The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-04
SPORT WHEEZES
Being PurIoined Dog Meat, Prune
Pies, Lemon Sandwiches, Etc.
(By Clug)

John Savage, Topeka's new baseball
magnate, has established temporary
can bank. Being a mere baseball
magnate is an ambition that a great
many people would like to realize, and
being a magnate with headquarters in
a bank seems to be about all that any
human being ought to desire.
A st. Joe paper published a rumor
the first of the week to the effect that
Johnny Killing of Kansas City, is finan-
cialIy interested with John Savage in
the Topeka baseball club. When ask
ed about this Mr.. Savage said: There
is nobody interested in the club with
me. Mr.. Killing is a personal friend of
mine, but he has no interest what
ever in the Topeka ball team
The Chicago Federal League club
This recalls the statement made a
year ago by the Fed mOgulS that ''all
players who cast their lot with us will
be taken care off,
Outfielder Tommy Leach, recently
released by the Cubs, recently signed a
one-year contract with Cincinnati. He
gets $4,000 and his contract does not
contain the ten-day clause Leach
Reds may use him on third base
Zip" George Washington label,
Cub pitcher and basketball idol of
Baldwin and Baker university, has
given up his pursuit of knowledge and
is on his way to Tampa. Florida, to
participate in the spring training
grind. label expects to return to
Baker university after the baseball
season closes and expects to get his
sheepskin next year. However, he
will not be allowed to participate in
athletic contests of the school in the
future, and this means that Coach
Gallagher will have to find a new ad-
vertising leader for his basketball
quintet next year. The many friends
Zip" has made among the students
and athletes of the Kansas colleges
wish him all kinds of luck and success
in his baseball efforts.
Another Kansas idea has been ap-
propriated in a sister state. Decatur,
Illinois. business men have opened a.
campaign to raise $4,000 to guaran-
tee free baseball to Decatur fans this
gates will be thrown open to the pub
lie at every game except those on
Decoration day, Labor day and the
Fourth of July. Decatur is in the
baseball is generally conceded to have
originated in Wichita, but so far the
originatOrs have not taken any def
mite steps towards putting it into oper-
alton.
No matter what may come after, st.
Joe is planning to make a flower Of
fering to her baseball team when it
opens the season on the home grounds.
The st. Joe Boosters club has decided
to arrange an automobile flower
parade to take place just before the
game and prizes will be given the
most beautifully decorated cars. This
may be a good idea, but the Topeka
club will not want its fans to get out
all of their bouquets on the opening
day. 1t will want them to wear pas
sion flowers and forget-me-nots until
the close of the season, and Owner
Savage hopes to have a team that will
encourage the displaying of these
varieties until the last ball is pitched
and the last bat swung.
Once in a while one still hears talk
of the world growing weaker and
wiser and of the degeneracy and de-
cay of American manhood. These
conditions may exist in some locaH-
ties, but not in New York. Last Sun
day a New York lad defeated his
father at trap shooting, and his father
boasts of being champion Also,
last week one Reggie NoelNneke, son
of AL Voellmeke, former seven mile
national walking champion, defeated
his father and all other entries in a
four and a half mile walking contest
at the Pastirne Athletic club. These
triumphs of the younger generation
don't jibe with the arguments of the
cdIdiIlIiS HOW1GIS dIIN iIlOic tIIdH OO6S
the fact that athletes in every line of
endeavor are continually breaking
and lowering worlds records.
Writing in the current issue of
Sporting News, Ban Johnson, presi-
dent of the American League who was
due to pass through some time today
on his return east from the Pacific
coast, expresses his optimism thusly:
Baseball the premier sport of the
American people, will come into its
own again in the season of 1915.
have arrived at this conclusion after
carefully considering the outlook from
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