The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-26
ON SECOND THOUGHT
x BY JAY E. HOUSE
lFron Fhiiadslphia Psbie LedssF.l

1t had not occurred to us that
Pitcher Mays intended to kill Short
stop Chapman. We do not think he
had any intent or desire to injure him.
But if there had been any doubt on
that point, the action of the New York
newspapers would have cleared 1t up.
Practically all of them print inter.
views with Mays and the two owners
of the New York club, in which they
say. in effect. that nothing was fur
Their from Pitcher Mays's thoughts
That should settle any controversy
which has arisen or which may arise.
The matter is not, strictly speak
ing, within our Jurisdictions 1t is in
the lap of the sporting department.
We refer TO 1t here because We know
the disposition of a small but d1gnified
minority in this country to question
any alibi projected by the New York
press We recall the incident of MT
Merkle's alleged failure to touch sec
ond base. In fact, we witnessed ii,
altho we did not learn what had hap
pened until we got downtown. Prac-
tica1ly every newspaper in New
York carried interviews with Christy
Mathewson, in which Mr.. Mathewson
was alleged to have taken the ground
that Mr.. Merkle had observed the for
mality required in the circumstance.
But the national commission ordered
the game played over.
Pitcher Mays. however, clears up
one point that had puzzled US. He
says it was fast ball. Reporters
who witnessed the lamentable tragedy
diagnosed it as a curve. We had Won
dered how a right-handed pitcher
would go about it to wrap curve ball
iaround right-handed batsman's neck.
An editorial coadjutor Celebrates
somewhat upon the point that the peo-
-
We wish to chuck no monkey wrench
into the machinery of economy. but
do it.
| Universal suffrage is an assured
and. in so far as the column is con-
cerned, a cheerfully accepted fact.
There is no hurry about it. of course;
but when may we expect the millen-
mum? z
| We put the question FIR the reason
that, out in the '.short-grass'' coun-
\ try, where the boon of suffrage has
been operative for several years. the
millennium has been unaccountably
delayed.
| As one who. upon occasion, was in
| spected and approved by the lady
vote, we have only one piece of adj
vice to offer to aspirants for office;
Have your nails manicured and keep
your pants pressed
+ Old Frank Adams regards Ponzis
feat of reading the Boston Sunday
papers as a somewhat unimpressive
, performance. You Ncan." SAYS Mr..
| Adams, read the Boston newspapers
| in less time than it takes to tell it."
That is n t our experience. Three
weeks ago last Sunday We were ma
| rooned in a village in western Maine.
| We tried t, read a Boston Sunday
which we lacked the endurance to
complete.
81 read your reference to the top
buggy and the hammock" writes a
reader, with mixed feelings, in which
the reminiscent mood srrged upper
most. 1 LIT my independence in n
top-buggy on a September night in
1879. 1 remember extending my
i hands the manacles just after we
| had crossed Turkey creek, neg the
Little Friend schoolhouse. But what
I had in~mind was to make inquiry
eoffcefning another custom of court
ship in the rural precincts. Accord
ing to your own confession, you have
but recently come from the back dis
| tricts. Does the youn woman still
hold her gentleman friends hat when
gether?
That pleasing custom. too, has fall
len into dtsrupte. Nowadays a gent
must not only pay all the bills court
ship entails, but he is also charged
with the duty of looking after his own
| hat.
While Finland holds the javelin-
throwing record, we believe a careful
comparison of records would give the
honor to Hon. Bartemus Hickson. We
, figure that in his thirty years of per
sistent, if mainly unsuccessful. pur-
suit of elective office the Hon, Mr.
Hickson made not few than 1000
speeches. And he never made a
speech in which he did not thrust
javelin or two down the throat of
predatory wealth.
Generally speaking, statesman is