The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-02


tickets printed for the show.
Upon his return home from Chi
cago, President Zehrung of the West
ern League stated that Tip O'Neill
treated him with every courtesy and
| assured him he would turn over
everything that belongs to the league.
The Kansas university basketball
team Won five conference games and
| lost eleven during the season that
closed Tuesday night. This is the
poorest showing the Jayhawkers have
made in a decade, but Washburn
knows that it could have been worse.
The wife of the famous negro
sprinter, Howard P. Drew, has been
compelled to go to court to make her
husband support her and their two
children. According to her statement,
Drew has not given her anything at
all since last July.
Both the Western League and the
American Association are going back
to the double umpire system this sum-
mer. And it is probable that there
will be as much dissatisfaction with
the indicator men as usual.
John Savage, Topeka's baseball
magnate. was in Kansas City on bust
diplomatic young lady who presides
over the destinies of his office in his
absence announced that all news rel
alive to baseball had been deleted by
| the censor.
March 10 and IL have been an
nounced as the date for the Fifth dis
trict high school basketball tourna-
ment to be held at the Kansas State
Agricultural college. Twenty-siX
teams have entered the tournament.
! Up in Sioux City they are now pre-
dieting thst the whole Indian team
will be 500 hitting aggregation this
season. The predictions are based on
last years records, which show the
| batting averages of the following who
will be on the 500 team this season:
Davis, ABS; LeJeune. .355; Kane, .31S;
J Livingston (new catcher), .316; Cal
lahan, .30S; HensIing, 293; Watson.
.2S2; Pepper Clark. 1858; Donnelly,
.2S6.
This certainly is a formidable batch
of batting averages, and if as many as
half of these players live up to their
past record. and they have any pitch
ers at all, the 500 are sure to be in
the running for the rag. No other
team in the league has anything to
compare with this list of swatters And
on top of it all, it must be admitted
that the Indians have some swell look
ing pitchers under contract.
For some unknown reason. the foot
ball rules committee, at Its meeting
last week, decided not to make public
the changes made in the playing code
However. the alterations made are
gradually becoming generally known,
and undoubtedly will all be public
property before the beginning of the
next playing season.
According to a statement made by
Walter Camp, the committee refused
to pass a rule requiring all players to
be numbered. Camp stated that some
of the larger eastern and middle west
schools protested that numbering men
would destroy the strategical value of
the game in that it would permit
scouts to solve tactics of opponents
more easily.
Among the more important changes
in the rules were the following: A
/ 15-yard penalty for a foul committed
against a player about to make q fair
catch of a forward pass, shall be en-
forced instead of a 10-yard penalty.
When team delays it's appearance on
the field ct the beginning of the sec
ond half the other team shall have the
choice of goals. A revision was ma de
allowing a player to bat the ball on
punt out as well as on a forward pass
1t was also ruled that a guard or
tackle, to be eligible to receive for
ward pass, must be at the end of the
line of scrimmage when the ball is
put in play.
Kansas Wesleyan Loses Game.
Lincoln, Neb., March 2.-Nebraska
! WesIevap'S ba Sl<RtbalI team defeated