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Show Grid Training Is Quite Often " Useful.' NEW Y'ORK, Jan. 1. "Foiling the Playful Huns With Football Tactics" is. the title of this little yarn. Our heroes in this story aro Hugo Irancke, who played fullback for Harvard Har-vard last year, and Bill Undarwoood, who used to do epd duty for the.Crim-son the.Crim-son squads of 1913 and' 1914. ' Having acquired their sheeyiskins during dur-ing the "graduations at Cambridge last June, the pair started out to conquer the world by lassoing jjoljs iu a cordage factory in Ludlow, Mass?, as machinery oilers. Xow in that shop where the -majority of the oilers are Huns, it is an unwritten rule that all newcomers must be initiated in-itiated bv being pegged with oil-soaked waste. Therefore, during their first day as oilers, Francke and Lnderwood were bombarded ever and anon, A half dozen times some of the playful 'foreigners smeared the classic Hariard countenances counte-nances with grease by hitting them with an oversoaked ball of waste. The second day the initiation ceremonies cere-monies continued," and Francke and Underwood Un-derwood only grinned. Issue Ultimatum. There was no let-up on the third .'lay.. On the fourth day the pelting, instead of decreasing, seemed to increase. Oil-soaked Oil-soaked waste fairly rained down upon the youths, and they decided right there that" they had been initiated quite sufficiently. suf-ficiently. And ' then Francke and L'nderwood sought out their tormentors and told them to desist and desist immediately under penalty of having dire things happen to them. The only answer of the Huns was the exchange among themselves them-selves of knowing grins. Francke and Underwood returned to their stations, but barely had (hey resumed re-sumed w-ork when a dozen oil-soaked wads volleyed dow-n upon them, immediately imme-diately followed by a hackfetul of oil which" drenched them. And then it happened. hap-pened. The Crimson pair wiped the grease from their eyes, saw the Huns grouped in a doorway laughing uproariously, and then, like maddened bulls, Francke and Underwood dashed at that pang as thev used to dash at the opposition line in their football days head-first, low and crouching, and with all tiie speed and power at the command of their healthy young bodies. Use Football Charge. They crashed into teat pack of foreigners for-eigners and split it like a fourteen-inch shell would split a woooden wall. Five of the ten foreigners went down as though felled by a mariin spike. Francke hurled himself at two of the others and floored them. A third tried to escape, but Francke overtook him, lifted him ' off of his feet and hurled him through a window. Underwood, in the meantime, was attempting at-tempting to "polish off" the two others who had escaped the first charge. He sent one to the floor with a torrinc bn,',y punch, and ju-t as he was going after the other Francke came along and saved ; L'r.derwood the-exertiou of purring him out of commission by batting i.ini with his head and sending hini catapuhing toward tl e wall. "Ramming through the Yale line never gave tne half the fun. I've had just now. Bill." said Francke. as he-viewed he-viewed tlte success of the onslauehf . "Righto," assented Underwood. "And note let's pet back to work." P. S. The Huns ,ie:-ided that day that Francke and ("udorwood needed no farther initiation in the Frolicking Fraternity Fra-ternity of Machinery Oilers. j |