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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
KAN.-NEB. TODAY
Game Deciding Factor in Mo.
Valley Championship.
Ohio and Illinois, Both Unde-
feated, Play at Columbus.

Chicago, Nov. 17.-Chick Harley
and his chorus of Ohio staters were
believed to be on the verge of another
western conference championship to-
day.
They will meet Illinois IN their own
bailiwick at Columbus and the betting
odds of 10 to in favor of Chick
hardly represent the difference be-
tween the two teams in the opinion or
neutral football fans.
Ohio state and Illinois are two or
the three undefeated Big Ten elev-
ems. The other-Chicago- be
taclling an even money proposition
at Minneapolis. where it meets Min
uesota The Maroons haven't de-
feated the Gophers since 1919, and
last year took a 40 to o licking.
In winning last years title, ONO
state managed to squeeze out Z TO b
victory over Illinois but the BUCKEYES
are reputed to be stronger this year
while Illinois makes no such claims.
Game at Lawrence.
Other conference teams playing to-
dav are Northwestern and Iowa
which hook up at Evanstown; Purdue,
which meets Wabash at Lafayette ana
Indiana which takes on Depauw at
bloomington None of these games
has a bearing on the title.
Kansas and Nebraska will go a lons
vyav toward settling the Missouri val
lev championship at Lawrence:
Arkansas and Oklahoma will pro
vide the feature contest in the sou'H-
west. .r,al both
If which came within an ace OF mex
Ing Michigan early in the season, WI
decide the small college title OF tne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
NORMALS 10, BAKER 0
Methodists Lost Hard Fought Game
at ,JimpOria.

Emnoria, Nov. 17.-Relying on
straight football. the Kansas State
Normals outplayed and Won a hard
fought game from Baker University
Friday, 10 to 0. The normal schools
first score was made in the first
quarter by WEIGH, quarter back, who
booted field goal from the 2O-yard
line.
BY a series of line bucks in the third
quarter the Normals carried the ball
to the 5-yard line, from which Finley,
halr pack, rounded left end for a
touchdown Baker threatened in the
last few minutes of play, when by
successful use of the forward pass the
ball was carried to the Normal LIZARD
line, only to be lost on downs Off
Gals Allen, referee; E w.
Cochrane, Kansas City, umpire.
Schabinger. head linesman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
ToDAY's FOOTBALL GAMES.

Kansas vs. Nebraska at Lawrence.
Washington U. VS.. Missouri q St.
Louis.
Drake VS., Simpson at Des Moines.
Arkansas VS.. Oklahoma at Fort
Smith.
Oklahoma Aggies vs. Henry Kendall
at saltwater
ST. Mary's VS.. Ottawa at St. Mary's.
st. Louis U. vs. Rose Poly at Terre
Haute.
Minnesota VS.. Chicago at Minneap-
oils.
Ohio State vs. Illinois at Columbus
Notre Dame VS.. Michigan Aggies at
Notre Dame.
Northwestern VS.. Iowa at Evanston.
Indiana VS.. DePauw at Bloomington
case vs. Mount Union at Alliance.
Coe VS.. Cornell at Cedar Rapids
Creighton VS., Haskell at Omaha
Kansas Wesleyan VS.. Fort Hays
Normal at Salina.
Oregon VS.. California at Eugene.
Washington State VS.. Montana at
Pullman.
Dubuque vs. Morningside at Du-
buque..
Utah Aggies VS.. Colorado U. at Lo-
gan.
Western Reserve VS.. Heidelberg at
Cleveland.
Oberhn VS.. Ohio at Oberlin.
Oregon Aggies vs.. Idaho at Pen
In the East.
Army VS.. Bowdoin at West Point
Navy VS.. Villanova at Annapolis.
Pennsylvania VS.. Michigan at Phil
adelphia.
Syracuse VS. Colgate a Syracuse.
Brown VS.. Colby at Providence.
Cornell VS.. Fordham at Ithaca.
Dartmouth VS.. Tufts at Manchester.
Gettysburg VS.. Bucknell at Harris
burg.
Haverford VS.. John Hopkins at
Haverford.
Lafayette VS. Albright at Easton.
Lehigh VS.. Pennsylvania Military
Institute at South Bethlehem.
Penn State VS.. Maryland State at
State College.
Rutgers VS.. Trinity at New Bruins
wick
Springfield Y. NJ c. A. VS.. Massa-
chusetts Aggies at Springfield.
Pittsburg VS.. Carnegie Tech at
Pittsburg
Vermont vs. Norwich at Burlington
West Virginia VS.. W. & j at Fair
mount
williams VS.. Amherst at Williams
town.
In the South.
Georgia Tech VS.. Georgia at Atlanta.
Tulane vs. Rice Institute at New
Orleans.
Virginia VS.. Vanderbilt at Char
lottesville.
Louisville vs.. Georgetown at George
town.
Kentucky W. Alabama at Lexington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
C. WEBB MURPHY may BACK
OUTLAW BASEBALL LEAGUE

