Show STORIES FROM THE GRIDIRON Si BY BV FRED lOWENTHAl I In the intenseness 3 o of body to body bod playing a man often forgets himself entirely in l a football game In this connection a story is told on Dad the former Northwestern end and sprInter The cago game in 1901 was a bitterly fought struggle The purple eleven had been I II I I put on the tho fi fIest lest kind of edge for the Ule I game and played in a truly desperate I fashion I Around Elliot wan as built time the fort of j jN N lt westerns attack and tIme the clever I end en was well nigh exhausted before time the I end of the tho first half Seeing that his ground gainer was I on hIS iii pins pills pro Dr ran on the j field j and poured about a of whisky down clown the boys throat Now Dad was time the president of the y M C A at Northwestern at time the time lime and If th there r was wa one timing thing lie he always had ought against it was the demon rum Th Thi stimulant braced him During the remainder of the game he kept calling for or that stuff stutt And Aud th they soaked him with it After the contest in which North NorthWestern Northwestern Western was the thc winner Dad at attended attended tended a Y M C A social smelling like a barrel hou house e It was some weeks before he could square himself with his coworkers Last year ear when Illinois pla oo Ne Nebraska e braska the met the I tribe headed by George Huff Burr at the I traIn with a brass baud band rho Illinois bo boys s were bundled away in and with the band In front formed quite a processIon to the hotel On all sides Huff Hurr had to salute the wel welcoming we coming citizens ot of Lincoln The whole cIty cheered his name When we got gotto to the hotel Hurt Huff came straight up to tomy tomy my room and in an uncontrollable fit ot of laughter threw himself upon the bed It wa some minutes before I 1 could get from him the cause of this thil apparent uncalled for expression or of I mirth he had calmed down some this Is what lie he told me meS I S You see sec the last time timo I was In this town I le t In a rather hurried fashion It was when I played on Illinois We re remade made a barnstorming to tour r through Iowa Kansas and Nebraska during we played SiX games ames In the tl cour course of seven days das When we played Nebraska I was pitted against n a loud loudmouthed loudmouthed mouthed sort Eort Qt Of fellow who rein the first started to me There was one which e grated and that was taU tat I controlled mY mYself self with lI a great deal of effort time the game and because I said nothing my tormentor tool took It tS os a 5 of weakness on my part But aut I 1 was on biding my time As soon as the gnome ne was waa over I made ono one leap for time the fel fellow low Jaw and at the sam sani time thue handed him himan all an upper slice on the jaw which him out as one de dead lIl In a moment I was time the center or of the wild wildcat cat looking mob that r I ever hope to see Only time tho fact that there was an another ot other cr fat man on omi our team toom sa saved 1 m inc For a mom moment nt they took him Co for I me and In that moments hesitation I en cs But they soon caught of mo me and chased me to time the hotel The landlord was pretty game and tind barred time the door The crowd buns arouni tho th place almost all ot of tIme the night Finally I to sneak neak out about I 2 lii In time the and aught a freight ht for Omaha Now ow to think that they the are receiving me with a brass And time the big fellow broke into another fit ot of It is Hulls contention after ACter Ig both hoth In the west end in the east that a fellow does not take up the sport because he likes it it like L a man who plays plas baseball hI 1 play now for and I did play b because t I was afraid not no to and partly bp be aus I persuaded t myself that I 1 ought to I might lute thought It was 4 sport at the time I was in it but bul I doubt It now H He is fa right too p I woud not play pIa time the game gamo anY moro more s I IT I see much fun iu AU I t I A T had out of it Of c course urse there thero was th satisfaction of victory and w s f that appealed to m me ii b the physical an opponent And yet ot of daB daily practice I 1 can S ny what I Sherman said of war When I look back it seems but the year ear that I was picked on the team I not myself physically and only played be u e I did pot not have haTe I nerve enough to say that I would oot no t rhey talked about my nerve after ater the season but it waS the r rankest kind ot of moral cowardice that made me play I Funn it yeu nob Roy and Newtown which year niter after year at last severed athletic relations Their annual game for the amateur cham champIonship of Fountain county lad Ind and a purse ot of now is a athing thing of the past pail For th years anti and Rob Ro Bo Joe have fought it out s hard hamd hardas as mUlde arid and nerve nene would allow up to tide this year ear neither side ever eer had registered a 8 score Scoring uprooted all time the r relations to tIme the two It was this wa way The ball baJi used this y year ar was the tame rome that had been used In aU all th the former con comi contests tests between the teams Time ThO strings ot of it no longer retained their pristine and during n a fierce rush by Mike lIke Smith or of the team time the strings broke and th thC seam of the baits parted of Rob Roy tried tO steal time the ball In the iTo He tugged and tug tugged d and finally got the leather cover oel Meanwhile MUm Mike Smith still sUU folding tightly tight clutched in 1 hi lila arm continUed on toward the tho Rob Roy goal amid time line Just Justan an aa Thurston crossed the Newtown goal line with the leather heather lover cover In the ar argument that followed each team claimed that It was wa the one one I and that time the other did not Each Euh had hac equally strong arguments to support Its side Each one claimed the cham of the count and as yet the purse still is in the hands of the stake stakeholder stakeholder holder Feling is so bitter that it has hus been decIded never neer to match the two teams again the pla players ers on the Rob Roy teAm will wUl play wIth Vendors Veedersburg burg next year and those ot of Newtown with Hillsboro and ald Veedersburg and will wUl meet for tor the champion simi hp of Fountain c county and n a purse of 1100 next taU fail |