The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-05
Get A. A. PITCHER
Arnold LuehenS of Minneapolis
Joins Topeka CIab.
Weather Will Not Prevent
Wichita Trip, Cooley Says.

Regardless of whether or not the
weather in the meantime is favorable
for another workout, and right now
the meteorologic prognosticator seems
to be sitting tight, Dick Cooley said
today that nothing short of the mill
lennium would prevent his taking
gang of ball players to Wichita Friday
night for a pair of games, Saturday
and Sunday with Frank IsbelIs West
ern League club. If the boys can get
no practice beforehand, they viii get
il down there. Cooley said today. and
it's chance that he can't afford to
overlook.
The weather man is putting Cooley
in the nine hole. If the weather this
week had been favorable. the Topeka
pilot is confident ne would have been
able TO take a formidable bunch to
Wichita the last of this week. but
IL is he doesn't know whether he is
organizing a ball club or conducting
a free boarding house. There are
probably twenty-five or thirty ball
players in the city and it is the old,
old story. Many of them spent their
last cent for carfare and arrived here
dead broke Five or six are support
ing themselves. but the rest have
Joined COoley's free bread line and the
cost is mounting up at the rate of
from $50 to $50 a day.
Admits Beans Are Costly.
Cooley will have an opportunity to
get even with the players he keeps on
the team but with limit of fourteen
or fifteen men, he realizes he is doing
lot OF charity work But whatcha'
goua coE" he piped out. today. cut
EN- loose and lose the best ball play
ers in the bunch2 If the weather was
right. a lot of these birds would have
flown before this, but man cant
look EN- over from boat. If I would
start TO trim EN- down beforehand 1
might turn loose player who would
be worth more to me before the sea
son is over than the whole bunch is
costing me now. still this lob of fur
nlshing SO many beans is getting
serious"
Arnold Luchens. a pitcher from the
Minneapolis team in the American As
ISOLATION, Joined the Cooley camp
Tuesday He comes here with a string
which can be heightened by the paw
ment of an additional sum later on, I
and he ought to travel fast in this /
company Last season he was with /
the Des Moines club in the Western I
league and made a good showing de- /
spite the fact he was with a second /
division outfit Cooley is counting /
upon Luchens to bear the pitching |
brunt in the Wichita series along |
with Songer, a brother of the Kansas !
City hurler.
Hahn Is on the Job.
Joe Hahn. the best outfielder in 1
the league last season. has also re- 1
ported to Cooley, and instructions /
have been sent to BOckskOpf. a first /
baseman. to head this way. Hahn and /
Bockskopf are the only two players (
from the defunct Miami team whom /
Cooley is figuring on using at present /
Other members of that club. however, /
viii be called later if needed. Book |
skopf will fight it out for the initial /
"a cking job with Ketterman. a tall 4
lad who made a favorable impression /
during the only workouts that have /
been held at Western League park. 1
Clarke and Wagner. behind the bat.
Strohm at short and Hall at second
are also among the strongest candi-
dates for regular jobs, while two or
three men have shown up we'll in the
Outf.eld. Cooley is still angling for
Il first baseman from one of the bigger
league clubs and has the promise of
three players. including a pitcher. an
infielder and an Outfielder from
Wichita at the close of the practice
series there Sunday.