Chubby Chawles Murphy, reput-
ed to have run d shoestring into
fortune as owner or part owner of
the Cubs, is threatening to throw
some of his dough away, if recent
reports from the Windy City can be
credited
Murphy, it is said, has a deep,
dark plot in the Matching for the
formation of a third big league, and
he doesn't give a continental
whether or not his league is recog-
nized by the powers that be.
Being an experienced baseball
man, it hardly sounds reasonable
that Murphy should plan the for
nation of an outlaw circuit. He sat
back and looked on when the ill
fated Feds took their fling at it,
and he noted what happened to
them. That he should want to
risk his ''hard-earned" bankron is
hard to believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Western football appears to be way
out in front of eastern football this
season. Not only has football interest
been keener in the west but on the
several occasions when western teams
have battled with teams of the east
the latter have been more or less
completely bumped.
Michigans handling of Cornell was
fair sample of the situation and tho
it is admitted that CornelTs team was
not it's usual gridiron machine this
should not discredit Michigan's vic
tory. Yost has developed one of the
greatest teams this fall it has been
his pleasure to drill N some seasons,
and that in spite of the fact that he
started the season with small hopes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
HOME COMING AT X. Z.
Scat sale for Today's Game on NC
Cook Field Breaks Record.

Cook Field Breaks Recoro'
Lawrence. Kan. Nov. 17.-Gradu-
- 1d former students of the Uni
1,ersity of KansaS-hundreds OF men y
are in Lawrence today, renewing GU
ac0uaintances and searching out spoIs
~ we're familiar during college days
Today is .4home- coming" day at tne
university. also the day OF the Dig
footbalI game of the season, that De-
tween the university of Kansas eleven
and the university of Nebraska agsre-
CATION.
rance football game were expected TO
he broken py the time the two eleV-
ems trot out on the field this after
noon More than six thousand tick
cts had been disposed of early IN the
week and there were many large Or
ders to fill, in addition, heavy gaze
receipts were expected. w. o. Hamll-
ton, manager of athletics, expected the
proceeds of the game to surpass those
of the game two years ago, when the
returns exceeded $4,000 with talr
weather prevailing, it was expected
that hundreds of football fans would
motor to Lawrence from Kansas
CITY. Topeka and other nearby cities
for the game.
In order to take care of the large
crowd, ala box seats have been con-
structed on McCook field. Arrange
ments have been made to have the Ne
braska rooters seated in the center of
the north bleachers while the Kansas
supporters will have the south bleach
ers.
A hundred extra ushers have been
provided to seat the crowd. Special
arrangements have been made to han
die the throngs at the close of the
provided by which the spectators may
leave the field
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

from the best of material at hand
the east might have given the west
sitter competition. Yale, Princeton
and Harvard stars of last season have
marched away to war, but SO they
have from most every other school in
the east and west.
Pittsburg is one team in the east
that looks well able to deal with any
thing the west has to send against it,
and it looks fairly certain that the
Pitt team will complete it's third sue
cessiVe season indicated. A grand
contest between east and west has
been proposed in a game between Pitts
burg and Michigan and the dope in
dicates that such an affair would be
one of the most exciting of the sea-
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
'GHABODS LOST AGAIN
Score Was to O-Grandy's Toe
Did It.

Wichita, Kan, Nov. 1.-THE
mighty Washburn Ichabods received
more tutorage in an art of brains and
Drawn Friday afternoon. The Icha-
bods tangled with the Paramount col
lege, Wichita, Wheat Shockers and
were whitewashed while their oppon-
ents piled up. a score of g.
The FairThOunt score was the re-
suit of two field goals. This method
was reported to by the disciples of
the Peerless Princess" college after
the Washburn line held so tight that a
regular cut and dried touchdown was
out of the question.
Grandy, star left end, made both
goals for the Wheat Shockers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

There are no individual stars of great
brilliance among the Wolverines, but
the teamwork and high class football
played is of the sort that is seldom
surpassed. Every man in the Michi-
gan squad shows the result of grand
training and even the substitutes sent
into the Cornell game displayed ster-
ling football qualities.
Notre Danes victory over the Army
is another triumph for the west. In
spite of all that the star Oliphant
could do, Notre Dame had the bulge
on her adversary thruout
The chief reason for the superiority
of western football this season is of
course the absence from the game
of Yale Harvard and Princeton. Had
these formed regular varsity teams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
High school Games

