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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

ers, according to a statement made to-
day by Edward Barrow, president of
the International League.
Mr.. Barrow returned yesterday after
attending a peace conference at Gin
cinnati. Mr.. Barrow said the con-
tracts taken by Mr.. Sinclair did not
include, however, the players taken
over by the merger of the Chicago and
ST. Louis clubs.
The other clubs, as well as the Fed
eral League, have relinquished their
claims to Federal League players and
will put them entirely into Sinclair s
hands, Mr.. Barrow said.
He has assumed responsibility for
contracts and will endeavor to get as
much for the players as he cam
added Mr.. Barrow.
BarrOWs statement supplements
Sinclair'S announcement at st. Louis
yesterday that he had the disposition
of the Kansas City, Buffalo and New
ark Federal League players. 1t APP
parently explains how Sinclair came to
possess the contracts of Benny Kauff,
Lee Magee and George Anderson of
the Brooklyn Federals
Sinclair will give the Cubs and St
Louis Browns first chance for the
Federal League stars and after these
clubs take what they want it will be
up to the other clubs to bid for what
ever players they care to take. The
way L see 1t, both the Browns and
Cubs will have first chance to get
Benny Kauff and Lee Magee if these
clubs care to take over the contracts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
MEAL WAS EXPENSIVE
Topeka Man Pays $1.75 for Dinner
of Mothers Cooking Which He
Received by Mail.

Apparently a lot of people don't
know it, but it is a fact that no notes
or letters are permitted in parcel post
packages. And it is a further fact
that if note or letter is discovered in
such a package the sender or the re-
cipient must pay first class postage on
the package.
The other day mother out in Kan
sas thought of her boy here in Topeka
taking pot luck at restaurants and no.
tells and as she looked over the table
of good things at the parental home
she determined to give him one meal
of mothers cooking She fixed up
nice box of choice viands and when
she had completed the package she
wrote letter to her boy and placed it
in the box. Something happened dur
ing the passage of the box through
the mail and it came open. The letter
was displayed and the postoffice peo-
pie were forced to change the rate
from parcel post to first class. The
result was that when the package
reached the lonely son here in Topeka
he had to dig down in his pockets for
$1.75 for extra postage. He got moth
er's cooking all right but he could
have made a trip home for a little
more money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

my estimation and he will not go for
that figure.
These two offers are in answer to
the published report that the Ma
tional League managers have agreed
not to take any Federal League play
ers."
Mr.. Sinclair declined to go into de-
tail as to how he acquired Kauff, Ma
ed to have the Kansas City, Newark
and Buffalo players on his hands. He
denied, however. that he was the
liquidating agent of the Federal
League.
Sinclair departed Thursday night
for Tulsa and said he would return to
Nv York after the holidays to wind
up other matters involved in the peace
agreement signed at Cincinnati yester-
day.
He Quits Game.
when all the provisions of the
peace agreement are carried out" Sim
clair said, "I shall have retired from
business so far as having any finan-
cial interest in a club is concerned.
have been in the game one year and
have been considered the money bag
of the Federal league, but let me tell
you the money I lost in the venture is
hardly worth mentioning. To place
the Federal league losses in the mil
baseball because there does not seem
to be d place in it for me and 1 don't
want to break down any DOORS
81 am leaving baseball" he contin-
ued with the impression that organ
lied baseball has been much fairer to
the players than the public believes,
and I think that in the future the lot
of the player will be better than it
was before the coming Of the Federal
league"
Sinclair said the deal whereby the
st. Louis Americans will go to Phil
Ball and Otto F. Stife1, owners of the
local Federals, has been closed.
After the departure of Sinclair, a
report published here said he was ne
gotiating for the purchase of the New
York Nationals and that he would
carry Magee and other Federal stars
to the Giants should the deal go
tbrouOh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
l@A o. Up to the Minute "a
|XNA SPORTINGNEwS6 X@H
lL00O BY"clUon \
STARS TO LEAD KANSAS
FOOTBALL TEAMS IN '16

Captain for most of 1916 foot
ball elevens in Kansas have been
chosen. The list includes a number
of the states leading gridiron lights
during the season just closed.
among them are: Adrian Lindsey,
University of Kansas; Bert Barnes,
Kansas state Agricultural college;
Sam Stewart, WaShburn; Charles
williams, Haskell; Wezzy Wallace,
College of Emporia; William Mony-
penny. Emporia State Normal
school; Arthur Olson, Bethany;
Christ OFT, Ottawa: E. H. Cum
mings, Hays Normal; John Ed
wards, Cooper; John Couradt, st.
Marys; Rex Stevens, Kansas Yves
leyan; and Carl c. Cockrell, Pitts
burg Normal school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
men GET VOTING RIGHT
Restored to Franchise After Five
Year Period Expires.

