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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
TINKER TO COLUMBUS?
Report Is That Cub Pilot VIII Manage
American Association Club.

Chicago, Dec. 16.-Rumors that Joe
Tinker would be manager of the CO.
lumbus American association club
next season went the rounds of fans
here today.
1t has been generally understood
that Tinker would get back into con-
dition and play short stop for the
Cubs following his replacement as
manager by Fred Mitchell. But today
reports were that the Cub stockhold-
ers were going to take over the Co
lumbus association club and use it as
a farm for Chicago players, placing
Tinker at the helm.
Until recently, Columbus was one of
the best money makers in the Amer
lean association and with Tinker at
the head and the surplus talent of the
Cubs at their disposal, the club should
be a winner financially and in the
percentage column, fans believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
CAN'T CAN SCOUTS
Big League Clubs Have to Have
the Bush Beaters.
N, l.. Clubs Find Ivory Hunters
Essential to Success.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, Dec. 16.-The baseball
scout is a mighty important individ-
ual Don't let 'em tell you different
Time was, and only about two years
ago at that. when some of our very
best baseball magnates figured out
plan whereby they could dispense
with the services of the ivory hunters
Most of them thought that by ar
ranging with managers in the minor
leagues they would be able to get the
same brand of dope on minor league
players that the scouts were furnlsn-
ing Hence, they got busy appoint
ing representatives in different sec
lions of the country to look over the
rockies and make reports.
An n. l.. Boner.
Now it happened that a majority
of the "magnuts'' who lit upon this
line of reasoning were the owners of
National league franchises. the
American leaguers were more friend
ly to the system of employing scouts,
and as a result majority OF the
youngsters, who came to the big
show and made good came TO Amer
lean league clubs.
After trying out the personal rep
resentative system" many of the base
ball men have come to the conclusion
that the best way to get real nne
on minor league talent is thru the
medium of the scout, and majority,
at least, of those magnates who want
| ed to get away from the obligation OF
| carrying two or more scouts on the
payroll are expected to return to II
next spring.
Dick Kinsella, veteran scout of the
New York Giants. is going to be a
more important sleuth on the Giant
payroll next year than he has been
| for several years PAST, and Dick may
have one or two assistants.
McGraw Converted.
For time Manager McGraw
thought he could comb the bushes.
| without Kinsella's aid, thru tips re-
ceived from his many friends in base
ball But McGraw has changed his
mind, it is said, and hereafter he will
place his faith in the gumshoe boys.
Club owners in the National league
have been doing some consistent
thinking since the 1915 worlds series.
| The ease with which the Red Sox put
| the crusher on the Brooklyn Dodgers
has acted as burr under the saddle,
| and the owners in the older league are
making plans to strengthen their
teams and thereby put greater
punch into the playing of the league
as a whole.
1t has been said for several years
that the American is the faster league
of the two, and the club ownars in
| Governor Tener's circuit are tired OF
hearing it.
Need Young Blood.
Young blood-more of it than the
National league has the title to al
! presents needed to reJuvenate the
class of ball in that circuit. and il
means that if the club owners are go
ing out after it they will need the as
sistance of the best sleuthing persons
they can hire.
President Ebbets, of the Dodgers
will have four or five scouts looking
over the ivory fields next summer, and
| President Weeghman and Manager
Tinker, of the Cubs, have made i
known that no rock will be left un
turned to put the Cubs in the comint
pennant race. Other National lacquer
feel the same way about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

Rice was awarded the all-Kansas
center honor by many critics in 1915,
but had to remain out of school this
year. However, he will be certain to
be back next fall, Dehn was kept out
OF school this season by typhoid fever
and Pierson has been teaching at Hol-
ton Both of these men have stated
positively that they will return to
school Janney and He'll are rather
uncertain, but it is known they are
anxious to finish their work at the
Ichabod school.
Among the more promising men
from the freshman ranks of this year
who are looked upon as strong con-
tenders for places on the first squad
are both 1inemen and backfielders
who showed the football instinct to
marked degree this year. The line
men include Singer. kirkpatrick,
Meyer, Hutchinson, Bulge, Anderson,
Pettus, Zook and Askew. The back
fielders are: Willets, McCord, L. An
derson, Dashner, Martin, CASTOR,
Jones and Ralph Wilson. Coach
Kennedy says it is not time to brag
about prospects, but that he is look
ing for a great many more victories
than were won this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
Is GAMES FOR c. OF e.
The Emporia Presbytcrians Have a
Heavy Basketball Schedule.

