The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-10
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

Although the Washburn basketball
team has lost Groth, the Ichabods still
have hopes of growing strong enough
to win at least one game since Beals
has joined the squad as a regular.
Seats to accommodate 5000 people
will be provided at the Willard Moran
hight to be held in New York March 8.
These seats will range in price from
$50 to So.
E. c. Ouigley, of St Marys, has
been reappointed National league UNI
pire for the coming season. Hank
O'Day, formerly an indicator manip-
ulator and an ex-manager, also is to
wear a mask again in the Tener cir
cult.
Did you get the above "Tener cir
cult 30 That's just what it is now.
At the meeting of the club owners
Tuesday Tener was given more power
had over the Western, and Tipp had
so much he thought he owned it
magnateS and ALL
said young Joe stecher TO old Frank
''Wait'n you tackle the old scissors
CROTCH
said old Frank Gotch to young Joe
Stecher:
''Wait'T you graphic the Humboldt
Wichita Eagle.
All of the five higher educational
institutions of Kansas are to partici-
pate in a gymnasium meet to be held
at the Kansas State Normal school in
EmpOria, March II. 1t is planned that
three meets shall be held in consecu-
tive years, one at each of the state
normal schools. with teams from the
university and the agricultural college
participating. Tumbling and wrestling
are to be the features of the first
meet
Dallas, Texas. is planning to erect a
stadium in which all kinds of amateur
athletic events can be held. The
structure will have a seating capacity
of 10000 and will cost approximately
100000.
| Despite the fact that the automobile
! is displacing the horse in every walk
of life, interest in horse breeding and
allied pursuits seems to be growing in
stead of diminishing.
/ AS has been observed in this col
umn before, racing is coming back in
many states, and horses seem to be
selling for as much as they did before
the automobile came as a means of
! transportation and a source of speed
| amusement.
In Maryland there now are more
race tracks than in any other state in
/ the union, and a bill has recently been
introduced in the legislature that will
a year to the state Golfers, if it is
passed.
Also, speaking of horses and racing
it is interesting to note that, along
with other advanCements made in the
matter of speed, racing records hav,
been lowered in remarkable manner
within the last half century.
In 1859 the best 2-minute trottins
record was 2:1924, and by 1913 thi:
record had been reduced to :54 y
Also, the pacing and running record:
have been greatly reduced during The
seasons that have passed since 1859.
NEW w. T.. BOSSES.
ICY" Sherman of the Lincoln Stal
comments on the Western league
managerial changes as follows: NJ
less than five of the ball club in tn,
Western league will blossom out thi
coming spring with new managers
wandering, has come back to the ole
Western to pilot the rejuvenated Lin
coin club; Jimmy Jackson has trans
ferred his activities from Topeka t
Wichita; baltimore has succeede,
jackson in the capital city of the Jay
hawker commonwealth; Denny Sulli
van will serve as field marshal 70
Jack Holland in St. Joseph, and nov
comes Jim McGill with the announce
ment that Harry White. former Chi
cago White SoX pitcher. is to step int
the management of the Denver Bears
Holmes. Jackson and baltimore ar
not strangers to this circuit. but Whit
and Sullivan Will be taking their frs
dip in the Western league swim
However. both will be more than wei
come. Harry White has toured thi
league nearly every spring for the pas
several seasons, accompanying tn
White SoX on their training trips. an
the sports editor of the Star is please
TO certify to the fact that the ex-Whit
SoX sidewheeler is a high-class ma
and 4 credit to the national game
Denny Sullivan is the same type @
man as White, so the league will b
all the better for the advent of tn
new managers at Denver and St JOS
eph.
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