Word: jayhawker
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...Neosho Falls. Two years ago Ronald Finney, 6 ft. tall, plump, glib, goodnatured and a lavish spender by Kansas standards, set up in business for himself. He dealt in bonds. He speculated in commodities. He hired an elaborate suite, partly for use as an office, in Topeka's Jayhawk Hotel. He ran up heavy toll bills telephoning to his brokers...
...Pulldog" on his head. There have been others of these challengers from the out lands, and year by year they seem to grow a little stronger and more threatening. There was Centre and Chicago and Nebraska last year. This fall Kansas comes East, and the Army sends the "Jayhawk" back with defeat stenciled on his feathers. Then Drake University, cut in Iowa, rises up Saturday and takes the edge off the Army victory by thrashing the "Jayhawk" again. Of a certainly the football capital of these United States is a wandering one. It is no longer nailed down east...