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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
81 men TURN OUT
Football Candidates Brave Bit
ing Breezes Thursday.
Washburn Has Best Young
Material in Years.

Although the March zephyrs were
cold enough to freeze the noolS u
of a live hog, thirty-four huSKy luon =
ing men answered to the ron can a.
the first spring football training az
Washburn college Thursday a1teTnooi'
and several moe reported 70 Co ga,
Gray that they would be out thls al
noon.
OF the thirty-four men, twenty
seven were new recruits ana, Ior q
great many of them. it was their III =; -
suit. 1o-1
Coach Gray, Captain Beals. Ear
Trobert Smith Bishop, Arthur Ci "a u,
peny. Robert Wh1tcomp anu 20 Il
Stewart were in charge of the squau
and atmospheric conditions mace II
unnecessary for them to urge the iiieN
to keep moving , IN
most IF the afternoon explaining ana
demonstrating the fundamental poltils
of the game but it was too colu 81 -
the men to stand around. anu 60
they had warmed up a little ne go
them few instructions on receiving
passes and had them spend tne Ieo go;
the time running for the hui1 tD faces
Among those carrying new 60
around in the biting breezeS W1[e
eraI well built, active. husky Ioon,He
athletes who ought to be abie 70 ne Iti
the old veterans hustle to hold tleI
positions next fall. A Re" OF ti1 1;II
are Cox. Bailey, Harry ChdIhpehS' ~
Whitcomb and Growth
Managers Out, Too.
Student Manager COOK anu <ns' ~
ant Manager Haynes were also on the
iob handing out and checking up
SI,its and there was equally as much
enthusiasm manifest as at any uile
last fall when freshmen, scrubs anu
varsity were mixing things IN an Ell
fort to make their positions on the
teams. >-,,
Cot He'll sob Gray, Heller, NeWeH,
Rice. Kessler, Pettyjohn, Logan and
Harvey. and almost the entire fresh-
men squad were out, and If the present
enthusiasm continues Coach Gray
should have a pretty good line on next
falls team before school closes IN
June.
Am ng the men who were given
, Dean, Pertyjohn, Young, Graves, Rice,
Sheldon, Barrett, KearnS, Bill Whit
comb, Robert Whitcomb, Bailey, Wild,
Harry Champeny, Drake, Kessler,
Captain Beals, Sam Stewart, Cox,
MuirheaG, Whitehead. McCosh, Heller,
Growth, Meade, Foster, He'll, Gray,
Logan and Reed.
Ex-Captain Earl Trobert was also
on the g Id but did not have on a suit
carrying as a souvenir of the recent
basketball season. Arthur Champeny
did not put On a suit, because he was
shy suitable shoes, but when he got
out on the field, the lure was too great
for him to Withstand, and he shed his
coat and got in the running with the
rest of them. Smith Bishop, one of
WaShburnS old stars, was out in the
proper toys, and will probably assist
in rounding the men into shape every
afternoon that he has time until the
close of school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
HERR COBB IS HERE.
Young Kansas Rookie Reports a
Baseball Headquarters Thursday.

James H. Cobb, the Kansas recruit
pitcher, blew into baseball headquar-
tiers late Thursday afternoon and an
nounced that he was ready to start
practicing for his debut as hurier
makes a very favorable impression,
so far as physical looks go, and any
ordinary can-or-sewer who claims to
be able to pick out a pitcher by TAX
ing a peep at him in his "hand-me
downs would pass him as likely
young chap.
Another Kansas player by the name
of Harry Spencer, who halls from the
indianapolis A. A. club, also has re-
ported and will be given a tryout.
Thursday afternoon Manager jack
son and Nelson, Grover and Forsythe
went out to the park for light practice,
and the wind was so antagonistic that
they made it extremely light and re-
turned to the hotel long before hash
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
IN PINK OF CONDITION
American Physician Says Jack john
sons Organs Are All Normal.

