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Show AGGIES THROW UP THE SPONGE AND THERE IS SADNESS . ON UIAjUAffUS Crimson Hope for at Least . One Game This Year Goes Glimmering; A. G Quits Until After War ByW.D.B. A TELEPHONE menus ge from the powers that be at the ftah Agricultural rollpge Ht Logan this morning brought the lad tidings that the boys of the A, C. have been denied the privilege of having any form of college sport whatsoever until after the war. Absolutely nothing doing in any line of college Athietie competition during thf war period, is the word. To state that thla is sad news for the boys at the A. C. Is merely telling half of It. for there Is equal sadness at tha University of I'tah. where Tommy Fttspatrlck and bis boys, already, almost la tha dumps as a result of war, Influ-ensa Influ-ensa and a few. other things, bad at least hoped for that one annual game wit b tha Logan farmers on Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing day, or perhaps on Chrlstmsa day. The boys on tho eaat bench have taken tha announcement from Imogen aa a bitter bit-ter disappointment, and some of them ara eruel enough to remark that the "Aggiea are quitting because they feel that their football and baaketball chances will not measure up with those of the X" until ettlefel, Jarvls, Worley, "Ipenrer and a 4w of th other a tare ara f eiea4 from their aemiwar duties. ' Bo that aa It may, however, ws get It straight from tho most reliable kind of authority that tho decision of tha A. C. authorities la final: that there will be absolutely nothing- doing at the A C ertng has flown the coop, and that there to not a coach left oo tho Job for any kind of athletics Coach Karl Pickering. It la stated, haa gone to ipoaaa for ev brief vioit, prior to reporting at the officers' training echool at Camp Fremont , Cel., which opens 4 December 1. Tho decision to abandon all forms of sport competition la said to have the official of-ficial O. K. of President K. O. Fetor-son. Fetor-son. Ths football candidates had already gotten got-ten under way, under Coach Pickering, and tho school had apent aomethtng like $Soft on new material; but when the Bpan-leh Bpan-leh Influent, epidemic took hold, following follow-ing close on tho heela of the ached u la worrtea. tha coach and ths school su-thorlties su-thorlties threw up both hands and decided de-cided that "ths gams la not worth ths candle." |