The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01
HOME RUN HAGGERTY TALES
Through Big Mistake AlfaIfas Had TO Play Football
Game or Get Lynched-It Was Wonderful Contest
In Spite Of Difficulties.

other And then. as 7 went down with a
bang, / felt somebody try to grab the
ball
q Not on your picture button saws I.
and I grabbed him by the throat
III seemed an hour before they got The
crowd separated and me up again, but
bad the ball. The fellow I'd choked was
pushin' his tongue back in his face and
was THROWN a con aboct me an rough
ness 20 a guy in wise look and citiZen.s
clothes He seemed 20 think i was all
right and didn't give the fellow any SAT-
lSt3cUon. But they made me take OK
my baseball shoes. TX seems that i had
pushed a fellow in the face with one OF
them and the spikes had hurt his feel
ings. All our fellows had 20 do the same
thing and we played I'm our stoclSin' feet.
First Down, Five Yards to Go.
" 'Alfalfa's ball" yelled the wise look
ing guy. First down, five yards 20 60.
We'll, an hands stopped down over the
ball then. which was between my feet,
and with Pinch's hands just behind BE-.
All the fellows hadn't Jared as well as
me Billings nose was bleeding and Josh
HapE0od had a cross between surprised
and twisted look on his face.
FOLLOW the ball. yelled Reggie. The
next minute Pinch grabbed % and threw
u behind him. Just rs I turned 10 see
what he did with it, / saw J Wesley Jen-
kns hit Josh in the ear. and so I handed
him one as I turned liz caught him under
close and his heels come up as / went by.
Reggie had got the ball somehow and
lot with Merritt alongside. and a lot OF
Oakdale fellows trying 20 stop him. Ey-
eryOne that ran for Reggie sam would
just push over and the next minute they
were through the gailows thing az the
Oaldale end OF the field ard the CalSdala
fellows were GUESSING their luck and one
another Go beat the band.
Scored again fairly screamed one
fellow. Pre- oosteroUsi after defeating
Wichita 90 too TO be scored against. We
must redeem ourselves
r.H
saw what YOU had 20 do. Also. I was
warned FOR putting j. Wesley to sleep.
There wasn't much 20 DO for some time
men, put push and haul and squirm III
the middle Of the field, and soon time
was called and We sat down for q pow
wow with Reggie
80 Keep on the defensive, boys he said
II we hold them down for twenty min
utes now We can win
Bearing I'm mind what he said. when
the half began / ran Tor the fellow with
the red Jersey again. He had the bail
and instead Of taking DC away from him
1 just slung him down like a sack o. oats
and sat or him
ne other fellows came running up
Nice tackle, said Reggie. You're
getting wise, Hag. Get up
On, no. say l. Don't bother about
me. He cant get away. I can hold him
down here for an hour. let alone twenty
Il got a laugh for that. didn't know
"A couple of minutes later an Oal1daIe
fellow got that ball and ran an the way
70 our hangin' apparatus They kicked
the ball and did lot o. stunts and said
that put EN- point ahead, 6 TO 5. The
crowd crazed up again. too.
Haggerty Makes a Touchdown.
Reggie mos wept over It. There was
a lot more scrappin' and kickin' and then
heard him say in desperate sort CT
voice 70 Merritt.
Got to break through on EN- only
a minute and a half more 10 play.
Ihank gosh i said 10 myself. I'm
glad it's most over
THE next minute the man opposite me
passed the ball back, and then 4 pushed
him aside. as I always did. and started
for the bail Another man had passed Do
TO a third. and as ! dashed forward I
saw him drop it and give it a boot just
as u hit the ground. our goal was right
back OF me, and 4 saw il would go over
sure If / didn't stop IL. and i leaped I'm
the air like I used to for some Of Lamp
Hymes wild inshoOts and grabbed Il not
from his foot The next minute I had
rolled him over and had the ball under
my arm and was pounding for their end
Ci the field as I'd seen Reggie do.
II am six feet two and do weigh 200.
give me a start Of couple Of yards and
the best Of emil have a time catchin'
me. They found that out right &ere for
their two fastest runners didn't grab me
till ] was five yards from their posts
ard ] dragged 'em over the line before
they could throw me. Then 7 hUgged the
ball till the crowd came up.
There was yelling and screaming and
hOOuug for fair and 7 was told we'd wen
10 20 8. We got the 500. too. The Oak
dale people wanted me TO come TO school
there and learn agriculture and play
football, but L declined.
After I got up the next morning I de-
football, and Tvt stuck TO it. Basebalrs
strenuous enough