Chanute 81, Altoona 0.
Beloit So, Minneapolis 7.
Excelsior Springs 26, Olathe 0.
Burlington IA, Yates Center Z.
jefferson City 81, Sedalia 0.
Chase County SO, Florence o.
Trenton 6, Plattsburg 0.
Atwood 8, Oberlin 6.
Kansas City Kan, Sc. Atchison o..
Lincoln %, Beatrice 8.
Guthrie 30, Oklahoma City Z.
Dickinson county highs 30, Hays 0.
LecOmpton IS, Assumption II.
Clay Center 100, Junction City o.
Valley Falls 54, Tonganoxie 0.
Hutchinson so, Salina 0.
Denison IS, Hoyt 0.
Holton SO, Atehison county 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
FORM BASKETBALL LEAGUE.
Six High Schools in Southeast Part of
State Arrange Schedule.


lola, Kan, Nov. IA basketball
circuit embracing six high schools of
the southeastern section of Kansas
was formed recently at a meeting of
the respective school representatives
mere. The towns included in the cir
cult are Parsons, Chanute, Pittsburg,
independence, Fort Scott and lola.
Problems of the new major high
school basketball league were discuss
ed and delegates drew for opening
games 1t was decided that the home
team should pay the visiting aggre-
CATION S25 in order to guarantee ex-
penses for the trip. The. league sea-
son will open January and close
March 8, one game will be played
each week, and no game can be can
celled without the consent of the
league officials. The members of the
league are free to participate in
tournaments and other sport events
not connected with the league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
OMAR TURF KING
Viau's Imported Racer Best
3-Year-0ld of Season.
Veioek Does Not Consider
HOurless in Same Class.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, Nov. 17.-Omar Khay-
yam. Wilfred Viau's imported son of
Marco. was the best three-year-old
on the turf this season.
Some followers of the ponies will
dispute this statement and point to
the recent match race at Laurel,
which was won by August Belmonts
Hourless. as proof that Hourless is
the master of the Kentucky Derby
winner
But on performances this season
Omar has the call, and it is no more
than fair that he should be given the
title as the champion three-year-old
of 1917.
Omar lost the match race to Hour
less because he was overworked- Wise
old horsemen who have followed the
game for>years sat in the stands or
decorated the rail when Hourless gal
race, and the consensus of opinion
among them was all in Omar's favor,
even though he lost.
Consistent Winner.
In sizing up the two colts it must
be remembered that Omar Khayyam
was a consistent winner all season,
After winning the Kentucky Derby
he was brought to the Eastern tracks
and worked consistently in every race
he ran.
During the summer he defeated
HourleSs, among other great colts in
classy fields. Spur and Campfire were
among his victims this season, and
he broke the track record at Belmont
for mile and three-quarters. When
he first met Hourless he won by
nose and there were many who said
he was lucky to win. Yet it must be
remembered that while Omar was be-
ing shipped around the country Hour
less was being groomed for this race
and had had at least two solid weeks
of careful training, while Omar spent
a lot of his time in a horse car and
jumped from one climate to another.
Viau Too Confident
Wilfred Viaus supreme confidence
in Omar Khayyam is believed to have
been the real cause of his defeat in
Maryland. Had Viau insisted that
the match be made for a later date
there are many who believe that the
Kentucky Derby winner would have
cantered home in front of Belmont's
flier.
A big point in Omar Khayyam's
in any kind of going. He doesn't
seem to care a tinker's durn whether
track is heavy or fast, and he is
big and strong enough to push his
nose under the wire in front of most
any field when the going is muddy.
Hourless, on the other mitt, never
starts in heavy going. He must have
fast track to show his best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

duration of the war. a position to
assist in directing athletics and the
physical education of the $4,000 men
at the Great Lakes Naval Training
station.
George ''Potsy'' Clark, who was Oh
colts assistant last year, is a second
Lieutenant at Camp Funston. Leon
B. McCarty former coach of the
freshman team, is a first sergeant in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

a company of Kansas enginee :
This was Olcott's third year at KAN
sas university. He coached football
teams and weight men for the field
events. This tall he put his football
squad thru a period of military drill
at the end of each days practice. 3
ADDITIONAL SPORT WILL
BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
SETS NEW WORLD RECORD.
De Palma's "Lil,erty Motor Covers
6S3 Miles at los Miles an Hour.

6SS Miles at los Miles an Hour.
New York, Nov. 17.-Ralph De
Palma, veteran auto speed driver,
holds new record today.
The Italian drove a Packard car,
fitted with Liberty motor, distance
of 633.12 miles in six hours, breaking
the record for that time, which had
been jeintly held by Dario Resta,
Gene Chassagne and Leo Guinness
De Paima's face was bleeding from
contact with cold wind that swept
the Sheepshead Bay speedway when
he made his first stop after two hours
of driving.
7 De Palma's average was 1866 miles
an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
HAYS 80, WESLEYAN O
Northwestern Kansas Squad Had Easy
Time With Weak Salinans.

