The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-23
Sport Wheezes
BY CLUG-

The Grip has laid Jess Willard low;
Observe how loudly Tom Jones
I only wish [ had the grip
on forty-seven thousand dollars.
-koko G.. Rice.
It is announced that when Willard
leaves Chicago for New York to be-
gin training for Moran he expects to
leave his much talked about grip be-
hind him.
And here is the problem his Kan
SaS friends are discussing: If Jess does
go to the scene of the fray gripless,
how will he be able to carry the SAL
5OO.03 home? But he probably can
do it by giving the grip to Trainer
Monaghan, who is stout in the arms.
Most of the major league baseball
clubs have a pretty fair preseason
schedule arranged for this season. by
which they hope to play thunder with
the circus business in certain parts of
the South. The prediction is herein
leagues will consider their preseason
games an important part of the years
playing.
There is no reason why this should
not be. 1t is warm enough for base
ball in a number of southern states
couple of months earlier than it is
in most of the big league towns.
| There is no reason why the climatic
condition should not be capitalized,
/ inasmuch as it could be made to give
/ the larger southern towns a good run
| of major league baseball, and at the
! same time bring in more dollars TO
! the players and club owners.
/ It seems almost certain now that the
| Lincoln Western league club, under
! its new management. is to be known
as the Duckhngs. A duck. in sport
parlance, says Webster. is sometimes
used to denote a player who scores
naught But, of course, Webster never
| knew "Duckey' Holmes
1t is reported that Billy Davis. the
marvel and the mystery of the Sioux
/ City Indians, is again to join the Han
Ion club of the Western loop. If he
[ does. those who have ambitions to
/ lead the league in batting would bet
1 ter prepare for a strenuous time in
their struggles.
Davis only played in II games for
( the Indians last season. but during
that short time he batted for measly
per cent of ABS. At the end of his
seventeenth day the young phenom
drew his salary in full and announced
that he had to go home to attend a
family funeral.
For several weeks thereafter moth
I ing was heard from him, and, think
| ing that he might have carelessly
gone to sleep in the coffin with the
corpse and been buried by mistake,
the 500 mana cement began to inquire
about him. But no trace of him could
be found anywhere.
hp
nom to be given up without turning
over the last stone, and in the course
of time it was found that he had
Joined the Federal league under an
assumed name, and that there had
been no funeral in his family. He
had merely taken the leap.
But it seems that in the recent
peace agreement no provision was
made for young Davis, and he was left
to shift for himself as were many
other Feds. And now he is anxious to
get back on the Sioux City club and
will be given chance to do so.
Tonight Louis Hoffman and Jack
Hampton will meet in a wrestling
match at AIS Jackson street. Indica-
tions are that this will be the best
match Hoffman ever worked in here,
and there is little doubt that both
mon will exert every effort to win.
The preliminaries of the match will
begin at o'clock
Paramount IS; Friends %
Wichita, Kan, Feb. 23.-The Fair
mount college basketball team Tues
day night defeated the Friends univer-
sity five. SO to %. Paramount led at
all stages. the first half ending 19 to
in their favor. Crister, although on
the losing team, was the star
Rap fire billiard tournament at
the Stag tonight. 712 Kansas avenue.
Entrance Free Adv