The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-27
SPORT wHEEZES.
Being PurlOined Dog Meat
Prune Pies. Lemon Sand
witches. Etc.
(By Clug.)

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CBy Clug.)
Society women in Chicago are taking
boxing lessons. "A saloon for the excins-
! i've use Of women has been opened IN
| New York. A female recently presided
over the legislature OF a western state
and made the male members address her
| as Madame President.
| 1t seems that this 8 the age OF the shero
| But where is the women checker shark
and the champion lady wrestler? surely
be overlooked by the progressive rags and
bones and damsels fair.
| A well meaning baseball fan wrote to
Grantland Rice suggesting that it was
all right for a club to sell a player to
another club. but that the player ought
to get half Of the purchase price, Rice
replied But what would man do with
half a dog?"
Topeka may be a baseball tail-ender.
She may have remained in the subterranean
sawdust long that she will never see
daylight again. But. in Phil koerner and
Jack Reisigl she has given two Pacific
Coast clubs players who ought to earn
doubt but that Reisigl was as good
pitcher as the Western League boosted
last season. and there are many local
worth watching.
Dates set for the chief athletic events
at the Panama-Pacific carnival at San
Francisco this year follow: Basketball,
February %: wrestling, April 16 and u;
swimming and water polo. July to "A;
decathlon. August and s; junior track
and field contests, August Z; relay racing.
August and 10; ten-miie run. August II;
seven-mile walk. August II.
Manager McGraw of the Giants has left
New York for Cuba. accompanied by
Mathewson and Hans Lobert. The Giants
manager will have conference with
Marsans, the Cuban outfielder who was
enjoined from playing with the st. Louis
Feds last season. McGraw will make
Marsans a proposition, and II he shows
baseball a deal will be made with the
Cincinnati club for his services.
Fight fans who may be lured into Mex
leo to see the gigantic Jack johnson bat
tie with the herculean Jess Willard will
be relieved to know that an insurance
company is prepared to issue a policy
covering the risk of stopping few hours
in the turbulent republic. The firm issued
notice of it's plan to insure spectators fol-
lowing a report by the state department
that Americans who go to Mexico do SO
a their own risk.
President Gilmore Of the Feds tells an
interesting story of the efforts made by
President Charles Weeghman Of the
Chifeds few days ago to sign Herman
Schaefer, the former comedian utility man
Of the Washington Nationals. who re-
Gently drew his release from Manager
Griffith.
Schaefer called on weeghman and when
asked how much he wanted said:
"A two.year contract, calling for 5000
q season"
why. that's a lot of money. You
are getting old and going back" Weegh-
man told the comedian.
I'll admit that, Charlie, but you know
I'm awfully funny"
Baseball is the football Of Japan.
Wrestling is the Japanese football. This
to each other in Japan, said Kiyo Sue
Inui, general secretary Of the japanese
association in Detroit recently. Like foot
ball in America, baseball Is the college
game of the Japanese and is to q certain
extent making its way among the school
boys. But people in general, outside OF
the colleges, still cling to wrestling, the
only native japanese sport.
Charles H. Ebbets, the famous holiday
maker of the Brooklyn Nationals, who
startled fandom not SO long ago by deciar-
ing that baseball was still in its infancy.
WILL 1t Is said, shock the followers OF the
national pastime again by sending his
Newark Indians north to train. The train
ing camp selected, according to all re-
ports, is Bill Browns Physical Training
farm at Garrison-on-the Hudson While
no official announcement to this effect has
been made by the Brooklyn magnate, IT
is asserted that the papers will be duly
signed after some minor financial matters
connected with the trip have been ar
ranged. The intention OF Harry Smith,
manager of the Indians, and President
Ebbets is to give the team three weeks of
the Brown treatment.
New York, Jan. 27-womens attendance
at the boxing bouts is gaining in populari-
ty here. Two young women attended the
boxing show at the Broadway Sporting
club in Brooklyn, which was designated
as the ladies matinee boxing show.
Inasmuch as only one woman sat In with
several hundred bowling men at the mat
inee last. week it may even be said that
| the innovation is doubling in popularity.
BEECHER FAILED TO LAND.
Charley Whites Substitute No Match
for the English Champion.
New York, Jan. 27-Freddie
Welsh of England, worlds lightweight
champion, outpoin-ed Willie Beecher
of this city in eight rounds of a ten
round bout at Madison Square Garden
Tuesday night. Beecher was called
on to substitute for Charley White of
Chicago, who was taken ill on Sun
day.
| Beecher employed boring-in tactics
during the first five rounds, hard left
hook to the jaw in the second and con-
tinual smuggling which forced Welsh to
hold in the fourth, earning the local
man these two rounds. At other times
the champion displayed superior gen.
eralship and repeatedly sent blows to
Beecher's head.
Welsh weighed 1861 and Beecher
lao pounds.
HAS A NEW MANAGER.
Willie Richie Gets an OsteOpath to
Handle His Ring Business.
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