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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
SUITS ARE READY
Ichabods Hold First Practice of the
Season Today.

On account of the wet condition of
the field and the fact that only Few
of the boys have come in, DIT. A. H.
Kennedy did not attempt to get his
Washburn football practice in full
swing Monday afternoon, but suits
were ready for the candidates today
and it was expected that twenty-five
or thirty men would answer to the
first call this afternoon.
All of the old equipment on hand
has been washed, cleaned, fumigated
and put in order and every player
who reports for practice will be COM
pletely logged. The new equipment
that Coach Kennedy ordered soon af-
ter he became affiliated with Wash
burn has not yet arrived, but it is
expected daily.
Field in Shape.
The playing field has been put in
order and Captain Stewart and his
men will waste no time in prelim-
inaries when they once get suited up.
1t was reported today that Shine"
Chamberlain, one of the hardest line
smashers the Ichabods have had in
recent years, was contemplating a re-
turn to school, and should he do so
Coach Kennedy's prospects will be
frightened considerably.
However, simultaneously with the
announcement that Chamberlain
might return, it was stated that Rice,
last seasons center, was again on the
doubtful list. having about made up
his mind to stay out of school this
year for the purpose of peddling life
insurance.
Rice a Veteran.
Rice was one of the veterans around
whom Kennedy expected to build up
his team, but when informed that he
would not be back the coach said
that he would begin at once training
other men for the center position.
Among the players who were ex-
pected to be out this afternoon are
Captain Stewart. McCosh, Wilson, Col
win, and practically all of the men
who live in Topeka. Some of the
promising looking candidates for
positions who live in other parts of
the state have not yet come in and
probably will not be here before next
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
300 HITTERS ARE
NOT MUCH BETTER
THAN HOI POLIO

Do you know the difference between
$50 and $50 hitter is just a trifle
more than one hit in every three
games? Sounds astonishing-but it is
true. Just about one-third of a safety
per game divides the Cobbs and the
Speakers and the Jacksons from the
hoi polloi among swatsmiths William
Chase Temple, donor of the Temple
cup, and one of the best record men
on the national game in it's entire his
tory, has figured it out. He has taken
all the averages of both leagues to
reach his conclusions. Temples sta
tistics show that each player in the
National league averages 3.64 times at
bat per game. while the American
league averages SO times, making the
grand average of 1852 times at bat for
every major league player in each
game. Having reached these figures
I then found that to bat $50 in 100
games a player would have to make
1877 hits" said Temple. "A $50 batter
will make 81 hits in every 100 games
That shows a difference of thirty-sfx
hits in every 100 games between a
$50 and ESQ hitter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
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THRU TRAVELLING
Savages Home for Good; VIII
Play Izzies Tomorrow.
Final Game at st. Joe Won By
One Score Margin.

Manager Engle and his Savages
Fave ridden the rattlers for the last
time this season. On their return trip
from St. Joe they made their last con-
sribution to the railway companies
and the pullman porters. and from
-povv until the end of the season they
will remain at home. entertaining the
pastimers from the northern border
of the loop.
Today was an off day in the league,
the last holiday with pay that the
ulayers will enjoy, aud beginning to-
morrow the final dash for the wire
and permanent positions will be made
The Savages still have good chance
to finish in sixth place if they can
get into Il winning stride, and there is
a bare possibility-if the day of mir
acles has not passed-for them to get
within striking distance of Des Moines.
However, the dopesters are booking
them to end about where they are
now.
Game Tomorrow.
Tomorrow a 3-game series will be
begun with Des Moines. and accord
ing to the last announcement made by
Savage, the games Will be played IN
the afternoon. jitney busses being used
to assist the 15-minute street car serv-
ice in transporting patrons to the
mark The street car company has
announced that a 15-minute service
is the best it can give on account of
having so many cars in use on the
fair grounds route. Following the
Des Moines series Lincoln will be here
three days, then Sioux City and Omaha
will come.
The final game at st. Joe Monday
was doubly satisfactory in that the
to victory was won with Elmer
Koestner, the former millionaire
twirler in the Drummer. box. Koest-
ner was hit for eleven safe blows,
most of which were punched in the
third, fourth and fifth innings when
the Topekans made all of their count
ers.
Dashner Weakened.
Animal Dashner, who performed
for Manager Engle, pitched shut-out
ball for seven innings and then began
to fade. After the Drummers broke
thru with their first run in the eighth
they came back with four more in the
ninth, and it began to look as tho
Dashner would be engulfed. But he
made a gallant effort and with the
team giving him support saved his
face by the margin of one run. Allen,
Agler and Monroe were the chief hit
tiers of the day on the Topeka side of
the box score. Allen getting three
bingles and Agler and Monroe two
each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
KILBANE COULD DEFEAT
WELSH BY POINTS OR K. 0.

