The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-03
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The baseball game at League park
today starts at 8 o'clock and not at
/ $3.50 as was announced in the morning
! paper.
Bill Rapps has his pickering strings,
and now Bert Grover wants a new
mitten.
The jitneys did a good business at
the ball park Friday afternoon be-
cause the one-man street car only
came along every 40 minutes.
| F. G. Willard has the pictures of
most of the ball players in his win
der under the Art Loft. All of them
are in citizens clothes, and they are
a good looking bunch. Dashner says
they actually look like gentlemen.
| However, George Cochran is bit
worried because he thinks his hair
stands up too straight, and some of
his intimate friends are wondering
whether or not his wife has been pull
ing it to make it do so.
Both Owner Savage and Manager
Jackson seem to be feeling good over
the acquisition of Catcher Monroe and
was wired to both these men soon
as news of the decision had been re-
ceived.
st. Louis baseball writer's say it's
lucky for the Browns that Jimmy
Austin elected to return to the fold.
None of the third base recruits would
have been husky enough to plug up
hole at that section, according to
the scribes. Hickey thinks Eddie Fos-
ter is the only better third baseman
than Austin in the American League.
Jack Graney is responsible for the
following chestnut:
Two Irishmen arrived at the ball
park at the beginning of the eighth.
What's the score, Paddy, me
boy?' said Hennessy.
Nothing, nothing, jerry replied
Houlihan.
We'll, we haven't missed much re-
marked Hennessy as he took his seat"
Jack johnson is said to have very
small heart, and many of Wizards
friends think he would be a better
fighter if he was not so tender heart
! ed. Both men admit that they don't
| fight because they love it, but because
there is money in it. Willard says he
wants to win for the sake of his wife
and kids. Both men are claiming
sure victory, which leads one to i'm
/ agine that one of them might acct
dentally get disappointed.
| S-h-hi Here is a scandal. Two
members of the r. R. Y. M. c. A. are
betting on the Johnson-Willard fight.
! But to make the scandal less scandal
Gus, no money is being wagered. Geo.
Brosemer is betting on Willard and
Roy SanderSon on johnson. The loser
will pay the winner by riding him in a
wheelbarrow from the State Journal
office to the r. r. Y. M. c. A. build
2 FPI.z o.,
of the Journal office Tuesday evening
promptly at 6:45. The route will be
down Kansas avenue to Fourth ave-
nue., thence east on Fourth avenue to
fail to pay his bet, the Phi WIS will
thrown him in the "Y' pool with his
Easter clothes on.
Cy Forsythe is the champion excuse
manufacturer of the Jimmy Jackson
ball club. Thursday afternoon Cy was
late for practice, and when Jackson
wanted to know the whyfore, Cy said
he had number of important tele-
grams to send, and that this delayed
MIN: Friday morning Cy was iate
again Well. what about it this
morning." Jackson asked. well, it
was like this" Cy replied. Before l
went to bed last night, I rubbed my
self all over with chloroform liniment.
Then, when I got in bed it was so cold
I covered up my head without think
ing. You ought to be glad 1 amt
dead. Just think of me being under
the influence of chloroform and bed
clothes all night! If I had used a lit
tie more liniment 1 might not have
woke up at ALL
The Weeks Unimportant Events.
Jack Johnson expressed great con-
fidence in his ability to lick Jess Will
lard. Willard returned the compli-
ment
DR.. Ernest discovered that John
Savage can play bottle pool as well as
magnut a baseball club.
The eastern polo season opens in
New Jersey today.
Bob PEBBLES arrived in Topeka from
Texas winter quarters
Herman Olcott, Yale man. was
chosen to coach the X. Z. football
team next fall
George Moore of New York won the
worlds three cushion billiard cham
pionship by defeating Bill Huey so to
AZ in 81 innings.
Tom Powell fell in love with Con
Roche, the new Topeka shortstop,
when he learned that Con could play
soccer.
Leo Murphy and Bill Rapps spent
several evenings discussing farm
values and agricultural pursuits in
Missouri.
Play for City Championship.