Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07

A Spirited Sketch Of the All-Absorbing
Game.


Game.
Richard Harding Davis in Harper's weGkiy.
There are a few fond mothers and timid
fathers who will hold up their hands when they
see the picture Of an accident on the foot ball
field which Mr.. W. A. Rogers has drawn SO
wildly for this weekly, and who will exclaim:
s'This is as it should be- This proves what we
have always said. We will send this to our son
and he will give mp playing that unnatural
game, and will rejoice at having escaped sud
den death SO far. and return to the study OF
poarized light and Greek roots" and they will
do this, and they will accompany the picture
with letter, in which they will command their
offspring to give up his place at the training
table.
And their offspring will look at the picture
critically and exciaim That's just greatw and
he will frame it and hang it up in his room,
and the letter he will hand to the captain of the
team and say, Hereafter think 1 had better
play under the name Of Jones'"
And then all the wise young men who
conpose columns on foot ball for the big dailies
will write: Brown, who has so far played at
right end on the - College eleven, has had to
give up the game for the remainder Of the sea-
son. His loss will be severely felt, as Jones,
who seems to have been settled upon to fill his
place. is O man we have not heard of before and
a much inferior player. However. the season
is vet young and with what time there is still
left for practice and proper training Jones may
in time" and go on.
or course this young man in this picture IL
not badly hurt. He dropped on one knee, lie,
us suppose, and dived fiercely at the legs OF
the man who was running with the ball, and
the man. or one OF the men guarding him, hi,
him on the head with a kneecap, or fell on him,
or the team stumbled over him, or he had been
hurt before and was only put on to play until
he was burt again. And when the knee
cap strikes him. even though there il half
inch of cotton wadding in front OF it, he finds
himself lying at length on the ground, and hi
first thought is that he has not stopped his man
which is q humiliating and an angry thought
and at once he determines to get up and
| try for the man again-from behind
this time; but when he attempts to dc
that be finds that his body has suddenly
| become weak and light, and that the ground
which had seemed 80 hard when he ven
pounding over it few seconds before is in
reality rather sof. and pleasantly cool, and ht
thinks, after all, he will go to Sleep especially
since everything is SO dark, and SO he turns
over and digs feebly at the grass and white
wash with his finger nails. And the captain
comes and turns him on his back, and beckoni
to one of the substitutes, who has begun tc
hate the whole eleven very heartily for selfish
| greedy lot, who will not get hurt even to Oblig'
q classmate. And then the other captain Gomez
up, and, if he is gentleman, tries to look sym
pathetic, and asks the totally unconscious maj
where it hurts worst; or, if he is not q gentle
man. he looks skeptical, and says Significant.
to the referee, Are you taking out time OF
| this. sir?''
the field. and the substitute who feels a
strong and joyous as young colt. runs NJ
against the man opposite him to show him hoy
| strong he is and lust as though he intended Il