The St. Louis Republic., 1903-11-05
Public Institutions Football
Squad Suffers From Beating
Given by Blees.
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS TRAIN.
Coach Todd Puts His Boys
Through a Smart Course of
Plays Arkansas-C. B. G.
Game as Good as OFF.

High School has not shown up for prac-
| tice with C. b.. &C. since her hard game
| with Blees The drubbing the plucky
schoolboys received hurt them to the bone
Captain Gray takes his beating like a
gentleman.
I've were not so very much out
weighed" he said yesterday. but we
| were outplayed." That is the spirit that
has always been strong at High. The
boys never make the usual football excus-
os. like professional pugiists. They are
deadly game. go out of their class. get
beaten and manfully admit it.
Principal Bryan, his assistants and the
schools from which the boys come to High
are all entitled to a moiety OF credit for
intoxicating this principle of manliness.
That it exists at High to greater extent
than at any school or college the writer
knows Is tribute indeed to the public
school system of St. Louis, and to the
boys it produces TO manfully accept fair
defeat is the highest and most noble at
tribute of the sportsman.
PRACTICE AT CHRISTIAN BROTHERS.
c. b. C. is pegging away at the scrub"
when High is absent. Todd had his young
series of plays Big George Jordan. the
Hermann, Mo-, giant, is doing wonders IN
the line. Jordan Is man of physical
might. and is probably the ilttest and
hardest football player wearing cleats in
America to-day.
He went to the Dakota wheat fields in
July and worked steadily as a harvester.
1t hurts the ordinary business man TO
take Il good look at this young Titan.
bronzed by sun and wind. 200 pounds In
the buff, six feet tall and as strong as a
horse and active as a kitten.
They tell a terrible tale Of German
town in which there was an instrument of
torture known as the iron maioen." 1t
the shape of girl. with outstretcneu
arms When an offender against the re-
ligious fervor of the Sixteenth Century
was condemned to the iron maiden he was
placed within her arms and the mechan-
ism set going. The arms would slowly
close on their victim and squeeze MIN to
death.
Those who have been up against Jordan
in d football game say that he Is good
deal worse than, the Iron Maiden In that,
while quite as capable of squeezing man
to death. he is much quicker. There is
not even the proverbial ounce OF su-
perflous flesh On the man.
RIORDAN'S GOAL KICKING.
Riordan practiced kicking goal for a
long time after the C. B. C. practice yes
terday, trying from placement and from
drop kicks. He did not do much with
the drops but was successful with the
placements. He seems to take run at
tie ball. which is scarce the best method
of kicking. 1t loses time and conduces to
inaccurscy.
saw stood close to the ball and simply
swung his kicking leg. That Is for the
shorter distances. To be sure, II they
want to do the ODay and kick goal
from the fifty-yard line they must run
Riordan Is evidently the class of the c.
B. c. team. He is a fine type of the Irish
athlete. probably the best field man In
FOOTBALL. FAMILIES.
There is young Brockmeyer on the
scrub team. brother of the more IA
nous Frank and Oscar of that family OF
good football players. The youngster is
the dead spit of Frank and bids fair
to be better player. These steady foot
ball families are fine things for a school;
The Poes of Princeton. the Blisses OF OF
Weats Of Smith Academy and the Brock-
meyers of e. B. C. have done much to
make their almae matri famous
Bland was to be the leader of line from
the honored house of Silver that would
send great athletes to c; b. c. young,
er brother iourished in his freshman anu
sophomore years. then decayed.
Speaking of Bland brings to mind that
n lot of the old c. b. c. boys are practlc-
ing to play q game with the unuergradu
ates next week Bland, crack half back;
McC;raii. who was stanch and deadly
game center rush Tor all his lack OF
weight; Joe Nutz, who was strong ana
lucky. il "a bit slow: Foley, who was as NOR more
than an average player; Jack Patrick.
who has at last become graduate-he
was for Is years an Undergraduate sew
eral other graduates of c. b. c. are get
ting into condition for the game. which
will take place THURSDAY.
The Arkansas University-C. B. c. game
Is as good as Off. The teams were to
have met on next SATURDAY. out the Ar
may come together later In the season. on
but 1t is scarce probable just now. On
November Il. c. b. c. will go to Quincy
to play MsN the Gem en- MY MGAr A E MssM II shss place
A man who has been mighty IN the foot
ball of c. B. C. for years. is missing this
season. 1t is Brother Gideon, who was
for many neee Oh IS msny az the
quart of blood the good monastc per-
spired when C. b. c. was in any danger
OF losing football game. Brother Gideon's
bative spirit. which clustered years could
not sutdue, put the famous fighting soul
of c. B. c. into the boys. When the
sturdy hgure or BroiEef Hiueoi, Stau III
came on the field G ii,on b C. v, was q nsPired nis
University came on the other side of the
gridiron it was time for some one to cry
"Pol!ce," for every man and boy on the
ground felt like hitting his neighbor
punch in the nose.
1t was indeed as dark day Tor Brother
Gideon when the college lost as it Is for
AT an election. Brother Gideon's fighting
spirit and great big heart sats and =, stout sud
and other colleges who may contend with
the Cote Brilliante institution on athletic
fields.
The polished Brother Elzear and the
laughing Brother Francis do the best they
can to entertain visitors to the campus
these days of football. Without any re-
Election on the hospitable fraternity there
Memphis, where there is not enough for
good cudgel-fghting blood to get up a
twosome shindy.
WRESTLING MATCH POSTPONED.
Baptiste Injured in n Street Car Acci-
r. Il