The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
Many RumOrs of Changes in the
Team.
Believed That 1t Will Stand as
1t Is.
ST. JOE is COMING.
One Thousand Boosters EX-
pected at Saturdays Game.
RumOr of Trade OF Reilly and
Wright Denied.
ST. JOE is COMING.

Just now there are a lot of rumors
rife among the local fans to the effect
that Cooley is trading or selling play
ers There is little likelihood that any
OF these reports are true. Cooley is not
making changes on the team. Just
where he would begin to make them is
something that it is difficult to risk a
guess upon. The team has lost lot
OF games but there are number OF
teams that have done likewise. The
team, as it stands is a good one.
Some of the people. and there are not
a great many, think that Kahl should
be ditched. There is just about as
much room for this opinion according
To this writer, as there is that for some
of the ~umors that are scattered about
town. Kahl, Kunkle and Reilly have
had a fielding slump, it is true, but what
players do not have them? Meanwhile
Bobby is hitting along between 1896
and $40. He is d good waiter and a
pitcher has to get 'em over to Rob-
ert. He misses some good ones, some
times, but he doesn't strike at many
bad ones. And there are not more
than a dozen managers who are selling
PLAYERS who hit above 300 not this
season. Bobby" will get over the
fielding slump which now envelopes two
of the other best men on the team and
VIII, III d lew I'd ", sOc EdNOl llAS alOulANA
second in his old time manner. And
that manner, last year caused all kinds
of comment around the circuit Had
Kahl not been injured last season dur
ing the middle OF the summers festivi-
ties she locals would have made
Rourke hustle to finish third. OF
course this is the opinion of one man
and you are entitled to disagree.
Cooley's expressed determination to
take Reilly out OF the game for few
r1,ea
recently decided upon. What the big,
heavy hitting shortstop needed, it was
believed, was a few days rest. The
players have all rested since Saturday
and it may not be necessary to relieve
Reilly. The same rest may result in
putting ]. John Kunkle back upon his
n1ettle and with Kaf1l, Kunkle and
Reilly going good, big Cyrus playing
first and getting three hits day and
Butch Kerns throwing them out by ten
feet at second base there will likely be
something doing around the ball parks
which the locals VISIT
St Joseph Boosters. 1000 strong,
will come to Topeka a week from Sat
urday to watch Hollands crew and
the Cooleys "tie into each other. The
st. Joseph bunch expects TO run things
all their own way at the ball park
and it is up to the local fans to get out
that day and drown out the voices of
I.UUU AlSSOuIldIlS. I@lltiS QOupI llidI
they will. but every fan ought to get
out on that day md make some noise.
Make it a point to be at the ball field
a week from Saturday afternoon. Also
the other three days of next week
that the team is here. Topeka is
Decoration day contest being taken to
st. Joseph. The st. Josephites have
already sold $50 tickets for Topeka, so
1t will be up to local fans to get out
5Af :, ard
Guess the team hasn't had a fine
bunch of luck on the road. Three
games, including a Sunday contest, I'M
played in Des Moines because of rain.
AS to the showing of games won and
lost, remember that Sioux City went
home last year after the first trip at
the foot of the ladder.
A. new clearing house for baseball
fakes has been organized in Topeka.
George F'lad is president and Ward
Spielman vice president. secretary and
treasurer. The meetings are held every
morning at o'clock and an agreement
is reached as to the nature of the base
ball fake to be released that day. The
famous Fox-Abbott-Kahl deal origin
ated in this clearing house and Tues
day Kerns was sold to st. Louis. The
nature of the story released today has
to do with Thomson going to New
York or some other big league city
and tomorrow-well. tomorrow Cooley
will probably sell himself
Des Moines, Ia, May 1s-Both Hig-
gins and Cooley deny the reported
trade of Reilly and Wright for Des
Miller and an outfelder. Cooley also
says there is nothing in the story about
trading Kahl and Abbott for Fox of
Omaha.