Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-27

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A. center rush Ne played
s6s ~ hin q .shs mud ~ 6sl4
IL Football togY aFrayed.
ehe cried out sBrav0. and 'EIur- |
rsh!
That .maiden alln and fair
Whom no wAs kicked upon the Jaw.
She cried out Bravo and "Hur-
Such noblenesU she never saw
s. AZ he showed then and there
She cried out :Bravo!'' and Hur-
sraA!s'
That maiden slim and fair.
He gouged another in the eye,
She cheered with all her might!
She raw the victim groaning lie
He soussd another in the eye
She saw the blood and cried: "Oh, MY
Thie Is a lovely sight
He gouged another in the eye
She cheered with all her might!
She saw two bulldogs fighting-oh.
She trembled and was faint
How could they chaw each other 20!
She saw two bulldogs nghting-oh,
The maider'e heart wae full OF woe,
Her tears defed restraint!
She raw two bulldose fighting-oh,
She .rembled and was faint.
There We're two such tender hearted
lady students not ten feet from the
writer. There must be ouch sentt-
ment, even in the effete eastern young
woman mind, for a writer In the New
York Sun illustrates II thus:
The latter admiration ie Of the spirit
and in sentimental and sympathetic.
Matinee actor worship is wrongly de-
ecrlbed as mawkish or silly. 1t liz all
ways the hero or the sentiment or deed
that is worshipped-not the player. But
there 10 something Wild and terrible in
the fine and exultant frenzy of erthusi-
asm which an ordinarily eedate young
woman viii display over a football
game, 20 frequently scene OF carnage
and gore splitting. The modern girl has
learned to look unmoved upon the spec
tacle OF man falling unconscious upon
the field. for she has been told time and
again by her brother or somebody elsa's
brother: He'll be all right in minute.
Hes had the wind knocked out Of him:
that's ALT She has grown to accept
these happenings as inevitable; but the
OF her flags and handkerchief would
Feem to indicate come innate savagery
or Indian instinct lurking beneath her
autumn coat AT one of the games of
last year between the Carlisle Indian
players and the Yale men boy ceiling
q score card passed among the girls on
the grandstand. Oneof them. blonde,
blue-eysd, angelic looking girl whose
brother was with Yale, said TO the boy
|nervously:
Do you think they'll win?'
Who d Yer mean-de Chinks or de.
Dood5?
. The Yale men.
Dey'll tear dere hearts out, dats
|all!'
And she gave the boy quarter and
sank back with a look OF beatific satie-9
faction.
After the next scrimmage another
student lay quiet when the pile OF legs.
arms and bodies were removed. The
Looker-On feared they were killing on
the players too fast, there wouldn't be
enough to finish the game. The tutor
said: Hes not hurt. only shamming to
get two-nlinutef reet allowed by the
rules" Somehow II seemed swindling.
| For % centR admission We We're entitled
TO have man laid out every Ave yards
But we got our moneys worth, all the
san1e. Soon big student grabbed the
ball and started to run. when siim-i
Jim caught on to his legs. Down he
Went and az HE head cracked against
the ground and twenty-one brave stu
dents piled up on him there was poe
i tive sound OF SUBTRACTION from the au-
Idience. Over The other side OF the
groundE war the gray-haired gentleman
who follows the players outside OF the
bounds. Of course. and fortunately was
lclose to the whole outfit when the ath-
lletic young men all Jumped on top OF
he. insensible student A saint like ex-
preston OF satisfied enjoyment came
over his face az he Witnessed this sc!eii-
tifc play. He belongs TO the antl-de.
4 horninE society. lisa shame to saw Off
! the old spots horne. About this time
i the writer wanted to lick somebody. .and
was only restrained by the coming up
j Ito the ampitheater Of the president Of
the college and one OF the prominent
4 professors Of the faculty They seemed
go happy over this splendid exhibition of
scientific bodily culture the writer knew
he was in good company. Still the writ
II er N2Q entered DlOOu.&52 what mao Hatl1-
hed the president and the professor was
not enough for the Looker-On. But ii
5|came In the next round big student
had the lining OF his stomach ripped OF
a foot or two. Football! Soon after an
5lother student had his ankle sprained;
4 but THE was not enough. The young lady
4 students, the gray-haired man. who
never misses game of football, the
a president, the professor and the LOCKER
u On next saw a big student lying still az
ter the crowd had got OFF OF him
q "shamming, said the experienced
Il Looker-On. But he didn't get up, 60 they
a carried him few feet away and we
n heard he had three ribs broken. Some
how we felt proud OF ourselves just as
4 tho we had helped do 1t. He didn't be.
a long to our college, you know Mean
while the game proceeded. anxious for
US to have more OF such science dis.
played before the expiration OF the
. twenty-five; minutes OF the last half
and as we walked down town and thu
carriage containing the wounded paeaee
}. by young woman who doe. much Il
keep up the society for the prevention
Of cruelty to animals remarked 10 tht
q Looker-On, Guess that crowd from A.
got all they wanted today
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