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Show Likens World War . to Football Game ' ' 'Going Over' Says Salt Lake Athlete HIRK U soother Interesting letter from the front. It le from Douglas W. Clifford, formor local high school athletic star, enel woo written to Tommy Pitspatrick, tho writer's formor ooaoh. Young Clifford woo reeently wounded in ootion and tho I otter, full of no wo, woo writ ton wHilo ho wot oonvoloooinp in booo hospital. Somewhere In Franco, Kept. S. Hallo Tommy! How's tho Mtlo lrth-man? lrth-man? Htlll teaching tho boya how to imtck tho Una? I'm laarning tho amo thing only wt'ro u4yltg 44 tU HoheneoUern'e ggragatlon thit yaer. Our opponenta don't play Ilka tho "Tsar" ueed to teach ua at high aehool and at for hla coda of aporteinan-hlp aporteinan-hlp Holy On! but they tra dirty playara. Why. whan thay'va yallad down and wa let tham up, thay tart all over again and uaually from behind our becke. ' m down a our base headiiarlara, hut I ha ronifmny la at Ihe frnnl. They left ma behind thla trip because I Juat came from a five-weeke' alay in tha hospital and they thought I wna too week to atand the gaff They waro rrt a Inly right. Mat, but thla war la hall, Tom. I am down hare whara I ran hava a bath and tond maala every day. but those poor pola of mint prolmb-ly prolmb-ly ha van' t a van had a rhanco to taka off their hoes In tha laal I wo weeks. Tha laat time I waa up there, Juat be Tor a my llUle atay in the hospital, I know none of ua ever had our cloihee off for atratrhaa of fifteen dayt at a lima. Mayha you don't ihlnk our lit tie old baao doesn't look good whan wa roma In off from a trip llko that. A year ago. If anyono had told ma I'd bo doing thla line-plunging In Iho world "a" chaniplonehlpa against Rill's team, I'd have laughed mvmlf alck and yet three long moot ha of It hava rolled by. under my feat and It'a clone to avan montha alnca I held up my right hand, "I do " Such la Ufa. hut at that those aavan montha hava not haan at long at thay might hava been If there -had ben thtrty-two day In oarh Inataad of thirty, ona. I never knew there were ao many yaart In a month until thay packed ma off to tha hospital about alx week a ago. Hon aat. If a man ware Inclined to bo the leaat bit , horie-slck horie-slck he'd die In that pia" Helleve me, Tommy, wa'va got iom lln-plung-Ing outfit over here. I used to think that the old high arhoul had a peach ' Inat year, hul, aay, man. the way wa urore on old Hill la a sight fnr sore avaa. Ton know thla field la o preJty good alied ona. Tha two goals have their namat. Rill's le I'frla and oura la Rarlln. Kill kicked to Joffro In 'M, If you remember, re-member, and Joffre returned re-turned mllao. Then Rill held htm for downs and held him cloee until 'It. John Hull waa holding, down ona and and dqlng well. n 117 our old friend. Uncle nam. trough! up a team and for a while we looked on to tea how the came waa being played, hut we finally derided de-rided I hat none of tham had anything nn ua. Our Una took Ma placo and tha back field, which coiialated nf a few all-lnchera, it art. ed movlna and wa'va bean putting tho ball rloaer to HIII'b goal avar alnca. If tha anda only hold him from breaking through and glva tour proaont bark a, which ronulm of t'nele Ham. Australia fha'o fluro a Una plunger) and a fellow fel-low front North America named Canada, a chance, wa ll puoh that old boll over tha Una at aura at you live Than ('apt. Forh will kick ga and tho gama will ho over. Wa all hava to 1tep In training bocauao lota of ubetltutea are needed. Hill piara a houghho4ieo gamo and lota of our fallow a gat hurt. Wall, Tom. how art you getting; along at tha good old L' of U ' la thera any pep thara thla year? Tha rain, over hart, la making tho field ao ellp- Kry that wa are having a rd tuna making our yarda, but they don't taeua checka In thla league ao wa'va got to atlck It out. Wa'va got pap to apart and tha flermane don't Ilka It a bit bocauao we'ra quite rough At for me. personal y. I'm getting awfully tired of thla lying around. I'm till ao darned weak H't dlagutllng. ("ant even walk atralght yet and can't atralghten my aida at all. I'm coming along fine, though, they tell ma, and I hope to get Into tha game again for tho last quarter at It net. Old Ayton Thurman and I parted up tha Una a couple of montha a to, hut I haven't been up hla way tlnro I got mint Ha t even a better man than ha waa In 'It, Tommy, ao you muat know that ha la prat 1 ly good ! Hoping to aao you again : aome day. 1 am, youra, i iHU'Olg W. rMFfORD, i Kour H und red Port y -fifth Truck Company, K. |