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Show H CHARLEY BRICKLEY MAKES ROCKEFELLER ENVIOUS; STARTS A H STREAM OF GOLD HIS WAY BY WRITING NEWSPAPER m . STORIES, SELLING CLOTHES TO STUDENTS AT HARVARD R ,- ?? A YST Xw f . F & j J$8 J r rt-5l EKrfTncx!. I ,I5W "E'LL Sv -H- Llk:E wo-iAiG 1 ill 'TlWj N?SvJCrWAAJ VO' ( " JST COSAES J ' I H -VTTO MOBILE- kTr O . W r- "ZBTw LjRU I -r V CW H r,l,,s5C3fl -.rrrT - aweoc CM 'WOW , MAD JOU., 1 Once upon a time a beared old wag j In the advance stages of senility j thought up a joke that went some- H thing like this: K Jones I was badly cheated when H I spent two thousand dollars for my H son's education. H Brown Well! How so? (mesA11 1 Got was a quarterback. i , lniB Jlce as woll as all its multi- H 1 farious kith and kin has made many H appearances In the comic weeklies H it. has evoked lawfter In all the bar- H doj: shops in the country. But tho heirs and assigns of the b. o. wag in tho advanced s. of s. had beBt assume an air of meek humility. As woll us prepare to apologize. We are about to introduce Mr. Charles E. Brickley. Mr. Brickley distinguished himself last fall by kicking the pigskin much further llian any of his confreres could or indeed than those who opposed him. He became what la technically known as a "football hero." In consequence It Is not surprising tjiat he waB quite a favorite with, his school mates. Now by overy law and reason Mr. Brickley should have been content to- spend i his remaining days at school basking in the sunshine of retrospective glory and upon leaving accept a ?6 job In a law office. And did he? Oh, far from samo, friend Sport Reader, far from same. No, sir. Brickley stmplv kicked the bottom out of that little old joko just as he had out of many football games. In the first place his wide circle of appreciative friends begged him to acqept a nico new, this-year's automobile automo-bile as a modest little token of their esteem. Then a newspaper came along and slipped him a thousand u uoojc sick bones for the use of his signature in a series of football stories. A New York clothing house has made him their Harvard representative and hero worshipping under-grads wake him up at all hours of the night to sell them neat, but not gaudy garments. Our cartooner suggests the lucrative opportunities, op-portunities, not that we wish to encourage en-courage the heinous sin of avarice, but why not help a good thing along? We wonder what will become of the old-fashioned football star who used to take a job as a grocer's clerk when nis gridiron days were over. |