The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-14
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| eBy cluk.,
1 The December issue of the Santa Fe
magazine gives the Topeka apprentice
football team quite a boost and COM
pliments Coach Cook on the fine show
ing made during the past season. Also
1 a picture showing the following MEM
bers Of the squad is reproduced: Coach
Bates. Lewis. Holzle, Carrie. Hughes.
Peterson, Gibbons, Harper, Schultz.
Swanson. Alien and Manager Oberer.
Considering the amount OF time the
apprentices had for practice they made
the most remarkable showing of any
team in this part Oftthe country and
If they had been making football a
speciality and had been given the OPP
portunity they might have made the
Missouri Valley championship contend
| ers look sickly in comparison.
/ At this season of the, year when ev-
erything is all smothered in snow and
everybody is all showed under with de-
| layed Xmas shopping il seems permits
sible to ask: why are official base
ball averages?'
| Particularly is this question pertinent
in Topeka where there is nothing to
gloat over except the one stick batting
average Of Col Cooley and the short
stop work of Cochran
At the annual meeting of the K. C.
A. c. held in Topeka last Saturday a
big step towards cleaner athletics was
| taken when a rule was adopted prohib
| iting the migration of student athletics
and making a technical evasion of the
one year residence rule impossible
Also, the application OF Haskell In
stitute for admission to membership
and the appointment Of a committee to
make recommendations relative to this
application presages greater days for
the conference and better football for
| Haskell.
The conference needs the Indian
school just as badly as the school needs
| to affiliate with such an organization,
| and the assurances given by DR.. Ken
nedy and Professor Birch that the
| school will attempt to live up to con-
ference rules. together with the ia
vorable recommendations given the
Indians by Messrs. King, Quigley and
Hargiss. show that the get-together
spirit ds pretty general. all around
! THE days of 'wildfire' football are
| over at Haskell DIR. Kennedy said,
and We believe we are striving as
earnestly for clean athletics as any in
stitution in the land DR.. Kennedy
also said that the Indians would likely
| play NOtre Dame and Oklahoma again
next season. Four of the old institute
stars will be lost to the game but there
are other brave chiefs who are ready to
| take their places.
After having been taken back into
the fold of the Kansas conference Sat
urday, Coach Bill Hargiss Of the En-
poria Normal school was anxious to
have a rule passed permitting him to
play freshmen on his various athletic
teams.
i To show that he was really entitled
to play freshmen Mr.. Hargiss passed
I around a compilation Of figures in
which it was shown that of the 600
available students from which he could
select his teams 500 Of them were OF
the female sex.
DR.. Parmenter of~Baker seemed to
with With sos SiGs1ihs I eE s3a44ttiae ssjrl
students shoi1id have 1essS fl4&n 100 boys
trodding the path OF knowledge with
them. 1t wasn't exactly in keeping with
the doctors observations Of the aver
age Kansas male student. and he chung
to his doubts SO persistently that Mr.
Hargiss was finally obliged to take the
floor and exclaim:
II didn't say girls, doctor! Women
many of them old women with gloves
on. II you please
The doctor made no further objec-
lions and Mr.. Hargiss was granted per-
mission to play his freshmen without
a dissenting vote.
! In the future there will be no such
J thing as a football championship in the
. Kansas conference. Undoubtedly, many
will wonder what excuse there is fol
football teams IL there are no cham
pionships to be contended for. O1
) course there is a beautiful theory tc
the affect that athletic sports should
be fostered solely because they give
physical training to those participant
, ing, and that games should be played
; simply for the sport derived from the
playing and not for the purpose OF
winning victories
This Is the English idea as brought
= - Nj a. ut
, versity at the Saturday meeting. How.
ever. any one who has endured the
! hardships of football training. or any
one who has the true American spor1
instinct knows that this scholastic the
3 DRY won't hold water. The action OF
! the Kansas conference may be JUST
fable because of the fact that it /!
almost impossible to award the honor
. with fairness and justice to all. But
: as a human endeavor, sport is very
human. There are few men who worl
: at anything simply for the pleasure the,
3 get out of the act of working. And thu
3 secret to success is any line of sport |.
5 hard work.
! Sailor Carroll, the San Francisco put
2 who will meet Carl Morris in a fifteel
3 round bout in ST. Joe tomorrow night
0 left Saturday afternoon for Kansas Cit.
Z where he will remain until just befOr
. the bout
: Carroll was said to be in the hes
2 of condition when he left Topeka an,
: the many friends he has made durini
3 his stay here hope he will realize hi
2 ambition by knocking the Oklahom'
2 Giant clear across the Gulf OF Mexico
s He has certainly worked hard for thi
2 bout and has done everything possible
. to condition himself While it may no
aid him any after he enters the ring
, the fact that Carroll has every ear
mark of gentleman is greatly in hi
!. favor when it comes to making friends
and when he hits the toboggan to fame