The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-15
WINTER
SPORTS
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C.E.HOBBS
Telephone 1881

'T am willing to put my share OF
money into the baseball situation mere
provided it is put on business basis.
but I am not doing it with the idea OF
doing it because I want to help my
town"
That was the statement made by
Earl Akers, Topeka undertaken and
men at the Chamber OF Commerce
Thursday evening.
Akers has the right spirit. base
ball team will advertise town more
than most anything else that can De
done. But Topeka does not want any
more Dick Cooley type of baseball. 1t
wants a real man, one who IS honest,
and who works for the interests OF
the town and for his ball players, to
head its baseball club. If the ideas
of the business men who attended
that meeting Thursday evening are
carried out, Topeka will have just tnat
kind of a man at the head of the To-
peka club of the Southwestern league.
Sig Moore is planning to help out
Topeka baseball by giving the boys OF
the city chance to play basebail. he
is going to organize a baseball city
league. He will coach every team in
the city free of charge If his help is
wanted. He is in it for what he gets
out of it; clean athletics, better boys
Ben Lindsey of Denver. judge of the
juvenile court, declares that the work
of Sig Moore in putting boys base
ball in Denver is the greatest thing
that ever happened to the city. He
said Sig did more for Denver than the
courts ever would.
This column mentioned the idea Of
a broader scope of athletics in COL
leges, at the beginning of the football
season. Some Of the schools in KAN
sas have taken hold of this idea, and
now Washburn college, which had
done som ething along that line, is
going in for intramural athletics.
An intramuraI basketball tourna
nent is TO be held at the college after
the Christmas holidays, and every or
ganization in the school may enter
teams. 1t is a great move, in our opin-
ion, and will do much toward building
up interest in physical training at
Washburn.
Five organizations already have en-
tered teams, and more are expected
to enter before the tournament starts
after the holiday season.
BY creating interest in the entire
college the school spirit will be better.
athletes who never are found will show
up, and greater united Washburn
right direction, We think.
Kansas State Agricultural college
has had intramural athletics for some
time, and it has aided materially in
increased school spirit, and in the de-
of athletics reports from
there indicate.
Those who take part in organization
athletics understand better the fine
points of the inter-college games;
they appreciate their school more;
and men are brought together which
creates a better feeling of comrade-
ship. A lot of the misund
everywhere are due to people not be-
ing acquainted with each other. When
they do understand each other better
it results in a more united school.
Speculation already is rife as to
what kind of a leader Clyde Smith,
new captain elect of the Missouri uni
versity football team, will make.
Smith is from Sapulpa, Okla.
The need for more basketball
courts, bowling alleys and other places
of exercise has come to our attention.
Highland Park high school will not
be able to play basketball this year be-