St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-28

men, that is, before the roring began.
There was one Yale player. half
tackle, or something of the sort, who
interested me very much. He was such
pretty boy, before the game started.
don't know his name, so [ called him
johnnie Cake, because he was flattened
out so much.
Johnnie was not in the storm center
during the first round. but he got into 40,
personal difficulty with several Prihce4
tons. who knocked him down and
stamped on him so literally that it
sounded like the patter of mules
hind legs Oh the ribs of hired man
All Johnnie got was a black eye and a
few internal injuries. I1sTy
Johnnie did much better in the next
round. One of the Princetons 'punted',
and Johnnie assumed the position of q
rignt-angle triangle with his head to-
ward the zenith. / lost sight of him in
the seethlng mass Of arms and legs, but
could hear his Smothered howl; White
the PrincetonS' left tackle was trying to
twist his, ear. of. During. this round
Jolmde's nose acquired a, permanent
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was partially showed up under hisslefts
ear. and it looked as if he were trying to
say :" gum mucllage" and couldn't.
In the fourth round the Prime etons
piowed up the ground with Johnnie's
nose, propelIing him over the ground
by the legs something like wheelbar-
row. Here it was that most of his
pleasant expression was Scrunchtd off.
He however. shook their society, and
dived head first into the melee without
taking time to go back and look for his
tirely given up to mirth and frivolity as
was that boy.
In the last round Johnnie came up
smiling, but there was something pain
full in the expression when he tried to
cheer. 1t was even sadder than the
burial of Sir John Moore ''by the moon
beams misty light, and the lantern
dimly burning" His other features had
| also been readjusted, none of them being
| in their accustomed places.
Johnnie will come around all right, as
| the fracture of his skull is only super
| fetal, unless the broken bones of his
| leg refuse to become recOnciled and
| decline to reunite, and peritonitis sets
in. An operation will, however, nave
| to be performed on the section valve of
| his eplgaStrium.
Although football combines the most
| attractive features of the railroad
| collision, being kicked by mule, fall
| ing down an elevator shaft and being
run over by a trolley car, it will not be-
come popular method of committing
| suicide as long as people can utilize the
less painful route of sWigging carboiIc
acid.
| Several friends, who would like to
administer on my estate, have urged me
| to join football team. but as nature
forgot to provide me with skin three
| inches thick like that of rhinoceros,
L have hemmed and hawed, and held
back. might join if were permitted
to wear jointed suit of chilled steel
| with large sharp-pointed spikes sticking
out all over it. but this, am told, is
contrary to the rules of the game. The
| following pen portrait of a football
enthusiast has no charm for me:
His occiput was shattered.
And his frontal lobe was battered.
| And his brains were badly scattered
On the ground. :,
| His back was dislocated.
| And his elbows both mismated 5i.ti
| And his flesh was desiccated ~
| All around. al 90
forgot to mention that the Prince
tons won, but it is not too late to re.
| mark: IS o.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, tiger. is-s-sI
boom, ah! sE' 70
Hobble, gobble, hobble, gobble, sGs-s.
boom, all e q
Princeton, Princeton, ran, rah. rahf ]
ALEX SWEET.