Havana, March ga physical ex-
animation by an American physician
of Jack johnson Thursday discloses
the fact that the heavyweight cham
pion,. who is to meet Jesse Willard in
the ring on April 4, is in fine condi-
ton; that he is enjoying perfect
health and that all the organs are
normal.
The physician declared that his
3S years old. In addition, Johnson
has been exhibiting an abundance of
spirit and is looking forward with
confidence to the coming fight.
The usual routine marked the
Thursday afternoon work of the two
quarters. The Cubans appear to be
taking more interest in boxing, al
though they do not appreciate the
fine points. The weather is ideal for
the work of training.
Plans have been completed for
stands at the Mariana race course to
accommodate between 10000 and 3d.
sale of the cheaper seats to CubanS.
The betting on the fight has not been
very extensive, but the small bets so
far laid make Johnson the favorite at
one to two.
Jack Welsh of San Francisco has
been named as referee for the fight.
He was selected at meeting of the
principals and promoters Thursday
night, and the promoters sent a cable
gram to him asking his acceptance.
Welsh was selected from a list of
IA men. Harry Sharpe of st. Louis
were favored, but Welsh won. The
proposal to name a substitute or an
alternative was deferred until word
should be received from Welsh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
CARDINALS GET BEsCHER.
McGraw Gives Up OutfieIder for
jumping 'sPOI'' Perritt

st. Louis, March 26.-Bob Bescher,
outfield on the New York Nationals,
has become a member of the St. Louis
Nationals, thereby completing the deal
in which w. D. (PoD Perritt went to
the New York club.
Miller Higgins, manager of the To-
cal Nationals, announced Thursday
night that he had received a telegram
from Manager MsGraw of the New
York team accepting the st. Louis
clubs offer for Bescher, but he re-
fused to make known the terms of the
deal.
Bescher is now at the training camp
of the New York club in Texas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
WELSH TO HAVANA, TOO
Lightweight Champion Will particle
pate i'm Curtain Raiser to Big Fight.

Detroit, March 26.-Announcement
was made here Thursday that Freddie
Welsh, light weight champion, has
signed articles in Windsor, Ont, for a
ten round match with Battling Nelson
in Havana on April 4, the bout to
serve as a curtain raiser for the john
Son-Willard fight.
The affair is for a purse of $4,000.
1t was also said that Welsh has signed
for a ten round match with Billy Wag-
ner in Toledo April 8.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
MANY HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS.
X. U. VIII Hold a Big Tourney Tt
day and Tomorrow.

Lawrence, Kan, March 26.-Bas-
ketball players, boys and girls, from
forty-nine Kansas high schools are in
Lawrence for the eighth annual bas-
ketball tournament, which will be
held at the University of Kansas to-
day and Saturday.
Robinson gymnasium has been
turned into a large dormitory where
the players are domiciled. The girls
of the university are acting as big
sisters" during the tournament and
are the active hostesses of the occa-
sion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
Gibbons to Meet Mcfarland.

Chicago. ILL.,, March 26-Articles
have been signed here for a 10-round
bout to be staged within sixty days
between Mike Gibbons and Packy
Mcfarland. The fighters agreed to
weigh not more than las pounds at 8
o'clock in the afternoon. The agree
ment signed was the first admission
by Mcfarland that he had grown into
the welterweight division. Heretofore
he had insisted he was lightweight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
GYM opening at ST. NIarys.

ST. Marys, Kan, March 26.-Last
Tuesday night five act gymnasium
opening entertainment was rendered
at the college gym under the direction
of Prof. j. A. Mclaughlin. "a Little
Bit of Heaven and SANDY River
Rag and other musical numbers
were artistically intermingled with the
apparatus, mat and other gym stunts.
A paperweight championship two
round boxing bout was also staged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
Feds to Adopt Schedule Today.

New York March 26.-Federal
league club owners gathered here to-
day to ratify a playing schedule and
adjust disputes rising from the trans
fer of players. The court ruling
which kept the Kansas City franchise
in Kansas City leaves the league free
to adopt a schedule without further
delay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

New York, March 26.-Charlie
White, Chicago. lightweight, outfought
Leach Cross of New York in a ten
round out here Thursday night,
White getting the honors in five
rounds and Cross in two, while three
were even. The weights were an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
!. a. scheduIe DELAYED Again.

Chicago ILL.,. March 26-New delay in
the adoption of an American association
schedule was occasioned Thursday by the
discovery of several errors in the draft as
drawn up by the committee at its meetings
here. Two three days probably will
elapse before answers received from
the committees to kilograms notifying
them of the errors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
Cincinnati Releases Three.

