Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-01

down for Kansas brought the wearsr5T-
the crimson To their feet and hats, cat of
heads of the crowd. At this interestifi is
period the rooters for Columbia remain s
suggestiVely silent: A few more plays, "a
which the Missouri boys appeared 10 raliy,
restored the confidence of their supporter
and then The grand stand presented Pil
ture of slid confusion. BY this time eyfrS 7
and until the end of the game few prs-
tended to keep their seats. As the seafesl
rolled up for the Kansas team the Kansas
recitation of figures, which appeared 10 he
without meaning until the crowd found
that the Kansas men were calling on ths
score in narrowing detail
''1-2-3-i-5-6-I-S-9" etc, repeated the Kan
sans, until the Missourians were driven
nearly frantic.
Several college fraternities represented
in the crowd had individual yeiis which
they howled at various times One OF
these was:
Hu Rekety whoopty Doc,
What's the matter with Sigma huf
Hulabaloo Terquatoo,
Rekety Roo. Sigma Mn.
And then there was the Phi Kappa Psi
yell:
High, High, High,
PHI Kappa Psi
Live ever, die never.
Phi Kappa Psi.
The spirit of chaos was infectious and
few there were who did not let themselves
cut at least once on some of the yeits-
y
particular sympathies either way tried sev-
eral Of the yells to see which most suited
them and then they stuck to their favor
ties and soon developed into rank parti-
sans.
Women shrieked at Accidents,
At first the accidents of the game called
| out sympathetic little shrieks from the
| women who thought it too bad that some
of the men with the loveliest hair should
hn rha first to n he
| The first man to bite the dust caused many
| little eXclamations from all over the grand
| stand.
| / know he is killed came from girls and
| women who later lost their Susceptibility
| 10 broken heads and shins on the field as
| these became more common.
One staid citizen was the personifcation
| of absorbed interest until one of the play
ers was carried from the field apparently
| insensible. Gazing after the fallen hero, he
| said:
Il would rather see hoy of mine on the
| firing line than out there among those
brutes. It's simply awful. I've seen z
| prize fight and now I've seen football
game. and of the two l think football Is
| the more terrible"
This man did not get much sympathy
| from the people around him who pooh
| hoohed the idea that any of the men was
very badly hurt.
| During the intermissian the Kansas band
played ''Hot Time" and similar classics t6
I
radius of twenty feet of them. Others
| could not hear them, but were much anus
! ed at the pantomime they presented blow
| ing their horns in futile competition with
\ strong lunged rooters-
| A surprising number of the spectators
| seemed to know the players most intimate
| " and throughput the crowd were the al
! ways-present know-it-alls who gave mean
| ingless and gratuitous information thai
was not listened to by any one. The rea
| persons of importance were those .Whf
far tiur md af
| from the parading substitutes who bestow
! ed their smiles like kings distributing roy
| al fayors.
| Hello. Bob" yelled one enthusiast az
| husky haired man in an iron MASK ap
/ .,roarted- tho grand stand, his adSfPt III
I sembling the ambuiatiens of an animaS
| flower pot &ast.
'"Cio'an. I don't know you.' answers fss,
flower pot, at which sally the crowd g ~,
jeers at the first speaker which cay zsSea a =
premature Individual to slip awas<y