The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-25
SPORT SPUTTERINGS
By CEH.

Flight, Ames, Fight" the Iowa
State song, was written by Connect
cut man who never had been west OF
Chicago, says a sport dispatch. He is
Willard Gleason, headmaster in Eng
lish, and manager of athletics in the
Kingswood school for boys in Hart
ford, Conn. He got the idea after
reading in Boston newspaper how a
group of Iowa State men went over
the top during the late war, shouting
a familiar war cry.
Captain Henre is the only last years
basketball man back at Kansas Aggies
this year. He has been showing the
new Lien a merry chase.
Court fundamentals and principles
of the short pass is what the men at
Columbia, Mo, who are trying out for
basketball, are getting from George
Bond, assistant basketball coach at
Missouri university. He is anxiously
waiting for the Thanksgiving day
of the football season so the men who
are playing football can report for
basketball.
Three of the last years men at
Kansas university, who were members
of the Kansas team which won from
Minnesota, 80 to IL, last year, and
tied with Missouri u, for the Mis-
souri, valley championship, are back
on the floor this year They are Cap
tain Endacott, Black and Wolfe
Practice already is under way at kan
sas.
BowIers in Kansas City, Mo-, are
having a chance to see some good
bowling at the Midwest Bowling as
ISOLATION convention and tournament
which started in Kansas City Friday,
Novembeu "a. and will last until De-
r4ar fT,nv A h4rr Love
comprising more than SEQ teams are
to take part during the convention,
according to Alonzo B. Clark, head
of the convention bureau.
Kansas Aggies are to compete with
Big Ten and Missouri valley schools
in swimming this year, E. A Knoth,
swimming instructor, has announced.
with Washington u, in St Louis, and
includes contests with Illinois, Wis
consin and Ames. Swimming is gain$
ing popularity, Coach Knoth said.
August Hermann, president of the
Cincinnati baseball club. believes in
twelve months contracts for baseball
players. He. said such contracts will
gladly be given to any member of the
Red" team deserving them. It has
been pointed out that the twelve
months plan will keep players under
the jurisdiction of the respective clubs
turnout the year instead of the six
months baseball season. Hermann
said the twelve months plan is not
new, having been used by the Chicago
club twenty years ago. This plan may
be brought up at the winter meeting
OF the major leagues.
Thirty-four men at the University
of Kansas are taking daily workouts
with the idea of making the varsity
wrestling team. The coaches are drill
ing the men on the fundam entals of
the wrestling game. The matches with
other college teams probably will
start some time in February. 1t is
likely that mat matches will be
scheduled with Oklahoma u, Kansas |
Aggies, Missouri, Iowa State, Wash
ington and Nebraska.
Kansas Aggies basketball cagers are
working out daily under the direction
of FavaI Foval. of Winfield, captain |
of the 1928 basketball team. A num- !
Der of the regular cage men of last
year are to be released for practice at
the end of the Thanksgiving day game |
with Texas Christian university.
Despite the fact that Des Moines
last in the Western league I
baseball race for 1922, Manager Jack /
Graney is looking forward to a sue
cessfuI season for 1928 as a result of /
major league prospects.
Some of the men are: George !
Cooper, left handed pitcher: Walter i
Genin. center fielder: Jack Banner
and Mike Wilson, catchers; Floyd I
Chesbro. left handed first baseman: !
base prospects; Joe Koran. right l
fielder; Otto Merz and Lefty Eddie !
man. besides Cooper in the box. Desi