Show GREEKS INFLAMED BY RED CAPS DISTANCED A it j BY COLLEGE COLlEG YOUTHS S til IN MODERN MARATHON The gaudy airs put on by some of ot the college men tall fall to make a hit with the foreigners in Murray This was forcibly demonstrated when two university students stu students students dents traveled to the Smelter City flaunt flaunting flauntIng flaunting ing their school colors in the form of two little tittle crimson caps which were set on the back of at the head Two Greeks looked with suspicion on an m this style of oC headgear and proceeded to mix things with tie t e colle collegians collegians collegians gians Feeling the need of reinforcements one of the Greeks uttered some magic words wc ds and Instantly a horde emerged from every possible shelter and hastened to the scene The first assailants pointed to the caps the rest reat took the signal without a word and began hostilities The two hap hapless hapless hapless less youths managed after a struggle to escape and started a foot race up the State road toward the city of o ZIon with a yelping mob of at foreigners In pursuit Here Is where their college training was wasa a godsend to them Their fleet limbs trained to defend their alma mater came cameto cameto cameto to the rescue Unlike their ancestors the Greeks of Murray weer not fleet of ot foot the gods had forsaken them Mercury had lent his speed to the college youths and Greece was defeated in the modern modem Mara Marathon Marathon thon up State street The wearers of the crimson stopped to catch their breaths In Inthe inthe inthe the shades of the Granite stake tabernacle taber tabernacle tabernacle nacle while far to the north the chimes of the city and county building clock peeled the hour of nine Just rust ten minutes had been spent covering twelve blocks of slippery roads tads What hatred the Greeks have havo for th crimson Is unknown The college boys boS are nursing bruised limbs and swollen fea tea features features i tures and consider themselves lucky in es escaping escaping 5 caping with their lives |