The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-24
Sport Wheezes
BY CLUG-

Wiedemann, the Yale football play
er, is not the Wideman, who pitched
for Topeka last summer, despite the
fact that many think Wideman, as
pitcher, would make a great end.
Two more days and the football
season will be over One more vic
tory for K. U. and one for the Army
and we will be done with the mole
skins.
1t is being freely predicted that the
Jayhawkers will put up their most
brilliant fight in recent years against
the Missouri Tigers tomorrow. The
sting of the Nebraska defeat is ex-
pected to be the spur.
AS to the Army-Navy game, it
seems that the Soldiers will have the
advantage. The announcement that
the Salt Water players were making
eleventh hour changes in their lineup
didn't boost Navy stock very much.
Plans are being formulated at
Washburn to play a series of inter
class basketball games between now
and the first of the year to bring out
availa bic material for the varsity five.
1t is understood that a captain will
not be chosen until after the season
starts.
"Pinky' Bealss is the only man
qualified for the place by reason of
past service and seniority. Bit it is
understood there = is opposition to
''Pinky' because he was captain of
the football team
Commenting on the greatness of
''Pinky'' Beals, an anonymous writer
says:
Dear Sir: You are right. '@Pinky''
Beals is a greater football player than
Warren Gill, John Dadisman, Shake
White, Fatty Clark, Ernie Hughes,
Hughes, Lawrence Banks, Lloyd
Stahl, Wade Moore, Fred Roberts,
Fannie" Mehl, Bonnie Owens and
Jimmy Stewart ever were.
Signed 1900"
1t is said that the older men get,
the more they look to the past as
the golden age of their existence.
Taking this as a hypothesis, it is pre-
sumed that the satirist who penned
the above reached the zenith of his
football enthusiasm about the year
1900.
The soccer football game at Santa
Fe park tomorrow should be an in
teresting affair from several angles. 1t
will give Topekans a chance to see a
different breed of the game; the spec
tators will see both imported players
and the home product in action; and
last Jul IOC lcdSL, 1OpChb
will win at least one athletic contest
from Lawrence.
This football season has certainly
been full of surprises" the fine wealth
err we're having man remarked.
Yes, and if there hadn't been any
surprises, a whole lot more people
would have been surprised his com
panion replied.
And, speaking of surprises, here are
ings that probably will be remem bered
come nodded:
Yale, for the first time in history,
lost five games.
A South Dakota booter kicked a
field goal from the 6 8 yard line
Probably not a single eleven that
played six more games went
through the season without being
scored against.
Only one fatality was reported
among major university teams.
Three players ran the whole length
of the field for touchdowns.
According to Roy Crawford, there |
is little danger that President Zehrung
will move out of the Western League |
and try to run it from Chicago or |
some other tank town. Zehrung,
Crawford says, thinks too much of his |
home town. Lincoln.
The Kansas Co1legian, the official |
college paper of Aggieville, picks an |
football team, including /
Aggies. two Ichabods, one Emporia |