The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-02
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(By Clug.)
Athletic energy at WashbUrn col
lege these days Is finding an outlet In
the preparation for the basketball
wear, and in a discussion of next years
football captain.
Coach Grip Gray announced Tues
day afternoon that the basketball
schedule would probably be completed
by the latter part of next week. Both
Mr. Gray and Student Manager Ar
thur Champeny are busy arranging
the dates and plans are on foot for an
eastern trip that will probably take
the team to OberNn college, Mr.. Gray's
old Alma Mater. The basketball ma
terial at Washburn is the best in re-
cent years and a most successful sea-
son is anticipated.
No date has, as yet, been set for the
election of next years football captain,
but the event will probably take place
in the near future. Pinky Beals,
whose spectacular playing at quarter
was the sensation of the closing games
OF the season, is being spoken OF as
the most likely candidate However,
there will probably be other strong
candidates for the place.
Considerable local interest is being
taken in the Morris-CarrOll bout that
is scheduled to take place in st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the fifteenth of the
month. This local interest IS due in
large measure to the fact that Car
roll is making Topeka his training
HEADQUARTERS and is being prepared
for the bout by Topeka Jack johnson.
Sailor Carroll is the full official ring
name of the young California white
hope, and he is q very decent sort of
a chap with a decent record behind
him. He weighs 1873 pounds with his
clothes in the locker, and holds the
scalps of such ring men as Young
Jack Johnson, Dick Gilbert. Charley
Horn and a half dozen other more
or less famous western heavyweights.
He has fought his way from Cali
fornia to Kansas City and has cleaned
up in a number OF Colorado and Utah
bouts Now, he has secured a match
with Carl Morris, the Oklahoma Giant,
at a great sacrifice of the purse strings,
and hopes to use this bout to lift him
self into the big attraction class.
Carroll will remain IN Topeka until
! the twelfth and he and johnson will
work each afternoon at Johnson's
gymnasium on West Fifth street. The
! public is cordially invited to visit the
camp at any time and watch the work.
outs. 1t is Also probable that the Mid
west Athletic club will put on smok-
er while Carroll is in Topeka and will
make him headliner on the program.
By the use of a few chemicals, it is
now claimed that water can be made
| to serve the automobile purpose OF
gasoline at a cost of only one and one
half cents a gallon. II this is really a
fact. all auto owners-John D. ex-
cepted-should feel mighty kindly to-
wards the son of Portugal who dis
covered the process and made 1t prac-
| ticable. Said discoverer might also
win additional laurel wreaths il he
would show the world how to convert
the old sky juice into certain other
kinds of combustibbe fire fluid and at
one and one-hak cents per conhagra-
ton.
California fans will never again wit
ness such a contest of pugilistic gladi-
ators as was staged in San Francisco
Der 2, 1896. And the anti-boxing law
isn't the only obstacle-not by a long
shot. Statutes may be repealed. but
nature is not likely ever again to
fashion such a lOng-hegged. freckled.
knock-kneed. broad-shOuldered, red
haired human lighting cock as Bob
| Fitzsimmons. From the viewpoint OF
beauty, it is to be hoped that she
won't, for Ruby Robert was never
highly ornamental But fight-wen,
pound for pound, the world is never
likely to see his equal.
Tom Sharkey, the sailor bold. was
Fitz's opponent on that historic occa-
sion. The mariner was something OF
a scrapper himself, not quite SO tall as
Bob, but much heavier. Fitzsimmons
Having cleaned up all the middle
weights, was then a candidate fol
lheavyweight honOrs. Save for Jim
iCorbett, the champion. Sharkey wal
the best man to oppose him. The for
inner seafarer was in his prime. He
had fought a four-round draw with
iCorbett q few months before. and hs
had knocked out Joe Choynskf and
many other good heavyweightA He
had never been whipped, and. in the
Iopfnion Of his admirers, the man borr
of woman wasn't alive who could low
er his colors.
The Sharkey-Fftzsimmons session
was highly important, since 1t wal
generally understood that Jim Ccrbet
would be forced to meet the victor
THE fans turned IN $21, 900 at the gate
1.-The purse was $4,000. and both mel
were SO supremely confident that the.
iagreed to q Wtnner-take-au dfstribu
ttion-
Freckled Fitx Also had an unbrok
len suing Of victosin4 seve for tia
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