Cincinnati. o., March 26.-President
August Hermann, of the Cincinnati
National League club, announced to-
day that he had Internationally re-
leased Pitchers Frank Sayre and
Grover knight and Infielder John
Lang. Sayre formerly pitched for the
University of Pennsylvania.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

rolled up a score of III, the highest
score in singles ever rolled at an A.
B. c. Tournament. H. Allen and r.
Allen of Detroit are leading in the
doubles with a score of 1927. In the
five-men events the Barry-Ketteler
team of Chicago heads the list with
2907.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
Another Bowling Record Smashed

Peoria, I'LL, March 26.-Bowlers
from Detroit, indianapolis and Chi
cago will hold the alleys at the tour
nament of the American bowling con-
Sress today. Last night the individual
record of 705. rolled in 1910 and held
by L. Haley of Detroit, was broken by
w. H. Pierce of Pueblo, Col, who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
SPORT WHEEZES
Being PurIoined Dog Meat, Prune
Pies, Lemon Sandwiches, Etc.
(By Clug.)

Don't forget the baseball meeting at
the Commercial club has been post
poned until Monday night.
The first spring football practice
was held at Washburn college Thurs
day afternoon. A November day
could not have been better for it.
The women in Havana are reported
to be turning out in large Numbers to
watch Jess Willard train for his john
| take to prize fighting. the state laws
against the game will come off the
statute books in a jiffy.
Sandy in the Omaha World-Herald
observes that the government forbids
military bands to play "Tipperary'
but still permits the army posts to
hold their weekly Germans.
Great Bend now possesses a new
sporting organization known the
Never Sweat Horseshoe club No
one will be eligible for membership in
the organization unless he can show a
record of at least one year without
visible perspiration.
This from the Atchison Globe: "a
new name is wanted for the Topeka
baseball club, and the Globe desires to
peka team has always been Indifferent
about the game" But how can
'.Nutty Neutral be Indifferent about
anything?
Fred Hartwig, of Humboldt, Kan,
will captain both the football and
basketball teams at the Emporia Nor
NAL school next season. Hartw1g is
considered one of the best athletes In
the school and his football record last
season was exceptionally brilliant.
Jack Holland, of the st. Joe club,
has five Kansas City semiprofessionals
in his training camp. Holland claims
than any other Western League lead
err, and cites as proof of his argument
the fact that he has sold more players
to the majors than any other club
head He says the trouble with the
other managers is that they haven't
the nerve or the patience, the latter of
which is "a cardinal virtue in the
business.
Des Moines claims to have one of
the few lefthanders in captivity who
play in the infield any place except
first base. The prodigy's name is
Napierville, Ill. Once before, in the
old days, Des Moines had a southpaw
second baseman in the person of Kid
MohIer, who went up TO the majors
sake of the advertising it would bring,
some club on the circuit ought to dig
up an ambideXtrous pitcher.
The Chicago Cubs are in the court
again. James Noal, a telegraph oper-
ator, who alleges he was hit on the
head by a stray pop bottle, has sued
the club for SIS 900 damages. Think
of an ordinary telegraph operators
head being damaged $4,000 worth!
Freddie Welsh. Englishman, makes
his money fighting in America and
spends quite a bit or it buying shirts
and other haberdashery in Paris. He's
very particular about his clothes. is
Freddie. He says the French patterns
suit him best, both as TO color and
wearing qualities.
We often hear it said of a runner
that he is showing more promise than
did John Paul Jones at the same stage
of his development, or of ball play
er that he has the edrmarks of an
other Ty Cobb; but the fulfillment of
this promise is another thing. Some
men develop to a certain point and
then stop. There are men who are
whirlwinds in minor league baseball,
but that is their limit: they are tried
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
..Rato Nelson Comes to Life.

Havana, March 26-"Battling' Mel
son won the decision here THURSDAY
night over Jimmy Freyer in a Is
round fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

Don't forget the baseball meeting at
the Commercial club has been post
poned until Monday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

The first spring football practice
was held at Washburn college Thurs
day afternoon. A November day
could not have been better for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
LIKE ANCIENT GREEKS.
Fraternity Men at X. U. Arrange Pan.
Hellenic Game Schedules.

