manager Sweeney. of the Junction
City club of the Central Kansas league,
is on the lookout for a manager for
his team. He wants the real thing and
those who can't deliver a pennant to
Junction City this fall are warned that
their blood will be upon their own
hands.
Higgins is out with a statement that
he expects Dwyer, the 23-year-old man
ager, to lead his team again this year.
Which indicates that Higgins is not
worried a great deal over the threaten
ed holdout on part of the first sacker
OF the Des Mo!ners.
If "Ducky" Holmes can keep the
microbes out of his top it is declared
by baseball men everywhere that he
will take the Mudhens up toward the
top of the ladder in the American AS
ISOLATION climb. But can the microbes
be kept oft?
They are having the usual amount of
fun this year over the circuit with the
Topeka team. With the two teams
picked for cellar honors Topeka is class
ed The teams are Lincoln, St. Joe
and perhaps Wichita. Just why the To-
cal team should be thus early consign-
ed to the scrap heap is not known but
these wise guys do lot of things that
are hard to understand. They did it
last year, particularly at Lincoln. Des
Moines also did moro or less of this
business. Certain Denver sport writer's
also suffered the same hallucination.
Topeka beat out both Denver and Lin
coin. Sandy" Griswold had more or
less fun with the Topeka team and
Rourke's favorites finished only one peg
ahead of the locals. At that we led