Danny Dunn, former New York
bantamweight, and competent
boxing critic. wants to see the
Johnny Kilbane-Fredd:e Welsh
bout materialize. And if it does"
zaid Dunn, my wager goes on
Kilbane to win by any means he
decides, kayo OF points. Welsh
isn't hard to hit with a right hand.
That was proved in the Johnny
Griffiths bout at Akron. Johnny
peppered the champion a few times
with his left. but the only effective
punching he did in that bout was
with his right. Wish has a won
derful defense, and he isn't a mark
for either eft or right. but he's
easier to hit with a right.
''Kilbane would beat Welsh in a
short bout on points and would put
over the kayo in long battle"
added Dunn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
FOOD FOR FANS
(BY GEORGE e. PHAIR.)
rCopyright.l
Rusiueaa of Cheering

The footbal1istic days are come,
The gladdest of the year.
When footballs fill the Autumn air
And students rise and cheer.
nut upon the greansward stands
And waves a -negaphone.
And twenty thousand students cheer
In wild and raspy tones.
They do not stop to figure out
The wherefore or the why:
They merely strain their vocal cords
And rend the Autumn sky
They hoIler in the Sanskrit tongue,
In Hindu or in Greek
Or words that Old Man Darwin's pets
Were wont to howl and squeak.
But when you cheer. You college STUDIES,
And howl booray! hoorooi
And when yJu boiler rah rah. rah.
l dearly envy you.
For you can laugh and you can yell,
And you can cheer and shout.
When there is not goldarn thing
To laugh cheer about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

COLLEGE TENNIS TOURNEY
Big School Stars Begin Play at Phila.
delphia for Net Title.

Philadelphia. Pa, Sept. 12-.The
annual intercollegiate tennis tourna-
ment opens here today. Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Amherst, Williams and the
University of California will be rep
resented.
Princeton will depend on Leonard
Beekman, who was runner-up to Will
Jams last year. Yale is represented
by Jerry Weber, and Pennsylvania
by E. w. Kennedy and J. A. Edwards.
The other institutions have not yet
named their entries.
r. Norris williams, the national
champion, who Won the intercollegiate
championship for Harvard last year,
has graduated from college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
DODGERS AT HOME.
This, With Lead, Makes Them
the N. l.. FavOrites.
Boston Braves All But Out Az
ter a Game Fight.

