Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

posed of his immediate relatives after play
had been In progress twenty minutes. Ills
face looked more like q strawberry short
cake than 1t did like any recognized type
of the human countenance; yet BUCK
had accomplished It all without so much as
a warning from the referee. 1t Is no won
der that the girls thought him clever. Even
Florence Lorne admitted that. but she al
ways added. hopefully: Just wait till Larry
Bangs gets hold Of him.
Yale had borne the assault of her enemy
remarkably well. Only one man had been
permanently retired from the game, and he
had been restored to consciousness by his
own father. who was celebrated surgeon
and one of the most interested spectators
of the struggle.
In the midst Of this animated scene Pad
dy OTooie had been a conspicuous figure.
He was unquestionably the best running
half back on any college team. When the
ball was with the blue and ground had to
be gained Paddy got the signal, and in al
most every case il was discovered. after
the other twenty-one men had been re-
moved from his PROSTATE form. that he
had scored the necessary advance. In this
way he accumulated court plaster and
glory. till the latter encircled his head like
a halo. and the former covered his face
like a mask.
most, and in the fifteen minutes interval
while the crimson eleven were having their
knuckle bones put back Into place by a
competent surgeon, his doom was sealed
velous endurance he succeeded in staving
off The inevitable for fully thirty minutes
Of the second half. Neither side had scored
Yale had pushed the ball to Haryard's ten
yard line and still retained IT. A mass play
advanced II three yards more.
II was decided to send Paddy between
right guard and tackle for the remaining
distance. Nobody who saw that play will
ever forget it. Everybody was tn it. Even
the experts among the spectators could not
tell what had happened. They knew that a
big gain had been made, but IT was impos-
sible to disentangle the runner from the
mass of struggling giants. For the first
time in her athletic experience Florence
was frightened She was certain that she
saw one of her lovers legs at a distance of
three yards from the spot where his body
lay. But as that spot was over the line
and Florence was true blue, she breathed
a prayer that Larry's body might be there
and the leather spheroid with him. for
touchdown counts four and a leg more or
less counts nothing in the game Of foot
ball.
The referee approached and succeeded
in persuading several men to get off the
top OF the heap. Then. with the aid Of his
cane as a lever, he removed such as could
not perform that office for themselves. At
the bottom lay Paddy O'Toole still clasping
the ball, and was six inches over the linel
1t seemed at first that Paddy had gone
over the line" too, but the medical and
surgical corps succeeded in retaining him
on his side. y decision On this point. how
ever. was not reached in time for Paddy
to proceed with the game. His,loss serious
~ weakened the ranks of the blue They
were pushed back foot by foot. the ball
was within three yards OF their goal line
and in Harvard's possession when time was
called.
But the game was won, and the name of
Larry BanSs-so familiar to Paddy that he
had nearly forgotten his own-once more
arose until it seemed to echo back from the
sky.