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Show FOOTBALL BRUTALITY Dr Hillis Vigorously Srorc3 Evils of the Times. NEW YORK. Nov. I'T Football bru- I tallty and disregard of the Christian Sunday by owners and drivers of auio-Dioblles auio-Dioblles were themes touched upon by Rev. rr. N f mills in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, yesterday. His subject sub-ject w.iB the "Ten I "ommandments." "Strange, passing strange." said Dr Hlllls. "In this era of philanthropy and sympathy for the poor and weak, that men should have to reread the words thou shalt not kill.' Terrible the need to remember the sanctity of life by reason rea-son of the killing of our young men in college; slain to make a Rom;.n holiday. holi-day. "Yesterday morning the papers said that thirty-four young collegians had been killed In football thua far this autumn. au-tumn. 'Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, the youth In l'nlon college said to hla companions. 'My father Is here. He haa never aeen nie play. I am going to play the game of my life ' Then, to put him out of business, six men fell upon him, and when the twilight fell the boy waa dead, nnii s broken-hearted father was sobbing over his body. "The morning stories tell us that the T'nlon college faculty decided not to tell the visiting team that the youth was d")id lest the knowledge that they had killed him disturb the smoker ' But a little episode, like another collegian col-legian or two killed In these days, would not disturb in the slightest degree de-gree tho.v who do not play football as gentlemen play, or as scholars who hate unfairness nnd foul play" |