The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-
WESTERN LEAGUE WANTS.


WESTERN LEAGUE WANTS.
Dear Santa, am sick, they say;
AlthO league they call Class A,
am on my uppers. to speak,
| And that is why some aid 1 seek.
My wants for Christmas are but few,
But would like to ask of you:
A town to take the Denver club.
And to furnish Holland grub
A town to father Ducky Holmes
Some city where 1he good beer foams-
A half n million fans next year.
That's all L ask, Old Santa, dear.
That some town would be asked to take
the Denver club has been expected for a
long time, but the decision of the Western
! league TO drop Lincoln was a distinct sur
| prise.
petered after Nebraska went dry and the
Hrys say that war conditions must be to
plane lame -, Cy Sherman probably thinks the
Holmes Gays it is simply matter of Lin
coin not coming thru.
Lincoln has always been looked upon by
the outsider as one Of thes best sporting
owns , tor hts ITS size in the west But the
ten tired or backing loser all the time.
That is very likely the reason Lincoln
| petered and has failed to come thru
Aside from finding towns that will take
good money for them, all the w. L. mag
mates nave to do to be sure of s.
club club circuit is to provide homes for the
| seem to want to claim st. Joe
| YOUTHS LAST STAND.
Oh, Skinney, listen. did you know
| The ice is thicker than the snow;
Soldier creek is friz DER tight
The skating there is out of sight
What say you slSinney. let us play
That we are kids again today
Wen just play hockey on the boss,
Come on be game, you OIL plug boss!
| Wen do the figure eight again
III weave a grapevine like OF Hen
Wen write our names in letters bold,
! wen skate until our toes get cold!
Then we will build a great big fire
And sit around and smoke our brier-
Let's be young bIOods again. or Top
Come ON, forget about the shop!
One Of the saddest sights youth can wit
ness is an old stiff trying to be young again
on on, the ice, trying to cut the capers he once
did. Even portly old lady trying to fox
trot IS not equal to it
1t seems that President Tener will have a
fat job -unning the National league next
year. lie is to be an inactive prexy Just a
sort of general supervisor with nothing to
worry him except the flies and mosquitoes.
| Mike Ahearn veteran ks A. C. coach,
the best officials in the Missouri Valley
has broken into the sport writing game and
mas hon9 cree the kansas State GoIlegian
/
! at Manhattan almost since the first foot
! ball was brought to town and there is no
man more able to pick ar all-school team
In making his selection Mike regrets the
abandonment of the custom of picking all
school teams and after stating that he is
trying to do the impossible proceeds to
place the following in the gridiron hall Of
fame of the Agricultural college: Towner,
l. e.; Roots, l. t. Holmes, l. G.; Phelps, c.;
Roda, +. g: Gingery, r. t.; Skinner, /. e.
Bates, a.: Croyle, h.; Mallon, r. h.; Wells,
f. b.
"Horse Power Bates one of the most dis
| tinguished. Bates ran the Aggie team in
1907-S-9, and Mike says that he had every
thing a quarterback should have except
the ability to carry the ball. Roda, a mem
Der OF The team last season, also is called
the peer of all guards" joke Holmes,
now a captain in the coast artillery, is
Eddie Wells, last years All-Missouri VAL
ley fullback, is given the same position and
Mike says there has never been his equal
in school Skinner, another recent star,
was placed on one end with confidence
and Towner, 1910 star, is obviously given
the other wing position.
Twenty-Five Horses Bring $9s, $50.
New York. Dec. 15.-Twenty-three
thoroughbred horses were sold at
Durland's riding academy here for
$4,000. They were the property of
the late Oscar Lewisohn and the late
Schuyler L. Parsons. The top price
was s7,100, paid for Clematis II, by
John w. Considine, well known sports |