The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-27
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

Les Darcy is to get $4,000 for his first
bout in the United States 1t ought not TO
take him long to provide Tor the old 1olks
at home at this rate.
Owners of the Three-I league are to meet |
in Chicago again soon to push their plans
to have the territory of several minor
leagues redistricted. The Western league
magnates are to stay out of the shake up,
1t seems.
If John Savage does not keep his West
ern league club in Topeka this summer,
indications are that there Will be more
semi-pro organizations here than eyer
known before. 1t appears that every other
W. Id ball player in town is planning
to launch club.
And the semi-pro game would probably
flourish if it could get off on the right
foot But the principal stumbling block
still holds the lease on Western league
park and he will probably want stiff
| organization.
! Many basketball enthusiasts are coming
/ to the conclusion that the game will never
/ take its proper place in collegiate sports
until it is played regulation size court
/ in all schools. AS conditions now are
some teams have courts of farm di-
mansions. others have them small that
you couldn't whip a cat in them
A team that is used to playing on big
court is handicapped when it goes to
smaller one, and one used to a small play
ing area is lost on a larger one. Therefore,
it is hard to judge what a team can do
when it is playing away from home.
1t you'd be a difficult matter to make
all courts the same size because of the fact
that few gymnasiums are of the same di-
! mensfons About the only way it could
be done would be to erect superstructures
in the larger ones and give no recognition
to teams possessing the smaller ones.
| This would work a hardship on the little
schools. because, schools
have small courts are the ones that are
not wealthy enough to afford pretentious
make basketball their major sport. But
for the good of the game, there is no doubt
able able q 9''-''O'' SIG eO'-' Wei Os'ii
planning municipal ball park. The plan
calls for the park to be built with public
funds and to be used for play grounds
when the baseball team is not playing at
home. Dayton seems to be more enthusi-
astic than most minor league towns.
T. G. CIevenger. athletic director of X. s.
A. c., who was in Topeka with the Aggie
quintet Thursday night is very optimistic
over football prospects for next fall He
says he expects much better team than
the one of 1916. Several men of great
promise are coming up from the freshman
ranks
to schedule game with Nebraska. but
says he believes permanent relations have
2-year contract has been signed with the
Iowa school, and. in as much as Ames
seems to be conner, these games ought to
be important ones.
Dressing the part of a basketball referee
IS not always as easy as it may seem. E.
it isn't, and he is a bit worried because
he is afraid that the time will come when
he will have to carry a special trunk of
costumes with him.
"Quig" wears neatly pressed white flan-
mel trousers, tan shoes and usually a
white sport shirt. He is the only man on
the floor whose trousers cover every hair
of his lower extremities and he looks so
much like Beau Brummel that you would
never think a player would take him for
a member OF his team, but this sometimes
happens.
"Quig" usually wears white shirt be-
cause few players wear white jersies, but
sometimes they do and then there is al
ways trouble when this happens because
Quigley is the kind of official who believes
he is always in the thick of the fray.
and Ames ''Ouig' was dressed in his spick
and span and was expecting no trouble.
His white shirt was right from the laun-
Ames players, and before the game had
gone five minutes every Ames player had
taken the referee for player and thrown
and "Quig" found a green jersey that
solved the problem.
In the Washburn-Aggie game this week
; "Quig'' wore his usual white shirt and the
Washburn players also were dressed in
white. The same trouble occurred, but no
one had green shirt to lend and it was
self.
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