The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-22
Sport Wheezes
CLUG-

The picking of one Ichabod, Captain
''Pinky" Beals, on the all-Missouri
Valley eleven presented by this col
umn, and the assertion by a Lincoln
paper that "Pinky'' would fit into
such a team has caused no end of ar
gument among local discussionists.
One ante bellum player from Wash
burn makes the assertion that the
Little Pink Devil does not compare
with some of the great players Wash
burn has had, and goes so far as to
assert that there have been several
Ichabod teams that Beals could not
have made. .
| Another connoisseur avows that
| "Pinky" is a wonderful speed mer-
chant, and a wonderful broken field
runner, but that when that is said, all
| is said in his favor. He thinks that
| ''Pinky' should never have attempted
| to play quarter, and that he would not
have made a halfback had he not been
| fast.
Personally, this column believes
| that BealS would have made d Valu-
able player to any team in the United
States, east, west, north or south We
| believe that on a team like the Ne
braska Champions, with the same sup
port and interference, "Pinky" would
have been almost as great a star as
| Chamberlain. A.-f
However, it is all more or less
! matter of speculation. "Pinky" has
against agah every team he has played
against. He did something that rev
other players did in 1914 when he
scored against Nebraska. He has won
admiration wherever he has playeo.
And this season he played wonder
full game on a team that was as poor
as WaShburn ever had
This season everything he has done
has been practically single handed.
With interference that was practically
no interference, he has sifted through
every line he has faced, including
Nebraska and K. L. In the ASgle
game 1t was plain that Coach Bender
had instructed every one of his Farm
ers to cover up Pinky. And they
did a swell job of it. But in spite. OF
their best efforts, he pulled off a cou-
pie of big gains.
This column will back up its asser-
ton that Beals is qualified to wear
the shoes of an all-Missour1 valley
halfback until more convincing PROOF
is offered that he is not. Any foot
ball authorities who wish to ar their
views on the subject are invited to use
the column as a clothesl1ne
Shevlinized Yale had about as
much luck against Harvard last Sat
urday as the usual come hacker
has against the real thing. The Al
to score piled up by the Cr1msons
proved that there must have been a
great deal of luck on the side OF
Yale when the Bulldogs walloped
Princeton.
If Yale had won last week, as many
thought she had a chance to do, the
Miracle Man from Minneapolis would
have been heralded as the greatest
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is, he probably will get less praise
than is due him.
K U. men point to the So to
score of the Nebraska-Iowa game and
then say We'll I guess Kansas isn't
so rotten after all" But it never was
a case of K. US being rotten; it was
simply 4 matter of being outclassed.
The fact that the Missouri Tigers
are not putting out any bear dope IS
not arouSing much enthusiasm in the
kers don't understand the system that
says: We are as right as foxes, come
on and let US show you"
To the impartial Kansas observer, |
it seems hat OIcotts team should
have the advantage in playing strength
when the two teams meet at Column |
bia Thursday afternoon But the Ii i
gers will have the advantage of play !
ing on their OWE gridiron and of be- /.
ing used to the surroundings
The honors in the Big Nine" con-
ference this season must be shared
by the Gophers and I1lini- Both teams
came through The season undefeated-
Both defeated their strongest rivals.
and in their own game they played a
to tie. 1t seems that a post sea-
son game to settle the dispute would
be the logical thing t
Harvard to Lose Many Stars.
Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 22.--FTar-
ward football followers, having ceIe-
brated the rout administered by Cap
tain Mahan and his team to Yale
Saturday, took account Sunday of the .
stock in hand for next years team. /
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