The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-17

BASEBALL AND ITS PRIZES.
The shades of our SCHENECTADY
clamation points, could they see the
mob of people that will attend the
games this week between the New
York Giants and the Philadelphia
Athletics
Back in the simple early days of
Princeton college, the institutional
laws called games played with stick
and ball low and unbecoming to gen.
tlemen," on account of the alternate
heats and colds of the violent exer-
else" and the tendency of accident. In
1858, the Yale Courant predicted that
the frequent accidents would rid the
country of able bodied men,
Today the same kind of black coat
ed dignitaries that wrote those fear
some predictions will be quietly slip
ping into the grandstand to see the
worlds champion awarded, and very
likely whiting their collars under the
strain and sweat of roofing.
The 1909 worlds series of these
games drew 145,295 people, with gate
receipts of $18S,302. This years
game with the great home backing of
will produce a bigger crowd.
The golden stream of dollars sign1-
fled by such assem- blages haunts the
dreams of many a college boy. His
father, with his threadbare college
professors coat, may have called the
game low and unbecoming" but it
looks high and becoming to the
youngster as he reflects on Ty Cobb s
$4,000 per.
The surgings of baseball fever in
the hearts OF youth will never again
be cured by laws and anathemas. But
there are certain facts about average
baseball salaries that can be tactfully
presented by the foxy parent to the
youth who looks at baseball as a gold
mine for the man who does the min
ing.
There is the fact as stated by out
ing magazine a few months ago, that
the salary of the average player OF
the American and National league is
about $4,000 for the baseball months
When you consider that the average
player is good for about ten years,
there is much point IN Chrlsty MAIN
ewson's warning: Keep out of base
ball unless you are star. Wlnfleld
Courier.
KANSAS FREAK LAWS.
A man wrote to Governor Stubps
the other day protesting against the
orders of the state board of health
abolishing the roller towel the puolic
drinking cup and requiring school
houses to be fumigated. He said II
was hurting the party" The guess
of the Lawrence Gazette is that he
meant the anarchist party, this being
she only one which is const1tut1onaLy
opposed to cleanliness.
heard a travelling salesman praising the
9-foot bed sheet law. In Kansas ho-
els now the sheet is turned down over
the rest of the bed clothing for a 1905
and half" he said land it is always
clean, even if the blankets are not.
When. only the sheets touch you, It
doesn't make much difference about the
condition of the blankets He SAID,
also: "A good deal of fun is made OF
the law requiring every sleeping room
in hotel to be provided with a rope
of fire They say it is an invitation
to suicide. I'VE noticed that the fell
lows on the road after they leave Kan
sas and find no ropes in their rooms
20 to their windows and pick out some
place to alight. I feel lot safer in a
kansas hotel room than in the room OF
a Missouri or an Iowa hotel"
Every one of what are termed Kan
soc, freak laws and state rules viii
find it's defenders. and plenty of them.
I-Leavenworth Times.