Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-08
SOCIAL FOOT BALL GAME
Married and Single Folks Line Up
on Opposing sides with lore
Vigor Than Ever
Married Folks say They Will Not
Play Again ONE Interest
ing Tackllng.
First Party Of the New Dancing Club
Had its Pleasant and Unpleas.
ant Features.

The first party of the so-called So
cial club the preliminary organization
OF which was replete with promise of
success, was held at Forneys Hall
thursday night, and was attended by
between twenty-five and thirty couples.
IN some respects the5opening party was
enjoyable. in others it was disagreea-
bly, disappointing. with features which
threaten TO disrupt the club before it is
fairly organized.
In years past there have been terden-
ieies among the young society people Of
4 MarshalltoWn to be somewhat clanuish
!, at u stub parties. This tendency grew
with each succeeding year, until there
were TWO distinct sets--the young mar-
ried folks and those who had not de-
! parted from the paths of so-called sin
gle biessedness. Almost as soon as two
! members of the single set decided to
enjoy the fortunes of life together they
would be placed on the married shelf
kand instinctiveiy fell into their places
among those who, in the eyes of the
maids and bachelors We're '.oia &olks''
/ This social wall grew with3the thrift of
/ Il Canada thistle until last season.
4 When the married people who are still
4 young and propose to stay as young as
their single friends, concluded to or
| sanize a CLUB of their own. The result
eMas a most enjoyable series Of parties,
at which there We're no wall flowers.
4 The other set" didn't dance as in or
] der to give successful series of par
ties they needed the money if not the
presence of their back number friends,
This Year the unmarried society young
4 men manifested a disposition that was
thought to seek forgiveness and WITH
glories of the Comus Club. Our owls
4 and the Inperiais still fresh in mem
Tory steps We're taken to form a social,
club made UP of about equal numbers
of single and married society people.
y The result was not a,tended with the
4 success hoped for and expected.
a SORT OF FOOT BALL. GAME.
AS the club members gathered there
Vas the same old clannish disposition
manifested. AS the dancers ASS mblee..
the young people collecting on ono side
and the married people on the other.
the situation was not unlike
a modern foot bail game between.
sEthe married and unmarried. The play
4 ers aud the rooters didn't mix at all
4 until the orchestra Indicated that the
game was On, and during the progress
LOT the sport Referee jim Dunn couldn't
tell which side had the best of 1T. Both
teams scored repeatedly in the first
y half, at the end of which a
. consultation was held for the purpose
{, of figuring up where they We're at.
The single rushers insisted that they
were entitled to touchdown and tbs.
gate receipts, as the $40 band from
olskaloosa which. by the way, was one
of the best that ever played a waltz in
Forney,s hall had to be paid. The
married scrubs insisted that it WAS a
), hol1-up and not a touchdown their So
cial opponents We're trying to obtain,
, and some threatened To quit tire
game and to refuse to enter into future
CONTESTS The slinesmen and the referee
wore airs Of innocence and got hold OF
enough of the gate receipts with which
Ito pay the fiddler. after taxing some OF
the insurgents 81 for entrance fee into
1.-THE first game.
The scrubs then concluded to get their
moneys worth by staying in the game
ito the end and when al times put out
lof the game because of physical dis
81 abilities and age, would make a rush
around the ends for repeated gains on
/ the refreshnient stand. Only once OIL
Il twice during the four hours of play was
the single mems goal approached by
the scrubs, and then with varying re-
suits. One handsome young mairiad
man made ten-yard nun around the
/ bachelors left end and tackled hand
some young lady, but the latter insist
ed that she had already been tackled
and the referee ordered the Benedict Of
several years standing back to hi:
line. He tackled another and this gain
was allowed, but when the umpire or
dered the play to proceed the tacklel
/ MAS chagrined 10 find that the lady
who insisted that his first tackle WI.
not acceptable sat through the enttrt
scrimmage that followed and had no
been tackled at all.
Time was then called by the scrub:
and the referee found himself under
meath a pile-up of indignation. but h,
escaped by saying he could not say who
the youngsters should tackle and who
6 they should not. The referee then es
capped from the hall and took a trair
for Chicago. The game closed at 1913
!. a. m, With the result somewhat IN fa
vor of the youngsters, but with the flu
ture in favor of the scrubs. who ar
Y seriously considering the advlsabiHt.
of getting up a game of their own.
The lineup was as follows
Married Scrubs--Dr. and Mrs. F.
Hynds, DIR. and Mrs. H. T. MARS, Nj
and Mrs. o. l.. Ingledue, Mr.. and Mrs
ID. C. Wilbur. Mr.. and Mrs. j. III. Jayne
Mr.. and Mrs ID. w. Marston. Mr.. an,
Mrs w. S. Robbins, Mr.. and Mrs. f. S
Cncebeaux and MIR. and Mrs. w. L
Wildman.
Bachelors and Maidens-Misses Caro-
Ilyn Gilman, Matena Nelson. Anna Hea
lion. Libbie Hall, Elsie Merriman, Flor
ence Will. nellie Whitton, Nellie Voge
Mayme Wells, Bessie Speers, Maiz
Tuffree and Peryle Harris: Miss Susi
Dakin, of State Center, and Mrs. Nelli
Bowmen: Messrs. Charles Walter.
Richard Mommers. Philo King. Georg
Owings, Gene Binford, l. S. Finkle, f
!, Lynch, Harry Carr Charles Speers. 10
y Lander Charles Tucker c. c. Hill
Charles Whitehead, Harry Hole. Bruc
Moffatt, A. C. Conawav and II. i
Townsend.
The officials We're:
Referee--J. c., Dunn.