The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-03
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

1 IL BY CLUG- ~
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The great in athletics can always
become greater. Elmer Bearg, all
I Kansas fullhack, is now developing
into a basket ball star
Also. "Pinky'' Beals. in spite of the
fact that his school denied him the
basketball captaincy simply because
he was football captain, is big enough
| to continue to fight in the ranks for
| the Ichabods.
| BeaIS is the only man who is eligible
| for the honor of leading his team this
season, but the powers that be seem
to think man is not entitled to all
! the honor he can earn.
The University of Wisconsin is busy
these days looking for 1916 football
coach 1t is said the place has been
I offered to Eddie Mahan, the Harvard
/ star.
The West Point team also will have
to find new coach before the 1916
season rolls around. Lieutenant Daily,
who has has charge of the Soldier
! eleven for the past three seasons, has
announced his intention to retire.
/ And it is being rumored that there
is movement on foot at Ann Arbor
to give Yost's $4,000 year to some
other man. Many Michigan sup
porters are said to believe Yost has
become stale on the job.
Also, there have been persistent
rumors afloat to the effect that several
eastern institutions would like to make
terms with the Wolverine mentor.
One coach who is. certain of his job
for another year is Jesse H. Harper.
of Notre Dame Harper will continue
to coach all athletics at the big Catho-
lie school, it is announced
AS q. result of a not very successful
season and internal dissension, the
Carlisle Indians are reported to be
contemplating the abolition of football
next season. The greatness of the
Carlisle Indians seems to have passed
with the going of Glenn Warner.
DR.. Kennedy the Haskell coach,
says Warner is the greatest football
mentor America ever produced. And
his record at Pittsburg this season in
dicates Kennedy has grounds for his
argument
And there are those who think Ken
nedy himself deserves a niche in the
hall of fame for great coaches. TX. y.
would still be winning Missouri VAL
ley championships, if she had kept
kennedy, q topeka football man re-
marks il discussing coaches.
The Denver Bears, runners up in the
Western league race last summer, will
probably train in California again this
spring with owner McGilPs Indianap-
oils club.
A battalion of soldiers is being
formed at Harvard university. Evil
IDENTIFY Haughtons school believes in
preparing for the worst, after such
football season as the last one
From the bushes of New Mexico
comes another wonderful pitching
record to adorn the annals of 1915. In
game between Allison and the Fort |
Defiance Indian school teams a twirl- I
er named Brown is said to have struck |
out % men in nine innings without /
having walked or passed single bats |
man.
Ty Cobb is still keeping up his bat |
ting average. On a six day hunt in |
southern Alabama, the Georgia Free /
stone killed two deer and one hundred |
squirrels.
A report from the east states that |
the Yankees will give Charlie Null |
len a chance to hold down the first |
sack for them next spring. Mullen, it /
is said, played some wonderful ball on
the all-star trip through the west.