The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-04
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Kicking the pigskin" is phrase
generally in use among Sporting E,di-
tors, but a former football player of
| an investigating nature declares that
it is not correct. II wrote to AL Reach
about this thing" he said, land was
informed that the phrase came down
| from former centuries together with
the game as football was played even
as far back as the old Greeks. In
| those days, so Reach informed me,
the ball was made of a Sleeps bladder,
but cowhide is used now. Kicking the
pigskin isn't right: they ought to
| say, the cowhide."
81 noticed an article in the Morning
News several days ago headed Ed
mund Kirk and Jeff Davis in which
it was stated that the brig Echo was
owned and operated by ]. R. Gilmore
before the Civil War. and that when
the war broke out it became a Con-
federate privateer." remarked a Sa-
MAMMALIAN whose information upon
matters concerning the army and navy
of the Confederacy is usually accurate.
1.-THE Echo was a Confederate privateer
during the war, but hardly think that
Mr.. Gilmore, whose death recently
occurred owned the vessel prior to the
war because it was then a slavecar-
rier, and l remember that on one oc-
casion-I think it was in So hap
pened to be in Charleston when the
Echo was brought in to that port by
the United States ship, Niagara, having
been captured somewhere between the
coast of Africa and South America with
a cargo OF negroes direct from Africa.
The negroes-and they We're a molly
crew-were kept for a while in Fort
Sumter. I believe, and then carried
back to their African homes. l doubt
the statement that Mr.. Gilmore owned
the Echo"
whenever I travel on a sleeping car
l always get mad, [ get so disgust
ed that it makes me mad" remarked
the man with the pair of grips emerg-
ing from the door of Pullman yes
terday morning. There are always
two or three fellows who take up the
whole car dressing in the morning and
if a decent chap wants to dress at
all he's got to get up before day and
then get out to make room for those
fellows who come in. throw open their
grips on the seat. brush their hair for
ten minutes. comb their mustache for
half that length of time and then I'M
screwing the top from off a little glass
bottle. take out their toothbrush and
scrub away as if to make pretenses
that they could not rest easy unless
thew did all that. Whenever / see a
fellow putting on so many airs in pub
lie. L always form my opinion of that
man at home and 1 don't think that
/ miss it far when 1 put him down
as a guy who won't pull off his top
shirt in his wife's presence because
his undershirt isn't right"
A visitor in the city declares that
the most suggestive place he has seen
in Savannah is Colonial Park on Ogle-
thorpe avenue. II was out that way
this morning" he remarked last night
at was strolling through the cemetery
when my attention was attracted TO
The notice barracks on one corner, the
iail on the other and the fire engine
house directly across the street. That
was enough, but right in the middle OF
the park, I run up on a group or ne
groes shooting chaps. Then l couldn t
help it; the thought of crime, punish
ment death and-well the fire appara-
tus. would come. I'd hate to be buried
ont there"