The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

A TOM CAT TIP.
The muse was not in a musing mood
On this the day of the fight;
But our Tom Cat told his feline brood:
play willard to win tonight.'t
With the big fight over and the
Savag es coming in, next week should
see a decided increase in baseball
interest
inst one month from today the
Savages will play their first league
game in Topeka If you have a bill to
pay on the 25th you know it will soon
roll around.
Following tonight's battle there will
! be some press agent dope about Will
lard's meeting Jack Dillon, and then
Willard will join his circus. travel
around in his private car and settle
down to the monotony of making
$1,000 day all summer long.
George Pattullo, writing in the
Saturday Evening Post, draws a decid-
ed distinction between a house cat and
a free back fence rover. OF course,
he depicts the rover as the real sport.
A Wichita paper announces that
Jimmy Jackson has already become a
victim of the fishin fever. 1t serves
him right And here's hoping he don't
CdtCH one dS loHS dS d ldupOIS Oil
season long.
William Dietz, former Kansas foot
ball star and now coach of the won
derful Washington State university
eleven, is contemplating an adventure
in moviedom, according to a story
from the coast. Dietz is a great little
advertiser all right.
An effort to arrange preseason
games between the Omahogs and
Drummers and the Sioux Indians and
| Drummers has fallen through because
Jack Holland does not believe in clubs
of the same league playing each other
before the regular season opens.
Dick Kaufman, who was a pitcher
on the Topeka club in 1909 and 1910,
is looking for a job managing an 'in-
dependent club somewhere in the mid
die west this summer. Kaufman be-
longs to the Tacoma Butte club of the
Northwestern league, but because of
a disagreement with the owner of the
club will not report.
According to his statement. Kauf-
man accepted a cut in salary last sea-
son when his club was in financial
| difficulties with the understanding
that he was to have his release at the
close of the season if he wanted it..
| At the end of the season he was offer
ed job in the Coast league and asked
for the promised release, but was told
| there was nothing doing.
| Last season Kaufman led his league
in games won with a total of Is vic
| tories to his credit out of Al games in
which he worked. Also, he hit .256.
But he refuses to report to the old
club again, and the manager refuses
| to give him his release. so he is forced
either to play independent ball or re-
tire. And like all real players retir-
ing is not one of his ambitions.
Frank Moran has made only about
$4,000 out of the fight game, as com
pared with Wizards nearly a quarter
of million. Frank, while not a reck-
less spender, is liberal with Celtic lib
erality and has not hung on to all that
$4,000 by any manner of means. He
is not, however, a pauper, nor would
he be even if someone should tap him
on the koko tonight after the show
and take that s23,750 he is to get.
Moran really needs the money and it
will be up to him to husband that 23
| thou very, very carefully if he loses
| tonight, because defeat in this fight
| would be apt to bar him from the big