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Show D!Ci( COOLEY ' POPULAR Al LOUISVILLE Louisville Courier-Journal Reviews Salt LaKe Club , ; Owner's Career. - ea-eaninvae , ' That ths baas hail rang and writers ' ef etker title think equally aa wU of Dtek Oootoy aa do those ef Salt lvka Olty 1 evldem from the following vrtteap aa the baseball career of the aofvJar Bait Lake dab owner, takes fro to XjooutvIII Oomrler -Journal: Sereateen years in organized base-he base-he U. twelve ef which were spent in the big leagues and the other five la the minor, ia the brilliant record of Riekard r Caelee- effeetieeeUlv knew to thouaanda as plain '.Dick Cooler, the man who ia directing the destinies of the Salt Lak elub Dick formerly plaved with the colonels, and the local fans always thought well of 'Beaidea'beiag some fielder, Cooley waa a good hitter in his palmiest days. Ia Spalding 'a official baseball record, nader the legend of "maior league batamea who have made a batting ree-erd ree-erd of .100 or better for four years from U7S to 1910" four year after Cooley quit big league company Cooley' nam ia given a place of hoaor aloag with the nam of twaaty-three twaaty-three other. Cooley mad thia remarkable re-markable poling record with tk St. Louis Nationals. Hera ia hia batting average for tie four yoarai lSw.i .140. !, .Jul. 17 .327. 1S8 .817. , This I aa avers percentage of a little better than HI. , Cooley is a near colonel. Bora close to Louisville, ia the bluogras sUte, thirtv-sevea vear go. he early migrated mi-grated from Kentnekv to Kansas. Like many other youth that afterward became be-came baseball stars, he-made hia start for big brush company oa the town lot. There were no minor bushes for Cooley. And after he got into the maior leaguea it took no less a- personage per-sonage than the great tiger, Cyrus Cohb, to get him out. a Ia 1893, whea Cooley Jumped over the minora, from independent and semi-prof osaioaal ball, to the major, he went to the St. Louts Nationals aa utility man. Mast of the first year he spent ia the outfield. The second vear h waa given a regular plaea in the outer garden. He remained with M. Louis until the middle of tk season sea-son of lB&O. Then the Philadelphia Nationals traded Shortstop Sullivan and "Tuck" Turner, eraxk outfielder, who became a etar al the initial sack, for Cooler, giving a sum of money to boot, and Cooler plaved center field for the Psiiliee, with Pelehsnty and Thompson in right and left. Thia waa oaa of the greatest hitting team ever got together. to-gether. Cooler remained with the Phillies nntil the close of 1899, whea ha waa eoid to Pittaburg and weat to tret bea for tb pirate. In the fall of tnat year ha waa sold to Boston, for whioh ho vlared the outfield for almost al-most four rear. Ia 104 Cooley broke Into the rank of the America league, going to the tigers as outfielder. At the close of trs 106 aeaaoa ho waa released, "Ty" Cobb sappiaatiag him la the tiger' outer garden. Cooley then bonght the Topeka fraa-eMse fraa-eMse ia what at that time waa the Western aseoeiatioa, aad ran the team from the-initial aaek. At the end ef the second year Topeka want into the Western league. Cooler woa two pennants pen-nants for Topeka la five years, landed ia third plaee once and fourth place another time, and finished last ia 1910, hat there was a reason. He Intended ta get out ef the league and sold eft' moat of hia good player. A stock company bought the Topeka team at the aad of the 1910 aeaaoa aad Cooley went further weat. Oooley played almost aontinnonsly right ap to close to the ead of last season. He sprained his ankle sliding at Lower and he haa plaved little einee. Ia 1908 Coo lev waa the leading first baaernaa ' in . the circuit, deepite hia ownership cares. His batting waa eloea ta the JO0 mark moot of the tune. |