The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-21
) NANCY LEE ON
BRAINS AND BRA WIN

Ii canoe of the canvass OF the var
ious Eastern seats OF learning
upon this subject In this rough and tuui-
HE game which TO thu spectator appears
10 be simply the triumph of muscle. too
many young men have come 10 srsef al
ready.
The University of Vermont has decided
the question with these words: Football
as now played Is game more tit for saw
ages-with whom / suppose II originated
than college studenss-"
Geneva college says: II am decidedly OF
the opinion that We will cease to play foot.
hall unless the colleges cease to hire pro-
sessionalA''
On the other hand. Cornell. Amherst. the
University of Rochester. Clarke. the Uni
vers,;ies OF California and North Carolina,
not 10 speak OF Harvard or Yale. all en-
courage the game and say it is not more
brutal or hurtful than any other athletic
sport il played within reason"
But was there ever a time. or was there
ever q male being who, under the infiu-
ence Of time OF excitement. when man
meets man and one Is victor and one is
vanQuished. ever remembered to be bound
by reason? 1t = unreasonable to suppose
that youth. with blood on fire, and every
muscle taught to proclaim a victory. should
stand aside because some other fellows
fellows body lay under the tumblins.
crushing heap of humanity that in an i'm
slant would be cheered as victors. A youth
would be more than human who under this
influence of excitement could turn aside to
spare the strong or save the weak. Every
characteristic of the triumphant male hu-
man being. the power Of strength. the feel
ing Of success. the exaltation OF defiance.
all combine to lessen all gentler feelings
el~1 ~ 10 !,
any impeachment standing in the path to the
goal of his desires.
1t is all very well to talk about a bullet
less battle: 1t ia entirely out OF the uues-
tion-it can't be fought. And ii is just as
silly to assume that game OF football can
be bioodless. Fingers must crack. arms will
snap, collarbones must give way under the
pressure OF success. These. however. are
minor evils. but when eyes are put out, or,
worse still. when the fire of intelligence is
forever extinguished by the muddy boot
which unluckiiy found tho other fellows
head In the way. then indeed it eeems time
~ not only to canvass colleges. but stop
the game of football altogether
II the game is not presumably dangerous
why did Capt. Poe Of Princeton invent the
nose shield. or Capt. McClung of Yale the
ear pad? Why do crack football players
wear teeth protectors abdomen shields.
headgear composed OF watchspring steel.
wrist and ankle supporters. and why. when
clad for the fray. do they resemble an ami
mated suit OF armor?
How many games of football occur with
out accident? In reading the account OF
the game one as naturally looks for the
list OF wounded as one does after battle
fought by rival armies. Man IL a born
fighter, or. If he is not the waters of life
flow over and drown him. With the first
cry of the new manchild comes a kick, or
II too feeble TO kick. little contortion OF
the baby body which time and proper feed
ing will develop into that motion OF resist
ance which tends TO keep this world NOV
ing. In a search for things which better
and prosper century, surely the game OF
football will never be mentioned as one of
the elevators of the age In a search for
things which are conducive to the health
or the community, one might mention
football as a physicians and druggists FL
Dorado. Surely our boys can be taught the
manly art OF self-defense IN a game less
brutal and practice less bloody Exer-
ton. effort and endeavor are excellent for
the body an well as for the soul. The more
one uses ones muscles the stronger one
becomes Of course. but there is no use of
manning our boys to strengthen them.
We do not have to deprive them OF their
limbs. as we do the trees in spring, 10
make their life juices flow There are other
games less brutal. and with horses, bicy-
cles. golf and tennis We surely can do with
out football as college game.
so
There must have been terrible raging
and gnashing OF teeth In Gotham when
Ada Rehan learned that Blanche Bates
was TO have the leading part In MI DAILY $
new play. THE Big Ruby" Very soon
after the Frawieys left this Coast. a few
months since. the company disbandcd. /.
was said here that Blanche Bates and Mr.
Frawiey had been married a short time
before they played here. II Is strange how
well an actor and an actress can agree
until they become one. A. soon as the
parson has said amen there begin TO he
too many OF them. Miss Bates was Mrs
Davis Just about three months = few years