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SPORTS
r.l AClCr.iENTO 171N
New York Sport Writer Says
Braves Haven't a Chance.
All Ball Players Are Children
Bostonlans Especially.
Bv J. W. McConaugtoy.)
New York, Oct. 8. At the risk of
summary expulsion from the baseball
writers' association, the writer of these
polished lines hereby goes on record in
the following fateful words:
The Athletics will win the world's
series.
Tou are not required to take our
word for it. Nor are you required to
wager recklessly on the strength of the
foregoing far from it.
There are plenty of reasons for be
lieving that the Athletics will prevail.
The "figures" show a certain marked
superiority and "figures" are the most
entertaining baseball fiction we have
Ty Cobb has remarked that it is a
lucky thing for the Braves that they
clinched the pennant last Thursday as
they wtll hbve had a whole week of
comparative rest in which to prepare
for the big battle. There is some
ground for disagreeing with Mr. Cobb
in this matter, as we have been forced
to do from time to time since he be
came the greatest center fielder in lit
erature. These young men on the Boston team
will have time to rest which very few
of them need and they will also have
time to think, which is about the worst
thing they could do. In those last days
at the Polo grounds they probably stud
ied the spot on the horizon where the
ball was last seen when Matty gave
Frank Baker that low fast one inside.
They have also had some time to devote
to the "batting weaknesses" of the Ath
letics and learn how few and far be
tween these are. If they had been
hustled from the National league race
right into battle with the Athletics with
only a day's rest between they might
have had some complaints from the
pitchers, but they would have still had
the momentum of their great rush.
Flayers like Children.
Even veteran ball 'players are pretty
much like children and young ball play
ers are children. The Braves are a
team of youngsters. It is a well known
fact on which large gobs of humorous
weekly matter is based, that in a fam
ily of eight a child wiU do its stunts
with, great success and abandon. But
if you leave the child alone with an un
friendly stranger of forbidding mien,
the result will be an appalling bust.
This is likely to happen in the case
of the Braves. It has been all in the
family all cummer and a pretty . bum
family it has been, take it by and large.
For several years the Giants have been
the only ball club in the league and
they were never in that time a truly
great club. This year the dear old
Giant team has been Just a plain
squash. .. .. . r- ,
The result is that the Braves have
no Idea what a real baseball team looks
like and they have a whole week in
which to do a lot of uncomfortable
guessing. This is likely to induce a
frame of mind that will lead to disas
trous results when big Chief Bender
slouches out to the mound and begins
to smile at them in his fatherly way.
The Athletics will in the meantime
have had a long rest and their days of
gloomy thoughts over a world's series
are long since past. They will get the
full physical and mental benefit. They
have wrecked the Cuba and butchered
the Giants in the past and after Matty
and Minor Brown, there is nothing but
Rudolph and James to give them pan
icky feelings in advance.
Boston 94 B .614
New Tork S4 70 ' Mo
St. LouU 81 72 .63
Chicago 78 76 Mm
Brooklyn .75 79 .487
Philadelphia 74 80 .481
Pittsburg 69 86 .448
Cincinnati 60 94 -390
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Won. lost Pet.
Philadelphia 8 u .6U
Boston -. 91 63 .597
Washington . ................81 73 .527
Detroit '. 80 73 .534
St. Louis 71 72 .498
New Tork 70 83 .458
Chicago 69 85 .448
Cleveland 51 101 .235
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Won. Lost. Pet.
Indianapolis 87 65 .371
Chicago : 85 66 . .563
Baltimore 82 68 .547
Buffalo 78 69 .531
Brooklyn ....75 74 .303
Pittsburg 68 82 .453
Kansas City :.67 83 .447
St. Louis 56 89 J86
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STANDING OF THE TEAMS.
Official Standing.
New Tork, Oct. 8. The official stand
ing of the National League at the close
of the 1914 season as announced by Sec
retary jonn a. neyaier is as loiiows
Will FED PEIIIIMIT.
