The sun., 1900-12-09
tITyS RtGE AGUysT TAIL HATS.


UTYS RtGE A0UvsT TAN MATS.
| PhladeiphIas People nv Thousands Jeer Them
NJ Great ZOO, bali Game.
There can he no doubt about ". Phiia-
| d"lphla has been football crazy thus year. She
has also been crazy in her rage against tail
lats. ON Thank giving Day 5000 persons
| pald to sea Cornell and PENNSYLVANIA play on
| rrahklln Field and two days later there was
| Just IA big crowd w. soc Wcsi Point and An
| napoiIs ~ similar contest The West Point
| Annapolis aNar was by invitation. but there
We're probably not fewer than 5000 persons
| who saw both games To one who knows the
| thirty WAYS of tho Quaker Ci'y folk the wonder
was that Phlladelphiaus should pay e. 500 a
game on THANKSGIVING Day-pay 10 tho extent
| NJ occupying every scat with hundreds unahls
| 10 buy n place-when there was the chance
! Of seeing big game for nothing two davs later
| Neither game seemed 10 diminish interest in
| the other and tho only theory 10 account for
thls circumstance I. that Philadelphia ha.
gone football crazy
| This theory gained strength in the eves OF
| the New Workers. who attended the Thanks
! giving Day game from the peculiar actions
of the crowd whenever a man with a tall hat
| came upon the grounds At such times thou
sands OF men and women would rise lp TO look
AT IN" rare sight and then with fingers extended.
hands waving they would shout NJ the top.
Of their voices. some through megaphones
and some through their hands.
High ha'! High hat, High hat"
The victim invariably REDEEMED and marched
on conscious that the ieers of thousands we're
being heapcd upon him. There was no ex-
planation why the appearance Of a man with
tall hat should have an effect upon a repre-
| a.,1f f.flN do,
might be- said TO be made up of the better ele-
rnent-that a red flag would have upon a con-
Gr,ss OF bulls. hut ii did have that crcct frank
lin Field 4, bordered on its four sides by lofty
open stands Tho only entrance to the stands
are at the four corners. The ticket holders
have TO go down long aisle in front of the
seats from the corner at which they enter until
they reach their section. OF course for those
who have seats IN the far end OF a grandstand
t!is mean. a walk OF a block. or a square as
they cali II in philsdeipha. TO become the
object OF the rldlcule Of thousands during such
u walk Is 10 face an ordeal compared to which
Il charge on a battlefield would be far more
welcome To many man.
There il Always 81 supreme moment in the
cheering before a foOtoiil game begins. That
/. when tile riva. teams appear. ,p to chat
tim" there are the ROUNDS OF college yeiis, tho
songs. the handcappngs. the meglplone con-
Crits. and what mott attract attention. When
the teams appear, all these are swallowed up
IN the tumu.t that creets the men who are 70
pay III the thanksgiving day game there
wa. the usual lively greeting To the men. but
the shouts were rs nothing To the howls that
greet every man who had veuturcd thought
lessly to I'll. field wearing "A tail nat Ii one Of
the PLAYERS had vent Ired upon the field wear
rg that styl" OF haadg-ar the leers could not
have been more general or more obstreperous.
ivory one has noticed. OF course. the partial
wear in American n;e. Tho nat has become
relrgl'ed 10 a place as dress hat. Still II is
common enough in Now York ana tho appear
ancr OF man wearing one in a public place
docs rb' create Il CpfnlnOtlOn ne New 1OTk-
"rs present AZ Franklin Fled tried 70 learn why
n ta,i hat should excite the crowds
WI hy do you jump on man like that"
asked a. New Yorker Of Philadelphia man
who had inst Gained himself after violent
1T OF shouting al a tail hat man.
Why. he's wearing high hat" was the re-
- II know it" said tho New Yorker. but what
Why, it's high hat" screamed the phia-
Yes. bu, what Of IT,"
"It'' high hnt" again shouted the Phila-
dHlL man, tapt Eon understand? High hat!
oh, Lord, aid the New Yorker as he sank
Great Scott" shouted the .Phlladelphisn
hat high hat hieh ha'0 and so on until the
l1test arrival was lost % view and the phiin-
dTGpnrd Se to s s w!Ss %o1. n GTow
up than the average payer knocked out in a
s6rimmare
Tie Philadelphia insanity over tho appear
ance ot tai hat WINS displayed 70 tho best
advantage inst after the gnmc began. Penn
he Tat crowd row wSs on its i "hasIIS H asT dno
Nuddonlv some ono discovered lata arrival |
wcerinc, \ tall hat. Tho crowd became con- !
sNious that something unusual vas going on.
y was tho sane kind of sersatiop that runs !
through crowd when = fight starts iIn tvprv- |
int yet all are sure tina, there is serious trouble
somewhere. So 1t was with this crowd. The |
2S' Ssr 10. " nri9nt rIay srassf rnddenly
u" grands' and giving away or was there a |
fist fight Finally, clear and shrill ebovs the |
sumndpcd sommotion there arose the shout
A. once tho 5000 persons on the west stand |
and the 10000 uersons on tho ends Of the great
o. an inofleu>ve looking man who had arrived ,
late and who was hecomingly dressed in such |
ccpuon. Fully 10000 uorsons. pointed fingers
az him, A. rast 5000 waved their hands at
g~ ono hears at a national convention when a
lresicon'ial candldatc il nominated Tho
r@,S" a., wa. l1rso,tcn The mon inside the lines
], vas 10 lead tho cheering and singing. forgot
leir iutinS and ran toward tho newcomer and
ihera were 'o' no cre. RE on ~ shoot - Rs,a "a'
might have been exuccted at , appearance
d% % act tGfI'fa at 0r G nss sfR sc or
u sands Joining in, Of high hat high hat!
Tho man finally. di.appearod in .ome sent.
md then Tie crowd turned t1 atte7t on TO the
] ne Nov Yorkers rre.ent OF the game
shook tier heads tuz2led over CITY
'uH ~ neol le " ho would go GRAVY NJ tho sight
~ well-drossed man. and ns one Of the New
J ork men turned from Franklin Field 10 f1cht
81. way. 70 get a Streetcar going 10 the Broad
street station he said.
NO wonder they say Philadelphia is q slow
iown. LIS more than that: it, town full 81
avs. Sduecdrnk or Hackcnsnck has more |
'"nse In a minute than 5000 pNiladelphians |
lave in two hours at football game
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