The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-16
Sport Wheezes
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The fact that the Western league /
magnates have seen fit to go back to |
a 1874 game schedule is the strongest
indication that better times in the I
league are anticipated.
In fact, every magnate at the Lin
coin meeting stated that better times |
were licked for, better crowds expect /
ed and that a better brand of ball is
insured.
However. even magnates can be- |
come too optimistic, and anticipating |
prosperity is a dangerous thing unless |
the anticipating is done with cool
head.
Faster ball this year seems assured,
but the magnates should keep their
mind on the fact that better crowds
and bigger receipts will depend as
much on a well balanced race as upon
faster ball and that "a well balanced
race. can only be insured by compelling
every club to observe the salary limit
to the letter.
In recent address in New York
former President Taft asserted that
baseball has been foundSthe best civil
iz1ng medium among the fierce tribes
of the Philippines. The head-hunting
I
! head-hunting custom largely because
they have learned to play baseball.
But, in no place in his address did Mr..
Taft tell how an umpire protects
| himself when working in an Igorrotes
| league game.
The Central Y. NJ. c. A. basketball
team is working hard for a return en-
gagement with the WaShburn quintet.
! The Central tossers expect to give the
/ a he
and they are willing to play the game
on the Washburn court. Plans are on
foot to have the game played next
week.
Is the reported illness of Jess Will
lard real or is it press agent stuff
/ This question is being asked on every
corner. and there are even those who
intimate that Willard may be trying
to dodge meeting Moran altogether.
However, it is not probable that Jess
wants to let that $4,000 slip through
his fingers.
There is a bare possibility that
Jones and Jess have decided a little
more time for training will be a good
! thing, and that the publicity of a
postponement will add to the interest.
But, there is nothing to warrant the
belief that the champion really isn't
ILL., Despite the fact that he is a
| champion, he is human and is subject
! to all human ailments including the
grip.
A New York sport writer predicts
that Bonnie Kauff will be the biggest
! drawing card IN baseball this summer,
| overshadowing even the great Ty
Cobb. And a we'll known local sport
enthusiast predicts that Kauff won't
even stay in the National league two
seasons You can take your choice
/ of opinions.
However. if Kauff plays up to the
standard of his 1914 and 1915 records,
he not only will be a big drawing
card in his league, but will be able
to make his club a pennant contender
if conditions are anything like normal.
In the near future the football
coach is going to come into his own
again if Harvard, Yale and Princeton
have anything to do with it. At these
schools it is reported that there is a
big demand that the coaches be per-
mitted to occupy the sidelines again
not changed they plan not to observe
it next season.
The argument is advanced that in
other lines OF athletic endeavor the
coach is permitted to direct the play.
and that the old condition should pre-
vail again on the gridiron. 1t is
claimed that the majority of captains
!, lack the proper experience required
to direct a team in pinch, and that
when coaches had sideline privileges
) they did not abuse them. On the
other hand, barring them from the
sideIines has only forced many of
them to attempt to do the unethical
by evading the rule in various ways.