Indlnanapolls Pinches Outlaw Flag by
Defeating St. Lonls Wednesday.
Indianapolis, Oct. 8. Falkenburg was
at his best Wednesday and Indianapolis
won from St. Louis, clinching the
championship. 1he local pitcher allowed
three hits, two of them in the ninth in
ning, struck out eight batsmen and
gave one base on balls. He was given
perfect support. Fielder Jones, St.
Louis manager, batted in the ninth in
ning. He filed out.
After the game the fans crowded on
the field and cheered and congratulated
the Indianapolis players and manager.
Score: R H B
St. Louis 000 000 0000 8 3
Indianapolis 200 003 00 4 8 0
Batteries Davenport and Chapman;
Falkenburg and Rariden.
Other Federal Results.
At Baltimore First game
Score: R.H.B.
Pittsburg 3.10 8
Baltimore o 9 1
Barger and Roberts; Wilhelm and
Kerr.
At Baltimore second game
Score R H E
Pittsburgh 8 7 2
Baltimore 4 8 2
Smith and Kerr.
Called 8th darkness.
At Buffalo Score: R H E
Brooklyn 10 9 0
Buffalo 4 8 8
Batteries Brown and
Moran, Moore and Blair.
Owens;
WANT ANOTHER TODAY".
AMERICAN LKAGy'R"
Wednesday Results.
At Boston Score: R.H.E.
Washington 11 18 1
Boston 4 12 2
Bentley, Griffith and Henry; Bed
lent, Ruth Cooper, Speaker and Cady.
At Philadelphia Score: R.H.E.
New Tork 0 4 3
Philadelphia 10 11
Piet and Echwerts; Bressler, Bush.
Pennock and Lapp. McAvoy.
St. Louis City Series.
Score: R H E
National 4 12 4
American 7 12 1
Batteries Sallee, Perdue and Sny
der; Hamilton, Baumgardner and Ag-new.
National I-emgue Expects to Take To
day's Game In Chicago Series.
Chicago, Oct. 8. Victorious in the
opening game of yesterday, members
of the Chicago National league club
are out to make it two games in a row
in the second game of the series with
the Chicago Americana today in play
for the city baseball championship.
Manager Callahan of the American
leaguers planned to start Pitcher
Benz. while Cheney was the pitching
selection of Manager O'Day of the
Nationals. The game today is at the
National league park. The line-up fs
as follows:
Amercans Nationals
Weaver, ss. Leach, cf.
Blackburne. 2b. Good, rf.
Collins, cf. Saier, lb.
Fournier, lb. Zimmerman, 3b.
Roth, rf. Schulte, If.
Demmit, If. Derrick, ss.
Schalk. c. Sweeney, 2b.
Breton, 3b. Bresnahan, c.
Benz, p. Cheney, p.
Umpires O'Loughlln and CahllL
American league; Qulgley and Eason,
National league.
POLITICS AND BASEBALL. :
Ronton Mayor Angry Because Hto
Rival Leads Hub Rooters.
Boston. Oct. 8. Mayor Curley of
. -itv will not attend the world's
aeries baseball games in Philadelphia
on Friday and Saturday. His secretary
said that previous engagements pre
Uavnr Curler's friends it is
said that he will not attend the series
because former Mayor razgeraia win
lead the Hub ' delegation or rooters.
Mayor Curley and former Mayor it
gerald are bitter political rivals.
Chicago City Series.
Score: R H E
Cubs 4 9 8
Sox 2 8 0
Batteries Vaughn and Bresnahan
Wolfgang, Cicotte and Schalk.
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Denver Series.
Score:
Denver
Indianapolis
Batteries Harrington ana
Men, Schardt and Gossett.
R H E
4 10 8
5 10 2
Block;
CHURCH LEAGUE MEETS.
Managers of Basketball Teams Dis
cuss Approaching Season.
