The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-15
Sport Notes
BIZ HAROLD HENDERSON.


By HAROLD HENDERSON.
The Topeka high school basketball
team Is in better condition for the
state tournament, which will be held
FRIDAY and saturday at Lawrence than
Il was for the district tournament
Iast week, according to J. z. r.
Barnes, coach Barnes attributes the
oeIeat Of his aggregation to overcon-
hoence- The members OF the first
squad who viii make the trip to Law
renee are: Mclaughlin. Breithaupt.
barrow, Blanckenbecker. Brewster.
carr Edmiston and Boyd
Kansas state Normal and College of
Emporia Will hold a dual track meet
Friday night at the normal gymnasium.
RMS indoor contest Will be put on to
test the abundant material of both
schools. The pole vault is one of the
strongest departments of the Normal
track team. McKnown, Normal star
pole vaulter, cleared the bar at twelve
1eet in the Kansas City Athletic club |
meet. His closest competitor was
Hamilton. Of Missouri university |
Other men who Will represent the /
teachers in the affair will be: 4O-yard I
dash, Hayden, Robinson: f22O-yard I
dash, Wisemeyer; 44O-yard dash, Stew
art and Shearer; SsO-yard dash. Lane, /
Summers mile. Myer. Lane; mile re- /
lay. Stewart, Shearer. Mawdsley. Sum !
mers; twO-mile, Scheufler; pole vault, /
Gilbert; high jump. Dunning. Clark; !
20 yard high hurdles. Cunning, I
Prtngle: 4O-yard low hurdles, Pringle, i
Dunning.
Following a week of officiating at /
the national basketball tournament at \
Kansas City. f. g. Quigley. veteran I
sport official. is now looking forward /
to the opening Of the American league ,
Tor the coming season Altho Quigley i
has considered retiring from the Of i
Floating in the big lea CUES for the past
@ n o
this action for at least another twelve
months
An Extraordinarily wrestling tour
nament, similar to the pan-Hellenic
basketball tournament, is being con-
sidred by Coach c. B. Patrick Of the
department. OF physical education at
Kansas university The university
will probably compete in schools It
is planned to hold the meet in April.
Myron f. Fuller will succeed James
Phelan as head football coach at Mis- ]
souri, university Fuller graduated
from Yale in 1911. Henry Clarity.
who Will be graduated from Princeton
this spring. will succeed Jerry Jones
assistant football coach and head
baseball coach at the university.
Prospects for a winning baseball
team at Kansas university seem
bright Forty candidates for the nine
have been undergoing rigorous train
ing for a month. Men from the 1921
squad. who have, answered the call
for candidates are: Captain Boomer |
Farrell. Boyd, Murphy, Henzel. Gus
ter. Rody. Frazier and Lashley.
The Mcpherson college basketball
team probably had the most success
full season of any quintet in the Kan
sas conference as compared with the
records for the previous season The
team was perched in second place at
the close of the present season. In
1921 it was next to the cellar. The
team scored an average of eleven field
goals a game and registered 325
points against its opponents 2O6.
Since Forrest c. Allen, director of
athletics OF Kansas university, has
deemed it inadvisable to play a post
season game with Missouri to decide
tho Missouri valley. conference cham
pionsi1ip. he Tigers are attempting
TO prove the fact that Missouri has a
slight edge on the Kansas five. The
Missourians piled up 626 points to
their opponents 372.
The stadium bug has caught another
school Iowa university is planning
a stadium, which viii seat $4,000
persons
The Missouri university track team
will hold n dual track meet with the
University of California April Is at
Berkeley, Cal.
Kansas university's hopes to win the
dual indoor track meet with Missouri
at Kansas City. Friday night. received
a blow, when il was announced that
Paul O'Leary. star quarter-miler for
the Jayhawkers. might be unable to
enter the contest He injured his leg
last summer and a recent fall on the
ice renewed the injury.
The St. Benedict's college quintet
will close its season Saturday night
with a game with the Atchison Ameri-
can Legion. The college expects to
gain membership in the Kansas con-
ference later in the year
The Atchison high school five has
at last made a. record. 1t scored 40
points in four tournament games last
week. .
Basketball teams will represent
twelve high schools at the washing
ton county tournament. which will be
held Friday and Saturday at Hanover.
eThe Central Y. II c. A volIeyban
team. champion "Y'' team of Kansas
for 1921. will enter the state Y. NJ c.
A tournament to be held Saturday at
Salina-
Lewis Throws Jatrinda GObar.
Fort Wayne, Ind, March 15.-Ed
(Strangler) Lewis worlds heavy
weight wrestling champion, defeated
Jatrfnda Gobar. or India, in straight
falls here last night
Seven Horses Burned at Fan River.
Fall River. Kan. March 15--Seven