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Show ALE MASCOT SUICIDE WHEN ARMY SCORED NEW HAVEN, Nov. 12. When news came to the Yale gymnasium that West Point led Old Eli at the close of the first half of play, Canitbee, the alligator mascot of the eleven, erawled between two broiling hot steam pipes and committed com-mitted suicide without waiting for the final score. It's true, for Dr. Max Schwartz, Yale's swimming director, vouched for it at Canitbee 'a funeral. ' Dr. Schwartz narrated, by way of funeral fu-neral oration, how he had fed his pet with potted nam and lemons and bad done everything in his power to make life attractive, Dut, he said, the 'gator could not endure the thought of facin? a losing Yale football team. |