The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
SPOR T DOPE
BY JACK KEENE.

The work or fight" order is not ex-
pected to interfere with the running
| of the international sweepstakes at
| Speedway park July %.
| Every driver who will compete and
| every man connected with the man
agemen is " ell over draft age.
The successful driver of the mod
| ern, high speed ma chine with its air.
plane type motor must possess excep-
tional Judgment and self-control that
comes only with mature years. The
| five entrants to qualify are:
Ralph milford, United States;
Louis Chevrolet, France; Arthur Du-
ray, Belgium; Dario Resta, England;
Ralph De Palma, Italy.
| Chevrolet is the daddy" of them
all, having just passed his fifty-third
birthday. The daring Frenchman has
| for more than twenty years and is
still flashing along with the best of
them.
Duray, who tho a native of Bel
| GUM, has just finished three and a
half years of fighting with the French
army. is 40 years old. He, too, has
| been driving for more than twenty
years, and in 1913 established the
worlds speed record of 147 miles an
| hour over a one kilometer course at
Ostend, France.
| De Palma is close to the 4o-year
mark, while Resta and Milford, the
| kids among the best drivers of to-
! day. are each 50 years old. --7nla
| Bob Larmore, the Cardinals util-
| ity infielder, who is the first young
man on record ever to play with a
| major league club while still a stu
dent in high school, is about to en-
1T in the navy.
| Ls.rmore first attained prominence
as an athlete at the Central High
school in st. Louis. This spring he
was given a trial with the Cardinals
with that club. He continued to pur-
sue his studies in the high school,
HOY. yer, and, upon the closing of the
i daily sessions, would make his way
to the ball park and don uniform.
A few weeks ago he was farmed
out to the FosutC-- club of the Texas
league, but when that organizat ton
suspended operations because of the
war. he was recalled by Jack Hen
bricks
Jim Rice has not decided as vet
whether he will resume crew coach
in,5 next year. The former Columbia
university instructor has a number of
s-nerous offers from the athletic
authorities at some of our largest
schools of learning in the east. 1t
is question of pa trio.ism with Rice.
Like many of his brother instruc-
tors ale reels that unless an open
declaration is soon forthcoming from
IL government officials at Washing
ton supporting all branches of athletic
activities then his work of co.. ching
a varsity crew will be of /. tie conse-
| quel-ces. If he does not sin up as a
crew coach he intends offering his SER
vices to Uncle Sam as an athletic in
structor.
Boston college is the latest school
of learning to announce a full sched-
ule of gridiron games for the COM
ing season. The Hub city collegians
made quite a record for themselves
during the past two years under the
guidance of Charley Brickley, former
Harvard STAR
A new mentor will have to be Sc
1ected in Brickley's place for the
coming fall, as the former Cambridge
halfback is now serving as a lieuten-
ant with Uncle Sans fighting forces.
Amherst college is to be repre-
sented on the gridiron next fall. The
New England faculty is of the opin-
ion that great service can be rem
dered the country by developing phys
ical fit lads to take the places of
those now fighting in the trenches.
No college has contributed larger
number of representatives to the
fighting forces than the famous New
England seat of learning. Every class
of the last twenty years has a repre-
sentative with the colors.