The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-26
HAS NOVEL PLAN
E. c. Quigley Combines War
Work With Sport Officiating.
kansan Most Unique 4-Minute
Speaker in America.

Ladies and Gentlemen. the batteries
for today's game are Alexander and
Giants Schunff and Smith, but before
starting this contest | want to urge
on every one of you the importance Of
getting behind the government and
helping win the war by buying a
Liberty bond. We need more Of your
money to help knock the X out of the
kaiser and 1 absolutely refuse to start
this championship contest until you
have subscribed $4,000 for the current
issue of liberty bonds Therefore. il
you want to see baseball game this
afternoon, fork over; if you don't will
and the unpatiotic attitude of the
crowd Mr.. Charles weeghman and
General John McGraw viii now pass
member, you must subscribe $4,000 or
go home without seeing ball game.
livered patriotism ! know yon are GO
ing to show.
National league baseball fans may
hear iust such a speech as this next
summer when they go out to see their
favorite FASTENERS in action for E C.
Quigley, dean of the sport branch of
IS lnauguraung a patriotic work that
he undoubtedly could carry on with
his duties as a National league UNI
pire-a work that would be a big
boost for baseball, and one that would
make Bill Byron and all the other
with enxy.
Qufgley has always been considered
a 4-m1nute man in Kansas and in
the home circle of Johnny E,yers, but
that his fame along this line spread to
other parts Now it looks like he
might become known as the original
National 4-minute Sport Official
He's Some War Worker.
1t all happened this way. Before
OuigieV got head over heels in ha f.
ball officiating he had a few spare
minutes on his hands each day and to
put them to a good use as well as to
show his patriotism, he interested
himself in the Red Cross drive and
was made campaign manager for Pot
tawatomie county. He put SO much
zip" into the work and got such
splendid results that his work at
tracted wide attention and he was
drafted into the patriotic work being
done by the 4-minute men before the
RED Cross campaign was over.
As 4-minute orator he batted 800
so consistently that the work became
a pleasure and he Immediately took
rank with the leading exhorters of the
state. Then the basketball season
opened and he had to begin filling his
ofhciaung engagements which keep
him on the road six days a week
However, he felt that he still should
do something for his country and i'm
mediately fnaugurated the scheme of
making 4-mfnute talk to the audi
ence at every basketball game he Of
ficiated in.
When the national 4-minute men
dropped the Red Cross and took up
the thrift stamp campaign, Quigley
did likewise and he has urged the
college men at Lindsbofg, St Marys,
Emporia, Lawrence and Manhattan to
ouy thrift stamps Next week, when
the 4-minute men take up ship build
ing, "Quig' will have a talk for this
also and will deliver it every time he
finds a basketball audience which
will be every night in the week
Friday afternoon ~Quigey passed
thrV Topeka en- route from Emporia
to Manhattan and he was drafted. by
Curt Meyers to deliver his talk at the
Orpheum theater. Taking the stage
at 3 O'Clock he gave the audience one
OF the best straight from-the-s ,ouIder
Thrift stamp talks it has heard He
made both an appeal and a demand
for the purchase of the baby bond
coupons, explaining how little contri-
buttons fftm many arr more valuable
to the government than big contribu-
tons from a few of its citizens.
Use Talks in Baseball
Later or the popular So lrt official
will officiate> in basketball games in
Missouri and Nebraska and he will
carry his four-minute pleas to the col
lege mon of these states just as he
has to the Kansans. His work has
attracted SO nIuch attention that a
Washington representative at the
Kansas W.T. council held here on
January 1 Z and Is suggested the plan
be carried thru the baseball season
next summer and that Quigley and
other speakers be appointed to make
talks to the crowds at every big league
game. Whether or not this will be
done is a matter that will probably
be checked up to the heads of the
leagues, but there is no doubt they
will appreciate the value of it. both
as boost for the sport and a patriotic
measure that will enable the nation to
place its pleas and its problems be-
fore many people it otherwise might
not be able to reach.
So, it is entirely possible that the
National league will use umpire an
nouncers next season for economy's
sake and that Mr.. Quigley will be
making speeches to the fans and de-
manGiEg that they 70 their bit before
he will permit them to yell play
Bali"