The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

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Lament of a Giant Fan.
Won are leader. John McGraw;
A staIwart with n staiwart jaw,
And vet L wonder why,
You let q lot of players go
Like Eddie Roush and Hefnie Groh
( As seasons scamper by. =
why did you part with kilduff, man?
He made a hit with every ian-
And why. oh, why. that day in Chi
Did you leave slim in there to ger
/ Too much is quite enough:
The Kilduff the Giant fans are still
! raving over is the little kansan VINO
/ played with Omaha IN the western
/ iaap1e two seasons ago. When Pa
/ RourLe was raving about him and try
ING to send him to the big leagues
I lot of Topekans couldn't see the klu
with the Washburn telescope Otn-
ers. however, including 6ll SIilet'
state printer. thought him the great
est infieider in the league and 1t seems
the Bill Smith crowd was about right
Some places they are holding school
six DAYS a week so that the students
can get to the farms earlier. In other
places the schools have closed down
I 70 save fuel and they will make up tAe
lost time by holding school later in
the summer. Strange times these.
Some Kansas colleges have made
war on athletics because they inter-
fere with military training and Others
have curtailed sports because OF the
war Yet. the service schools at West
Point and Annapolis are continuing
their sport activities as usual and most
of the big universities are doing like
wise.
Wonder if the Cadets and the Mid
ii mil
keep up their sports?
The organization of the>new Arizona
league by the Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas towns is one of the few encourage
ments minor league baseball has
known since last season when most of
! the small circuits went under
1t is not unlikely that the formation
of the new league is the forerunrer
of a revival of general interest to keep
the national pastime up to old stand
ards. The fact that newspaper men
Closer TO the front office than the
sporting desk gave encouragement
and assistance to the promoters of
the new league shows that they con-
slider baseball worth all the space it
takes up> on the sport page and that
they are willing to give it their per-
sonal attention and time in order to
keep their towns on the diamond map.
1t appears that no effort is to be
made TO give Wasfburn college a new
athletic director until the meeting of
the board of trustees which will be
/ held sometime in February What
basketball there is at the college is
now being handled by Professor De
! Benkalear, but there is much for a
general athletic man to do the rest
of the year in developing what track
material there is in school and plan
ming for next falls football
If successor to Doctor Kennedy
is not chosen before the early spring
the students will either have to take
the schedule arrangements into their
own hands or they may find it neces-
sary to take whatever games the other
schools wish to give them when a new
athletic director goes on the Job. 1t
Is understood that the only game
definitely arranged for by Doctor
Kennedy before his departure was
that with Kansas university. Other
tentative dates were discussed but il
cannot be expected that the leading
teams of the Kansas conference will
! consent TO leave matters up in the air
turnout the summer
Doctor Kennedy did not arrange
any definite dates because he said he
wanted to wait to see what the Kansas
Agg1es intended to do about PLAYING
ofre-ed the Aggies again. bus Wash
Durn refused to guarantee $1,000. as
IL was this guarantee that put the
school way in the hole last season and
that made 1t impossible to maintain a
BASKETBALL team without drawing on
FUNDS not taken in by the athletic as
ISOLATION.
Iopekans who are interested in see
ing revival of athletics should make
II point to give boost to the John
son-Todd efforts to establish an atl>
letic club Such an organization would
furnish a regular weekly attraction
that Will appeal to many sport fans.
ana Its operation would bring the
sport lovers together SO that they
could plan other activities In a wav
II would be something like a sport
booster institution and clearing
! mouse Tor ideas along the line of ath-
letic activities Also, it would have a
tendency to show that all of the local
sports have not gone to war and to
make the out-of-town guests who
might attend the smokers tell their
nelghbors there is something doing in
Topeka every week