The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-01

changed great deal since played it..
We used tc think in those days that if
we broke mans nose we were doing
well, and we tackled a runner with no
higher ambition than to stop him tenn
porarily. We expected him to go again
some time. l have fallen behind the
age.
am glad to hear that there is still
a chance that Harvard and Princeton
may play. The Tigers have presented
eleven thousand alternative PROPOSE
lions to Harvard's managing commit
tee and thus far only ten thousand FIVE
hundred excuses have been prepared in
reply. If the committees inventive
powers give out, we may have little
good sport, as we used to before COM
mittees Of this kind were devised. and
the representatives of the two colleges
may get a chance to exercise some
thing besides their jaws.
AS to the Princeton team, there is
much uncertainty. Slugsby, the wicked
est desperate that ever shed blood. is
in the theological seminary. If his
studies in Divinity will not permit him
to play football, the loss of life among
Princeton's opponents this fall will be
materially decreased. Several other
good football men are in the seminary.
but they will play for the sake of
killing the University of Pennsyl-
vania' S eleven.
Vincent. the great end rush, is said
to be in good form this year. He will
play in all important games. Apropos,
it may be predicted that the men from
the iron foundry in which he held some
sort of a position will again visit New
York to cheer their old comrade, and
their clothes. their language and their
general behavior Doth sober and
otherwise) will again be carefully
written up by the New York papers,
as an illustration of the demeanor OF
the student class in the general and
the Princeton man in particular.
And this reminds me that the great
est part of the whole exhibition is the
marvellous gathering at one of the
great games. | shall never for
get the assemblage at the last
1ale-Princeton game in New York.
The number of persons present was 50
vast that when they shivered, as they
did nearly all the time, the vibrat ton Of
the earth could be felt in Connecticut
do not pretend to understand why
watching football game is so much
colder than anything else in the world.
/ once stood as one of half dozen sur
viving relatives of a very rich man,
and heard his will read, which gave
his all to the board of foreign missions.
and l should know something about
the cold spots in this mortal life: but I
certainly never experienced more
biting chill than that on Manhattan
field where, clad in four sweaters
and almost everything else that pos
sess, l watched Yale make q touch
down in four minutes.
But the game is not all of it. There
is the wonderful and inspiring collec-
ton of all the old fellows in the no.
tells on the previous night All, how I
delight to hustle through the crowd
with bunch of keys and bridge
ticket in my pocket. and play that 1
am looking for somebody who will bet
thousand dollars, even. on Yale.
meet no end Of men whom used to
know when l was very little poorer
than they were They ask me how 1
am getting along, and 1 say first
rate" so many times that by midnight
l fairly believe it myself.
Then l go back to the fat, imagining
all the way that it's a mansion on Fifth
avenue, and that dozens of my class
mates are making it their home while
they're in the city to see the game
entertain them, in fancy. with open
handed liberality. lend some of them
money. They accept it with tears Of
gratitude, and then we open another
bottle. At this point in the vision
generally reach my real residence Ny
wife opens the door She has sat I'D
for me. / stare at her. She should be
gorgeous with silks and blazing with
diamonds. 1t was thus saw her in
the dream, as came along the street.
l sink into a chair, and slowly re-
member that it isn't so at all Nothing
of all that was real except the wine.
We'll, Howdy," says Maude. gently, |
'did you sec all your old friends?"
Yes. my dear" reply with nv &C
customed honesty, and saw most of |
them double towards the last of IT."
HOWARD FIELDING.