Emporiaa Kan, Dec. 16.-Coach
Oliver Saunders, of the College of En-
poria, has. announced the basketball
schedule for the coming season. The
schedule calls for the full fifteen
games as follows:
January 11-Ottawa at Ottawa.
January 12-Baker at Baldwin.
January 16-Southwestern at EN-
poria.
January 1S-Friends at Emporia.
January 23-Hays Normal at En-
poria.
February S-Ottawa, at Emporia
February 13-Fairmount at En-
poria.
February 16-Normals at Emporia.
February 26-Baker at Emporia.
March 1-Washburn at Emporia.
March 5--Normals at Emporia
March 7-Southwestern at Winfield.
March S-Fairmount at Wichita.
March 9-Friends al Wichita.
March 10-Cooper at Sterling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
TO BE BIC SHOOT
Topeka Gun Club Will Have
Turkeys for All Tuesday.
Noted Professionals Here for
Xmas Powder Burning.

With a number of out-of-town pro-
fessionals here and practically every
local sportsman who ever looked down
the barrels of a gun planning to par
ticipate, the Topeka Gun club plans
to stage the biggest live turkey shoot
ever held in Kansas at it's grounds in
Highland Park next Tuesday after
noon. Everybody who wants Christ
mas meat of the Meleagis Gallopavo
variety is invited to attend and the
shooting will be open to all. Shells
will be furnished on the grounds and
even those who do not have guns will
be provided with them.
AS in the Thanksgiving shoot, those
participating will be divided into three
classes according to their ability, the
best shooters being put into class A,
the next best into class B and the anna
tours into class c. The classes will
be divided into squads of five and the
high man in each squad will be award
ed a turkey.
Winners to be Handicapped. q
All shooters will start on an equal
basis as regards distance, shooting
from the 16-yard line. But every
time a man wins a bird he will be re-
quired to drop back four yards until
the limit is reached. This regulation
will be enforced so that one man will
find it a hard matter to get several
turkeys.
An added attraction for those who
attend will be special match between
Phil Miller, champion trap shooter of
the United States and the younge st
professional in the game and Joe
Bachelor, the Oldest professional in
this part of the country. Dell Gross,
Harry Kirby and other noted profess
slonals, representing powder concerns,
also are expected to attend the shoot.
Women Invited, Too.
In case the day is of the winter
variety the club will be prepared to
keep the visitors warm in the club
house. Those who attend are urged
to invite their wives, daughters and
sweethearts to accompany them and
are assured that they will be taken
care of Many state house officials
nave signified their intention of get
| ing up to the feather counter, it is
said, and Daddy" Taylor one of the
members of the club, asserts that in
quiries about the big affair have been
received from all parts of the state.
7 The shooting will begin promptly at
O'Clock and will be continued until
all who wish to do so have tried for a
| Dlrd. Those who desire to get to the
| grounds on street car should take
1 the Highland Park car and get off at
the end of the line. Then, after walk
| ing two blocks south, they will be al
the club grounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
OLD ICHABOD FOOTBALL STARS TO
Be BACK IN SCHOOL next SEASON
Jimmy Jackson Sends Xmas Greetings to Topeka Friends
Wichita Wants Old W. L. Place.

Regardless the kind of schedule that be arranged the
football that Washburn college and Dr. Kennedy will Of
better than that of the
if plans materaze and the material that
peced up the that all of the old
cep Stewart Champeny McCosh and possibly Covn will be
list of promising freshmen recruits and
football will likely be back to finish their college
and play out their allotted time the grdiron Among
these latter men who expected Rice Shorty
Dehn. Person. Janney and Cot Hell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

It will take a good man to run the
Aggie ends with that combination
1.-The Aggie men are thoroly familiar
with the present coaching system and
with one years experience there
should be no stopping the team next
fall" said Coach Clevenger.
Since Kansas has demonstrated the
fact that Nebraska can be humbled,
four Missouri Valley conference teams
Missouri, Kansas. Ames and the
Kansas Aggies-will fight for cham
pionship honors next year. Kansas
will have team composed mostly of
old players. Missouri will lose five of
her letter men, whose positions will
be hard to fill. Ames as usual will
put a strong eleven in the field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
is FOOTBALL POPULAR?-
WELL, JUST LOOK At This!