New York, Sept 1.-THE Brooklyn
National League club is at home today
to begin a drive to the pennant. The
Dodgers hold the lead in their circuit
by a game and a half.
Philadelphia, in second place, also
is at home, ready to fight to GUST the
leaders.
The Pirates tackle the Dodgers in
the Brooklyn stronghold this after
noon and the PhilIies tackle the Car
dinals while Boston faces the Cubs in
pair of encounters in Boston.
Brooklyn returned home with an
even split on its journey around the
circuit. The Dodgers played twenty
eight games and won fourteen. Now
the finish. Their schedule calls for
seventeen more regular games and six
postponed games.
Dodgers F'avorites.
Every one of the remaining con-
tests will. be played at Ebbets fields.
so the Dodgers. a game and a half to
the good, must be considered strong,
as worlds series possibilities.
Twenty-one games remain on the
PhillieS schedule, all except three on
the PhillieS grounds. And it may be
that these three games, played just a
few days before the curtain is rung
down on October 5. will decide the
and 80 the Phillies will journey to
Brooklyn for the final trio of games
between the two clubs. If the race
continues until then to be as tight as
it has been most of the summer the
race will be decided at that time
Brooklyn left home on its last trip
with Daubert and Pfeffer two of the
most dependable members of the club
on the ailing list. In addition, Nc
Carly, a catcher, was playing first
aXr rot Cd EA Y,
Daubert and Pfeffer ready to go the
route and with a new utility man in
Fred Merkle, former Giant first base
man.
Phils Are Crippled.
The Phillies are not we'll off. Bill
Killifer has turned up crippled, as was
the case year ago when his services
meant SO much to the Phil1ies. He
injured his hand last Saturday in the
doubleheader with the Giants. In ad-
dition none of Pat Moran's pitchers
has an ability to win since the series
with the Giants was started. Even the
great Alexander was given a drubbing
in New York
Aside from the two leading clubs,
recent events appear to have elimi-
mated all other clubs from serious op-
position Boston, badly crippled by
the loss of Evers and Maranville,
seems to have hit the chutes after
making game fight.
The Red Sox, Tigers and White Soy
all won their games Monday in the
American league and the race there in
reference to the first three is I'M
changed. Boston still leads by a game
and a half and the White Sox are lust
half a game behind the second place
Tigers. Today Boston is pitted against
Washington, the White Sox against St
Louis and the Tigers against CIeve-
land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
KANE GETS HIS SALARY
Sioux City Must Pay Him for the Time
He Lost.

Sioux City. Ia, Sept 12.-Jimmy
Kane former Sioux City first baseman.
is to receive salary from the Sioux
City baseball club from May of this
year to July II. The Sioux City ciuD
has been ordered by the national base
ball commission to pay Kane the two
months salary.
On May 4. Kane was released uncon-
ditionally by Sioux City. Ten days
later he was informed by President
Ebright, of Wichita. that if he could
obtain permission of Sioux City, the
Wichita club would sign him. Presi-
dent Hanlon declined to give his con-
sent.
Kane took the case higher, declar-
ing that a 'gentleman's agreement
was maintained in the western league.
prohibiting the clubs from taking into
service a player within so days of his
unconditional release by member OF
the league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
BASEBALL TO-DAY.
National League

Chicago at Boston. clear, 2, first
1 80 p. m.
Cincinnati at New York, clear, 3:a5
p. m
St Louis at Philadelphia, clear. 3
p. m.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. clear, first
l p. m.
American League.
Detroit at Cleveland, clear, D. m
Boston at Washington. cloudy, $3.50
p. m
St. Louis at Chicago. cloudy, D. m.
No other scheduled.
American Association.
Kansas City at Toledo. clear, D. m.
St. Paul at Louisville, clear. D. M
Minneapolis at Indianapolis, clear,
$3.50 D. m.
No other scheduled
Exhibition Games
New York Americans at Columbus.
American Association clear, 8 D. M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
President Ripley states
Santa Fe's position
on eight-hour wage law
and asks an important
question.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.
CHICAGO, ILL., September 8, 1916.
TO SANTA FE EMPLOYEES AND THE PUBLIC:
S position The Atchison, Topeka &
Railway regarding the controversy
employees their COM
pensation:
hastily acting
organizations. a
which is nothing less twenty
twenty-five per wages best paid men
n railway
only employees public to say that
The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company does
not intend comply with the law
dered to do so by the resort
The merits of the in
months and o mention
finally the increase must
be paid there will immediate from the re-
manning classes of labor resulting
without heavy increases in by public
especially the farming
Is THE PUBLIC PREPARED MEET THE DEMAND,
This notice information of all concerned
E. p. RIPLEY. President
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
PITT HOLDS FIRST WORK.


Philadelphia, Sept. 12--The Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania football squad
began preliminary practice here Mon
day. Twenty members of last years
varsity and freshman teams reported
to Coach Folwell and were drilled in
forward pass formations
Four veterans. Derr, Williams and
Ross, backfield men, and Ross Pen
ming, a lineman. failed to appear and
were sent kilograms to report at once.
Howard Berry is Sill on the Mexican
border. but hopes to receive his dis
charge In time to join the squad
shortly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
ACCIES GET E. A. BAUER
Colgate Man Will Have Charge of
Manhattan Intramural Sports.

