The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-30
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IL by CLUG- III
Dear Sir: Please publish these lines
They may not be good poetry, but they
can be used as a prediction and a
warning just now, and as an epitaph
next fall. c. K. B.
Once he was chief of Savage tribe
And looked like a promising fellow;
But he tried to lead a pack of Wolves
And they buried his bones in the celia.
1t is announced that Hugh Jones
will be in Lincoln January 5, at
which time Duckey Holmes stock
company hopes to officially relieve
him of his Tigers.
Joe Tinker had his gall stones re-
moved the week before Christmas, but
still the ex-Whale manager thinks he
can lead the Cubs to a N. l. victory in
1916.
Harry Sinclair. whose bluff that he
would put the Kansas City Federal
franchise in New York probably was
responsible for organized baseball
coming to peace terms, began his ca
reer as a drug clerk in Tulsa, Okla.
Sinclair fell into a little wad of
money through an accident. Yes, he
collected on his accident policy, and
invested the wad in oil. short time
later he built $4,000 mansion, and
then to prove that he was a real mil
hona1re, undertook to back the Fed
eral league.
What does Hedges or any one else
want to buy the Reds for?
II the st. Louis Browns and the
cubs are allowed to carry SO or so
players they at least ought to be able
to finish in the first division
The fact that Fred Fulton was born
In Kansas and admits it hasn't caused
nluch OF stir among native sons.
Not satisfied with taking basketball
to the lecture platform, Johnny Bend
err coach at K. S. A. c., is now devot-
ing part of his time to a scheme to
put the lid on kicking in football
games as much as possible.
Bender suggests that the drop kick
and the place kick be done away with
altogether. TOO many games are won
in this way" he says The stunt is
a highly specialized one, and does not
show the true scoring power of a
team" If these kicks can't be done
away with, the Aggie coach suggests
that they be made to count only two
points.
Also, Bender would make the kick
ing of goal after a touchdown harder
To do this, he suggests that the up
right goal posts be made higher and
a second cross bar put at the top.
This would leave a square opening
between the cross bars and uprights,
and he would have the kicker boot the
ball through this square to count the
additional point
In other words, Bender would take
a little of the foot out of football
and add a little more circus to the
game.
the Browns and Cardinals will be
played only on Saturdays and Sun
days, it is announced.
Drury Underwood, writing in the
Chicago Herald, says there are such
things as left-handed blacksmith
shops where the anvil, the bellows
and other tools are made specially
for southpaws. He also says there
are left-handed fiddlers. And he
should have added a few left-handed
pitchers.
The world will probably never know
how much disappointment over the
Harvard defeat contributed to the
death of Tom Shevlin.
AS the leading welterweight of the
country, Ted Davis is now in a posi-
ton to make some real money. How
ever, the announcement that he will
meet Charlie White in n. Y. next
month shows that lightweight purses
still draw him to the old class.
Fielder Jones now has 81 players
on the roster of the Fed-Brown team
he is slated to manage next season.
And of this little army only 81 are
pitchers.
Bar johnson IS quoted as saying
the minors Will have to get out of
Cleveland. When did they get in?
Ad Wolgast predicts that Fulton
will win from Willard when they meet
in New Orleans, and he says that he
expects to make a cleaning on the
fight But WolGast is as bad off in
his predictions as he is in his fighting
Just now. Fulton won't even get
chance.
Aggie Engineers Choose Head.
Chicago, Dec. 30.-Frank NJ. White,
Madison, Wis, was today elected pres
ident of the American society of Agri
cultural engineers.