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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Baseball Pitchers Much Better
Than They Used To Be.
1917 Was Banner Year for the
Mound Stars.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, Jan. 14.-American
league pitchers had a mighty good
year.
The 1917 averages show an increase
in pitching effectiveness over 1915,
and whether or not trick deliveries
are responsible. the fact remains that
the beavers in the Johnson circuit are
getting harder to beat as the seasons
roll on.
AS compared to- 1916 there were
twenty four pitchers in the American
league this year who allowed less than
two and one-half runs per nine innings
against seventeen last year. And eight
hurlers gave up less than two runs
per game, against five who held orpo-
nentS to less than pair of markers
in the 1916 campaign
Not All Tricks.
Loud yells against tricks of pitching,
such as Eddie Cicotte's mythical
shine ball. are heard nearly every
JASON, but while at least one pitcher
and usually consistent winners
made the target for criticism, it is
pretty generally agreed that the best
of the pitchers today are better than
the topnotchers of a few years ago.
and this solution sounds like a logical
|, one.
AS long as the spitball is allowed
to live the pitchers are going to have
an edge on the batters. The splitter
is regular ghost ball when a hurler
has the proper control of it. It does
lot of weird things as il comes float
ing up to the plate, and when mixed
up with an assortment of good
hooks" and a change of pace it is GER
tainly an asset to the man on the
mound.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
FOR FINISH FIGHT
$40 Peace Until Overwhelming
Victory" Urges L. II.
Whole War Over Again ii
Peace Is IncOnclusive.

New York, Jan. 14.-America must
accept no peace except the peace of
overwhelming victory" Theodore
Roosevelt said in an address Saturday
night at a dinner of the Ohio society
of New York.
ITO accept on inconclusive peace,
the former president said, would
mean the whole war would have to be
fought over again by ourselves and our
children. Those who now demand
such peace are not only the enemies
of America but of democracy thru
out the world and stand on the level
of the Bolshevil<i. who have betrayed
both Russia and her allies to the mill
taristic and capitalistic autocracy of
the HohenzCllerns."
The Test of Justice.
Unless both Belgium and France
are restored and Unidentified" Colonel
Roosevelt said, Justice will not have
prevailed
The expediting of war preparations
was urged by the speaker. who de-
clared to refuse to see and to point
OUT the countrys failure in this re-
spect -iS both silly and unpatriotic."
ITO permit them to go uncorrected,"
he said, lis to play the German game
in the most effective manner possible
1t is no mere accident that has made
all the pro-German organs in the press
clamor against the men who dare to
point out our shortcomings; for the
pro- Germans know well that the ruth
less enemies of this country, whom
they serve as far as they dare. desire
nothing SO much as to see this country
afraid to acknowledge and make good
its shortcomings and these pro-Ger-
mans cloak their traitorous aid to
Germany under the camouflage of
pretended zeal to save American Off
Gals from just criticism
Colonel Roosevelt said America was
wise to make its ultimate aim "Such
military and industrial preparedness
as shall save us from ever again being
caught pin such shape as to be helpless
to protect ourselves" In this conEec-
ton he reiterated his advocacy of uni
verSal and military training. THE
training camps of today he said, F"are
huge universities of American citizen
ship and it will be crime if they are
ever discontinued"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

