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Show People at the Game. "Rome people suffer horribb' at football foot-ball games, yet you cannot keep them away. Ono of my classmates," writes Jesso Lynch Williams in Outing, "could never endure the dreadfully glorious opening moment. TIo always turned his face away and. then kept beseeching tho rest of us in a low moan to tell him what was going on, which we never did. 4 ' I know another man who always !;oes alone and will not allow anyono le knows to sit near him if he can help it. He wears a cap and sweater and pays no attention to anything but football, yelling with delight when a thing pleases him and swearing quietly quiet-ly to himself whon there seems need o'f it. "Once upon a time he was the best football player of his department in the whole country, but that wns man' years ago nnd they no longer oven call upon his services as a coach, so ho sits in tho grandstand and has a lonely debauch de-bauch of footbnll emotion. "Most of us, however, need someono to talk to, someone, to say the inane things to, such as 'ITa! Third down!' when everyone knows it. and 'Going to kick!' when fifty or sixty thousand other eyes can see tho punter drop back for that purpose. "More especially do wo need someono some-ono to pound on tho back when things go our way, someone to exchange looks with when they go the other way. There is one mnn in our class, supposed to be without, emotion, who is really dan-perous dan-perous at football games, he strikes out so hard nnd wildly. "There is nnothor man not in our class, who goes to ovory game and, though wo always hope to avoid him, ..he turns up in our, vicinity with a regularity reg-ularity which makes us nnd go each other and say. 'Of course.' "lie is of the noisy brood, stirs up dissensions, gives the umpire advice before it is requested and lets it bo known to everyone within four rows just how much" ho hots on tho game and with whom, while we look the other way and pretend that he has merely assumed our collego colors for the occasion. There is one advantage of being nenr him, however, he never hesitates to bollow 'Down in front!' to men, women, or children." |