The Topeka Church Athletic league
met Wednesday evening at the office
of the president. H. B. Howard, 716
Kansas avenue, to discuss details, and
register for the coming basketball
season. Mr. Howard put np bis an
nual silver trophy for the champions.
Those represented at the meeting last
evening were as follows:
Second U. P. Williamson, mana
ger.
First Christian Davis, manager.
First Congregational Wier, mana
ger. United Brethren Bennett, mana
ger. N. Baptist Denny, manager.
' Walnut Grove Naylor, manager.
Lawman M. E. Valsh, manager.
First Presbyterian Bush, manager.
First M. E. Pettijohn, manager.
- Westminster Gates, manager.
Episcopal Jones, manager. -
- Next Tuesday will be the final date
for registration for this season.. A
cash deposit will be required by th
league as a guarantee that teams will
finish the season and abide by the
league rules. Any information want
ed, call 1377.
if,
Mr. Hepworth, athletic director of
the high school, was on the Washburn
athletic field Wednesday afternoon
giving the freshman team the once
over, and as he left the campus he
was shaking bis bead in a really seri
ous manner.
Two of the high school's best slav
ers. Glass, half back, and Sergeant,
quarter, will not be in the line-up Sat
urday against tbe Washburn under
studies. Glass has an old inlurv on
his knee that be is trying to set rid of
and Sergeant baa been 11L Besides,
the freshmen are said to have tbe best
team of a good many years. But ev
erybody knows tbe highs will hand
out tne best they have, and outside
predictions are that the fight will be
close, hard one. Last vear the
freshmen were defeated 14 to 0. and
only once in such a length of time
that the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary have the locals lost
to the Ichabod yearlings.
In discussing Saturday's came With
Baker. Coach Gray said: "There is
no dope to give out other than what
we have on the field. Baker is re
puted to have a strong line and we
are expecting something."
Judging from the done on the field.
however, it looks like the Baldwinltes
will have to hump themselves to keep
their beads above water, even with
an all-Illinois man in tbe line.
Baldwin, Kan.. Oct 8. Baker will
invade the Washburn camp 200
strong Saturday. Arrangements have
been made for a special train to han
dle the Baker fans. The Baker band
will also accompany the team.
Wednesday night Gallager put his
team through a rough grilling. The
first squad succeeded in running in
three touchdowns on the second team.
Coach Gallager is working out several
new plays, which he will try out in
the Baker-Washburn game. The Bak
er team which will go against Wash
burn will average 170 pounds.
Wednesday afternoon's Ichabod
practice consisted of a grinding scrim
mage between the first team and
scrubs and the first team and fresh
men. Myers, Beales and Bearg
worked well In the back field, and
Bearg's . gains were the big features.
McCash, Champeny and McCafferty
also made a pretty good back trio,
with little Champeny the leading man
by a good majority. Billings, Stewart
and Janney on the left wing of the
line held their own well and remained
Impregnable with more regularity
than the right wing. Barrett and
Linge botb worked In center Wednes
day.
Two of the Ichabods lost their wind
in the bard scrimmage and were giv
en the rest of the afternoon to find It.
Lindley spilled his when Stewart's
heel landed in his dinner basket, and
Page had a blowout in a pile scrimmage.
One place where the freshmen are
as good as the varsity any day in the
week is in the forward pass. Hell
makes a specialty of putting the ball
in the right place at the right time
and very seldom makes a complete
failure of his efforts. Kessler drew
the bog's share of rough handling
Wednesday afternoon but he played
on with his trousers still bagging and
his face covered with crimson and
mother earth.
In writing in the Chicago Evening
Post. Howard Mann says that the
open game, with long forward passes
ana speea u&kuib i"o uava v.. ....
and line smashing, has finally been
accented by the eastern lootDaii
eoachea.
In but Saturday's fames forward
nasaes from both open ana mass ror
mations were used by all the big
teams, and the smaller elevens made
their best showing by the use of the
open game.