Columbus. o., Dec, 24-Through
lapse of five years, the term for which
they were disfranchised, the right of
suffrage has been automatically re-
stored during this month to about
1900 male residents of Adams county
Ohio, according to calculations by
state officials.
The development that elections in
Adams county for years had been cor
rupt came in 1910 when wholesale in
dictments were returned in the COM
mon pleas court presided over by
Judge A. 2. Blair al West Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
TWOSAvACESW WE'D
''Nick" Lakaff and Glen Trainer
Join Matrimonial League.
Members of Topeka Team Scat
tered All Over Country.

At least one member of the Topeka
club Of the Western league will re-
member this Christmas as an import
ant milestone of his life. The person
in question is Pitcher Nick Lakaff,
and the reason he will remember this
yule tide season over all others was
diVulged this week by an announce
ment received by his Topeka friends
announcing that he had signed a life
time contract in the matrim onial
league. Nick took the fatal plunge
in Middletown, O., where he is spend
the other party to the contract is one
of Ohio's most beautiful, bucksome
Buckeye lassies.
Lakaff is the second mem ber of the
Savages to become a benedict since
the close of the 1915 season. Glen
Trainer was married at Trenton, Mo-,
shortly after the close of the season.
Where They Are.
Owner Savage when asked this
morning if he knew where and how
his players would spend their Christ
mas said that he knew where most of
them were, but that he was not in
close enough touch with them to know
what they expect Santa Claus to bring
them. l-ef
Lakaff is supposed to be in Middle
town, O., now, but what he is doing
besides acting the part of a groom has
probably become old stuff with him
by now.
Bill Rapps is on his farm near Pap
pinsville, Mo, and will probably spend
his Xmas playing the part of Santa
Claus for the neighborhood. As a
Kris Kringle he should be a great
clown.
Two Are Here.
Bugs Grover and Animal Dash
ner will probably remain in Topeka
throughout the holidays. Squire Hug
gins is now on a farm near Waka-
rusa, but will probably come in to see
the bright lights before the end of
the week.
OF the other players little is known
except their postoffice addresses. Bill
Fisher is in Hartford City, Ind; "Izzy''
Pitcher Carroll is in Atwood, Ill; Roy
Sanders is in Pittsburg, Kan, and Vim
cent Tydeman is alternating in Cam
den, N. j.
Pitcher Hall is supposed to be play
ing ball at Phoenix. Ariz., and ex-
Manager Jimmy Jackson is said to be
working "a hours a day and part of
kind of a ball club to represent Wichi-
ia next season.
The New Members.
Of the new players who will be
here next spring, Catcher Snow is in
Detroit, the home of Fords peace
dove; Catcher Weising is in Kansas
City working for the National Biscuit
company; Shortstop Finnigan is clerk
ing in a hotel at Ashville, n. c.; Out
of a butcher in Los Angeles and Out
fielder Henson is playing ball at San
Bernardino.
Owner Savage will spend his Christ
mas here and wants the best manager
in the world left in his sack. i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

the Federal from the National,
also will be included in the staff,
il was said here today.
Cincinnati. Ohio, Dec. 24.-The
Chicago Nationals and the St. Louis
Americans are exempt until the year
1917 from that provision under which
organized baseball now is working,
limiting the number of players of each
team on May 20. of each year.
This is part of the baseball peace
agreement signed here, according to
August Hermann, chairman of the
national commission. Mr.. Hermann
made this announcement Thursday
night when told that Harry Sinclair,
one OF the Federal league peace con-
ferees. had stated that there would be
no players limit in baseball next year.
In the National league, the number of
players limited to a team is 81, while
in the American league the limit is
fixed at %.
Have so Players.
Owing to the combination and
amalgamation of two clubs in the
Federal league to a club in the Amer
lean and one in the National league,
we consider it unjust to ask these
clubs to dispose of what would natur-
ally be considered n large number of
Players said Mr. Hermann Il
cannot say accurately Mr.. Hermann
added. but l estimate that with the
Chicago Cubs absorbing the chicago
FederalS ana the Louis BTOWnS
taking in the St Louis Federals. each
of these clubs will have close to fifty
players at the present time.
1T would be unjust to ask them to
dispose of such a large number as
would be necessary in order to cut
down to the limit under which ORGAN
ICED baseball is now working. Then
we gave them until 1917 to dispose of
the surplus players. The other four
teen teams of the major leagues will
go along in the same manner and
observe the limit
Sinclair Holds Players.
St Louis. Mo, Dec 24--''I have the
disposition of the Kansas City. Buff
faIo and Newark Federal League play
ers and I hold the contracts of Benny
Kauff. Lee Magee. and George Ander-
son all of the Brooklyn Federals.'
This statement by Harry F. Sinclair,
oil magnate of Tulsa. Okla, and re-
firing baseball promoter, was the
principal local development in the
baseball situation here.
You can say he added, that the
owners of the Cincinnati Nationals
have offered me $4,000 for Pitcher
Moseley, of Newark. and that the
owner of another National League
club offered me $4,000 for Magee.
Moseley will go to Cincinnati as soon
as 1 get the $4,000. Magee. however,
is worth much more than $4,000 in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
Sentence Commuted.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 24.-The SEN
fences of Christian Paul Bertsche and
Charles p. Crane, alias James Ryan,
whose testimony resulted in the con-
viction of the Chicago police grafters
were commuted today by Governor
Dunno acting on the recommendation
of the state board of pardons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
Has Ball Club For Sale.

