St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-20

a student, and the Attila universit.
! players. There has always been, an:
is yet, as you know, a strong feelin,
of rivalry between these two seats O
learning. 1t happened not so man!
months before that Attila had carriet
off the honors in rowing, while Tanner
lane had won at baseball; so we foot
ball players felt, as may say, that 4
was up to us. That's the right expires
sion, is it not?"
Don't try to appear innocent.
heard you use it in a sermon the othel
day." said the judge.
THAT is a base SANDER" returned
the parson. Besides, you haven't
| been to church for three months, sc
that If l had used it you wouldn't have
heard it. Well, the game was fast
right from the start. We went at each
other and fought like wildcat in 4
tin oven-as some Boston author said
The local authorities had been warned
and made provisions for it by keep
grounds so they wouldn't get hurt, snc
sending all the doctors, surgeons
nurses, ambulances and other allevi-
ating and repairing apparatus to the
field early. The combat was something
terrific, but through it all these fear,
less workers for the good of humanity
Il include the ambulances) moved
about and carried relief to the strick-
en-. AS soon as a player was incapable
of movement he was carried away on
stretcher and substitute took his
place. A well-equipped field hospital
had been established under the grand
stand, where restOratives were admin
istered and minor operations perform
ed. A line of fast ambulances hurried
the more seriously injured to the city
hospitals.
CAS- the game progressed its fury in
creased. Players. integral and frac-
tional, were flying in the air every
where. The umpire and referee retired
to safe distance and conveyed their
instructions through giant mega
phones. The spectators stood in the
grandstand and fairly nowled. though
little of the strife was visible to them
owing to the fog of torn clothes and
uprooted soil which hung over the
scene, not to mention players, or parts
of players, which ever and anon were
thrown up from the seething mael-
strom below. Once flying Tamerlane
player, hurled through the air by two
Attilas, struck Red Cross nurse and
bore him down, but he was dragged
from the field by a brother worker.
Again, an Attila player was tossed to
the top of the grandstand, where he
chung to the ridge pole and yelled for
his side, while substitute rushed to
take his place. The combat deepens!
Now it is impossible To-
"See here, parson," broke in the ma
jor, rather firmly, you're getting toe
excited. Calm down-you'n be tack
ling us and throwing us out the win
dow the next thing you know Besides
you are telling us of nothing but a
simple, ordinary game of football, af-
ter all. Where's the extraordinarily
unique uniqueness you boasted about?'
you may interrupt rae if you
choose, but you shan't stop me-" said
the parson, with trace of indignation.
"See, the combat deepens! It-well,
no matter. 1t was wonderful game.
And here is what made it unique so far
as known. All the way through we
players felt that something was lack
ing-that something, somewhere, was
wrong. Afterwards we learned that
the spectators had the same feeling. |
But no one on the gridiron or in the
grandstand could say what it was. At
last the game ended. All had been re-
moved except the two captains. l was
one OF them. We lay stretched on the
plain near the middle of the field, OF
course, unable to rise. We heard the
coming to bear us away.
the captain of the Attilas raised he
head with difficulty and Whispered
hoarsely:
Hello, old man, great game, wasn't
t?'
Wonderful replied Still, thers
was something lacking
=" I had that feeling all the time
too, but can't make out what it was.
Sc Neither can L. was my answer,
But there was something wrong lust
the same
You're right-something wrong.
Hold on-I've got it! We didn't have
q ball!'
"And it was fact, and this is wha.
rendered the game so remarkable.
though, as l said before
"Parson." interrupted the Judge sol.
emily, will you do us favor?"
Certainly"
Never mind about what you said
before"