The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-25


nerve failed him. Or maybe. at the
last minute he came to his senses. At
any rate he decided that 1t was worth
more than $4,000 to take chance
on falling into the hands of hostile
Mexicans and then having to face q
ing up at Juarez he would have been
putting his title Of worlds champion
in jeopardy. Maybe he used the best
Of coon sense when he backed up
against his luggage in Havana and
said: No. sab. I amt a-gwine marry
mother step towards Mexico. Things
don't zactly peer right over tina. II
Mr.. willard wants to fight me. he's
JUS got to come over here, that Elm
all tina are to It. ;"
Bob PEBBLES. the professional golf
err of the Countr.- club who is with the
Huaco golf club of Waco, Texas, for
the winter, has entered the open
played at Houston Friday and Satur-
day of this week.. About 80 other
professionals have also entered. In
addition to the open championship
match, an invitation amateur tour
nament will be held and will be partic-
ipated in by such well known players
as Chick Evans, Geo. Rotan, the Texas
Champion, Perry Adair, etc. PEBBLES
has been going good this winter and
his many friends here feel that he will
De We'll up the 1lnlSn and nope that
he will win. PEBBLES Is due to be
back in Topeka on April 1.
Some one called up this department
Wednesday and asked how far It il
to the moon, saying that a dispute was
on and that 1t required definite in
formation to settle it. AS this de-
partment has not made the trip in q
long time, it was rather difficult to
give the exact information right off
the bat. However. here is what the
almanac has to say on the subject:
THE moons mean distance from
the earth is 23S,850 miles. Her max
imum distance, however, may reach
252.830 miles. and the least distance
to which she can approach the earth
the same face to US and her motion on
her axis is always uniform
II this almanac is right the ''old
gal' seems to be pretty well situated.
She is too far away to get spit on and
not close enough to get bumped into.
Also. the fact that she always pre-
sents the same face to us and is uni
form in her motions indicates there is
little cOnceit about her. That the pro-
hibition wave has reached the moon
has not and will not. be full during
the whole month of February.
Topeka Jack johnson who went to
Kansas City to see his pupil. Sailor
Carroll, fight AL Norton last Monday
night, returned to Topeka Wednesday.
The fight. which was postponed on
account of the Illness of Norton, will
be held March s, according to John
son. Carroll will return to Topeka
ing here until the day before the
fight.
Kansas is reputed to have produced
the original jitney legislature, jitney
bootlegger and cincO interurbans. If
some one wants to add further dis
tinction to the state he might estab-
or a jitney undertaking service all the
year round. Either OF these would
be great benefit to a vast multitude
of people. Where Is that man who
is looking for fame?
The dope sheet was upset again last
week by Coach Craig's basketball
squad of Ottawa on the southern trip
when they won three straight confer
ence games. This puts the Baptists in
the race for one of the places near the
top of the championship list.
The Ottawa squad took a three
game trip last week defeating Friends
and Paramount at Wichita and South
western at Winfield. This leaves
them with four conference victories
Coach Craig's men got a late start
this season on account of their new
gymnasium not being completed, but
their improvement is shown by the
fact that they lost to Southwestern
on their own court and won the re-
turn game at Winfield.
The next game of the schedule will
be with the College of Emporia to-
night at Ottawa.
New York, Feb. 25.@The Belmont
Park race track is being put in SPLEEN
did shape for the early spring work OF
the horses and turfmen who have
seen it since the new coating of soft
joan has been put down say 1t IL
without doubt as safe and fast as any
in the country.
London, Feb. 25.-It is probable
that the great classic turf meeting at
Ascot, which is arranged for June Is,
16, II and 18 may be abandoned this
year. At the outbreak of the war the
large $1.25 stand-the most recently
erected on the Ascot course-was
converted into a hospital with some
thing like 500. beds, and it seems i'm
possible that it could be vacated by
June even under the very best of cir
cumstances. A proposal is being con-
| sidered by the racing authorities to
transfer the fixture to the Newbury
course and the decision is being anx-
| iously awaited.
| New York, Feb. 25.-It takes q
! combination of six ColOrs IN v,ronerlv