Salina, Kan, Nov. 1.-THE Hays
Normal eleven won another easy
game Friday, defeating the Kansas
Wesleyan aggregation, 20 to 0. Welty's
long end runs were the features of the
game. The Coyotes could not stop the
husky Tiger funback. Penalties were
frequent on both sides. Wesleyan
tried many passes, but put only one
over, and the Normal schools last
score resulted from an intercepted
pass, Welty running forty yards for a
touchdown.
Friday Results.
Paramount S, WashbuFn 0.
Kansas State Normal School 10,
Baker o.
Hays Normal School 80, Kansas
Wesleyan 0.
Bethany 7, State Manual Training
Normal School, Pittsburg, 0.
T. c. u. So, Austin College 0.
William Jewell SO. Westminster o.
Cape Girardeau Normal School 80
Springfield Normal School 0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
BETHANY 7, MANUAL 0
Swedes Outweighed and Outplayed
Pittsburg Normals.

Pittsburg, Kan, Nov. 17.-Bethany
college defeated the State Manual
Training Normal school to here
Friday. The line plunges and end
runs of the visitors were more effect
i've than the passing on which the
locals largely relied Bethany out
weighed the Manuals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
DIES FOOTBALL GAME
Hastings, Neb., High School Player
Died on the Field.

Hastings, Neb., Nov. 17.-Roscoe E.
Battan a Hastings high school boy,
was killed Friday in a football game.
In intercepting an opponent he re-
ceived a blow which produced paraly-
sis of the heart, and he died within
short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Baseball fans need not worry about the
insurgents of the minors starting an OUT
law circuit Even if Ban johnson goes to
France as a private they'll be afraid he'll
come back to get EN-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Jack Veiock, of the I. N. s., reports that
Eddie Cicotte is working on a camOuflage
ball for 1915 He says it will float up to
the plate looking like a navy bean. Maybe
some Boston player will try to eat it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

Some one said that the difference between
golf and $500 is that in golf you try to
get into the hole. And in 5000 clubs are
seldom to be picked as you choose 'em.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
Sport Wheezes
by CIUG-

Do You Know Him?
He longs to be soldier brave
To help defeat the Hun,
He says he'd like to help ia save
His country with a gun.
He does not dread to lose his life
That does not hold him back
He knows that he can leave his wife
With her dear brother, Jack
But he just knows II he gets in
The war will end before
He learns the way to hold his chin
Or wave a semaphOre.
He knows that he would be too late
To help them cross the Rhine,
So that Is why he will await
The draft to get in line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The Washburn college football team has
only two more games to play before laying
away the moIeskins for the winter. One
of these will be staged at Emporia and the
other here Turkey day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17
WAR GETS ATHLETIC PROPS.
Three of X. US Athletic Directors
Are Doing Military Service.

Lawrence, Kan, Nov. 1.-THE war
has taken three heads of Kansas uni
versity'S athletic department Her
man Olcott, coach of the universities
football eleven, has accepted, for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

IA.
Number of games won by Kansas, 9
Total number of points scored by
Nebraska, 265.
Total number of points scored by
Kansas, 1853.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The Third Major league,
Like the dream of the Hun,
Went smash on the rocks
Just as soon as begun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

The magnates who were trying to revolu-
tionize the minor leagues and who got cold
feet might find a trip to Russia beneficial
to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

If only six towns are to start in the
Western league next season it is good
bet Topeka will not be one of them. Denver
and st. Joe are probably among the other
towns that will not buy chips.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17


The last appearance of the Ichabods here
promises to draw the biggest crowd of
several seasons. In fact, it will have to
draw large attendance for the Washburn
athletic committee to pull out on it as the
Kansas Aggies have been given the biggest
guarantee ever made by Washburn to get
a game.
Dr. Kennedy and several Washburn girls
have been working on scheme to make
the advance ticket sale large and it is
probable that the fair cO-eds will make
house to house canvass selling the paste
boards.
"Of course, there is a possibility that we
will be able to beat the Aggies," DR.. Ken
nedy SAYS. IF our boys get to going good
and the Clevenger men let up, as they prob
ably will in their training we will have an
excellent chance to hold them to even
terms at least"
The Aggies do not play any more con-
ference games and this is liable to keep
them from working hard the rest of the
season. Washburn and the Empor1a Nor
mails are the only opponents left on their
schedule They are booked to play the
Normals at Manhattan next Thursday.
Kansas university will play only one
more game after today's tilt with Nebraska
The Jayhawkers will be entertained by
Missouri at Columbia Thanksgiving and
they hope to have the time of their lives.
That Neilsens men will be able to twist
the Tiger tails for several touchdowns
seems certain, judging from the poor show
ing Missouri has made But, 1t must be
, remembered that Missouri always plays her
always plays her best game against Ne
braSka.
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-03-12

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