Tulsa, Ok, Dec. 24.-R. M. Purpus,
owner of the Texas franchise in the
Western association, is anxious to dis
pose of the team and it will either be
taken over by Harry F. Sinclair or by
a local company. Purpus is now re-
siding in San Diego, Cal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

intercollegiate sport at Brown univer-
sity is now being considered after sew
eral years under an "out in the cold
policy" Brown will probably not have
a team this winter, but it is expected
that the ban will be lifted before an
other season rolls around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

Other schools, as big and as promi-
nent as Wisconsin,, have tried to start
movements along this line. But after
a few years. during which time most
of the public forgot that they were
big, prominent schools, they have
climbed on the band wagon again. A
big eastern and a big western uni
versity are examples within the past
year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

But the blokes who swelter in the
hot sun on the Fourth of July in
doubleheaders, the lads in the trenches
who made baseball and who gouged
bigger salaries from the magnates and
got long term contracts are undoubt-
eddy ahead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
SINCLAIR SALES AGENT.
He Will Dispose of All Fed Player:
Under Binding Contracts

New York, Dec. 24.-Harry F. Sin
clair, of Oklahoma, owner of the
Newark Federal League club, has
taken the contracts of all Federal
League players which are absolutely
binding and will dispose of the play
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

Here in Kansas Bethany college, at
Lindsborg, is the most recent exam
pie. After the passing of the Terrible
Swede" elevens, the Bethany authori-
ties thought for a few years that they
could get along just as well without
football. But last season found Beth
any back with a team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

At Wisconsin it is said that inf1u-
entail faculty members consider foot
ball conditions so bad that the only
remedy is to eliminate football as a
college sport. A we'll defined effort
on the part of authorities to choke off
competition between the Big Nine col
leges, and to inject ''intramural' or
home sports in their place is said to
be on foot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
VIII Nose Out Chicago.

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 24.-E. o.
Stiehn1, who, next year, is to pilot the
Hoosier team, said Indiana had not
arranged a game for October with
Harvard but that tentative arrange
ments had been made for a game with
Chicago on October IA. In case Har-
ward is taken up, he thought it would
mean the cancellation of the Chicago
contest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

o. B. can hardly claim a victory
because the o. B. magnates were
forced to allow the richest of the Fed
hackers to buy in and to grant i'm
munity to all Fed players.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
sTIEHM TO BUCK HARVARD?
Crimsons Have Offered Indiana Place
on Their 1916 Football Schedule.

Cambridge. Mass. Dec. 24.-It was
stated here Thursday that Indiana
university will be asked to take one
of the two vacant places en- the Har-
ward football schedule for 1916. The
dates not yet filled include October
I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

1t was one of the few wars in hi:
tory where the men who financed an
generated it lost and the men VIII
made war possible won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

And now that it is all over, there
will be something like 200 major
league CD players who cannot be
used by the American and Nationa
league clubs. For some of them
peace undoubtedly means a return te
the bushes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

I The Feds could hardly be called vic.
tors because they were forced to aban
don the dream of the originator
which was to see a third major league
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

By taking a stand against public
opinion, faculties of the Big Nine
seem to have found a new way to get
into the limelight. Putting the ban
on baseball brought them a great lit
tie batch of publicity and now op-
position to football is beginning to be
worked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

The war is over and everybody is
asking who the victors are. Probably
some of the players could tell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

Despite the fact that he has had
other offers, it seems certain that
'BilI'' Hargiss will remain the direc
tor of athletics at the Emporia Nor
NAL school next year. And also, he
probably will remain the STUN bling
block to Dust the championship as
pirations of several conference teams.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

Spencer Arthur Abbott might be
added to those who would probably
accept the management of the Topeka
Savages next season. But all appE-
cants should remember that Roger
Bresnahan will probably be looking
for a place lower down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

Charlie White announces that he is
through chasing F. Welsh for cham
pionship bout. But. to say the least
every chase has been good advertis-
ing for Charlie, even if it hasn't
brought in anything else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

| If you saw the last game of the sea-
son at Western league park Labor
day, there is no need to tell you what
an ideal Santa Claus Bill Rapps will
make for the little Missourians around
in his neiehborhood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
Sport Wheezes
BY CLUG-


