The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
Food for Fans
BY GEO. e. PHAIR.
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BUDDING 1t IN.
When 1 gaze upon a mao extremely wealthy
There is not a drop d envy in my soul.
l am not inclined 20 hate him or condemn
him or berate him,
Tho he owns enough to buy a ton of
coai'
1 am well content to let him have his mil
Be they honestly or crookedly begot.
My finger never itches for the touch count
And the thoughts of gilded mansions
move me not.
As open up the paper in the morn.
l am filled with Indignation as l pause in
OF a picture there that wounds me ike
'Tis picture of a sunny southern sea-
Where the palms are waving gently to
And it shows the rich mans daughters
splashing round in balmy waters
When the mercury at home is ten below.
There is no truth in the report that Jim
Billy Miske will fight Jim Flynn on Feb.
ID.
There must be a ot of money in the box
ing game these days when champion
bantamweight can sfford to keep two man
ayers
A team of semipro players defeated the
Northwest Sportsmen's club, to 1, in
hero of the day was the umpire, who called
the game at the end of the fifth inning.
Weather is divi1ed into two classes-cold
Ancient History.
Two months, and then the bush recruit
Will set the world aflame
And linger till he feels the boot
And passes from the game.
Two months and then the scribes will wall:
'Ty Cobb is slowing upt''
Altho it was an ancient tale
When Hector was pup.
1t is. said that Phil Ball has not decided
whereethe Browns will train this Spring.
Just as if it made any difference.
Connie Mack having picked his training
camp, all he needs is a ball club.
Ten years from today Eddie Plank will
threaten to retire from baseball.
Wagnerian opera may hit 800 in the
Frightfulness League but it has nothing on
day
Safe and Sane.
A soldier from Chicago read a paper fresh
While Bertha Krupps and hand erenades
were bursting. DER his dome.
the FOAM
Clarence Rowland names seven teams
as possible pennant contenders in the
American League. The first subscriber to
guess the name of the other team will be
given a 1917 pass to shibe Park j,
A motor car, tho built without a fault,
In these weird days is scarcely worth its
Unless you eat and sleep and works in it,
Or keep it in safe-deposit vault.
Hen Ford has built bunch of new ma
ehines
To circumvent the Teuton submarines.
rs captured by fleet of canned sardines."
In Germany the end is drawing near;
The populace is growing dry and sere
With all their kultur and efficiency,
They cannot find substitute for beer
The baseball expert takes his pen in mitt
And tells the world that Fielder Jones has
1t is a worn and oft-repeated tale,
And yet~it always seems to make a hit.
The baseball players heart is light and
While magnates gently amputate his pay,
For baseball players love that little
And wave their hats and shout. Hip. Hip
Hooray!
No cruel cut in salaries is due
70 Connie Mack's dilapidated crew
He'd have-to use a razor If he tried
To cut an athletes salary in two.
No bush league fight promoter came to
bat
And spent a hundred thousand dollars flat
To drag Jess Willard in the boxing
ring
Now tell me, reader, whaddaya think o.
that n
The grounding SOW his shadow on the
fence
And swiftly turned around and beat it
hence.
He won't come out again till next July.
II he has common, ordinary sense.
There comes an old and we'll remembered
pome
That echoes and rc-echoes thru my dome,
For when the women folks are cleaning
house.
Believe me- Steve there Is no place like
home.