River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-11-28
FOOTBALL.



We had our representative on the
ground and intended to furnish our
readers with a scientific wrlte-up Of
the last game Of football Ia our city,
but after the game we met young
friend Of ours from near the center OF
st. Croix county, and his description
OF the affair was so much better than
anything we could do that our report
er threw his carefully worded special
into the waste basket and we print,
instead, our friends version.
We had seen him on the street be-
fore the game, brim full OF Hammond
enthusiasm, sporting Hammond col
ors, and confidentially telling everyone
whom he met that Hammond won't
do thing to those fellows. Why just
look at 1t. Hammond beat Hudson
bad, and River Falls had hard work to
tie them. Normal played River Falls
to finish, and Hammond played all
around Normal. And Hammond
is a good deal better to-day than ever
before. No sir, River Falls won't be
in it. Why, they're just has beens.'
Yes, I'll come around and see you
after the game and tell you how 1t
happened"
Well, after the game he came
around. We didn't suppose he would.
We had heard that the score was 10 to
6 and that Hammond had the small
end Of the argument, and we thought
we had seen all Of our friend that we
were going to see that day. But no,
just behind bepy OF girls who were
singing, Cheer, boys, cheer, for Ham
mond took fall" came our friend,
Respondent In the orange and white
Of River Falls, waving River Falls
banner, and shouting, or trying to,
"Rah, rah, rah, for River Falls has
won" For a moment we were too
much surprised for utterance. Then
we got him by the collar, and he
recognized US and broke out with, so
say, said I'd tell you how IL happened
and l just will. Q, but 1t was great.
We didn't do thing to 'em. But you
ought to have seen it." We inter
rupted him to say that we thought he
was shouting for Hammond before
the game. II was" he said, "but
fellow can learn, can't he? You bet |
can. You see 1t was this way. I've
been hearing all sorts OF things up at
Hammond and around country among
their friends about how their team
was coming down here to fix US plenty
and those fellows were talking awful
big about the STUFF they we're
going to put up on the game, and l
began to think there was something
In it. So last night l went out and
watched 'em practicing, when hap
pened TO be up at Hammond, and say,
they did trot around lively. heard
'em talking about ripping up their
line, running over their ends and
letting Dean do some drop-kicking'
and lot more like that, and then
saw them take the ball and run Up
against nothing, and | tell you they
did tear it up great, and / thought l
wouldn't like TO get In front of Them,
aud | could see the finish OF River
Falls, and / made up my mind / be-
longed TO Hammond. Well | just got
worked up till could see Hammond
getting 30 to 0, and one young fellow
that lives up our way was betting that
way, and then went up to the game"
well, first, Hammond came out,
and | tell you the way they did run
around and timber up was wonde rful,
and | raised that score little. After
while River Falls came out on the
field, and when l saw them get into
place and go through the same per-
Torrance that Hammond had, and run
up against nothing awful hard, l began
to think maybe 1t wouldn't be more
than 80 TO after all. But then / re-
membered about the way Hammond
talked, so l began yelling for Ham
mond and offering to bet everything
In sight. But there didn't anybody
hear me. There were about hun
dred girls there, and they were sing
ing to beat the band about our foot
ball team has come, watch it close,
there's going to be some fun and I
tried to tell them there would be,
but they didn't hear me, and then
River Falls kicked the ball straight
at the Hammond team, and began
to watch the fun. All the time / was
yelling for Hammond. Well, Ham
mond got the ball, and they began
jumping around and trying to rip up
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