It may be a matter of "coming to
their mflk." or It may be that churn-
ins- dav has lust rolled arouna at
U. At any rate. Coaches Wheaton ana
Ptnnd have beeun to give tne jay-
hawkers forward pass practice and it
looks like Mr. Wheaton's kicking game
courtDlaster has at last broken loose.
Those who saw last Saturday's game
with WiUiam Jewell had no trouble
in discovering that the Jays were sny
on offensive plays, and this may be
the reason for the beginning of for
ward pass practice.
The Haskell Indians are said to
have a very high regard for the Em
noria sauad and are predicting a bril
liant season for them. Three of the
Emporia players will be ineligible in
Saturday's game against the Kansas
Aggies, but Coach Harglss claims to
have substitute- i are almost as
good as the regulars.
The Haskell in .a are taking note
of the fact that all of their strongest
opponents this season were victorious
last Saturday by wide margins. Texas
university won her game 30 to 0
Louisiana piled up a 45 to 0 tally and
i Notre Dame made a point-a-minute
score against Alma.
It is all right-for a player or
coach to hand out a "bear story"-so
long as their consciences don't hurt
them, but the man who tells one of
these "huskies" that he is really as
rotten as he boasted he was before the
contest is liable to get into trouble.
An imitation -"bunny-hug" is a real
pleasure wherever and whenever met
but the "real thing isn't a' very desir
able recreation.
Topeka friends of Warren Gill, s
former Washburn gridiron star., may
be interested in knowing that the ath
letic siren, is again giving him. the lure.
A report comes from Los Angeles that
Gill has bean omrea tne management
of tbe Austin, Texas League baseball
team and may accept the honor. After
leaving college. Gill played third base
with, the Denver baseball club in the
Western " League. Then - he went to
Minneapolis and to the Coast League,
but retired from professional athletics
about a year ago to take up the prac
tice of dentistry. ; However, pulling a
score of teeth must be poor sport to
an old gridiron and diamond bero like
GilL -V.' -
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Best Theater Begins Operation of In
tricate Device To marrow Afternoon.
HORSESHOE TOURNEY SUNDAY.
Big Gathering Is Expected at Manhat
tan Meet Next Sunday.
Manhattan, Kan., Oct. 8. A great ,
deal of Interest is being taken in tne
horseshoe tournament to be held here
on Sunday. Cities from all over the
state will be represented and a large
number of players are expected to
Play.
Pierce and Argenbright of Kansas
City, champions of Missouri, and Jack
son of Blue Mound, champion of Kan
sas, and also tbe champions of Ne
braska will be on band and some ex
citing games are expected. AC horse
shoe pitchers are invited to attend, but
all -shoes weighing over two pounds
will be barred.
Directum Makes a Record
. Lexington, Ky., Oct. 8. A world's
record of 1:59 for third beat In a
race was established Tuesday by Di
rectum I in tbe Tennessee - stakes
which be won in straight heats, from
la small field. ,
Simultaneously, with the call of
"play ball" by the umps in Philadel
phia tomorow, the Best theater will
commence the operation of tbe big
electric score ; board which was In
stalled for tbe world's series last year.
A direct wire from the park in tbe
Quaker city will run to tbe Best, and
each play will be shown by an elab
orate system or colored lights.
For instance, if the batter connects
with the ball, the light denoting the
catcher does not show. Indicating that
the ball did not reach him. If the hit
happens to be a single to right the
right fielder's light flashes and the
batter's trip to the first sack is Indi
cated by a flash of lights from home
to first. The lights tell Just how each
play is worked out, giving the balls,
strikes, etc.
During the game, which begins
promptly at one o clock local time,
men In certain sections of tbe theater
will be permitted to smoke. Last
year those who "saw" the world series
at this theater became almost as ex
cited as they would bave been at the
park a thousand miles away.
MUD'S SERIES.
The State Journal will bulletin the
world's series baseball games which
start tomorrow on its large score
board.- Play begins at 1 p. m., Topeka
time. If you -want the score by tele
phone, please call No. 284.