Manhattan. Kan, Sept. 12.-The ap-
pointment of E. A. Bauer to have
charge of the intramural sports of the
Kansas State Agricultural college has
been announced by E. c. Singer, d.
rector of athletics. He also will direct
gymnasium work and assist with the
track team. it was said.
Mr.. Bauer is a graduate of Colgate
college and Springfield Training
school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
Boston "COurtesy."

In Boston they do this:
When an old ball is fouled into the
Braves stands while the home team
is at bat, no real effort is made to
have it returned. Result-the Braves
get crack at a new ball
But if the visitors foul a dirty pellet
into the crowd the ball is retrieved
Neutrality-suspicious. rarely get a smash at
a new white ball
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

Walter Holke came from Rochester
and the heart of John McGraw is
glad When Fred Merkle was traded
TO the Dodgers, the option on the first
passing star of the International league
was exercised
Holke got chance to display his
wares last week and he has been
sensation since. Big league hurting
mas no terrors for him. He has been
hltting with considerable frequency
and fielding like veteran.
Holke appeals to me as one of the
best all-around first basemen that has
come into the big league for some
time" declares McGraw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
SCOREBOARD FLASHES

Eppa Jeptha Rixey, pitching for the
Phillies stood tall and unconcerned as
the Giants pasted him for five safe blows
and a half dozen runs in the fourth
inning.
Benny Kauff, the violet of the Giants,
accumulated a perfect batting average for
the day by banging out a double and
home run.
Eddie Collins strayed into the error
column twice and allowed the Browns
to get a pair of tallies but his hits helped
the White SoX run getting.
The Indians took an awful beating at
the hands of the Tigers, getting one run
to the Detroit gangs nine.
Heilman, substituting at first base for
the Tigers, cracked ont three singles, q
triple and a double.
Buck Wheat and the rest of the Dodgers
to life behind Pat Raglan.
1t was Bucks twenty -third consecutive
game in which he has hit safely at least
once.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
RHE
Brooklyn Observation-Disclosures. ! 3
Batteries-Marquard and Meyers; Raglan
and Gowdy.
Philadelphia Observation-Disclosures ;
-'f Batteries-Rixey. oeschger, Mayer - and
E. Burns and Adams; Tesreau and Rari-
den.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

Neither does Bearg believe that an ath-
lete can dissipate, even mildly. and be as
good a man If he lived absolutely clean
And in his own playing he demonstrated
and proved his theories about these things
pretty conclusively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

Elmer Bearg, the new high school coach
was never known to cuss in a football
game He does not believe that a mar
has to soil his mouth with filthy words
in order to play good game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
Noodles and Nuggets
- Dug from the Dope Pot n
81 BY clu5 q

The III. s. Slogan.
We have no time for profane words,
We're out to play football,
We have no place for smoking birds
Clean men we want-that's all.
The dirty word, the deadly pill
Our men must never use,
We've lots of places yet to fill
But none for those who booze.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

Score by innings: I'm k
Topeka ..........-..........-0 900 III OW-6
st. Joseph .......-...-...-- 900 900 Ol4-o
Summary: Struck out-By Koestner, u;
BY Dashner. 4. Bases on bals-Off koest-
ner, . off Dashner. ,. Stolen bases
EngIe, Monroe Sacrifice hits-Beers,
Kirkham. Two base hits-Monroe. Kirk
ham, Q: Engle Koestner, Sullivan Three
base hits-McCabe .. Double piay-Mc-
Clelland to Sommers. Left on bases-St
Joseph, Z; Topeka. z Earned runs-St
Joseph, 4; Topeka, 8. Time-1 80. Umpire -
Kane.
Other w. L. Games.
Des Moines at Lincoln-No game; rain.
Sioux City at Omaha-Game postponed; ;
Wet grounds.
Colorado Springs at Denver-Game post
poned; rain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