service at the bar and not thru cleo
ton to a place on the bench. lie was
never a candidate for office, altho ne
was one of the most widely known at
torneys in the state
In 1885 Judge Lindsay and his FAM
ily came to Kansas from Indianapolis
and settled in Medicine Lodge. then
one of the bad" towns of Kansas and
later famous as the home of Senator
Long, Jerry Simpson, Carrie Nation
and other famous kansans. After a
short stay in Medicine Lodge, Judge
Lindsay settled on farm near Lakin,
Kearny county. He went thru the
county seat fight there and helped
land the court house for Lakin. Later
he was associated with the late Sam
wood in the county seat troubles in
Stevens and other counties of the
southwest.
When Judge Lindsay same to To-
peka in 1890. he engaged in private
practice, altho he soon became ldentl-
fled with the work of the State Tenn
perance union and in recent years
was one of the men directly response
BILE for the troubles of the Kansas
iointist and bootlegger. Judge Lind
say prosecuted liquor cases in almost
every county in the state. After he
became an assistant attorney general.
he spent weeks in the bad lands" of
Cherokee and Crawford counties and
prosecuted scores of law violators in
LeavenUorth, Atchison and Wyandotte
counties.
Judge Lindsay was born in Sharps-
vile. Ind. January ! 5, 1855. Had he
lived until Tuesday he would have
celebrated his siXty-third birthday an
niversary. He was a graduate of the
St. Louis law school. a Scottish Rite
Mason and a member of the Toltec
Rite. He served several years as po-
lice judge of Topeka and his reign
was an era which old time jointlsts
recall with shudder.
He is survived by Mrs. Lindsay, one
son, James Lindsay. and two daush-
tiers, Frances, a student in the New
York Art school, and Marion, teacher
in the Netawaka high school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
SEN. BRADY DEAD
Idaho Statesman Dies From
Heart Attack.
Early Life Spent in Kansas;
Twice Governor of Idaho.

Washington, Jan. IA. = Senator
James fl. Brady of Idaho died at his
home here Sunday night from heart
disease He suffered an acute attack
week ago yesterday while on his
way to Washington from Idaho. and
had been in a critical state since.
The senator's wife and several rela-
tives were at his bedside. His two
sons, s. f. Brady of Chandler. Okla.
train from the west, trying to reach
Washington in time to see their father
alive. The train had not arrived at a
late hour today.
Senator Brady was born in Pennsyl-
vania fifty-six years ago, but moved
to Kansas when a boy and was edu-
Gated in the public schools and the
LeavenHorth normal college. He
taught school for three years and later
engaged in newspaper work. He
moved to Idaho in 1895 and soon be-
came prominent in Republican poll
tics He was made chairman of the
Republican state committee in 1904
and was elected governor in 1905
After his term expired he was elected
to the senate by the state legislature
anad reelected by the people in 1914
for seven years.
Senator Brady was a member of the
military and the agricultural commit
tees and was vitality interested in con-
servatlon in the west He took a spe-
cial interest during the last session in
war legislation and was a frequent
speaker during the debates or the food
and war revenue bills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
MEND K. C. BREAKDOWN
Boilers in Power Plant Blow Up, An
milling Street Cars and Lights.

Kansas City Mo. Jan. 14.-Efforts
were being made this morning to re-
store a semblance of street car service,
following the complete breakdown of
all electric service yesterday, when a
unit of boilers exploded at the cen
trail power station. Two stokers were
killed and four seriously injured by
the blast of steam following the ex-
plosion.
For five hours Kansas City was
without street car service and it was
not until 10 o'clock last night. eight
hours after the explosion that electric
lights in the residential sections were
turned on Streets were in darkness
the entire night. The breakdown also
put a number of surrounding cities in
darkness, including Kansas City. Kan
and Leavenworth- These smaller cities
secure their power from the plant
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

The sudden death of Judge Lindsay
was a shock to hundreds of his friends
and associates in Topeka and turnout
the state. For more than year
Judge Lindsays health had failed. a
high blood pressure had kept him
under medical treatment. althO he ad-
dressed Justice Vests Sunday school
class Sunday morning, spent an hour
g his office in the state house just
before his death and was preparing to
try a case in Kansas City today. Feel
ing faint he called his son and asked
him to take him home. The father
and son were on their way to the car
line when Judge Lindsay fell dead
without an outcry or utterance.
For more than thirty years Judge
Lindsay had been active in public af-
fairs in the state. He had been thru
the county seat warfare in number
of the western counties. later entering
the employment of the state temper
ance union and in January, 1911, en-
tered the attorney generals office as
special assistant under John Daw-
son, now supreme court Justice. Judge
Lindsay's title came thru years of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
~ Up to the Minute
| ~ SPORTING NEWS
NJ FROM EVERYWHERE.
BY-cLue-
GREAT DEVELOPER NOT ALL TRICKS
Georgia Tech Coach Is Maker
of Football Rules. :.
HeiSman Was First To Use the
Open Play.

