The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-27
(By C1ug.)

Lines from L. c. Davis to Jess Will
lard:
Said a certain young fellow named
Jess:
'I'n waIIop Jack johnson, 1 guess"
But it gave him a pain
When they said, Guess again,
For Carranza has Queered the whole
Now that Jack johnson can't or
won't fight Willard on March 6, fight
fans have arranged Juarez bout be-
tween Jim Flynn and Gunboat Smith,
and the big Kansas cow puncher is
planning a short hunting trip while
Curley is in Havana fixing things up
with the negro. Probably the fans
will have just as good a time watching
Flynn and Smith as they would John
son and Willard, and it won't cost
them near as much money.
BY the way, is there anyone in Kan
sas who knows just why Jess Willard
is Familiarity known as 'the big Kan
punches cows, and sometimes steers,
but Willard has spent most of his life
punching prize fighters. 1t is true
that when he was first discovered he
was punching hard-tailed mules down
in Oklahoma, but why call him a cow
puncher? Why not call him the Kan
sas Pug Puncher, and then if he ever
ticks johnson let him be known as the
Kansas Tamor.
With the Missouri Valley champion
ship sailed away and smoked, the K.
U. Jayhawker basketball team will
close it's season tonight in ST. Louis
with the game against Washington
university. The Jayhawkers have had
a brilliant season and have played
wonderful ball. Only the Manhattan
Aggies were able to humble them, and
considering the seasons record of the
lot - rre~k
have been something of a fluke.
Sproull and Sorenson have, in a great
measure been responsible for the
many big scores that the K. U. Quin-
tet has piled up during the season.
The first transcontinental trip to be
made by a woman at the wheel of an
automobile, accompanied only by q
woman mechanic has been planned
by Miss Genevieve Ma-she, formerly
of Brooklyn but now resldent OF san
Francisco. Miss Marshe intends to
start on her long trip on March 2.
..The fruits of the kind of advertis-
ing given the Federal league last sea-
son by the annihilators. VINO oelioW
says Hymie Brewer, eastern press
agent for the Federal league. The
boomerang effect Of gross untr MS
and bullying methods as practiced by
leaders in the baseball trust iast year
has added in making the outlook for
the Federal league ten times more
promising than our most sangulne
workers could have expected under
other conditions
passed prohibiting any club from
sending its players to the training
camp before March 1 is not being
lived up to. The New York Giants.
for instance. are sending ten young
pitchers down to Marlin Springs at
this time on the pretense that Scout
Kinsella is going to show them the
town, which Is new to all OF them. OF
| course, the real object OF the trip is
to get the youngsters down to work
before the regulars get there. Just
why there should be any restrictions
as to when a player can go into train
| ing is not clear.
| According to present prospects, the
Denver team of 1915 will present al
most as many new faces as will the
Lincoln Tigers. In addition to dfspos-
ing of Third Baseman Barbour, Sec
ond Baseman Faye and Outfielder
Butcher, Jim Mct1ill and Jack Coffey
fielder Bugs Ellington to the Grand
Rapids club of the Central league.
Bugs compiled a fancy batting
average last year in this loop, but
| manager JaCk U0CllHeS u cutHuSc
over the eccentric athletes brand OF
outfielding. Catcher George Block.
also of Denver, has been granted per-
mission to negotiate the sale of his
release to any magnate who wishes to
buy, while the dope from Denver has
it that Outfielder Harry Cassidy, the
oldest player on the club in point OF
continuous service, will not wear a
Denver uniform this year. Jack Cot
! fey Bill Fisher and Larry Spahr prob
ably will be the only ones Of the old
Denver guard on the job in regular
positions. Incidentally, these three
will go to California with the Indian
apo.is Hoosiers for spring training
Jim McGill is one Western league club
owner who declines to have any wor-
ries about getting a ball club. The
Denver Indianapolis magnate can &C
out and get 'em about as successfully
as anybody in the business.-Lincoln
Daily News.
Baseball is beginning to push bas-
/ ketball into the dark corner in Kansas
colleges, and wherever possible can
didates for the prospective teams are
VAR BEST SPORT; ALTON