1t is a striking testimonial to the
popularity of football that virtually
every stadium in the country has
proven too small for it's original
purpose. Pennsylvania, the first
university to build such a stadium,
outgrew it's field years ago. Then
the Harvard stadium, with seat
ing capacity of 10000, has annually
been too small to seat the crowd for
the Yale game, and it has been nee
essary to construct temporary
stands every time Yale plays in
Cambridge. Finally the Yale bowl,
with seating capacity of $4,000,
was filled to overlooking the very
first year, and this fall temporary
seats had to be built which increas-
ed the seating capacity to $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
ARCHER is HAYS CAPTAIN.
Coach Speer's Men Elect Center as
Leader for 1917 Season.

Hays, Kan. Dec. 17-Ralph Arch
er of Great Bend, who will be a senior
next year, has been elected unani-
mously captain of the Fort Hays Nor
NAL Tigers for 1917. Archer plays
center and has played every minute
of every game the normal has played
for the last two seasons
The men who We're awarded ks
at the annual banquet were: Captain
E. H. Cummings, Ralph Archer, Rex
Welty. Emerson Felts, Ben williams,
Guy o. Ordway, Lynn Ordway w 3.
Compton, Ernest Mock, Raymond
Custer. Jesse Gatewood, Elmer
Dougherty, Robert Bruner, Albert
Khrut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
The Aggies Haze High Hopes
OF M. V. Championship In 1917
Cleyenger, Schultz & Co. Will
Lose Only -Four of Their
fA Veteran Players.

Manhattan, Kan, Dec. 16.-With
only four old men completing their
college work this year-ex-Captain
Barnes, Bayer. Wright and Skinner
and with an abundance of star fresh
men and second string material on
hand. the Kansas Aggie football
coaches have high hopes of a Missouri
Valley championship next season. and
are displaying much optimism over
the outlook.
Prospects couldn't be better for
next season." Head Coach z. G. Clev-
enger stated when asked for his opin-
ion. And Germany Schultz added
to this in his brief, Teutonic way, by
answering, Fine
The backfield will be made up al
most entirely of veterans. Hustled.
Wells and Clark probably will fill
their old positions at half. full and
quarter. L. Ptacek, this years sub
stitute halfback, and Yeoman and
Miller of the freshman squad will
compete for the other halfback posi-
ton filled by Captain Garnes this
season.
New Men in Line
The strong line of this season will
, be weakened materially by the loss of
Bayer, guard; Wright. center, and
Skinner, end, all of whom were men
toned for positions on the all-valley
team this year. But with such fresh
men as Gates, Fletcher, Hedrick and
Dale to take the places of these men
their loss will not AIKEN the team to
any great extent.
other men, like Enlcw, Gingery,
Frankenhoff and Guilfoyle, will
strengthen the team. Hamil an end
on the 1915 freshman squad, may fill
SINNERS shoes, as he is expected to
re-enter school next fall. He is ex-
pected to make a good running mate
for Stiff Randels. new captain and
the best end in the Missouri valley
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
IS BOXING A DEGRADING :
EXERCISE FOR H. S. BOYS?