Regardless of the imposing records
hung up by Pittsburg or Ohio state,
Georgia Tech last season was football
champion and j. w. Heisman was
responsible
Heisman is one of the originator
of open play Long before the for
ward pass rule came into being Heis-
man was drilling his teams in open
formations and his teams were play
ing football that other teams could
not fathom- Now in the day of for
ward pass, Heisman again out
guessed them with a shift. somewhat
resembling the Minnesota shift,
which Heisman originated in 1910.
Shift a Great Play.
Those who have see the Tech shift
declare it is superior to the Mime
sofa shift in that all points of the op-
posing line are assaulted with equal
strength. Heisman had also been
able to develop great end running
throwing a great mass of interference
in front of the runner, seven men al
ways being swung into end attacks.
Heisman was born in Cleveland, o.,
October %, 1869. He attended high
school at Titusville, Pa. and played
football on the high school team. He
went to Brown in 1887 and made the
freshman team, and the next year
played guard on the varsity. In 1889
Heisman went to- Pennsylvania 10
study law, played center there that
year, tackle in 1890 and end in 1891
Began Career at Oberlin.
His coaching began at Oberlin col
lege in 1892, and in his three years
there he gave Oberlin a team which
that college never equa1ed, having de-
feated Michigan. Chicago and Illinois.
In 1895 Heisman invaded the south
and put Alabama Poly on the map.
He remained there until 1909, when he
was secured to coach the Clemson Is.
c. college team, where he first intro
duced open play and brought the un-
known college to such an BILE
place in southern football that in 1904
he was signed by Georgia Tech, where
for fourteen years he has always been
in the running in the Southern Inter-
collegiate Athletic association.
This may be Heisman's last year at
Georgia Tech. His five-year contract
has expired and it is understood his
services are being eagerly sought by
several colleges in the east, while the
Georgia school is again offering him
another five-year contract.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Ftp. LINDSAY DIES
Special Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Drops Dead Sunday.
Sank to Pavement Lifeless at
Ninth and Kansas Avenue.

Judge Franklin p. Lindsay. widely
known law enforcement official and
special assistant attorney general since
1911, fell dead at Ninth and Kansas
avenue Sunday afternoon. He was
walking from the state house to the
street car line with his son when over
come with an attack of apoplexy. He
was dead when carried to Tully- Nc
Farland's drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Food for Fans
BY GEO. e. PHAIR.
tCopyright)

"Hornsby a HoIdout'
II a baseball star is worth million dollars
When the magnates meet and pull their
Can you blame him if he lifts is voice and
boilers
At the present price of coal and rent and
meals?
Reports from Europe indicate that Ger
many is beginning to realize the high cost
of Hohenzollern.
eliminated baseball from the curriculum.
But Connie Mack beat EN- to it
College baseball has developed good
many big league players. Most of them
went to college to study it.
1t is rumored that the government will
make fighters out of our boxers. That is
something that public opinion never could
do
| Stanley Yoakum we read has been wal
Hoped again. But as long rs Stanley doesn't
mind it why should anybody else?
! II it is true that the National League
! is about to select another president, we
take the liberty to nominate Cy de Vry-
| Charley Murphy's election as pres of the
n. l.. would tend to create harmony in
baseball He gets along so well with Ban
Johnson
THE owners of the National League are
| looking forward to one of the best seasons
in years despite war conditions And
less than week ago a gent was sentenced
to five years under the Harrison act.
| The Motorman.
| Tho meatless days are hard enough
And wheatless days are mighty tough,
/ wouldn't have word to say
| IL l could see snowless day.
i Weeghman offered $4,000 for Hornsby
and was turned down. Lucky guyi
Barney Dreyfus is said to be on the
market for few stars. Somebody once
wrote something about wasting sweetness
on the desert air.
1.-The spirit of golf is needed in war
William H. Taft. Some golfers even go 50
far to dig trenches.
Big league umpire caught burglar in
his home and had him pinched. Evidently
he doesn't recognize the profesh.
Owing to the fact that he is the whole
team, Stuffy NeInnis naturally figures tina
he deserves a raise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

