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Show HOW AIM ENGLISHMAN VIEWS I OUR FOOTBALL I HERB is what an Englishman on a visit to tho United States calls his "important and honorable Impressions of an American football match." I must tell you that tho soeno waa the great stadium at Harvard and the opposing teams Harvard and Dartmouth universities. univer-sities. Very well. then. Immediately facing me was an enormous placard bearing the word "Dartmouth.'' Beneath Be-neath this were assembled In close formation for-mation tho Dartmouth "cheering section" sec-tion" and the Dartmouth brass band. On the other sldo of the stadium were tho Harvard "choerlng section" and tho Harvard brass baud. Tho Dartmouth Dart-mouth cheering suction was under tho control of two gentlemen who kept their backs to tho game the grcator part of tho afternoon tholrs not to reason why; theirs but to kep the supporters of Dartmouth in a constant ctato of mental and tracheal Inflammation Inflamma-tion Ono of theso gentlemen waB short and stout; tho other was taller and very wiry Tho stout gentleman wus content to stand In front of the chcercrs and beat time for tho cheers by throwing his arms spasmodically from right to left. Tho thin nml win- man went much further than that Hc danced to and fro all tho afternoon from ono end of the cheering section to the other. Even to tho Harvardlans and the Bostonlans he came rather In tho.naturo of a surprise, ao you may linaglno how he astonished and fascinated fasci-nated an innocent Britisher. I must tell you some more about that dancer. He did not dance as King David danced; neither did ho cakewalk. It was a sort of sideways Jump and 'undoubtedly had a maddening effect on tho cheerers. If the Dartmouth team had on'y been able to watch him it might 'havo won the match Instead of losing Still tho fact that the gamo was so ono sided did not seem to spoil the sport for the onlookers On the contrary, con-trary, the higher tho Harvard score climbed the more they wero urged to got at their opponents and Inflict upon them a defeat from tho shame of which they should never recover. "Get morel Get more'" was the cry. "Make It a hundred. Harvard I You've got 'em ueai io a irozzie, ino aogs: uci more: Got more!" This encouragement, of courso, was unofllclal and unorganized. Tho mothers, moth-ers, cousins, aunts nnd sisters of tho undergraduates were responsible for a very fair share of It Tho exclloment and enthusiasm of the women. Indeed, struck mo as most extraordinary. In England If a woman goes to a football match sho spends half the time In criticising crit-icising the colors of the Jerseys and the other In lnmentlng the foct that her f"t aro so cold Thero Is nothing of that sort about tho American woman. wo-man. Whether It Is assumed or n- I cannot say, but sir appears ready o swoon with excltrmcnt at any given point In the gamo Directly tho teams appear on tho field she begins to call out. Jump up and down In hr scat and clap her hands When the ball Is kicked kick-ed off, sho laughs Jow. long nnd shlv-erlngly shlv-erlngly Whn somebody picks it up she leaps to her feet crying"- "He's go! It' Oh. you would, would you! No vou don't, my boy!" If a player runs ten yards with the ball, which Is a considerable con-siderable run In American football, sh beats her clenched fists on the shoulders shoul-ders of tho person In front of her. ejaculating: "Oh! Oh, my land! Thero ho goes' Oh, my land, my land!" The Incident over, there Is a prodigious prodi-gious scrambling for rugs, hot bottles nnd all tho other paraphernalia with which she comes provided. As most of these co jforts havo slipped to the ground betweon tho scats, the gentleman gentle-man In attendance has to squeeze his body through a twelve Inch space, hapg by his toes to the seat and be hauled up. by and by, on the verge of apoplexy. apo-plexy. Ho knows very wo.ll that tho next time any ono runs a few yards with the ball It will happen over again, 1.... !.- ... .. .,.- Ul l f out for an afternoon's football, nnd tho life of n husbnpd moro or loss Is a trivial thing on so momontous an occasion oc-casion I havo said nothing as yqt about the players. Tho players aro heroes to a man. "I hear," said a Harvard undergraduate under-graduate to me as we were walking back to his rooms after the match, "that one of our freshmen had his neck broken In tho game against tho Yalo freshmen." "Dear dear'" I replied. "I'm awfully sorry to hear that I" "Yes." my friend continued, "so was I. If It's correct, wo shall have to postpone post-pone tho Important Harvard-Yalo match. Ono of this boy's most Intimate friends had two teeth knocked out during Iho courso of tho game I witnessed wit-nessed nnd at least ton men retired before be-fore the end of tho match. "What a fuss about a couplo of broken toes!" wild a woman next to me as one poor fellow hobbled past. I took a good look at her. She wns young and not 111 favored. You would neer have supposod her capablo of such ferocity. It was tho oxcltompnt of tho game, of course, bringing the primitive barbarism to the surface: but, aftf-r making even' allowance for this. e traordlnary passion, I was astonished. The American game, as "you know.'h divided into four porta. At the conclu- slon of each part a man dashes on tc IH tho ground with water" In a huge bot- H tlo and moro water Jna bucket The H players drink out of the bottlo and H wash their hands in tbo bucket. In H tho mcantimo the bandu plays patriotic. tunes nnd the cheering sections cho'cr H liko mad. Really, It Is nl! vry won- M dcrful very wonderful and interesting M Indeed. At laot the gunvj la over. In -England when the game 13 over we melt silently H awny. Not m In America. Thcro Is a H great derl moro to come. Everybody BAV rushes on to the ground and there H takes plr.co a sort of procession of BBJ glory, headed by tho band. Thousnndn BVB of cps aro thrown over tho crons bar, BH the members of the victorious team aro H obrorted In triumph and with full-mu- H slcal honors to the pavilion and thence H to their own rooms, For my part I had tho privilege of H "keeping It up" with certain members H of tho Harvard team until nearly mid- H night. A comic opora was bolng H performed In Boston for tho last tlmo H and tho management hnd placed tho H stage boxes at the disposal of the young heroes of the hour. I was cour- H leously Invited to Join thorn, and a merry time wc had of It. It will , be fl many a month, I fancy, before the lit- HVfl tic leading lady forgets the twolvo en- H cores for her dance or the gift of th H football that was thrown to her acrors H the footlights. Immediately In front H of mo sat the young hero who had lost IH two teeth during tho afternoon. What jH mattered a tooth or so? I warrant you H that ho was tho merriest and maddest H BBB In conclusion J should like to recount a rather pretty llttlo Incident. It so happened that I had to catch the mid- night train, to Now York, and a good BjBjl 'im M, bbbI M4i-'"S 'bbbI 5a-?'i-jyffi , BBBl " iW1v,i!''yii'iisSi BBBl ! jc 4V-;S2iJswJ3ga i BBBl oWll bH ' -jlll BBB. 'bbbI o dt'vi bbbbbbbI Photo by American Prers Association. BBBJ GARDINER OF HARVARD. 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