The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-10

Corn fodder is a fall product. 1t
is what remains after the corn crop
has been cut, shocked and shucked. 1t
is mainly used to rough cattle
through the winter on. Baseball fod
der is spring production. 1t is main
ly used to keep the enthusiasm of the
fans alive during the spring training
season.
Tommy Williams, athletic director
at the r. r. Y. NJ c. A, believes in
going back and picking up a good
thing again if you have been foolish
enough to have thrown 1t away. He
suggests that the new baseball team
| be called the Topeka White SOX, and
backs up his suggestion with the re
hinder that when the team was
known by this name it was a pennant
winner.
The European war has its draw
/ backs and it's advantages for ball
clubs in Canadian cities. For in
stance, there are 10000 soldiers gar
risoning Victoria in the Northwestern
League, and every one of the khaki
clad lot is a ball fan.
For the first time in the history of
the kentucky derby there are several
imported colts of rich English blood
among this years entries There
have been three-year-olds full of the
| imported strains entered before. but
]
which were bred, foaled and raised
abroad.
Bunny Brief, late of Kansas City is
giving Jacques Fourier a tight run
/ for the job of first basing for the
/ Chicago White SOX. Bunny slammed
out a homer in the very first exhibit
! ton game of the season and Jacques
nearly tumbled off the players bench.
However. Fourier has on Bunny by
one years experience in the majors
A basketball game will be played
tonight at the R. r. Y. NJ. G. A. be-
tween the high school second team
and the r. r. seconds. Also, be it re-
membered that there will be a game
at Washburn tomorrow night between
I the Washburn Ichabods and the OF
tawa university five. Also, cur
tain raiser to this game, the Topeka
4 Cubs and Washburn freshmen will
match their skill at basket tossing.
The best basketball prospects Wash
burn has for next season are probably
represented by Newell, Gray, He'll
and Rice. But, when it is considered
that these men are about as good now
! as any of the varsity men of this year,
/ there is every reason to believe they
will creditably hold down any posi-
tions they earn on the team Newell s
work, both as a guard and forward,
is exceptionally good. His eye is ac-
/ curate and he makes his arms cover
a lot of air space. If Rice makes the
team, he will succeed Trobert as the
pugilistic member. Gray and He'll pair
together just about like they do on the
football field.
There is just one thing to be said
about Washburn's football schedule
nothing but a first class team will be
| able to win any of the games on it.
| From the first to the last, it is hard
list but if the team, will win a ma
i jority of the games it will write Wash
burn on the football map in bigger
I letters than she was ever writ be-
fore. And, if by any chance, Mr..
Gray can put out a team that will win
every game ne will prove himself the
biggest thing in the way of a football
coach in this part of the L. S. A.
Such a thing as winning every game is
entirely possible if all of the men who
are expected back return next fall and
if they go out with the determination
to do or die. And here's hoping that
they sweep the boards clean, the K.
L. Jayhawkers. Manhattan Aggies
and Nebraska Cornhuskers included
/ However. it must be remembered that
the Ichabods will be handicapped by
not being allowed to play freshmen
The Normals. the .. Of F., Baker and
Cooper will all play freshmen, but OF
course the Aggies, X. L.. and Ne
braska will not because they have
enough students to pick from without
them II certainly is q mans task
that Mr.. GRAY has on his hands fol-
next fall. but it is worth taking a
chance on. because the only way to gel
anything worth while is to take .
chance at ii. Washburn will be better
off if she loses the most of the games
! than she would be if she had a sched-
ule full of second raters. 1t is dis
grace to lose to a superior; neither is
there any honor in defeating an in
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