Atchison, Kan. Jan. 14.-Midlan nd
college basketball team was defeated
here Saturday night by the Cooper
college quintet of Sterling. 80 to 90.
1t was the first Kansas conference
game this year for Midland. Two of
the Cooper men were ineligible. i is
asserted. The game will be protested
to the conference committee by the
Midland officials
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

st. Paul-Answering QUESTIONABLE
questions, a youth nov in the avia-
ton service said life is all the capital
he has invested in his business and
tina the stork was the means or yes
sci by which he entered this coun-
try
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
u. S. TRAWLER LOST
Down in U-Boat Zone, Admiral Sims
Reports to Navy Department.

Washington. Jan. 14.-An American
trawler operating in European waters
has been lost. Admiral Sims reported
the sinking of the little vessel to the
navy department today All members
of the crew were saved.
Announcement of how she was lost
was not made nor was the exact loca-
ton given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
DE ORC RETAINS TITLE
Cuban Billiard Champion Wins Last
Match With Charles Otis

Havana, Jan. 14.-Alfred de Orc.
three cushion billiard champion of the
world, idol of the Cuban people and
enjoying a life pension from the
Cuban government because of his skill
with the cue, retained his champion
ship title by winning the last of a
series of three games against Charles
Otis. of Brooklyn, challenger for the
title.
The match was won by one point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

Dallas, Texas-On Chew, Chinese
American, claimed exemption because
of his wife and two children who live
in China. They are in a foreign
country, tho" the board told Chew.
But Uncle Sam won't let me bring
them here" he countered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

Tarrytown. n. Y.-Water isn't sup
posed to have that effect, but William
Van Wrinkle swearS he pulled snake
from a water pipe that he thought
was frozen. The snake had blocked
the water supply of Chenille
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

New York-Nrs. Maude A Ander-
son is confirmed Fletcherizer. ac-
cording t, her husband He told a
judge in his suit for divorce that she
ate a note, words and all. when he
found i: was trimming with love-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Ehnke Joins the NAVY.

Detroit, Mich, Jan. IA severe
setback to Detroit's 1918 baseball
championship aspirations is contained
in a dispatch from Los Angeles. an
nouncing that Pitcher Howard Ehmke
has joined the navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

Tennis on skates failed to achieve any
great amount of popularity, altho it is
fully rational golf on horseback.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
Cooper Defeats Midland.

The match was won by one point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

You C h dice. any
Mans Suit in the
house, values up to
SIS, all sizes, your
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

our unrestricted
choice of any Mans
Suit in the house,
all S25 Suits included
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

1.-The spirit of golf is needed in war
II William II. Taft. Some golfers even go so
far as to dig trenches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14

Your choice of the
house, any Ovcrcoat,
values up to $50.
Il n h G ur pick,
while they last
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20

most powerful nation on earth as
well as the happiest nation on
earth Crime is the legitimate child
of idleness and idle people--men or
women, wherever found-are
menace to the locality in which they
live. There should be no such thing
as an idle person any where at any
time. If every man and woman able
to work would produce something
there would be no such thing as hard
times and high cost of living. The
mere fact that one-third produces
and the other two-thirds consume or
swindle the first one-third out OF
what they produce is the underlying
cause Of all our troubles.
Until this situation is remedied and
rubbed out, this country Is going to
remain in an unsettled condition and
the people are going to remain un-
settled, unsatisfied and unhappy.
This talk about tie fatherhood Of
God and the brotherhood Of man sim
ply means that everybody should
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
Isses's Real Patriotic Sacrifice.

