The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-26

Have you heard about Old Eli? He's
just come to town;
He's round about Manhattan Field to
throw old Nassau down.
He's looking for the Tiger; it must be
found.
He's a battle-scarred old hero, and he
don't allow
any Jersey-jungled tigers with him to
raise a row,
For he's going 10 catch the beast and
tame him now.
Chorus:
Then wen give a cheer for Yale, Yale,
Then wen give a cheer for Yale, Yale,
Then we'll give q cheer for Yale
We're looking for the Tiger TO twist his
tail.
And the Princeton fellows had new
composition also, to the tune of I'm a
Corker;" and it ran:
Once more Wen meet them, once more
Wen beat them,
Rushing the ball over just as OF yore
Garry Will fox them, Brohaw will box
How the deuce, did you find that out?
We've done it before.
Tune-"Swim Out. O'Grady."
Swim out. Old Eli,
Well swipe the men in blue;
JdlleyS IN me center,
Ard he knows just what to do
When the Princeton cyclone strikes
them
1t will spoil 'em just few:
Then swim out, Old Eli.
Swim out out, out, out.
There was another game in New York
the other day between Hamilton College
and the University of New York: and in
the make-uu of the university team a
youth named Tom Russell was placed at
quarter back. He was a sturdy, 1.-the
chap of IS. popular with his companions;
but sometimes they call him by his nick
name. and the nickname is Dearest"
1t isn't so many years ago that this
same Tom Russell was the idol of all of
the children and fully half of the women
of this country. They called him Tommy
Russell in those days. He was such a
bright boy, they said: and he did so
completely fill the ideal of Little Lord
Fauntleroy that one couldn't help feeling
a tender little glow in his heart for this
lad as he portrayed that other lad. Kath-
crime Kidder. later Madame Sans Gene.
was the young mother. Tommy Russell
became great favorite. On matinee
DAYS he used to hold receptions on the
stage after the performance, and most
of the women and nearly all of the
children IN the audience would go up
and shake hands with him and tell him
how pretty and how clever he was; and
man-r of the women used to kiss him.
'Fauntleroy" ran for nearly three years.
and after that the boy starred in an
adaptation of Mark Twain's Prince and
PauDer" for time, and then he retired
and began to go to school. Now the
sturdy young quarterback of the Uni
versity of New York eleven is the same
lad, only older and wiser and stronger.
His hair is just as tawny but not quite
so yellow. Il is long now, too, but not
so long as it was.
II can hardly be invidious to say that
the most scientific and altogether the
finest and most successful football player
living in Salt Lake City al the present
moment is Mr.. Albert F. Holden. or
Bert Holden. as his friends call him, |
the vice-presdent and manager of the |
Did Jordan and Galena Mining company |
Ii is related that he now attends to bust |
ness with the same skill and enthusiasm |
with which he used to captain and coach |
MS famous Crimson eleven in the days, /
ong since a memory. when the Harvard |
iitii uSeu 10 ulSpOSt OF the atnletlc pre- |
ens:ons of their hated rivals from New
Haven with really no difficulty at all |
Probably Holden weighs 210 in November, |
So. but when he played football he |
Weighed 175 or less; but the way this
amous quarterback and halfbaclx. and
nd rush would chase the pugnacious
'igskin, and get through with it, and land
behind the goal Inc with it, was a eau
ION 10 any .20-pound Yale tackle the old
st-timer ever saw. He graduated in the
lass of So, and Harvard hasn't played
oothall much since that time. They
ave had big men and game men. btt
hey have played football as they have
owed, on the go-as-you please elective
ystem, of which President Eliot is so
cry proud, and they haven't got there.
Holden made them play as a tenn; and
le made them get there, no matter how
1any gladiators had to be carried home
: the cattle train.
The president of the New York no,ioa