The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-29
Sport Wheezes
BY CLUG-

An d NLOU- III |
Tonight the Washburn Ichabods and
Emporia Normal goal tossers will hold
an argument in the Washburn gymna
SUM.
Since the Normals were unable to
do anything with the Aggies, the Icha-
bods hope to make it an interesting
game.
! The promoter who conceived the
/ idea of holding boxing bouts with mu-
steal Accomplishments certainly knows
the tastes of the modern fighters.
Many of them are better dancers than
+ fighters.
When the Western league club own
ers gather in Lincoln next month to
make their 1915 schedule the Lincoln
rotary club will entertain them with
a luncheon.
President Zehrung, the new head of
the league, is a prominent Rotarlan
and ex-president of the Lincoln club,
and the Lincoln Star announces that
the Tiger RotarianS are planning
great baseball booster campaign for
the coming season.
1T NEVER LEAKS.
In playing all games, the same rule
applies,
A mans never humbIed s'Iong as he
tries.
Being failures no cause for shame,
Many have fallen who now lead in
fame.
All pups must be traiIers when first
+ they track
All have been trailers who now lead
the pack.
To n man who's a man failure but
fills
His soul with more fight and the
! game more thrills.
ball will attain a prominence during
the coming season it has never known
before. The amateurs are organizing
1 in all the principal cities and are get
4 ting on a more solid foundation.
For the past several years Topeka
has had a high class of amateur ball,
furnished by the City league. But. ac-
cording to the announcement of Presi-
dent Snyder, the prospects for the
coming season are not so bright as
they have been in the past, and inter-
est seems to be lacking.
The Masked Marvel, Mort Hender-
son, proved about as easy picking for
Joe Stecher, the Nebraska grappler,
as Cutler and the other marvels have.
Unless Lewis OF Gotch do something
to Mr.. Stecher pretty soon he will find
himself without opponents to conquer.
4 Western league club owners have
until the first of March to send con-
tracts to players and John Savage, Of
the local club, states that he is in no
hurry about the matter. So far Wich-
tia and Denver are the only clubs that
have announced that contracts have
been mailed.
BASEBALL SCRIPTURE.
Surely the churning of milk bring
eth forth butter, and the wringing of
the nose bringeth forth blood; so
doth the hitting of many safe ones
fatten a batting average greatly.
The spit ball king and the speed
monarch, Ty Cobb hath made even
both of them look foolish.
In little court proceedings, arising
out of the Stecher- Masked Marvel
bout it was disclosed that the NJ. M,
Stranger Lewis and the other top
liners in the n. Y. tournament have
been receiving straight salaries just
like actors do. Well, if they are not
actors what are they?
This weeks issue of Sporting News
states that Pitcher Goodbred. pur-
chased by the local club from the
Brooklyn Nationals. is under war
time contract to Brooklyn. If this is
a fact, and If he will not release
Brooklyn from this contract Topeka Is
liable not to be able to hold him, as
under such a contract Brooklyn would
have to pay him the difference be-
tween what the Topeka club would
pay him and what his wartime" doc
ument calls for. And there is a West
ern league ruling that forbids signing
players under these conditions
BETHANY GOING GOOD.
/ Coach Brown of the Bethany basket
ball team has high hopes of winning
the state championship provided he
can steer his quintet clear of serious
injuries between now and the close
of the season. To date the Terrible
Swedes'' have played seven confer
ence games and have won six of them
The team is now going at top speed.
and a new man of ability has been
brought out in the person of Carlson,
a center, who played in the game
against Cooper Thursday night and
acquitted himself well. The next game
Bethany will play on her home court
will be with Washburn on February 4.
John Savage, owner OF the Topeka
w. L. team, and Duckey Holmes, new
manager of the Lincoln Tigers, have
recently been dickering for a trade,
but to date no swaps have been made.