lsess Real Patriotic Sacrifice.
= cadets Of a local school in Dom
v'lie had fancy vacation trip
u to them as a reward for fine
. a accomplished during the session
sIosed, 30 states in effect the
dsonville Chief. The good time
= include trip to neighboring
a nd many fine things were held
. the boys. A vote was taken
:. 2 resulted unanimously in favor
wing At home and the money
aved turned over for the pur-
- ef thrift stamps.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
The Weekly Iberian New Ibe

The Weekly Iberian tNew Iber-
~ reports that the Mayor Of their
town, along with several other
lherians, lost few vaIuables from
theif clothes while they were in swim
ni1g At Charenton Beach. A sneak
aief IS naturally suspected as the
lbefian says the bath room doors
Sese unlocked. One of the looted
prtes stated that in the future he
scud carry a paddock with him on
us next swimming trip. The Iberian
aessses all others who do not carry
y BIT Of hardware with. them, to
= N their valuables over to the keep
- from such reports it is surmised
- Charenton must be getting quite
nakspolitan.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
- Of Economic Trouble.

ct Economic Troubles
- order that has gone forth
y abie-bodied man of draft
elther shoulder a gun or
! hoe and get busy, the
nee Of all our economic
z pe'eked with a sharp nee-
3 sAs suggestion that every
~, : something or quit con-
+ - other folks produce.
- ny ground Of civiixa-
government could en-.
- q this kind oil th,
sls soon come to Be the
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20

work-should produce something, be
honest and live up to the Golden
Rule. If this were done the broth
erhood Of man and fatherhood of
God would come automatically
Lake Charles American Press.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
A Civic Necessity.

power of organization was
demonstrated last week by the
" Of Commerce, which secur-
- eaefete shipyard for Morgan
saln a week after communicate
80 tne officials of the company.
q Morgan City donated the
4 . 0o acres of land and pledged
'ssss 'ves to build s25,ooo.oo
stterson Tribune.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
Louisiana Notes

The Assumption Pioneer tells a
.o,v about an Indian who had been
.,,ated short furlough after being
!, The service several months. He
ms asked how he liked army life.
=. reulied that he liked it pretty good
onlv he thought there was heap too
ruh salute and too little shoot. "
When asked if he was going back, he
MD: "Sure, got to go back and make
things safe for democrats
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20

WANTED-Furnish room, with
modern conveniences for one gentle
man. Apply to Review office. If.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
NOTICE

A meeting of the Elks will be held
tonight at o'clock. All members
are urged to be present.
j. L. FISHER,
Secretary.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20

The Abbeville Meridional has found
an old lady living in Zachary, Louis
hna, who at 81 years Of age puts in
her spare time knitting. The Meri-
dional reports that she has recently
knitted twenty pairs of sacks and is
hard at work on some more.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
The Weekly Watchman (Franklin)

The Weekly Watchman (t'ranklln)
assures US that unless present prom
- fail. there will be the largest corn
rop this year than ever before. As
corn means food this will have an i'm
portant bearing on living conditions
It home. We won't have to depend
upon tin can and paper bag, sage
y concludes the Watchman.
The Morgan City daily review., 1918-06-20
CARD OF THANKS

l desire to publicly express my
thanks to the ladies Of the Wood
mans Circle for the receipts Of a
dance amounting to $500, recently
give nby their organization. The en-
tire proceeds were. given as dona-
ton to the local Unit, American Red
Cross
MRS, n p. PALMER,
Morgan City Daily Review deiiv-
cred to your home 4oc q month.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-10-18
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