The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-19

Y STATE JOURNAL
pan, and fried briskly. One Stove
Lacquer who claimed to have more
or less speaking acquaintance with
some friend of relation of Centre
college player, made the bald state
ment that Centre hired all her ath-
letes.
We doubted, but kept our opinions
still. No one in fact, rose to the de-
Tense of little Centre.
Kansas Conference colleges, Mis-
souri, Valley schools, and practically
all of the Big Ten universities came
in for a share of the condemnation
for employing athletes. And it was
always a person who KNEW abso-
lutely'' whereof he spoke, that offered
the damniag information.
Every follower of the inter-collegi-
ate athletics knows without a shadow
of doubt that professionalism exists
in some colleges and even high
schools.
But this wholesale condemning of
every college, university and even high
schools is an able evidence of internal
jealousy.
Might we suggest that the Stove
Leaguers confine their winter remi
niscences to stories of heroic plays and
players. Most Of the socalled colleges
with hired players are mythical. altho
some probably do violate the ethical
| rules of the game.
Coach Madison Bell of the Haskell
Indians announces the following bas-
ketball schedule for his Scalpers:
Jan. O. Baker University Mt Lawrence.
Jan. IA. Rockhurst College at Kansas City.
Jan. =. Junior College at Lawrence
Jan. 26 Pittsburg NOrmals at Lawrence.
Jan. rs. Open.
Feb . Bethel College at Lawrence. (Ten-
Feb. 4. Junior College at Kansas City.
Feb 10-11. Pittsburg Normals atPittsburg.
Feb. IS. Rockhurst College at Lawrence
March 4. Hays Normal at Lawrence
March 1O-11. Warrensburg Normal at War
e few more 40 games may be added later in
the season.
Dutch" Lonborg received a unani-
nous request from the faculty at Nc
Pherson college to stay and coach an
other year.
We take it that Lonborg convinced
| the authorities at the college the ad-
mission of Mcpherson into the Kansas
/ conference was an o. k. thing to do.
! That in itself was a gigantic task, and
coupled with it Lonborg didn't do a
| bad seasons job with his football ma
chine. Congratulations, Dutch"
"stadiums, we want stadiums,'
seems to be the cry from schools over
Kansas.
The new Kansas university struc-
ture started something. The Kansas
| Agricultural college is beginning a
| campaign for a new cement stadium.
Phil Eastman, secretary of the
| Kansas Free Fair, put forth an idea
| some time ago that might bear the
serious consideration of Topekans.
Eastman's idea, roughly, was the
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grounds. Washburn's football games
would be played therein, the annual
fair programs of racing and polo
would be staged in the stadium, and
any other open-air meetings of civic
interest could demand the use of the
stadium.
Washburn college finances are not
in healthy enough condition to build
a stadium of her own. A popular
| subscription of the townspeople and
probably a little assistance from state.
city, maybe county. would make the
Topeka stadium possible, in all prob
ability.
The fair lassies of Kansas with attn
letic tendencies may be compelled TO
take the exercise in their home town,
without the change of scenery pro-
vided when the girls basketball or
gym teams invade other towns for ath-
| Ietic competition.
This question, among others. will
come up at the annual meeting of the
Kansas State Athletic association,
which meets in Topeka January 10th
| in connection with the Council of Ad-
| ministration and Educational Council
of the Kansas State Teachers associa-
| ton.
The deans of women in numerous
| Kansas colleges went on record re-
| Gently as opposed to high school girls
| leaving their home towns and engag-
ing in athletic events with distant
| schools. OF course, the deans of
women in the colleges have no au-
| thentic bearing on the question, other
| than polite influence.
| But the matter is due for serious
| consideration on the part of high
| school principals and others who make
| the laws. N the belief of r. r. Cook,
| president of the association and prin-
| cipal of the Topeka high school.
Other subjects which will be on the
| board for discussion in relation to high
| school athletics are:
| Number Of subjects to be required
| of athletes in high schools before they
| are eligible for competition.
| Probable waving of present rule
| which bars high school men from ath-
letic competition if over 81 years OF
age.
Admission to the Association of
| Preparatory Schools of Endowed OF
| private colleges.
The officers of the association.
| which numbers between 800 and 40j
| members, are: r. r. Cook, T. H. S,
| president: CaleL w. Smick, Oberlin,
vice president; Will French, Winfield
secretary, and E. r. Stevens, Leaven.
| worth. treasurer.
Eustace Back Into Mat Game.
Wakefield. Kan, Dec. 19.-Alan Eus.
| tace, Kansas farmer-wrestler, has an.
| nounced he will return to the mat
game the first of the year. Because
| of an infection of the eye from a Gin.
| der lodged in it, Eustace has been un.
| der medical attention for severa,
| months. He has been doing a good
deal of road work and keeping him.
/ self in physical condition bou-ox-a~