The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
SPORT WHEEZES
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Pies. Lemon Sandwiches. Etc.
(By Clug.)

Dick Cooley has been awarded a
franchise in the Kansas State league
Just where his club will be located
has not been settled, but here's hoping
he wins himself a pennant.
Dan Mcclellan, the hard hitting
third baseman from the Tri-State
noon He did not work Tuesday be-
cause he was not in condition, but will
probably participate in one OF the
games against the Saints Friday and
Saturday.
Ball games that are better than the
one played yesterday afternoon be-
tween the Topekans and the K. G.
Blues are few and far between. The
Topekans did not make single error,
and only one was made by the visitors.
Both teams were on their toes all the
time, and because there was no audi
ence to make a noise, the players kept
out the funeral silence by chewing the
rag with the umpire.
Some of the players call Weideman
a Swede. His name sounds more like
German beer. His hair is blond
and his eyes are blue. But, regardless
of nationality, if he continues to pitch
as good ball as he did Tuesday, the
big fellow is pretty certain to be a
regular first string pitcher this sum-
mer. In three innings he made four
strike outs and only allowed two hits.
What's more, he showed that he
knows how to get out of hole as
well get in it.
Jack Johnson has not been a little
black angel by any means. And the
white-skinned woman who married
him must be nothing. However, the
uncrowned champion is to be COM
mended for thinking of her in his
sorest moment of distress, and she is
he yait
Also, johnson is to be praised for the
true sportsmanlike manner in which
he admitted that Willard was better
man than he was. Many men who
consider themselves much better than
johnson would have set up an alibf
howl and tried to make an excuse for
themselves.
People are funnier than anybody.
There probably is not a Kansan who
is not proud of Jess Willard because
he has proved himself to be the king
of fist fighters. There probably IS not
a. single Kansan who is not glad to
proclaim to the world that the new
champion was born, bred and brought
up in the Sunflower state. With the
majority of loyal Jayhawkers Willard
is a hero. Yet, the majority of these
same people are bitterly opposed to
the sport in which Willard won his
laurels, and they would have torn up
the nap of the state rather than have
seen him gain his glory native soil.
Yes, sir, people are funnier than any
body.
Leo Murphy demonstrated Tuesday
afternoon that he would be strong
contender for one of the backstop
positions on Jimmy Jackson's team.
Also, Con Roche lived up to his good
reputation and accepted and handled
in a perfect manner several hard
chances on short. Frankenhoff's work
over the first sack was perfect, but
he failed to find the curves that were
Jimmy Jackson got under flies that
only a fast fielder could have gotten.
Grover and Sanford pitched ball that
was equal to the average Western
league standard.
1t looks as if some conclusive tests
might soon be made of the new base
ball contracts-the documents without
any ten-day clauses-and also as If it
behooved the big leagues to step care
fully Federals and lawyers are wait
ing at the gates, waiting to seize the
slightest opportunity for action Tn
der these new ENTHUSIASTICALLY
the three-year kind-the players are
now beginning to claim that 1t is i'm
possible to release them to the minors.
Earl YingIing, for instance, is out with
a statement to the effect that he
down into the Pacific Coast circuit;
that the Reds must make good in
every detail, or take chance on court
proceedings If the new contracts
have been so worded that a player
can not be chased off his perch, the
Joke is on the big leagues. and the
players fraternity can sit tight. The
Federals can't laugh-those same con-
tracts, even though they may force the
majors to keep the men for years,