Chicago, Dec. les boxing
degrading exercise for high school
boys? That question threatens to
cause trouble between John d.
Shoop, superintendent of schools,
who opposes boxing, and Principal
Hiram B. Loomis, of Hyde Park
school, who has sanctioned exhibi-
tions in the school gymnasium.
Shoop demanded a report from
the principal, saying he did not
favor recreation which did not
build character.
I'VE need to restrain boys along
pugilistic lines ratk,r than encour-
age them. 1t is degrading and not
uplifting" Shoop said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
1916 A LEAN YEAR FOR
THE BIG LEAGUE SCOUTS

The baseball scouts of the big
league clubs, who have completed
Their annual reports for the year,
are almost unanimous in declaring
that the general run of material in
the bush leagues last season was
below the caliber of previous years
and that few players were uncover
ed who showed promise of making
good in the major leagues without
a long drawn out polishing process
by working up thru the various
minor leagues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

When it is painful to breathe and fever
sends chills up and down your back. you
in for a cold. A timely dose Of Dr.
Bells Pine Tar Honey will stop the
sneezes and sniffles. The pine balsn.
looseus the phlegm and clears the bron-
chial tubes, the honey soothes and re-
lieves the sore throat. The antfseptfc
qualities kill the germ and the cougestetf
condition is relieved. Group, whoopinG
cough and chronic bronchial affections
quickly relieved. At all Druggists. &c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
HIS LUNGS ARE O. X.
Moneypeny of Emporia NormaIs Has
$40 Cubic Inch Air Capacity

Emporia, Kan, Dec. 16.-With q
lung capacity of $40 cubic inches. Bill
Monypeny. all Kansas tackle, made a
new record on the Kansas normals
lung testing machine.
The former record was 365 cubic
inches and was held by Weaver John
son, a sophomore Before starting
training for football last fall. Mony--
peny's best record was 365 cubic
inches, equaling that of johnson. In
a physical examination given him last
Wednesday by member of the physi-
cal training department, Bill blew the
indicator to $40 on his third trial.
This is at least 100 cubic inches better
than the capacity of the average man
five feet, ten inches tall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
SIR LANES LIVES.

This column is in receipt of a letter
from Jimmy Jackson, manager of the
Topeka baseball team in 1915, in
which Sir James inquiries about the
outlook here for next season, and.
borrowing from His Honor, the may
or. this column has written him that
"Gawd knows the outlook amt bright
just now"
Sir James is ALTERNATING in Phila-
delphia, Pa, and he says that he has
a number of promising looking pros
poets lined up for the coming season.
However, he says he does not intend
to sign a contract until his club own
ers agree to allow him to spend
enough money for players to make a
real bali club. He sends Christmas
greetings to all of his friends here,
but does not say anything about ex-
pecting to return to the Western
league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
COOPER MEN GET "C's."


Sterling, Kan, Dec 16.-The Coop
er athletic board has awarded letters
to fifteen men of this years football
squad. Those receiving letters are:
Ralph Stewart, Robert Dill, Edgar
Lindsey, Ralph Gray, John Jamison,
Bill Edgar. Dock Roger. Claude
Cheatum, Elmer Dill. Robert War
mock, Archie johnson, H. z. War
mock. George Ball. Wyatt Fullerton,
and Ernest Dill. At banquet given
in honor Of the players. John Jami-
son was elected captain of the Bar
relmakers for next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

articles for a forty round bout with
Frank Moran, to be fought in Havana,
early in February. Fulton said he
expected to defeat Moran and thereby
gain a match with Jess willard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
Fulton-Nforan Bout in Cuba?

Fargo, n. D., Dec. 16.-Fred Fulton,
of Rochester. Mimi, here for an ex-
hibition bout with Al Palzer of Min
neapolis, declared that he had signed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

eat up the hash. And they will prob
ably have a better time than if they
just stayed at home and danced
around all week.
The eighth wife of Kid Mccoy, the
pugilist, is suing him for a divorce.
She ought not to get it. Any woman
who will be the eighth choice of a
man-especially a fighting man
should be made to serve out her SEN
tence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

Fred Fulton, the young heavy
weight. who thinks he should have a
chance at Jess Willard, has finally
decided that if Willard doesn't agree
to meet him he will get sore and
clean up the whole heavyweight d.
vision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
WICHITA WANTS TO RETURN.

