The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-26
SPORT WHEEZES
Being Purloined Deg Meat. Prune
Pics. Lemon Sandwiches. Etc.
(By Clug.)

The wichita baseball team is still
looking for a new name. The latest
suggestion that has been made is that
the club be called the Submarines
because it is always on the bottom.
Other clubs would never consent to
this name because a submarines
business is to send other ''flOaters'' to
the bottom as we'll as to stay there
itself, and the Western league would
be in a pretty bad fix If every club
were kept in the places Topeka and
Wichita have occupied for the past
few seasons.
The Hip theater announces through
GENIAL Jack" Wilson that pictures of
the worlds tour of the Giants and
White Sox will be shown on the 10,
10 and 20 of next month. Ted Sui
Ivan will accompany these pictures to
Topeka and will crate them at each
performance. Just whether the pic
lures will show the games played in
China and Japan, or the scenery on
the ocean passages is not known.
From Hutchinson comes story of
wrestling match, held in that city,
that was SO hot it set the mats on fire
and caused the fire department to be
called out. The wrestlers were Elmer
Guthrie, a local farmer, and A. w.
johnson of Burton. The farmer won
the match. Maybe after winning it.
he didn't know what to do with it and
IL, CneTeDy Causing In0 con-
Migration. This is pretty rotten
explanation. but it is more plausible
than the Hutchinson story's theory.
A wrestling match will be held in
Manhattan next Tuesday night be-
Jack Billings of PaOla. Ross wrestles
Jack Chance in Kensington this week.
The basketball team of the Kansas
h.
gies at Ames tonight and tomorrow
night, and next Monday and Tuesday
nights will play the Missouri Tigers
at Columbia. 1t is hoped the Aggies
will come out of the slump they have
been in for the past several weeks and
will give a better account Of them
selves than they did when they played
Washburn and st. Marys.
washburn college has just two more
basketball games to play this year,
one with st. Marys at st. Marys next
Thursday, and one with Ottawa uni
versity at Ottawa on March IL. This
years basketball season has been far
from a successful one for the Icha-
bods, both from a standpoint of games
won and financially. However, I'M
usual tough luck has camped on the
trail Of the team throughout the sea-
son. and the breaks Of the game have
seldom gone Washburn's way in spite
member of the team were on the job
all the time and did everything men
could do to build up a strong team.
Here is the philosophical way in
which an old alumnus views the poor
showing made:
"It was simply an off season. It
was not our year to win in basketball.
Everybody can't win all the time. No
school can make every athletic team
1t turns out a championship organiza-
tor Therefore, the sooner we can
forget this years basketball disasters
and turn our attention to other con-
tests to come, the better. What we
want above everything else is win
ming football team next fall, and I
to give US one"
When Salt Lake bought into the
Coast league it took every sport scribe
in the West about a tenth of a second
to adopt a nickname for the team.
You guess first, Gwendolyn.
Major league baseball moguls may
raise the price of seats to 81, it is
rumored. II they do we have a bunch
that tennis and golf will become even
more popular than was the case last
year. The interest in those sports was
undoubtedly one of the chief causes
Of the marked decrease in attendance
last year.
New York has not had a batting
leader in any league in twenty-four
years. 1t is indeed strange for a city
which has possessed so many high
class teams and players to leave this
honor slip past. The nearest approach
to a batting leader was in 1910, when
Otis Crandall had the highest per-
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