The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-05
TOUCHDoVVNs.
good football went,ler.

This Is good football wenthcr.
Maverick is now captain of the Galveston
team.
Houston expects TO ply University at
home during the holidays.
Dallas plays the University Ut Austin
December II.
The University OF Missouri rlMs at DIAL
las on Christmas Day, the first game cf the
Texas tour. No trip 20 Mexico this year.
Somebody said THANKSGIVING game AZ
Houston was rough affair, 1t Is s,l.
With the ropes up at Forest pax there
should nv no rushing on tie htld.
Some people do rot consider tbe fact
that IN game of baseball or football !,
spectator AS well as player often acts
on the impulse OF The moment.
In an English Journal. received the
other day, six columns We're sivcn ever to
the football games TO be nj yed that week
alone, besides several more % sketches
of the teams. Great football couuuv.
II Is doubtful whether the Chicago Ath-
letiC club will come 'nto Texas this year,
as the trip to the Pacific coas. is not q
financial success,
The Boston Boomers Baseball club, rom-
posed OF young women. downed the Abilene,
Texas team the other day by Il score Of
to 4, II we only had football team on
this order how interesting 1t would be Ia
see caress instead OF a slug and the
tackles around the waist.
| According to Walter Camp, the oldest
phase OF the game OF football as known
| in the United States was when the in
habitants OF New England several year,
ago used to play in their back yards with
an inflated pigs bladder after partalsing
Of q Thanksgiving dinner. Ii is still thu
custom, II seems,
Captain Druesedow Is undergoing treat
ment FOR paralyzed nerve. the result o.
an accident received in the game at Aus
TIM He can play just as well With on,
arm, however but the probabilities are thal
he will have two next Thursday.
The lineup OF the San Antonio team hal
not been received al this end as yet bu
It is thought that AGREE will play at hall
hack when they do come Another cx
university man.
''linlly Gee Smith is coaching his team
At Orange Tin the river) for the comm.
game OF football In the water 20 be played
with Houston IN the bayou. Misprlnt, say,
Smich
Dallas has strengthened her team mucl
since the game with the University. ever
though Scott and one or two others bav,
lett there. tina; city is becoming the Niece,
for ex-eollege men.
Abrams, who played half IN the las
half Of the game with Galveston, is
striking example ot the wey they iniec
good football into Il player al the Northern
and Eastern schools. Under Coach Wood
run he has developed iuto strong player
The little diyervnce between the Unlvcr
sity and Dallas has all been settled evil
IDENTIFY, for they play ON the llth at Aus
tin. II the Dallas PLAYERS saw the littl,
article, headed towards" on the pro
grammc OF the Varsity Fort Worth gam
they Will nc DOUBT call upon soniobvd,
when in the tax ridden city
When ell rs said and done concerning
the eight in sah Francisco, choynskI
fought against odds and fought we'll Ate,
this few will dispute Jeffrles' claim to BE-
considered a possibility for the worlds
championship He is clever boxer. and
while little more than a novice. he fairly
puzzled a man who. while young in years
is veteran at asticuffs
II any mistake was made In choynski',
corner, II was not In allowing Zoe 10 20
at his biz vis-a-vis more al The start
Jehries was decidedly ratified when hi
entered the ring and II was rot until
! several rounds had elapsed thar he re.
gained his natural color and bsgnn "a
hght with confidence. Possibly the idea
81 going against such celebrity as los
Choynski had this disturbed effect once
Senries dad extend himself. there were nc
siens Of white feather about him.
J = Shoynsh covered himself with glory,