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Show BEVERLY IIILLS.-wcll nil I know is just what 1 read In tlio pa-pers, pa-pers, or what I pick up in the nnil V'X. ,TiV V' ' !" ITT- Here is a telegram tele-gram just coma in hero from one of my school alumni's, c o I Johnson of Kem-Per Kem-Per Military Academy, 0 f Boonvllle, M0. One of tho tinest of men, who lived to see his school reach top rating and rank among military sehnnia We want to erect a memorial to his cherished memory. I am all for It, and hope they do It. but 1 cant he chairman of it. I never was a chairman, chair-man, or on the "Exec" Committee of anything. In fact 1 am a mighty poor group worker. 1. mean well hut I just dont do anything. Another letter by the way Is laying In a wash basket full waiting till next Fall, (1 think its Autumn when 1 auswcr the years letters). Well this old kid wanted to know just whnt made mo leave Kemper Military Academy in the Winter of i)S. He says there is always (mite a controversy contro-versy as to whether 1 jumped, or was I shoved. Well I cant remember that far back. All 1 know Is that It was a cold Winter, and old man Ewlngs Ranch on the Canadian River at llig-gins llig-gins Texas wasent any too warm , when 1 dragged in there. Komper. was my last school. Rill Corum, tho crack A. 1. sporting writer comes; from Boonvllle and Kemper. Do you know 1 used to play me 1 pretty good end, that Is a substitutes end. 1 dont think they ever used me,' but the rough way they was playing1 in those days, that dident hurt myS feelings any, not getting in there. V1 played what you might call a "Wide'' End." 1 would play out so far thai1' the other 21 would be pretty well' piled up before 1 could possibly1 reach em. '' 1 think it was along about In our,, days when the first thing come ln.j the way of a shi.'t. It was called "Tac-, kles Back," "Tackles' Right" or lert.a "Guards Back." They would moven everybody over to one side of the:,1 line, that Is everybody that couldii remember the signals. Kinder the: way It was worked was the fellowfl that was going to lead the Interfere ence would just holler for ah th;t help he could get, then everybody! fell in behind and pushed, so you set when I nicked this deep end job, kinder ligured that 1 wuuld arrive C little late for most of the festivities So thats why to this very day 1 dnn carry any football scars, or bruises Been seeing some of these p rotes sional games, and as just downright interest in real football, why the; have the colleges skinned a mile These colleges better start changing one rule anyhow, and that is allov.j a pass from anywhere to anybody anytime. Because these Pro's jusij make a whole audience stand up am', ' cheer when they start passing tha' old schote wrapper around. The; really toss that swine pulp. In yearly to come you will see just as much"; difference between college and Broi 1 in football as you see between their? playing baseball and seeing the Sv-' Louis Cardinals play It. You belteit: open up that game. Those bands anc? I that marching on the field, and mak :c ing letters with those cards wont get your prices from the mob. You I will want to see a man do something! with a football that is an expert. :-i And kicks after touchdowns? Whj'a they just give em those by defaults-' They are like a three Inch putt5 they just concede con-cede era. Taint tho boys fault in the colleges, its the rule makers, its the old fog-gies fog-gies who wont admit they can learn anything l from an upstart j opponent. They j think the "Pros" j cant do anything because they are getting paid for i it, that the spirit is not there You cut off a co.iche's wages ant see if his spirit is there. Tht old dollars might be filthy lucre, bill there is quito a bit of energy an4 spirit yet in earning one. Coaches, dont want it, because they woulft have to learn their own game ovr-f. again, but pass anywhere anyplacij; to anybody, and you will see youi old stadiums fill up next Fall and yot. will see more excitement than yoU nave had in years. Somebody lixed j baseball so you could do some scor j ing with it, and the game was re juvenated. Get some scoring intfk your football, enough to cut out alt; these tics, and beat by one poinf games. The greatest game playeti, was Army Navy 2M!1 in Chicago- i had been nothing to nothing yoi -.cuMcnt remember it. Throw err. nvv.ii cio, anytime, and revive tb. amc. Now 1 must get back to advis ig my Democrats. |