The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

Probably Ex-Governor Tener, Jim
| Gilmore and Barney Dreyfuss would
be able to produce satisfactory results
for Ford's peace party.
Considering what these gentlemen
have done towards ending such a big
would probably be able to adjust the
little European difficulties in a jiffy.
According to Owner Savage, of the
local ball club. the schedule meeting
of the Western league will be held in
Lincoln, Neb., on February IA.
Several of the big club owners are
in favor of a longer schedule than was
played last season, but Savage him
self is not. Also, several magnates are
! opposed to any of the clubs playing
exhibition games this spring.
At the Coast meeting of the league
all the club owners expressed conf
| dence that cutting the player limit to
IA and slicing several hundred dol
lars from the monthly pay roll would
be great benefit to the league.
There is some talk of Washburn
college trying to arrange a football
game with the Missouri Tigers for next
season, the game to be played in To-
peka. 1t is understood that the Tigers
| take on the Ichabods.
Also, there are those who think it
would be quite an addition to the
Ichabod schedule if a game were
scheduled with Colorado university.
According to statistics, hunting was
the most deadly sport of the present
year. Comparative figures show that
So people were killed while hunting,
16 We're killed playing football and So
at baseball games.
The fact that baseball ran hunting
a close race is attributed to the
greater number of people that baseball
seasons are said to be about the same
length.
Preparations are being made in
Kansas City, Kan, to stage, on Deem
Der 90 an indoor horseshoe pitching
match for the championship of the
world. Jackson, the champion. will
meet Robert Pierce. the contending
ex-champion. Special clay beds are
being installed for the match.
The Wichita trap shooting club.
newly organized club, will hold its
first shoot December 21. Ten and fiji
teen bird events have been arranged,
and many Wichita sportsmen are re-
ported to be interested in the new
club.
There are only two sports on the
face of this fair, green earth, accord
ing to Johnny Evers, second baseman
extraordinary of Bean eating Boston.
These are baseball and golf Evers
declares that if more baseball pitch
ers would play more golf there would
be less trouble with glass arms and
the like.
Now that the articles have been
signed for the Willard-Fulton fight,
the public can prepare to hear lot
about Fulton that was never heard
before, and lot more about willard
that his press agents and the prize
ring writer himself have overlooked
And now that Jess is insured S32,500
to add to the $16s,000 he already has,
Mrs. Willard can be pretty certain
that Jess junior will be able to get a
good education.
With only nine school days interven-
ing before the opening of the basket |
ball season, Coach Hamilton, of K. u,
is facing the task of getting his men
into shape for the first game with
Ames. OF last years squad of twelve, |
Coach Hamilton has only three re- |
naming this season, but he reports
that he has fast. scrappy bunch of
youngsters who will probably prove |
surprise to many of their valley OPP
ponents. Stats Cole, Dutch" Apple /
and Speed" Heath are the three old
men who will likely land berths on
the quintet this season.
The annual meeting of the magnates |
of the Western association will be held
in McAleSter, Okla, next Sunday. |
President Hill, of the association,
states positively that he will not be
a candidate for reelection, and that
the club owners will have to choose
another man to be their goat and t
look out for the welfare of their cir
cult.
Willard Going to Chicago.
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 16-Jess
world heavyweight champion,
that he expects to leave
for Chicago inside the next week or
ten days and will spend Christmas in
that city. He will leave early in the
new year for New Orleans to start
training for his battle with Fred Full
ton.
Stecher Wins From MichelOff.