The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

The sure thing boys who have
been laying their bat skins on the
Kansas Aggies to just clean up the
earth with the Jayhawkers when the
two teams meet at Manhattan next
Saturday are beginning to wonder if
they have been doing the wise thing
as a result of the showing K. U. made
Saturday when she downed Drake Z to
0, scoring a touchdown in the final
quarter on a 25-yard pass by Pringle,
Lonborg taking the oval behind the
goal line after it had hit an Ames
man.
OF course, the Aggies are still IA
vorites, but when such eminent judges
as Bonnie Owen, Oklahoma university
coach, who was in Lawrence Saturday,
declare X. U. has a good team and
dangerous one, it must be admitted
the Clevenger Farmers will not have
a sure thing against them.
From all accounts, the Jayhawkers
showed a great improvement over the
game they put up against every other
opponent they have gone against, and
they certainly must have played much
better than against Washburn when
their team work was ragged and their
machine appeared to be in a very di-
lapidated state.
getting som ething more of a team
than she had at the start of the sea
son. While Drake is not strong, she
certainly is stronger than William
Jewell and the Tigers were barely able
to defeat Jewell eleven, while they
won from Drake, 40 to 0. All of the
Valley teams seemed to show i'm
provement last week except Nebraska
and the Huskers were outclassed prob
ably more than outplayed when the
Michigan team defeated them 20 to 0.
The battle for the Kansas con-
ference title seems to have narrowed
down to the Hays Normal and the
Emporia Normal team, and it seems
to be the opinion of coaches officials
and followers that the Speer men
have the edge on the Hargiss Teach
ers. Hays has only Cooper, Bethany
and Salina Wesleyan to play and these
are all weak teams. Emporia, the
other hand, has Washburn, Fair
mount, Baker and the c. of E. to go
against.
Many dopsters were expecting
Southwestern to put the Emporia
team out of the running last week
But they were unable to perform the
task and now it seems that Hays will
have to rely upon Washburn or the
c. of E. to do this. If the honor goes
to Hays, however, it will be more or
less OF paper title because the Speer
men have not met the best teams in
the conference. But if it goes to Bill
Hargiss it will have been justly earn
ed, as his eleven has all of the hard
fighters on its schedule.
Rain McCord. a Topeka high school
graduate. bids fair to become one of
DR.. Kennedy's best backfield men
McCord is light and a little under.
size, but he has the stuff in him and
showed that he is not afraid to let
it come out when he was sent in
against Baker Saturday. He made
one of the prettiest tackles of the
game and managed to get effectively
| into most every play.
The biggest surprise on the foot
ball cards Of the state last week was
the overwhelming defeat Coach
Bearg's high school team gave the
strong Ottawa highs The best indi-
cation of Bearg's ability as a coach
is the results he gets, and now that
his lads have licked their most form
liable enemy it seems they have a
mighty good chance to go thru the
season without losing a game. Here's
that In