BY the way, it appears that Wichita
IS getting anxious over her baseball
prospects, for the coming season. The
owners. of the Beerless Princess park
have written to Frank Isbell that they
will lease him their holdings much
cheaper than they offered to do last
fall and that they are in a receptive
mood. for a proposition.
A Wichita paper states that it hopes
Isbell will see the wisdom of taking
advantage of the offer and cinching
a soft thing, adding that it has no
doubt he will do so. The fact that an
exhibition game between the New
York Giants and Detroit Tigers has
been arranged for in Wichita is taken
to mean that someone expects Island
park to be in operation and in such
condition that It car be used by the
big leaguers.
And, meanwhile. what about To-
peka2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
4 SHORT HOLIDAY
Washburn Basketball Mel
Won't Have Much Christmas.
Most of Them VIII Resume
Practice Wednesday, 9th.
tCopyright. 1916. by H G.
Trade Mark Reg. O. s. Pat

The Christmas holidays will not in
terfere with the Washburn college
basketball practice to any great extent
a. most of the candidates for the team
have assured Coach Kennedy and AS
sistant Coach De Beukelaer that they
will return to Topeka the "Wednesday
after Christmas to resume work.
The Washburn coaches are anxious
to get their men into the best posslple
shape for the opening game of the
season with K. Z. early in January
and for this reason they were anxious
to have as little vacation at the present
time as the boys felt they could get
along with.
Material Promising.
Doctor Kennedy announces that
there are some promising players out
for the team and among those who
have promised to return to school dur
ing the holidays to practice are Nell
son. Whitehead, Drake, Heller, Palmer,
Hope Kearns, Dean and Conklin.
Sam Stewart, who was expected to
become a candidate for center. has
not been able to appear on the court
yet on account of his injured ankle,
and Brick Calihan also has been
kept off by injuries received during
the football season.
Lineup Uncertain.
While it is impossible to predict the
personnel of the team at this time, 1t
seems that Whitehead. Nelson, Kearns.
Dean. Drake and Hope are in line for
positions. Whitehead and Dean are
out for forwards, Drake is playing
guard, Nelson is playing both guard
and forward and Kearns seems to have
the edge on the center position just
/ now.
/ Coach Kennedy also is arranging a
freshman schedule and is endeavoring
| to interest the tyros in the goal toss
4 ing sport as much as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
Lineup Uncertain.


Altoona, Pa, Dec. 16.-Ivan Linow
the Russian giant, threw Mort Hender-
son in two straight falls, using Hen
derson's pet toe hold both times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16
ALC,oK AROUND

It sire must have hurt those Ameri-
can Hague magnates to reduce the
price of world series seats. But, in a
financial way. it will never be felt by
some of them.
1t might be all right to give a, player
HE base on three balls instead of four,
as the National league proposes, but
why make baseball any more like a
pawn brokers' business than it is now?
Any way, the Washburn basketball
players who return to school the day
after Christmas will not have to help
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-30
NEW YORK cTOck MARKET.
Features Of tho Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks

New York, June 29.-The rapidity with
which stocks rebounded at today's opening
on the more encouraging news from Mexico
seemed to indicate an enormous over-exten-
sion Of the short or bear account, rather
than actual investment inquiry The &C.
ton Of the Mexican authorities was re-
ceived with relief, although it was recog
nized that other important questions bear
ing upon the controversy remain unsettled.
Initial recoveries embraced virtually ALL
parts OF the list, the Mexican group natural
ly showing greatest improvement. Petro!
leum opened with single block Of 5000
shares at 1000 to 1o1 maximum recovery
Of exactly ten points. Greene Cananea and
American Smelling rose more than three
points and Southern Pacific, whose interests
are largely bound up in the situation across
the border, made a clear gain Of two points.
There were wide or excited openings
at extreme advances of 2 to 4 points in
Reading, United States Steel, Marine pre-
ferred and some Of the other stocks which
have contributed SO largely to the trading
Of recent weeks. Motor shares rose 8 to
6 IL and munitions to 5, with average
advances Of two points for coppers and at
fliated Issues. while unclassified stocks par.
ticipated in variable substantial degree This
advantage was largely effaced before mid
day. by WHICH time the covering movement
appeared to have spent its force. There
after the market became increasingly dull
and heavy. but conditions were suddenly
reversed in the last half hour. when United
States Steel again came forward with the
marines. the latter being in especial demand
on reports that all obstacles towards tho