Show OlDiSPORT SEES f OT8A LAND jl L-AND DESCR1BES TOE GAME WO leven sixty six tWQnteight alas boom ab murmured thc Old Sport Rah rah tiger I el I yell t sixteen twntllne II hundred n eighty eight Johnny looked at the Old Sport out Pt the l taU or hIs ee for a minute and then reached back for the bungstarter The Idea that the Old Sport had gone out or his mind quite naturally occurred to Johnny and he wanted to be prepared for any emergency Glmme about forty drops of nose paint out or that good old black bottle an gmme It quick said the Old Sport At this Johnny looked relieved The Old Sport couldnt be vera far gone when he ordered hIs bushed so rationally still his incoherent talk had made Jolnny feel that some kind of an explanation was due so while ho set out the bottle and turned to uncork a bottle of singer ale for use on the side he Inquired I hats got into you Sport Has Es i election gone to your head T Old Sport looked slightly aggrieved Do I look like A man thats nut he dematdec Cast yotir eye over mph m-ph slognom Doe you see anything there that induces you to the cogitation that Im bughousu Johnny was foreed to admit that 50 far as outward ap pearnces went the Old Sort loolcd as natural as ever He Intimated that It f was the strange G C jargon uttered by t d his old friend as he e k f came in that arousc susIcion as to his H sanl Huh thats It Is i I t J na the indL I cant response t W Well your palaver puts me next that you aint next to the Ji latest thing In the sarUn line I oud had a ounce or sense you would have knowe when 1 come In that 1 was rehCrin < a football signal Now r dont supposo you ever seen a football game In your life did you Johnny Ko I thought not Here you stand day man day out trowln bad booze down the necks or onphlstcate citizens passIn the time or day with em an never know any thing abut the rely burnln palpia tin Issues or the day Ah Lord Johnny it shoreh doe trouble mo to hear you confess your Ignorance You come up to the Y 11 C A rooms some night an mean me-an Johnny Axton will give you a ten pints pintsAn An when If I may be so bold d you frt become Infatuate with this here chr santeumheded play asked i Johnny In subdued tones Its this way was the reply Im slttn In a qUiet little game or stud just plkin along a not makln day wages when longhaired boy whos standi behind be-hind fnerin a hal hes got In his Jrns an wlshln he could get a stack with i says to the party net to me that he behaves haves hell go out to see a football game r ricks up my cars some because this game Im In tint in t ii terstn me none c an feels like I needs L sdme diversion 1 A man elts stale t S when he sets in the same kind of a play r = alt the time an I concludes Ill try the git new deal So I says to the longhaired Loy I says Podner can anybody got a stack il this hero game youro talkin about lIe looks 1me a minute kinder curious an says 1 Why etngh Then I lInda out whos dealin It an where he plays gain to be I made an strikes srightway therefor Sits down here In YalkeS ted an the thee Is half an hour later as they I say on the theatre progmme Ter s twenttwo pretty husly lads out In the middle or a open husk wIt thing at I either and that looks like horizontal bars onlythero too hII Im thlnl maybe somebodl skIn the cat or somethln or I the kind when a whist blows an a lad sing but smetln on the line or say remarks re-marks as I entered this her drink foundr ext mlnuto there wit the dcrndest mess a man ever iboked at rC one of them boys platted tt out another to rtle I with an for about a Jl mInute there was 1 the hottest Ioven 11 fights I ever seen I Ten somebody hol r lens down an shore 1 enough he was t dead right as far as f I could sefor everyone every-one of the twenty i two WS doWn goo ad plenty Well they lines up again Seems to mo the rounds Is pretty thor but I soon see the I rents aint any longer an Im interested considerable Before long I gets next that the ob jeet of them twent two men is to kill or I cripple somebody an Im some warmed up I seen they had a bal or some kind tangle up n their midst but th bulk or I e seem to b pain more attention to the ielE thats against em than they does to the bal Occasionally one of the boys wouldga the bal an start on a run with I an then th sole ambition or even othtr lad seemed to be to ketch this young feler an beat him Into the earthflonest Ionet Johnny r olldnt er ben Id If for six sacks or blue but I was powerful pow-erful glngezln to look at The play as nIgh asI could make out was to get the bal under one of these horizontal bar I been teln you abut even Ir the sIde that did It had to swIm through blood Well they fit an m Every now an then n ftler that got beat dow would stay down an the rest would help him oft to ope side But as fast as one got put out another taking no warnln from hIs corn rades fate rushed In to take his place if r got into a game like that Id want 1 bttC In my hands nn a pair or good old sixes on my hip However its god to look at as Im teln you The clmd whoop an yells like crazy people Say Johnny if ydu thought r was nutty for tha little I said when I come In here r wopde what youd think Ir you could I hEaronl 0 them rhrh boys when he Iets good an ready I dont recollect itow the game comes out I at L feHer comic In on the car who got licked an he looks at me so cold an contemptuous that I feels considerable White chlpplsh IWstudln the game now an when I goes out to see another itl occur to mo to ascertain whos ic torlous before r leaves the grounds Income In-come around here sometimes of a night an pot you up to an after so long a time maybe oul be tibia to discourse intelligently Qn this nee great pastime as wen as me Non I got to go up an see Johnny Axton Johnnys the head guy when it comes to the foo bal squeeze even ir he did lea et or kidSthro hehook into his ice wagons Tn ta old boy ta ta And as he went out or the door the Old Sport again began softly singing One nine ninetyniuerah boom 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