The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-21

Kansas Games Today.
Southwestern vs. Bethany, i'll Winfield.
Wednesday.
Hays Normal Fairmount, in Hays.
Thursday.
Washburn VS.. St. Mary's, in st. Marys.
Sterling VS.. Mcpherson, in Sterling.
With but one more week after this
one before the end of the football sea-
son. the colleges of the Kansas confer
ence are turning their attention to a
large extent toward basketball. Prac-
tically every school in the conference
which expects to have a basketball
team already has started practice. and
those basketball men who are not
wearing the moleskins are out on the
court daily practicing basket shooting,
passing and other fine points of the
game.
Kansas State Normal has a nice
string of basketball men out working
now, and more will be available at the
end of the football season. Kansas
Wesleyan has some mighty good bas-
ketball men, and already is making
plans for the winter cage game. Phil
lipi and Huey are expected to wear
basketball suits for Wesleyan. Baker
also has some good looking prospects.
Sterling, the school that has made
such a good late season football show
ing, always has played fairly good
basketball, and IS expected to repeat
this year. The Presbyterian five will
be coached by Warren Woody, present
football coach. and a former Kansas
university man.
Southwestern college, in Winfield,
also is expected to make a good show
ing on the court This team per-
Termed at Kansas City last winter at
the national basketball tournament,
conducted under the American Ath-
Ietic Union, and made a creditabIe
showing. This school always has been
one of the strongest basketball col
Iege5 in the state
intercollegiate basket ball is to have
a great season, if the activities of the
Kansas and Missouri valley confer
ences are any indication. Kansas uni |
versity, Kansas Aggies, Drake. Grim |
nell, and several other valley schools
have men out on the court daily, and
interest and competition is greater |
than for years, it is said.
However, the basketball enthus- |
IaSm in the two conferences will not /
in any way interfere with the football |
season, coaches declare. But with |
only a week more before the end of /
the football season plans for success
fully carrying out basket ball pro-
gram must be started now, coaches de-
.lare, if the work is to move along
Is it should.
washburn college has been training
m the court for the last ten days, and
few of the stars of last year to-
,ether with a large group of first
ear men, are working out each eve
ling under the direction of Coach
Nike Vosberg. The coach is not
-et ready to announce the chances of
he Washburn men on the court, for
number of the football men who ex-
'ect to try out for basket ball will not
Re available for a week.
This. looks like a busy week on theI
ridiron. The first game of the week
tarts today when Southwestern meets
in Winfield, and every day
ntil Saturday will see conferenceI
cams in action up until SATURDAY.
hen Missouri valley games Saturday
7ill hold the center of the stage. Hayst
formal and Paramount college meett
or a game in Hays Wednesday after
DON. Both the game at Winfield and
he one in Hays promise to be good
mes. The teams are not SO unevenlyI
matched that the games will be one
ided, which ever team wins.
Ernest c. Qquigleys known all over
he United States as & baseball and
ootbaII arbiter, will referee the game
etween Southwestern and Bethany in
Winfield this afternoon. Immediately
fter the game there he will board an
train where he will be
n official in the Harvard-Yale game
He officiated in the HaysS
Iormal-College of Emporia game lastI
eek, and in the. Kansas Aggies-Ne-j
raska game Saturday.
Quigley will officiate in the Hydet
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