The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-02

by deIeaung thet Paoia team at
Baldwin last week. the Montgomery
county high school girls basketball
team claims the state championship.
when women claim things it is not be-
coming in men to dispute them.
In the Fifth district basketball
tournament that will be held at the
Kansas Agricultural college Friday
and Saturday, several wrestling
matches will be staged as side attrac-
lions. Manhattan, Clay Center, juno
ton City and other towns in the dis
trict will have mat artists and goal
tOsserS entered.
At least a hundred basketball play
ers are expected to participate in the
Third district tournament that will be
held in Parsons on the 18th and 18th.
Both boys and girls teams will be
entered, and teams will represent Cha
mute, Pittsburg, Crawford county, COT
feyville, Independence, Arkansas City,
Winfield, Fredonia and a number of
other towns.
Billy Sullivan, veteran catcher of
short time ago, holds a number of
baseball records. He caught in 1900
games in his career as a major
Lacquer. In one season, when with
Dubuque, Ia, he caught 124 consecu-
tive games. He also caught three
balls dropped from the top of the
WASHINGTON monument.
Hans Wagner was summoned for
jury duty in Pittsburg.
What is your business?" a lawyer
asked him.
I'm a fish warden
us that all you follow"
mo, some people say I'm a ball
player, but 1 don't know whether 1
am or not"
After having broken into the lime
light by intimating that it might make
Western league baseball free to every
body, Wichita now comes forward
with the announcement that a roller
skating basketball league is being or
ganized and that games will be played
in few days. Wichita might get
away with her free baseball games,
but she will fall down miserably with
her basketball on wheels if the games
are anything like the one that was
played between the College of En-
poria and WaShburn last week. Fall
ing down miserably is said to have
been the feature of this game without
any skates, and with them there is
no telling what might have happened
! Indications are that Columbia uni
versity will have a football team next
year after having been off the grid
iron circuits for a number of years.
There was time when Column b1a
i turned out elevens that ranked fav-
! orably with Yale, Harvard and Prince
ton and the other big eastern teams,
but an anti-football wave sweeping
over the country caught the school
/ in tow and the faculty abolished it.
/ The student body now claims that the
! Objectionable features to the game
/ that existed in 1905 when it was abCS-
ished have been eliminated, and
/ there is every indication that the fac
/ ulty will permit it's reinstatement.
Columbia is probably the only school
/ of it's size in the United States where
football is on the black list.
/ st. Joe papers announce that Jack
! Hollands Drumners will begin their
/ spring training on the 2 5th of the
month. Holland states that all of
/ last years men, with the exception
/ of Fox, Watson and Williams. have
| signed their 1915 contracts. There
! will probabl be few changes in the
/ Drummer lineup when the season
/ opens. Ham Patterson will work at
first base again and will very likely
be chosen captain of the team. The
pitching staff seems to be the big
trouble maker for Holland but he
string and will land some of them
time enough. 1t will be remembered
that Vance and Sterzer, two of the
best Drummer twirlers of last season,
have gone up to the Pirates and are
very likely to remain ''up" as they
are both good men.
/ Some sort of special medal or iron
/ cross ought TO De devised TOT BranCn
Hickey and pinned upon him when
his st. Louis Americans play their
opener in the spring. His claim to
distinction lies in the fact that he an
nounces that he doesn't expect to win
any pennant the coming season. In
the realm of tall ambitions and lofty
/ assertions. this pronouncement has
unique sound. Hickey did well with
his team last year. Employing some
/ of the methods he had used as a col
4 lege coach. he brought the Browns up
/ to Il position among the leaders for
part of the season, and made a good
finish
/ Erasmus hall, a New York prep
school is trying out one of the most
/ interesting experiments ever attempt
! ed in amateur sport. The idea is that
of Prof. o. F. Ferry. faculty repre-
sentat tive on the athletic board. It is
to make an active athlete out Of
every boy in the school and encourage
everyone to play and learn the game.
Every boy in the school is a member
( of the baseball team, no coach is en-
ployed. a new man acts as captain in
each game, and the teams are
| changed for each game. An inter
the players on the winning class
teams are to compose the varsity
squad. Erasmus hall has games
scheduled for each Wednesday and
Saturday on the other days inter
/ class contests are to be played. The
winners represent Erasmus on Satur-
day.
ST Louis Browns Begin Work.