The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08

ond and third. The scheme aims to
make the pitcher put the ball over the
plate. If adopted, it would increase
hitting twofold.
Frank Klaus, claiment for the mid
dleweight championship, is back in
Pittsburg, after season in France.
Klaus says the American boxers who
go abroad expecting to pick up a lot
of easy money by licking European
fighters will get fooled. They have
some real tough pugs over there, says
Billy Papke in Paris on March rs, for
a purse of $4,000. The winner of
that bout will proclaim himself
worlds middleweight champion.
New York baseball fans may have
the opportunity of witnessing their
favorite game on Sunday during the
season OF 1918. Gay old Gotham, in
which more crooked deals are pulled
off in a year than are thought of in
all the rest of the country during the
same length Of time, is too virtuous
to permit baseball playing on Sunday.
There must be an outward semblance
of decency. In Jersey City however
Sunday ball is permitted, and the plan
is now to. build a large ball park in
Jersey City just at the end of the
Hudson river tunnel lines in Newark.
Here the New York teams could play
any day of the week. The proposed
park is within 20 minutes ride of Her
aid Square, the center of New York
city.
The old system, once in vogue in
the big leagues of swapping players
until good team was built up has
fallen into disuse. The Boston Red
Sox have but one man-Jake Stahl-
who wasn't brought up from the
n he oit
Even Jake YVES Boston property early
IN the game, for he belonged to the
Red Sox before going to Washington
and New York Washington. the sec
ond team in the American League, and
the Philadelphia Athletics, ranking
third, are ''up from the bushes or
CARNATIONS.
Tom McCarey. of California. now
noids undlsputed sway as the leading
night promoter. He divided the honor
until recently with Hugh Mcintosh of
Australla. Some years ago McCarey.
Coftroth and Mcintosh were known as
the Solid Three Coffroth quit when
ne mad accumulated more money than
he could spend in two Iifetines and
now Mcintosh has retired
Jim Thorpe professional Indian ath-
lete, is in no very great need of SYM
pathy. Since the medals he won at
Stockholm have been taken away from
him he has had all sorts of offers TO
play on big league ball teams. He no
doubt would prove a great drawing
card for anv club.
Young Corbett cannot understand
the ways of the world. Human nature
puzzles him. Here is a case" smoke
the former champion. I've been on
the water wagon for four months and
within that time have received hun
dreds of invitations to drink liquor
But not one soul ever asked me to have
a bite to eat. Not that 1 wanted a
meal, but it simply shows that people
pay more attention to crooking their
elbows than juggling the silverware."
Armando Marsans. Cincinnati Red
outfielder, is a holdout. Reports from
Havana, where Armando lives are
rather vague as to his reasons for hold
ing out, but it is believed that he OBJ
jects to playing in the sunfield, which
place will be vacated by Mike Mitchell
audn turned over to the Cuban star.
The combination of sun, smoke and
haze is worse at Cincinnati than at
any other grounds in the league, and
Marsans has played in the right field
times enough to know what a disa-
greeable job it is.
Manager Stovall, of the ST. Louis
Browns. will make big effort to in
duce his boys to come across with an
improved brand of speed on the base
lines this coming season. Year after
year the Browns have been lamenta-
bly, weak in this department of the
game Last year they pilfered but
176 sacks as against 275 by the Detroit
Tigers The news from ST. Louis now
is that fans there are looking forward
to much improved pilfer column in
1913.