The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-23
Gibbons Wins Des Moines Bout.
Food for Fans
BIZ GEO. e. PHAIR.
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Ode to a Spring Breeze.

Ode to Spring Breeze.
o vagrant Spring,
Thou careless thing
Thou causest me to sigh
Why doest thou thrust
bunch of dust
Within my good left eye?
I don't complain
About thy rain
That makes the greensward damp.
When thou dost flick
Thy dust pan in my lamp.
The happy thrill
That used to fill
Ones soul is weak and wan.
One cannot siag
OF thee, sweet Spring,
Without ones goggles On.
Dust like rain. falleth alike on the just
and on the unjust, but you can't send your
pressed.
We are just beginning to realize the
hardships and vicfssitudes of baseball
manager We are now trying to get some
work out of southpaw type machine.
! It is reported that one of the White Sox
recruits ran taxicab all winter. Why
| does he waste his time playing baseball?
Or maybe he has enough money to>take a
| summer vacation.
II your dome's not constructed of bone,
And the kaiser can't call you his own
gu Will calmly arrange
To corral your spare change
And subscribe to the liberty loan.
Even with heavyweight championship
/ battle impending, it sometimes is hard
to forget that there is sort of quarrel
somewhere in France.
| When Champions Meet.
Battling McQuaid and Jess willard met
Two champions, one champion pugilist
of the wo1d and one champion toreador- Of
Madison st., exchanged words.
"A glass of water replied Jess.
Them were all the words they spoke but
| that was wrapped up in them few words
| If this were a magazine story, we should
say their eyes met But this is a truth
| Ting McQuaid has a boil the back of
his neck, and nobody with a boil on the
in the eye without the aid Of periscope.
81 can remember the time said Bat, as
the champion pugilist Of the universe de-
he was a regular champion. He has the
| longest reach ever seen on any man.
| That was before they cut out, the free
lunch.
He Cometh.
Wen find him in the distant wilds
OF lonely Borneo.
Wen hear Of him in Singapore,
| In Troy and Kokomo.
In Kankakee and Timbuctoo
And Canton, Ohio.
In almost any hamlet on
The celebrated map
We shall not fail to run
A poor but honest yap.
Who has a purse to offer for
The willard Fulton scrap.
baseball fans to get home before midnight
when a spitball artist is on the slab.
Fred Dinger is champion shooter OF
| Pennsylvania. It is said that his middle
name is Hum.
The first round of the worlds heavy.
weight championship battle went to Full.
blow on the typewriter.
oIeep.
80 sleep. it is gentle thing
A poet warbled long ago,
4 And men sit beside the ring
And watch wrestling show.
Leon Trotzky calls himself an interna.
tionalist, but we have heard him called
other things.
What with baseball. boxing, etc. etc.
etc, it is hard to understand how the army
gets along without sporting editor.
Rube Oldring plans to come back grad
ually. If he makes good with the Athletic,
he will try for a job with a big league
team.
Busy.
How doth the little Joie Ray
Improve each shining minute
| Compiling records every day
The busy bee amt mute.
In some cases the word bonus" is pro
! nouneed with great, emphasis on the frs
| syllable.
! Lee Foil has simple set of trainin.
rules. Use your common, sense" b.
says But what about his southpaws?
Nowadays, when they court-martial a sol
!; der, they can sentence him to umpire
. ball game.
The Manager Complains.
| Multiplication is vexation.
|, | Division is as bad,
) The rule of three doth puzzle me,
, But holdoGts drive me- mad.
Bomb Proof.
Altho bomb is dangerous. q thing o
! mortal dread.