The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-01
SPORT wHEEzEs.
Being Purloined Dog Meat,
Frune Pies, Lemon Sand
witches, Etc.
(By Clux.)

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(By Clug.)
An exponent Of ''gentler football
has recently gone nuts because the
public would not accept his proposed
toning down Of the game. In his mad
rawlings he has been trying to stage
game that will excel all others in
point Of brutishness, rough playing.
murderous intentions. etc. He would
like to see two teams composed of
German and Irish players meet in one
of the larger cities of the United States
and play a post-season game for the
relief Of the poor, suffering orphaned
oysters of the world. Here are the
players he has suggested for each
team:
German team-Overesch. Navy. left
end; Viewer. N. Y. University, left
tackle: Schmidt. Wisconsin. left guard;
Trenkmann, Princeton. right guard;
Hagemeyer, N. Y. University. right
tackle; Laure. Carnegie. right end;
Pultz, Purdue, quarterback; Maui
betsch, Michigan, hahback; Gearhart.
Notre Dame. halfback; Eichenlaub.
NOtre Dame, fuEback.
Irish team-Kelly, West Point, left
end; O'Donnell, Tufts, left tackle: Nc
Kean. W and J., left guard: F'itzger-
aid, Notre Dame, center; Conroy, Yale,
right guard; McLaughrey, Westmin-
ster, right tackle; McNaughter, West
minister, right end; Donahue, WASH
ington and Lee, quarterback: Finne-
gan. Notre Dame, halfback; Hoban.
Lehigh, halfback; McKinlock, Har-
ward, fuuback.
And the above goes to show what a
good man gone wrong will finally
come to. No civilized country would
think of allowing such teams to meet,
Frnv. I1a l,~~
the batty promoter.
A meeting Of the Missouri Valley
conference schools will be held at
Lincoln, Neb., Friday and Saturday to
draft rules for basketball baseball and
act football business that may come
up for disposal.
The first conference will be held on
Friday, when the managers will meet
to arrange the various basketball
schedules. 1t is expected that there
will be no change in the system that
has been followed in past years, that
of splitting the conference into a
north and south division, with Ne
braska, Ames and Drake in the north
ern section and Kansas, Missouri,
Washington and the Kansas "Aggies''
in the southern division. Whether the
conference will object to a meeting be-
tween the champions of the two di-
visions remains to be seen.
That Nebraska is not likely to
change the plan of the last two years
in the track schedule was announced
by Athletic Manager Reed, asking for
dual meets with Ames and Kansas.
The date for the Missouri Valley con-
ference track meet and the place for
holding 1t may be arranged.
The athletic management of K u
has announced that the 1915 football
schedule will be the same as that of
the past season except in matter of
dates. William Jewell, College of
Emporia, Drake, Oklahoma, Wash
burn, Nebraska and Missouri will play
the Jayhawkers as usual , $50.
Within the past week an effort has
been made to definitely decide that the
disasters of the K. U. season this year
were not due to the shortcomings Of
the team or coaches or to the su-
periOrity of the opposing teams, but to
the Lack of spirit among the students
at the university. This argument
seems a bit unfair to both the X. u
student body and to the teams that
walloped the Jayhawkers. 1t is en-
tfrely within the pale of human pos
sibilities for both Nebraska and Mis-
souri, to turn out better teams than
Kansas once in a while, and it is i'm
probable that the Kansas students are
not as loyal to their institution as the
students of other schools are. If the
German army should lose in the pres
ent war, 1t would seem a little ridfcu-
! lous for the men in the ranks and the
generals to try to lay the blame of
their defeat on the men, women and
children back home who didn't have
anything to do with the fighting.
| The most successful football season
Ottawa has ever had in four years
closed Thanksgiving day with a victory
over the Kansas City Veterinary college
! at Kansas City by a score of Ii to z.
The team has won four games this
season. lost three and tied two, scoring
a total Of 1876 points to their opponents
IS.
! New York. Dec. 1.-The return of
Champion Freddie Welsh to Madison
Square Garden will be the feature of
the week in the boxing circles. Welsh
is the most energetic champion the
lightweight division has ever known
and has engaged in a number of con-
tests since last appearance at the Gar
| den, when he boxed Ad Wolgast On
/ Wednesday evening the Welshman will
engage in a ten-round bout with Young
! Shugrue, and the titleholder will have
to be at his best to win. Welsh has
virtually been in training for this
match for two weeks, and it was the
| best sort of training he obtained, as
| he engaged in active ring warfare no
! less than three times in the three