Show Chill Winds May Boost Grid Drinks B By BILL CORUM News Sports Writer rIter NEW YORK Oct 28 The 28 The personal per- per onal nobie noble experiment of Pr President ident i- i dent ent Harold W. W Dodds of Princeton was an unqualified success at the football game In Palmer stadium last ast Saturday You may recall that Mr Dodds recently made a plea against drinkIng drinking drink- drink Ing ng at college football games It w was wag a request and not an order or- or der er pleasantly and amiably word- word ed d. d But the soft answer away way the wrathful waters apparently apparently so that after alter the Navy game only a half-dozen half dead soldiers were picked up William Halligan this bureaus bureau's official observer swept the concrete concrete con- con crete rete hors horseshoe hoe from end to end with his field glasses after the crowd had departed and succeeded in n counting only six empties Th These e teams must play in the Epworth league grunted Operative Operative Opera- Opera tive ive Halligan as he jotted down the final inal statistics of the game Prince- Prince Yards ton on Yards rushing 80 bottles bottles bot- bot les left behind 0 O. Navy Yards Navy Yards gained rushing bottles left behind 6 6 I r told you Navy had more ammunition ammunition ammunition am am- in this game continued Mr Halligan It just didn't know how to use it I In explanation of the Halligan statistics it is only fair to add that none lone of the dead soldiers he spotted spotted spot- spot ted ed were in the seats where the midshipmen had been sitting They simply imply wre on the Navy side of the For all Mr Halligan and the writer know they may have been left ft there by Army scouts The Princeton president Is right There has been too much drinking at football games and for no good eason except that it is a habit that was formed in prohibition days when it was smart to tote a flask lask Or thought to be smart But it always has seemed to me that hat anybody who had to stop Inthe in inthe the he street strett or in a hotel or theater lobby obby for a drink must be mighty thirsty hirsty There are times at football games however when just a wee nip can make a tremendous difference to toa toa a fellows fellow's health and happiness Any inveterate football fan could tell ell you of games in Palmer stadium stadium stadium sta sta- Harvard stadium and the Yale bowl on afternoons so cold cole that hat wise old Mother Nature herself herself herself her her- self would make him him- gasp Blast my soul but a little jolt of f that there There must be reason in all things and many a frozen fingered sports scribbler sitting on the rim of the Harvard stadium after some late November game will find the in inner inner inner in- in ner man and loyalty to the Dodds plan waging a regular Dempsey Dempsey- Firpo Fipo My friends it can get cold enough on on top of that ivy grown stadium to make a bankers banker's handshake feel fee like taking hold of a third rail It is only a New England legend and lacking in official pro proof f but bu there has been a story going th the rounds in Boston for years of a ayoung ayoung young reporter and his telegraph operator who were left behind i in that press box bo after a Yale Harvard football game and thawed out th the following spring to find themselves looking at a track meet So Dr Dodds had best not congratulate congratulate con con- himself prematurely H He got fair weather and a fast track trac for his first race against John Bar Bar- The weather at Princeton last Saturday afternoon was almost almos as balmy as the young man who wh showed up in his coon coat In any case its it's just as well t to reserve final on the sue sue- cess of Dr Dodds' Dodds petition to th the followers of the annual autumnal madness Although we repeat ou our belief that it was a sensible an and timely warning against a practice for which nobody can hold any rea real brief The least a guy can do is g go down under the stands eh |