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Sam Stewart, big Washburn tackle,
who Is one of Crip Gray's most re
liable men and a heady player.
T. E. Smith of Hiawatha, Kan., a
former K. U. football player, has been
chosen to assist Coach Yost with the
Michigan Wolverines this seasc
Smith's Kansas friends will doubtless
watch tbe Ann Arbor eleven with
much interest.
Both Tale and Harvard have used
the open play to advantage in their
games this season. With a speedy
back fiield composed of Brickiey. Ma-
nan, Bradlee and Logan, Harvard ap
pears to be stronger than ever In be
ing able to mix up open formation and
forward passes with the old style game.
Prospects for an Army-Navy game
seem to have gone a-glimmering be
cause the managers of the two teams
cannot agree on a city - in - which to
stage the event. An .appeal to the
secretaries of both departments of the
lighting squadrons has proven of no
avail. It looks like there. is a lack of
sportsmanship somewhere. 4n the bar-
racKs. a iooDai4 ,gajne js,a football
game in Washington or. Waco. But
maybe both teams are partial to yel
low pennants.
St Marys, Kan., Oct. 8. Since their
late defeat by Cooper the students and
those interested in St. Marys football
prospects are puzxllng over the abilitv
or ine team to come back. A mi
meeting was beld the dav of thu
Cooper defeat and the general senti
ment was strong that the Bhie and
White must equal the standard set by
former years. The varsity is showing
a slight advance in team work. Scrim
mage is being beld at every possible
opportunity Sunday, one of the fierc
est scrimmages ever witnessed on the
local gridiron was staged. Saturday,
Ottawa plays St. Marys at St Marys.
No definite information has come from
Ottawa's aggregation, but the visitors
are doped as strong.
The Haskell Indians will try to pile
up a score aganist C. B. C. in their
game at Kansas City next Saturday.
Whether or not this will be possible
remains to be seen, but the redskins
are anxious to make a good showing
against the - team whicb Illinois de
feated so decisively last Saturday.
Whether or not this will be possible
remains to be seen, but the redskins
are anxious to make a good showing
against the team which Illinois de
feated so decisively last . Saturday.
Haskell has a veteran team and is in
fine shape for . the- contest Their
friends here are anxious for them to
show against the St Louis eleven. Es
pecially 'as the Lawrence team this
year plays Notre Dame, and will need
to show class if they hope to play ball
in such fast company. Big Ben
Powell, the star fullback of the Has
kell eleven, who made tbe ail-American
second team while' a player at
Carlisle, says this is to be bis best
year in football. He is a great favor
ite here on account of his sportsman
ship, as well as his classy playing.
The fans are watching him for a great
record this season.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 8. Michigan
was scored on' for "the first time this
season Wednesday when she defeated
the light but aggressive football eleven
from Mount Union College of .Alliance.
O., 27 to 7.' - ' - -
Lawrence, Kan., Oct I. Tbe Jay
hawkers and Haskell Indians engaged
In 45 minutes of stiff scrimmage work
Wednesday afternoon on ' McCook
field. This is the first time the two
teams bave- mixed in two years, and
the. result was gratirying to the fol
lowers of both teams.
Neither team made an attempt to
score, although Strothera, for Kansas,
did kick a goal from tbe field. .It was
apparent from tbe playing, however,
that either team could ihave scored
touchdowns had they been permitted
to do so. .'"
On account of the Baker team re
turning home on a five o'clock train,
the game with Washburn Saturday
will be called promptly at 8 p. m. The
first game between the high school
and the Washburn freshmen elevens
will start at 1:80.
From Kansas City '.Times: Coach
Gray's Washburn teanvis deserving of
much praise for its fine -game against
the Nebraska Missouri valley cham
pions last Saturday.- Kansas City per
sons who saw the game - bay that
"Pinky" BealL a Topeka halfback, was
the class of the game and that goes,
they say, for Halligan, Rutherford and
the peerless Chamberlain. Tbe kick
ing of Captain Trobert, also was a feature.-
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