The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07


time it is 1.-The Southwestern Baseball
League" and comprises the towns OF
independence, Coffeyville and Pitts
burg in this state, Bartlesville, Sapul-
pa, Miami and Muskogee, oklahoma
At a meeting Of The National Asso-
citation of Minor League clubs at Buff
falo, n. Y. President Ensley Barbour
of the club, is making frantic efforts
to get Hutchinson and Topeka.
His reason is evi, emily tWO-fold. In
dependence and Coffeyyille are seeking
to drop out, according to the reports
And then-the larger population OF
both Topeka and Hutchinson would
prove a swelling process for the league
reasury-providing the toWnsmen
turned out for the games.
All is well-if the towns will sup
port the teams. Direct rumOrs are to
the effect that a group of Hutchinson
business men have gotten up the
purse. signed the franchise, and made
complete arrangements for a ball
park. But Hutchinson will have small
chance for admittance to the league
II Topeka declines to enter. The
league wants both of the towns.
1t is evidently up to Topeka.
Can and will she support a team in
such Il league?
For four years Topeka has been
without a professi"~ al baseball team
other than the semi-pro club of the
local Santa Fe.
The last Of sad series of Western
league teams was managed by Arthur
Spencer Abbott and fell into a. mild
sort of disgrace-both financially and
in a playing way. After about ten
years of struggling for success, the
war came along. and knocked what
chances the Topeka club had. Spencer
took his club to Hutchinson-then to
Tulsa.
What about it. fans?
This is the first opportunity pre-
scented Topeka in four years Tor fur
Their participation in professional
baseball. VIII you take it?
The fans seem to want the league in
mild, luke-warm sort of a way. We
heard lot of gossip that sounded IA
vorable to the league. But how about
the monetary side of it all? 1t takes
cold hard cash TO suppot a profess
slonal team. 1t isn't all Il sporting
proposition. 1t means a living for
both players and managers
Topeka should not jump blind. The
entire proposition deserves 10 be de-
bated and weighed carefully.
Big Jess has severed his connec-
lions with Kansas
willard sold his fifty -five-acre
ranch near Lawrence Tuesday to Sher-
win F. Kelly a former Kansas uni
versity athlete, and son of Florence
Finch Kelly, authoress. 1t Is said the
price was a round one, $4,000, in
Guiding big home, ranch houses, and
everything on the property.
Mrs Willard and the children left
for California, but Jess retired to his
10,000-acre oil lease near Eureka.
Jess brought a lot Of fame to Kan
sas by his pugilistic ability-later dis
ability. We're sorry to see him leave.
Gordon Locke, the smashing, slash
ing fullback of tho University of Iowa
football team, was elected captain of
the 1922 aggregation at the annual
election Tuesday. His playing for the
past season gave him an almost
stratght-of-w for the All-American
fullback position, according to the be-
hefs of most connOisseurs of the
&c ne.
Ard the Big Ten title won this year
by Iowa is the first in twenty wears
Are the Hawkeyes having a big ceIe-
bradon? Wen say so. A mass meet
1nS in the arrnory attended by three
thousand students, a brass band at
the train to meet Coach Howard
Jones when he returned from Chi
Cago, and banquet at the home of
President Walter A. Jessup. Some
big time. And they should have it.
THE Be be" is in hot water-ecaId-
ing hot. The recent decision of Com
missioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands in filming the home-run king
almost the total of his earnings for
me series Tor participating in an eX-
hibition game against wishes. is re
ceivinG the commendation of baseball
nagnates and authorities everywhere.
Bob Meusel and William Piercv were
also fined-and Bob intends to fight
IL. Ruth hasn't expressed himself
along the fighting line as vet
Why don't they settle down and
take It? Lands promised them a fine
for participation in exhibition games
It's up to the car of the game to pro
tect his word, and we guess he'll do it.
Yale evidently is getting ambitious.
The scheduling of ten games for 1922
by the Bull Dogs is a thing unheard of
IN Yale history for many years.
Princeton and Harvard will be taken
only week apart in the schedule, the
to7mer on November is, the latter on
November 25.
The colleges to be played are: Bates.
Vermont, TUFTS, Iowa, Williams, Army,
Brown, Maryland, Princeton and
Harvard.
Here's to Kansas university and her
intentions to invade the far east with
a gridiron squad in 1922.
Forrest c. Allen, director of ath-
letics, has scheduled a game with the
Army in New York on October 7. the
first game of the season, and the first
game ever played in the east by K. U.
ardous game of owning a baseball
club.
Rumors from Boston are to the ef-
feet that Fred Stone. the comedian,
has made a bid of $4,000 for the
Boston Red Sox to the owner, Harry
Frazee. Stone was born and reared on
farm near Wakarusa.
Don Peden, captain elect of the
Illinois university football eleven for
1922, cannot play according to a die
tum issued from the university be-
cause of ineligibility. The conference
faculty board found the youngster
guilty of playing with Lombard col
lege while taking high school subjects
in the academy of that institution in
former years.