Lawrence, Kan, March 26.-Uni-
versity of Kansas Greeks are follow
ing the example of the ancients; the
stage is set, and as soon as the Easter
vacation is over the first Pan-Hellen1c
games will be played. Four hundred
fraternity men are getting ready for
baseball, the dasheS, the two mile, the
shotput and all the other stunts which
go to make up the, annual interfra-
ternity track meet to be held in Law
renee this spring.
Each of the twelve national fra
ternities must enter man in every
event. For every event that man
does not enter, his fraternity will have
to forfeit five dollars.
Now, it isn't the easiest thing in the
world to pick up five dollar bills in
K. L. fraternity houses. So it is that
every one of the 400 Greeks are work
ing out for some event, and a good
many of them are trying for more
than one place.
Every fraternity has it's baseball
nine and is in one of three divisions in
a league of twelve. BY no means the
least part of the contest is rivalry be-
tween fraternities as to just what team
certain co-eds will support. Eighteen
games will be played before the finals
are arranged to decide which frater-
nifty is entitled . the pennant.
After the baseball games are over,
the track meet will be held 1t will
take half day and the grounds will
have much the appearance of an enor-
nous picnic.
But muscular skill is not the only
kind to be contested by the fraterni-
ties of K. U. Arrangements are now
being made for an interfrat debate.
Each fraternity will enter one man,
the winner to be given a silver cup.
Training Trip Results.
At Oakland, Cal.-Oakland, z; Chi
cago Americans, 0.
At Galveston, Tex Cleveland
Americans, 10; Galveston, 6.
At Fayetteville, N. C.-Baltimore
Feds, s; Fayette college, 2.
At Lakeland, Fla.-Louisville A. A,
z; Chicago Cubs, 1.
AT New Orleans-Cincinnat Reds,
16; New Orleans club, 2
At Columbus, Ga.-Boston Braves.
II; Columbus South Atlantics, 4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
in the majors, found wanting and go
back to "burn up theeminors again.

Bunny Brief, last season a Kansas
City Cowboy, has made good at first
base for the White SoX. He's made
such a great impression on Boss Row
land that Jack Fourier has been
crowded off the sack entirely and
Rowland has just ordered Fourier to
the outfield. Here he has replaced
Larry Chappe1l,r the $4,000 beauty,
who hasn't hit his stride. Fournier
may get ChappelPs place regularly.
When ,Chappell was bought from
Milwaukee, Happy Felch took his
place Now Felch will start as White
Sox regular while Chappell decorates
the bench.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

John Savage announced Thursday
afternoon that he had heard nothing
about the adoption of the Western
League playing schedule and had
nothing to say about it. The Lincoln
News of recent date, however. had the
following story about the matter:
The beans have been spilled; the
Western Leagues schedule secret is
out. When the league moguls met in
Chicago several weeks ago, a schedule
word being passed along the line that
Prexy Tip O'Neill was to frame the
playing program and secure it's af
firmation by mail vote. Then the
hint was dropped that the schedule
had been adopted in Chicago, the
number of games having been reduced
from 16S to 140, by which arrange
ment the season would start April %
and wind up with a dOubleheader on
Labor day. Evidently suspecting that
certain players would buck on signing
contracts because of the looping off of
a full month of play, the mogulS de-
cided to saw wood for a few weeks.
This was the explanation, at any rate,
and the few newspaper writers who
were let in on the secret kept the faith
and maintained a stolid silence. But
it remained for an Omaha writer to
kick over the bean jar, so no violation
of confidence is involved in giving
publicity to the facts concerning the
schedule and the probable reasons for
its suppression.
The shorter schedule scheme looks
like wise move. Not for seven years
has a Western League ball club made
any money during September. In other
words, after Labor day the interest in
fandom has been a minus quantity.
The players may complain, but that is
a minor consideration. Most of the
FASTENERS would ask to be on the pay
roll all year if the club owners would
only say the word.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

The women in Havana are reported
to be turning out in large Numbers to
watch Jess Willard train for his John
son fight. When women in general
take to prize fighting. the state laws
against the game will come off the
statute books in a jiffy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

Sandy in the Omaha World-Hera1d
observes that the government forbids
military bands to play '"Tipperary'
but still permits the army posts to
hold their weekly Germans.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
1.-THE Virgins BIessing."

