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Show Yankees Carrying the Ball & a Vet Pershing Mixes 3m Up Football Star in France Writes, in Gridiron Language, Lan-guage, of How the All-American Team Is Breaking Holes in the Hun Line. A football star's version of the American "team" in France has been written by Johnny Williams, former Brown 'university frridiron star, who is now in the "big frame." Williams tells, in real football language, how Quarterback Pershing- is mixing up his criss-crosses and straight bucks in such a way that the rival bunch is worried. Williams writes: "Today's pamo is the 'letter' pame of the season. 'None of us had any too much practice before we came, but we are all in shape and expect to give a good account of ourselves. As ever, our team adheres to the rules of civilization. civiliza-tion. Every trulv great institution plays the game according to those rules. Our good coach, Uncle bam, watched the first half of the fray from the sidelines side-lines and saw the Huns doiiberatelv break rule after rule. Several times he yelled to them to play tho gamo fairly, but they gave him the ha-ha and continued con-tinued their foul (actios. .1'inally the old man could no longer look on while tho rules of civilization thoso rules he fosters were being trampled upon by those dirty Huns, so he decided to call his men on the field and teach that bunch of heathens a lesson. Pershing in Charge. "Since we hadn't been scheduled to play, our men were widely scattered, but we didn't take long to get together; you are about the last of the old vets to come. .Some ot our boys were already iu togs and were rushed in immediately, r'ershing, that Aii-Ameri.-an vet, was given charge of the squad and was put in nt quarterback. He had onlv a few regulars for his line, but you'd be surprised sur-prised to know how the subs fitted in and held the Huns for downs. " We don't caro much for the gridiron, becuuso tho stands are too far from tho fiel.l; and. as you know, our bovs like to hear from our cheering section. Only amid the din of battle do we get the echoes: 'Hold 'em, boys! Hold 'em! ' so well did our Uno hold toward the end of the third poriod that tho ball went over and our backs began crashing through tho supposedly invincible Hun line. The fourth period is now on; not only have we gained possession of tho ball, but the Huns' goat as well. We've brought the ball from our own one-yard line to midiield. In a few moro plunges wo will be in the opponent's territory. Pershing has taught them how to play an open game, and is mixing up his criss-crosses and straight bucks in such style that those iokers don't know what to expect next. 1 must deny you tho names of our individual stars, because the coach so requests, but in a recent plav we sent a formation straight, through their strong guards, Chateau Thierry and toissons, incidentally knocking out a l'ew Huns. No Pennants Waving. "As I look across the field to the Hun stands I notice that they are no longer singing there. They seem to bo squabbling about a handful of saudwiches and their pennants don't fpem to bo waving as they were. Here and there a disgusted Tooter lets his colors droop so that wo see a bit of either side; one side made up of a new kind of fabric called camouflage it is not at all staple; tho other sido is "lain white, with a broad streak of yellow running through it. "Alas, old man. tho band is playing 'Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!' and tho coach is calling our squal of backs behind the stands to run through the sipnals. Wo are going to march down tho field in this period and put over a good score, if it takes a new set of backs for each attack. 3cl F. A.' That 's mv signal. Good-bve. . " Your old pal. " "JOHNNY WILLIAMS." |