The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-24
HIS LAST FOOTBALL MATCH.
SMADAMS'S MISPLACED CONFI.
DENCE IN THE GAME.
lie Organized M Eleven In an U1tra.Ilt.
erary Colony on the Theory That
II Was Not ROugh-His Manifest
Unpopularity After the Team Mct
the TuckahOe Exempt Fircmcn.


One Of the most enthusiastic football
has-beens in New York for the last ten
years was Smadams, lately end rush on the
Demosthenes College eleven of 81. Sma-
dams talked himself into such a condition
Of admiration for the game each season
that he bell we'd boys should be taught il
in the kindergarten
'It's the finest training ever devised
he would say, and all this talk about undue
roughress in the game makes me weary.
Look at me! Have / a broken nose or an
ear gone? | played in some Of the fierceyt
games going II n player is in condition
and knows how TO tackle and, how to fau
he needn't get a scratch. Not a single
scratch"
When Yale met Harvard on the gridiron
Smadams was there. usually with a party
Of pretty girls. and his cheering shouts TO-
lowed NAM a long run II there was .
mix-up so serious that an unsophisticated
observer would imagine that the young
men az the bottom of the pile would parish
before they could be rescued Sma1lm,s
~cheerfulness always relieved the tension.
In course Of time Smadams married
and not long ago he moved into a colony
so literary that the formal greetings OF
its commuters is: Hello, how are your
rovaltie les on your last book" IL was an
edition de luxe Of a colony and following
the prevailing custom its members played
tennis and golf and squash and took long
walks and rode bicycles.
These converr ional amusements did not
furnish enough outlet for III" supcrabundant
vitality Of its male members and when
Smadams suggested q football eleven he
became SO popular that he wac allowed
to have his choice Of seats on the Dos down
train every morning.
There were several other old college
players in this colony, but none of them had
been on the gridiron in ten years. Their
wives protested against their playing such
a game. but they quoted SmadG ms On "FoCt-
ball as a Gentle Pastime," and there was
nothing more to he said An eleven was
selected partly on merit and partly on pull,
though as Smadams said the game was one
Of push and not pull.
The man who had published eight books
played football. Had he been sighted
he would have rented his house to some
commercial person and moved away.
There was an amateur merchant prince
who collected first editions and got on
the team because he weighed 200 pounds;
and there were others. including Smadams
who was captain and quarter back.
For two weeks the colony football team
practised while pretty women admired
the players from the side lines. It's code
Of signals included such words as Turn
Rule "Howells. Alfred Austin" Fresh
Proof, /" Revise" and Dickens Each rep
resented a strategic movement and when
the signals were given rapidly they sounded
like a recitation az a C~hautauqua circle.
Having perfected themselves the colony
football team made a match for last week
with the eleven Of the Tuckahoc Exempt
Firemen's Association.
We are not In the college or athletic
club class this season" said Smad m mod
estly, and we will have to play such teams
as we may fnd. We will go easy with
the Tuckahoes until we get ou- hand in
But won all tho members OF our team be
badly knocked out by such a game?' asked
Mrs. Merchant Prince.
Not a bit Of it. aid Smadams. Ne
danger AT all, ! assure YOU.
The crowd that assembled 70 see the
Tnckahoes rolled up the field was not large.
but il was enthusiastic and here and there
were children who had been brought 10
see papa PLAY football a he did in col
lege. The Tuckahoes left their family
ties. IL they had any. N home, and as one
ob-ervant woman said. Their binding
was badly soiled
Two minutes aftor the game started
the ball was passed 10 Merchant Prince
20 rush Through the line. and H." was downcd
in his tracks with eleven Tuckahoe men
piled comfort ably on tor Of him. From
the side lines came "A shr,il crN. Don't YOU
hurt INV papa" and when N"rchan' Prince
vas uncovered his wife pulled him out -
the game with the remark that h" ought
10 be ashamed ~ himself
An unt rained substitute was pm In and
this probably accounted fur IA" crushing
defeat 81 the colony team 10y n score ~ 10
80 u II was n wild gam" and the ad"ics
from the side lines did not h"lp ia" colony
PLAYERS
They were rolled In ih" mud. -urTepti-
iiOlsly punched IN the Tihs and occasionally
swati"d In the face los th" r1d Iuokaho"S.
Smadams pla we'd hi- position for all maj %
was worth. bui be- could NOT --cIr" a tul'ii-
Hr vac ~ every miN-up uI'h ia
brukr a rib aud 'wo finger,
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