We've lots of places yet to fill
But none for those who booze.
Elmer Bearg, the new high school coach,
was never known to cuss in a football
game He does not believe that a man
IN order to play good game.
Neither does Bearg believe that an ath-
lete can dissipate, even mildly, and be as
good a man as If he lived absolutely clean.
And in his own playing he demonstrated
and proved his theories about these things
pretty conclusiyely.
During his career at Washburn the Icha-
bods never had man of greater endur-
ance than Bearg, nor a man who could hit
an opposing line harder more repeated
ts And IN 10 now oU,n that At he is in charge Of
play as he used to play and he intends to
insist that his men be as clean and moral
as he has been.
II don't know how many games we
VIII win, Bearg said in discussing his
work hard. l know that we are going to
have clean football AMI that the men who
want to make the team will have to want
70 badly enough to give up their dissipa-
tons If they have any. Already several
Of the boys have promised me that they
to leave their profane vocabularies outside
when they go on the field"
Bearg is not narrow minded in his views
along these lines. But he is thoroly con
WINGED that the price of place in the ath-
ietfc world Is clean living. And. working
along this line. he is certain to prove
valuable man in his new work even tho
his team should not get within 10 yards
of goal post all season.
The Wichita Eagle is already mourning
the loss of Wichita's Western league base
ball club And a month ago the Eagle was
crying TO get out of the league. Now the
paper says. 1T is decidedly unfair to
Wichita to be put down on the baseball
book as poor proposition for a baseball
town..
We'll. no one is to blame for the trans
fer of Jimmy Jackson's club to Colorado
Springs except the Peerless Princess her
self little les; Dragging and a little less
Raging during the first of the season and
a little more loyalty during the hours of
trouble might have warded off the shame.
Maynard Hampstead, young Topeka
fan, sends in his pick of an afl-western
! league team. Here it is: Smith, Omaha,
r.: Cakes. Denver. cf. Lober. Lincoln, RI. !;
Miller. Omaha h.: Goodwin. Topeka
2b.; Dyer, Denver, 3d.: Kilduff Oman
S.; Monroe, Topeka. and johnson, Lincoln,
G; North. Omaha, Gaspar. Sioux City,
Musser, Des Moines, Thompson, Omaha,
and Ford. Denver, p.
RoX Cook, Concordia. Kansas. pitcher
is said to be on the road to baseball fame
In a recent game Rox pitched no-hit,
no-run game against a strong semi-pro
team Only so men faced him during the
game
less Wolves. Now they are the Million
/ al Can heat som. Cuvs'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
KUMACAE'S STROKE
Frank G. Menke Tells just How Jap
Plays Net Game.
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

New York, Sept. 12.-Ever since
Ichiya Kumagae flashed the pull
stroke" in the recent national tennis
tournament the rank and file of net
enthusiasts are asking what's it like %
The description of it, given by a
New Yorker, who declares that Ku-
magae's stroke is exactly the same as
that used for many years with such
amazing success by the late Anthony
F. WELDING, follows:
"Kumagae's stroke is pulled
drive 1t bears the same relation to
the ordinary topped drive that the
American service does to the ordinary
topped service. In other words, the
ball. after being hit does not spin
about on a horizontal axis as in the
forehand topped drive. Instead, it
spins about an axis that is tilted at an
angle of about 35 degrees, with the
higher end of the axis nearer to the
striker. That makes it very difficult
for the other player to hit it, as the
natural tendency of the ball is to
bound back toward the original
striker
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
Uncover New Iron Man."

Another Iron Man. pitcher looms
along the horizon. He is Fred M.
Walker, the huge hurler for the
Utica, n. Y, State league
Walker, to date, has worked in
something like thirty-eight games. de-
spite the late opening of the league He
pitched nine games in eighteen DAYS
a short while ago and won six of them.
Up to date he has a winning percent
age beyond the 500 mark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

RoX Cook, Concordia. Kansas pitcher
is said to be on the road to baseball fame
In a recent game Rox pitched a no-hit
no-run game against a strong semi-pro
team Only so men faced him during the
game
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

At Belvue-score: RUE
st. Marys 100 0 o o 90 1901 6 <
Belvue ......0 % 2 90 3Ox-2
Standing of fhe Teams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

Last week they were the hungry. home
less Wolves. Now they are the million
aires" Can vel beat SOM guys luck?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

No other games played.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-12

We'll. no one is to blame for the trans
fer of Jimmy Jackson's club to Colorado
Springs except the Peerless Princess her
self. A little less Dragging and a little less
Raging during the first of the season and
a little more loyalty during the hours of
trouble might have warded off the shame.