The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-17

ACCORDING TO the newspaper us
patches from st. Joseph, the Carroll
Morris bout Tuesday night was one OF
the rawest, rankest, rottenest deals 1
that has ZEN pulled or in a squared
circle in this art Of the country In l
years. Pretending that he had been
injured by a foul. Morris prevailed
upon the fierce to call the fight In
by gained a decision and COPIED the
money with the least possible effort.
Everybody admit. that Carroll
probably did hit the Giant a little low,
but. no one believed he was really hurt |
and his refusal to submit to an exam
ination by a physician proved that ne
was not. Carroll was simply getting |
the best of him. and, seeing loop
hole, he jumped the easiest way.
The affair was unfortunate for him. |
self, for Carroll, for the game and for |
st. Joe. A special train had been run |
to accommodate the Kansas City fans |
who went up to see the match. Fully |
the ring. and a thorough disgust was
the only souvenir they took away with
them. Tbs was one OF the biggest
fights ST. Joe has ever had and its
success would have put the town on
tho boxing map. Its unfortunate fail
ure, however, gives the place a black
eye and has made promoting difficult
for some time to come.
AS an evidence of his own good
faith, Carroll has offered to meet Nor
ris again and fight him under a win
ner take all agreement. If Morris
bites at this bait, he: s hoping the Cal
ifornia sailor knocks him entirely out
of the boxing fraternity.
Almost a column and a half Of the
sacred editorial page Of the Salina
Union one day this week was devoted
to discussion of the freshman rule.
The writer Swats the lie a rather
heavy blow and offers it os an excuse
why K. U. and the Manhattan Aggies
fail to put out winning teams After
discussing blacksmith and dock hand
players of the old ringer" days. the
article says:
1.-The freshman residence rule has
not impaired the strength Of those
college tea-ls that are backed by
alumni or gamblers of great means
1t costs only a little more to keep a
winning athlete in collie four years
require many men of tn real athletic
type to strengthen the average univer-
sity football team able normally to
win more than half it's games into a
championship aggregation able to beat
all its competitors all the time.
Another queer result Of the fresh
man rule has developed here in Kan
Sas. Only two Kansas schools, the
U iversity and the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college, subscribe to the So
called conference rules and apply
them to the makeup of heir teams.
All the other colleges and normal
SC ,ols in the state permit freshmen
to play on their intercollegiate teams.
Not only do the small '1ools permit
freshmen to play but they send out
their agents to invite promising high
school athletes to enroll in their
schools, and the strongest argument
they use is that high school boys must
spen a whole year in the university
or in the agricultural college before
they can get chance to try for inter-
collegiate athletics.
And here in BRIEF is what is the
matter with football at the university
ard at the college. The little schools
get the best athletes. The members
of the university and college football
teams this last fall were a bunch of
mighty fine young fellows. They were
well coached. They had every sort of
support from faculty and students
They were well cared for by their ath-
letic association. But they did not de-
liver the goods because. with five
six exceptions on each squad they
were not athletes and could not have
been trained into football players in a
single season If they had been coached
by men as talented in the fine art of
developing football ma ines as Percy
Haughton, Bill Roper sr Alonzo A.
Stage. There will never be any win
ming football teams in the university
and the agricultural college as long as
the minor schools get all the real
promising freshman athletic material.
OF course -yebraska gets good teams
in spite of the freshman rule, but
Kansas has neither the money nor the
inclination to adopt the Nebraska
method"
The College of Emporia probably is
| the strictest school in the state re-
garding scholarship requirements for
athletics. Recently a College of EN-
pOria student was talking to a student
from one of the other big schools in
the state, and in the course of the con-
versation. the EmpOrian asked the
other student what the eligibility re-
quirements were at his school. The
| other student who. by the way, is an
athlete and a member of the All-kan-
| sas football team this year, grinned
and finally replied: We'll, we never
| allow anyone to play who is not able
to read and write."-Emporia Gazette.
All of which proves that the College
of Emporia students can at least
| figure little in addition to being able
| to read and write.
| II Harvard resumes football rela-
| tons with Penn next season and also
| takes on Michigan for the second con-
secutive year. there will be a highly
| interesting fight in this three-corner-
ed contest. There will be, under
these conditions, three games-Har-
vard-Penn. Harvard-Michigan and
Michigan Penn-which will attract
| countrywide enthusiasm. These
games. coupled with the other big trio.
Yale-Harvard. Harvard-Princeton and