The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-29
/. u. MAKEss REPLYE
Reseuts Washbu4I's Charges Concern
ing Coach Kennedy.


In reply to the charges made by
certain Washburn peonle that some
body at K. U. is trying to weaken the
Washburn team by finding berths for
it's best players in eastern schools. the
K. U. people came back with a threat
to cancel the Washburn game, or at
least to have no athletic relations with
WaShburn after this year. This is the
usual way K. U. replies to Washburn's
criticism. There is ne danger that K.
U. will break off with Washburn. It is
a good game for both schools; hnan-
cially, it is one of the best games of
the year X U. gets a $500 guaranty,
rain or shine.
The following is the dispatch sent
out from Lawrence about the affair:
'These rumors were published in
several newspapers and they have not
only aroused the wrath of Kennedy,
but also of the faculty and the student
body of the university. Yesterday at
Lawrence there was talk of canceling
the WaShburn game and one OF the
members of the faculty interested in
athletics was heard to say that he
would use his power to sever athletic
relations with the Topeka college after
the game to be played with it this
season.
eff this was the first time the
| Washburn people had tried to hurt our
reputation it wouldn't be so bad he
said. Last year and the year before
they started cock-apd-bull stories
quite as impossible and suntruthful as
this one. People of Topeka, and par
ticularly4 those who have anything to
do with Washburn, know perfectly well
| that Kennedy is upright and sports
manlike in everything. He coached
the Washburn team two years and
therefore they know what his charac-
ter is They know that he couldn't
| possibly be guilty of this thing they
charge him with. There is no college
h ar-da to
| the spirit of amateur athletics than
Kansas and such stories as these do us
great injustice
| 1.-THE university management were at
first inclined to treat the matter lightly
| this morning, but in talking it over
the board decided that Washburn, as
we'll as other teams of the state who
have been trying to tie up~the univer-
sity athletics by forcing rules on them
and then trying to back out of the
rules, did not have much margin for
criticism of the Jayhawkers.
We don't need these teams for
our schedule, and if they persist in
making and breaking rules in order to
get the better of K. U. and then bring
up ragged accusations trying to put
the public at outs with K. U. athletics
they may play with teams who will
stand for their kind of work
/ These were the approximate words
of Manager Lansdon and the rest OF
| the board of control felt the same con-
corning the matter.
coach Kennedy, said: My friends
say that ought not to pay any atten-
ton to these stories because, they say
no one who knows me will believe
them. But that isn't it. I don't want
| the people who don't know me to be-
lieve them either. AS a matter OF
fact, none of these players mentioned
would be eligible to play at Washburn
this year under a strict Interpretation
of the amateur rules. Whoever start
| ed the story did dastardly and a
| cowardly thing. Coach Outland knows
me and so do many other people con-
nected with Washburn and l am sure
that they do not believe me guilty oil
such a thing.
1.-The idea that I have tried to gel
| Washburn players on the Western uni
versity of Pennsylvania team is abb
surd. IN the first place. Mehl has al