Every Virgin in Spain is Illuminated
with taper. In Ella. near Cordova,
an image or portrait of the Virgin and
the Babe newborn hangs in we'll nigh
every room in every house. And why?
Because the beautiful belief is rooted
in those simple minds that on Christ
mas eve, before the clock strikes II,
the Virgin, bringing blessings in her
train, visits every house where she
can find an image or portrait Of her
son. And many a girl kneels down in
robes of white before her humble por-
trait of the Babe and prays and hears
a rustling in the room and thinks, 1.-THE
Virgin comes; she brings me my Christ
mas eve blessing" and turns, and, 10,
it is her mother, and the Virgins
blessing is the mothers kiss!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
poor DoIfdav fare

A delegation of fellow townsmen
called Oh Rufus X. Combs of Midway,
KY, to congratulate him on the receipt
of a Carnegie medal.
As his friends were taking leave Mr..
Combs wished them all merry Christ
mas.
"And 1 hope" he ended, "that you'll
have a more bountiful Christmas din
ner than fell to the lot of young
friend of mine last year.
"He, poor chap, was stopping at a
cheap New Year boarding house, and
on Christmas day, after he had eaten
a turkey neck, potato and a splinter
Of sodden mince pie, the landlady said
to him as he rose just as the weak
coffee was brought on:
sob, don't leave the table, Mr.
Smith
81 must, madam said Smith grim
". Its hard wood. and my teeth are
not what they used to be-.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15
-; ~ IS; ~: - Is S
Ostrich Dinner For Christmas.

One baby ostrich, five months old
and weighing over 100 pounds dressed,
was served at a recent Y. NJ. C. A.
Christmas dinner in Los Angeles, and
1000 persons were served. Each of the
babes drumsticks weighed sixteen
pounds. In cooking the bird 165 pounds
of dressing were used. This was made
up of fifty pounds of chestnuts, thirty
pounds of butter. twenty-five pounds of
onions. fifty pounds of bread. twenty
FIVE heads of celery and one pound of
mixed spices. A special oven six feet
square was arranged to roast the bird
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-15

Sss::EsS =!
Dow Not to Give

So He story is told of a woman
with n great deal more money
~ than mind and her selection of
Santa Claus favors. This
daughter of gold is busy twenty-four
hours out of the day chasing hap
piness, though it is said she seldom
catches up with it. Her idea Of
Christmas gift is something that costs
50. Never mind what the something
is SO long as it represents a V.
Several years ago she was particular
" rushed at the holiday season, so she
gave less thought than usual to the
disposal of the Christmas fives. She
was passing a bOOkshOp when a limp
leather and gold copy of Omar's ''Ru-
baiyat' caught her eyes. Here was an
Inspiration. She would buy s. worth
of oriental pessimistic philosophy. eX-
pressed in metrical form, for a friend
who lived in a hall bedroom and hadn't
a second shirt waist to her name.
Upon investigation Omar looked so
good she decided to mass her Christ
mas suggestions and spend the hun
dred dollars in fives she set aside for
gift purposes on Khayyam and his
verses. One copy went to a widowed
friend of her girlhoOd who lived on a
farm in Maine and attended the lit
tie crossroads church twice on Sunday.
Omar's verses in praise of wine and
lovemaking were well calculated to
shock this recipient. Another copy
was mailed to a seamstress with three
young robin mouths to feed and a net
income of SD a week. The elevator
man in the apartment house where the
munifcent giver lived drew one of
the limp feathers. The remainder of
the recipients were more or less APP
propriately selected.
Picture, if you will, the widow on
the farm perusing the wine. women
and song philosophy of the orient!
Imagine the elevator man in the depths
of his cage porting over ga loaf of
bread, a jug of wine and thour' This
year the 500 would have gone for
volumes of "MOOnmadneSs,' a sort of
Egyptian and Partisan nightmare. had
not 4 safe and sane salesman per-
writing paper in graduated sizes. This
is at least useful. aid who knows but
another Yuletide will find the woman
sending hand picked presents to her
small army Of the needy!
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