The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-17
BETHANY in RACE
Fight for State Basketball Title
Now Well Under Way.
Washburn IchabOds Have Two
Games Scheduled This Week.

sfhe washburn basketball team has
only two games scheduled for this
week, one with the C. of E. here We'd
nesday and one with the Aggies Sat
urday. However, it is very likely that
the players will be kept busy on the
court early and late by Coach Gray in
an effort to put them into better form
than they have shown so far.
With the first week of the Kansas
conference schedule on the record
books, it looks more and more like
"Blr Hargiss's Emporia Normals
have the state championship all but
sewed up in the well known cinch
sack The Normals have shown re-
markable scoring ability in every
game they have played, and have won
most of them by decisive scores their
only dangerous looking rival at the
present time being Bethany college.
Baker also has started off with
promise, but the fact that the Bald
whites had a hard time defeating
Bethany, while Bethany beat the c. of
E. and the c. of E. lost to the Nor
mails indicates that Baker will have to
improve to be u real factor in the race.
IchabOds Not Strong.
Washburn so far has made a very
poor showing. In the three games
that the Ichabods have played they
have made a total of only 80 points
while their opponents have made 14O-
This is quite a come down from the
days when the Ichabods boosted a
team that could give any team in the
Missouri Valley a hard fight, but it is
to be accounted for. in part at least,
by the loss of such players as Dwight
and Merrill Ream, Earl Trobert and
Pinky Beals. However, the Ichabod
supporters say that when the new men
get a little more experience they Will
command the same respect the Flight
ing Ichabods' used to command, and it
~ 70 he hoped that they Will.
All of the available scores OF the
more important games that have been
played so far by Kansas teams are as
follows:
Normals "a; Haskell IT.
X. u. 1921; Ames 2524.
Bethany %; Cooper 26.
Bethany SO; WasnDurn 10.
Bethany %; c. of E. %.
Baker 25; Bethany 20.
Normals %; c. of E. 81.
Aggies SO; Wesleyan "a.
K. U. 80; Washburn 10.
Mcpherson 80; Cooper %.
Paramount AL Cooper %.
Aggies Sc; Washburn 10.
Mcpherson 90; Hays Nor. "a.
X. Z. 1927; Nebraska 34-40.
Bethany %; Normal q.
X. u. Weaker Too.
The university quintet of Coach
Hamilton has not the same cinch on
the Missouri Valley championship that
II has had in seasons past, and if the
valley honors are to remain in Kansas
the Jayhawkers will either have to
whip UP strong, or the Aggies will
have to take up their burden. The
best K. L. could do with Ames was to
split even, and the loss of both games
to Nebraska indicated that this is an
off year for the Mt. Dread tossers.
The Aggies are still something of an
unknown quantity as they have not yet
met team of anything like their
strength, but from the huge scores
they piled up against Salina Wesleyan
and Washburn it seems that they have
a team of real merit and championship
possibilities
The real strength of the Aggies and
Jayhawkers will be determined this
week when the Aggies invade Law
renee Thursday and Friday. These
two games are the only ones on the K.
II. schedule during the week, but the
Manhattan five also will match
strength again with Washburn here
Saturday afternoon.
Other games of the week are: Sa-
lima Wesleyan against Bethany at
Lindsborg Friday; Fairmount against
Bethel at Wichita Friday; and College
of Emporia against Baker at Baldwin
Friday.