The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-16
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III (Dy Clug) III
1t is to be hoped that the election
| of Frank Zehrung as president means
] the dawning of a new era for the
Western league.
The Lincoln man is said to be a
good mixer and good business man.
OF course, he will have his troubles,
and he has not fallen into any bed of
roses.
But he has a great opportunity to
make the Western one of the best
baseball organizations in the country.
And unless he goes blind and becomes
paralyzed it will be hard for him to
keep from making better record than
his predecessor.
The important thing the league
needs is for some one to hold the clubs
to salary limits that do not exceed
their income, and to see that COM
petent umpires are provided. These
Zehrung a success if he accomplishes
them.
President Zehrung, it is understood
will assume his new duties the first of
January. An announcement from Lin
coin states that he will maintain his
headquarters in the Nebraska capital
as it will be possible to reach any city
in the league in a short time from
Lincoln.
1t is a conceded fact that Nebraska
would be a strong favorite in post
season game with the Oklahoma Soon
ers. But oklahoma would probably
give the Huskers their hardest game
of the season.
However, there is little chance that
the two teams will get together. If a
pOSt-Season game is desired, Ne
braska-Cornell clash would be much
more to the liking of most football
followers.
In this neck of the woods it is be-
lieved that Stiehm's eleven could up
hold the dignity of the west in salts
factory way. And Cornell is the east
ern school that has put dent in the
west this season.
One of the most enthusiastic K. U.
followers in Topeka returned from
Saturdays game without the slightest
alibi. "Olcott's expected surprises
failed to materialize in a sickening
way" he said, land we were all dis
appointed"
Captain Rutherford, of the Corn
huskers is able to boast that he never
played on losing football team. He
has never tasted defeat During the
four years that the Husker star played
on the Beatrice high school team,
Beatrice was never defeated. And
Nebraska has not lost a game since he
Joined Stiehm's eleven.
New Haven dispatch says: mo
matter what the graduates and foot
ball experts may think, the Yale I'M
dergraduateS are now sure the team
will add the scalp of Harvard to the
Tigers petit And many who are not
undergraduates at Yale think the
same thing.
AS result of last Saturdays game,
Old Eli has developed a new hero and
brought forth an old one for the
whole football world to gaze upon. The
new one is Guernsey, who played
star game against Princeton; the old
into the semblance of a real football
team.
And, if Guernsey and Shevlin in a
weeks time could give Yale team to
defeat Princeton, who can't they give
her one to wallop Harvard in an extra
week? There doesn't seem to be a
weeks difference in strength between
Princeton's Tigers and Harvard's
Crimsons.
Topeka people will be given a
chance to see Bonnie Owens undefeat-
ed Oklahoma Sooners Friday at Man
haitian when his team clashes with K.
S. A. c. Coach Bender claims the
Aggies will give the Sooners a real
battle despite the fact that Oklahoma
has defeated Kansas. Texas and Ar
kansas. as well as every other team
met so far this season. On the same
day at Lawrence the Oklahoma Ag-
gies will play the Haskell Indians.
If jess Willard defends his heavy
weight championship in New Orleans. !
it will be the first time since Corbett /
knocked out Sullivan that the Cres- |