There is a baseball league 1 know
They play in winter time
major league to it is slow,
1t doesn't cost a dime.
Some pitchers here each team has got
Who throw the ball so fast
1t looks just like a BIB shot
As it goes tipping past.
Each one has got most everything,
They break 'em down or up,
Their curve ball makes a perfect ring
At control, they're a pup.
At bat not one of them fans out
They always make a hit
Or bust the fence with it.
At stealing, Boy, they take the cake;
Light footed as a dove,
If the catcher didn't keep awake
They'd surely steal his glove.
They never make an overthrow,
They never drop a fly;
When eer umpire calls 'em low
They always black his eye.
They field and hit a thousand each,
They steal a thousand bags;
At throwing, each one is a peach,
They win all pennant rags.
And then the man turns out the lights,
And they can't see the balls
It's the Radiator League at nights
In public billiard halls.
BY Roy Allen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

''Bill'' wants that championship next
season worse than he ever wanted it
before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
NO PLAYER Limit
Major League Clubs May Carry
Fifty Men on Roster.
Sinclair Says He Will Retire
From National Sport.

Chicago. Dec. 24.-"HanII''
O'Day. veteran umpire and for
mer manager of the Chicago and
Cincinnati National league clubs.
Will return TO the National
league as an umpire next season.
William Brennan. who went to
the Federal from the National,
also will be included in the staff,
IL was said here today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24

The resumption of basketball as an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-24
Drawn for the Topeka State Journa.

Copyright. 1915, by H. C. Fisher
Trade Mark Reg u S. Pat. Off
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-01-16
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

The present war will have serious
effect on more than ten million white
and Negro farmers who grow cotton
In the South, according to a statement
made by DR.. Booker r. Washington.
the noted Negro educator. when seen
at the capital on his arrival from
Tuskegee, Ala. Doctor Washington
said the depressed price of cotton
would hamper the farmers in paying
their debts, purchasing foods and 9TH
er necessities and the raising of the
next crop. He was much pleased, he
said, with the remarks of President
Wilson in outlining his attitude toward
the Negro when he told the University
Commission on Southern Race Ques-
tions that "our object is to know the
needs Of the Negro and sympathetic
ally help him in every way that is pos
sible for his good and our good"
Every thoughtful man North and
South he went on, will agree with
the president. ! think his statement
represents growing liberal sentiment
on the part of an increasingly large
group of Southern white people,
In regard to his suggestion made re-
Gently that each Negro family raise
one or mere additional pigs this year,
to help bring about more prosperity In
the South, Doctor Washington said:
Il have been surprised to note how
we'll this suggestion has been received
and how many are following 1t. One
church pastor in Unlontown, Ala.
went so far as to organize a pig club
among the members OF his congrega-
ton.
Now / want to make one other sug-
geetion that in my opinion Is of still
greater and more practical Importance.
For months the great cry all through
the South has been to stop the grow
ing of cotton or to reduce the acreage.
Chambers of commerce. business
leagues, state legislatures and other
bodies have adopted resolutions with
out end urging that we In the South
stop growing so much cotton. To stop
growing cotton is very easy; in fact
Il is always easy to stop work. But
merely to stop growing cotton is
mere negative proposition and will not.
fear, leave the South much better off
than at present. II we destroy or Grip
pie a great industry we should be very
sure to have one or number equally
good to put in It's place"
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-01-16
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Glrlsl Try This! Makes Hair Thick,
Glossy, Fluffy, Beautiful-No
More Itching Scalp.

Within ten minutes after en- appli-
cation of Danderine you cannot find a
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after =
few weeks use. when you see new
hair, fine and downy at first-yes-but
really new hair-growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately dou-
bIes the beauty OF your hair. No diff
ference how dull. faded, brittle and
scraggy. just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw 1t
through your hair. taking one small
strand at a time. The effect is amaz-
ing-your hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy. and have an appearance Of
abundance; an Incompatible luster,
softness and luxuriance.
Get 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and prove
that your hair is as pretty and soft
as any-that 1t has been neglected or
injured by careless treatment-that's
all-you surely can have beautiful hair
and lots Of 1t II you will Just try lit.
tie Danderine. Adv.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-01-16
"CASCARETS" FOR
SLUGGISH BOWELS
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biIiousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 1O.cent box now.

pNl a AN-NNhS IVA hCFs
Turn the rascals out-the headache,
biliousness, indigestion. the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn them
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions Of men and women take q
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom-
ach.
Don't put in another day Of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison In the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret tonight straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10.cent box from
any drug store means a clear head.
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chill
dren love Cascarets because they
never grippe or sicken. Adv.
The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-01-16
important 20 Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that II