The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-09
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-

Wnat i nave GOT Oh Tap.
We hate you, you old cabbage head,
And hope there's no love broke;
To us you'd look lots better dead,
You dirty, cat-eyed soak
Say, Bill, you give as many pains
when lies pour thru your lips.
1t seems you're just free from brains
AS rattle snakes from hips
You nyer-Iipped old sour kraut,
You crazy lop-eared Hun,
You chisel-chinned old down and out,
Your race will soon be run.
We want to make this plain enough,
You Iow-lived stinkin' pup!
We're comm over strong and rOugn
And beat your Grub Worms up.
Wen never smoke our peacefui pipes.
You Iow-1unged ugly bear!
Until we've raised the Stars and Stripes
Above your palace there.
Not till to Pershing you have bowed
so ana al Pa yoa Sesr eIsared away the cloud
That France cannot forget:
In less than five minutes after he
first laid eyes on him, an observing
Topekan discovered that President
Dickerson, of the Western league
bears a striking resemblance to Presl-
dent Ban Johnson, of the American
league.
The discovery may not deserve to
be classed with that famous North
Pole discovery made by Doctor COOK.
But President Dickerson is a guest OF
felt the right to the courtesy that goes
with gentlemanly hospitality.
The careers w. L. prexy and the
A. L. czar, however, do run parallel
in that both were formerly sport
writer's But a diagonal line bisects
the comparison right there. Critics
declare that Dicks Dope" was real
sport meat and that Bans bunk con-
tanned more buShwah than some OF
the wild. statements he has made IN
the last few years.
When the Kansans Go Over.
They go wild, simply wild over 1t.
They get mad, just as mad as they can CIV
The tall Hun and the small Hun,
They know they'll have to all run
When Kansas troops begin to do their dr.
A great many of Jess Wizards Kan
sas friends are wondering if the Kan
sas champion is really getting a. square
deal from the press and pubilc these
DAYS Said friends are inclined TO
think there are two sides to, every
question and there is bare possibility
the former Emmett citizen may De
lust a little bit human and wee
might right in his attitude towards the
world and the fistic circles.
While the metropolitan sport writer's
are comparing Willard disparag1ngly
with the late John L. Sullivan and are
accusing him of sidestepping bouts ana
caring nothing for anything that does
not have the dollar sign attached, MS
Kansas friends are rather inclined to
take his part and find a reason for
his action and his inaction.
The death of John L. Sullivan has
given sport writer's occasion to observe
that he fought all corners ana Went
around hunting fights and bribing as
pirants to meet him while Willard
has made little effort to get matches
and has insisted that his next oppo-
nent must be worthy of consideration.
The Kansas friends of Willard beheve
the public should back him up in his
demands that his opponent be worthy
and capable of putting up a fight that
would give the spectators their mon
ey's worth They point out that 1t
would have been easy for wizard TO
have staged many bouts within the
last wear with mediocre men, but they
also point out that the public would
have been stung if it had patronized
these affairs and that Willard has
done a great, deal for the game by not
putting himself in the attitude of a
CRATER
As for the comparison in popular
tv between Willard and some of the
former champions, the Kansan's sup
porters are inclined to believe great
deal of Wizards lack of popularity
comes from his refusal to be good
fellow easy mark. Jess admitteo pc
fore he won, the championship and
afterwards that he was not in the ring
game for his health, and, unlike Sull1- |
van and some of the other former title |
holders, he has religiously guarded his |
earnings and has handled his affairs
in a businesslike way 1t cost Suil-
van a million dollars to find out that a |
pig part of his popularity came from |
he fact that his followers found it to
heir personal advantage to worship |
him When his fortune disappeared |
ne found that the majority OF those |
who slobbered over him and tralied at
MS heels also went other ways. Also, |
ne found that buying drinks for the |
world and trying to- drink with the |
world did not pay.
+ Willard learned these things from
observation and did not have to go |
hru the mills of experience. He has
lot wanted popularity that has to be |
bought with his hard earned dollars;
lie has not tried to bride the public |
nto admiring him; nor has he been |
willing victim of the multitudes that
nave lEiGu 70 camp DIT IllS llSclo All Vi
Ter that they might get a few pick
ngs. Disappointed. these men who
would admire him for money and who |
would idolize him if he would make 1t |
worth while. follow the bent of their
breed and advertise the man they can
not master as a piker, loafer, a |
pinch penny and a champion of small |
,aliber There is little doubt but that
hey also would knock Willard if he |
ought every man who would meet
lim and scraped the prize ring for |
every purse he could get his mitts on.
: Willard may not be the greatest
champion the ring has ever had Many
If his Kansas admirers admit that he
isn't. But, at the same time,
hey point proudly to the fact that he |
has sense enough not to fall for the |
tickle glare, that he is leading a sane,f
sensible life and that he is saving his |
money and looking to the morrow Just