Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-01-30

In one sense. you know. Well. this
game that I'm talking about was be-
tween Tamerlane college. where I was
. student. and the Attila university
players. There has always been, and
Is yet, as you know, strong feeling
OF rivalry between these two seats of
learning. 1t happened not SO many
months before that Attila had carried
on the honors in rowing. while Tanner
lane had won at baseball; so we foot
ball players felt, as l may say, that II
was up to us. That's the right express
sion, is 1t not?"
Don't try to appear innocent
heard you use 1t in sermon the other
day." said the judge.
THAT Is base SANDER" returned
the parson. Besides, you haven't
been to church for three months, so
that II 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 a wildcat in a
tin oven-as some Boston author said.
The local authorities had been warned.
and made provisions for it by keep
ing their policemen away from the
grounds so they wouldn't get hurt. and
sending all the doctors, surgeons.
nurses, ambulances and other allevf-
ating and repairing apparatus to the
Held early. The combat was something
terrific, but through II all these fear
less workers for the good Of humanity
u 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
q 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.
"As the game progressed its fury in
creased. Players, integral and frac-
tonal, were flying in the air every
where. The umpire and referee retired
to a safe distance and conveyed their
instructions through giant mega
phones. The spectators stood in the
grandstand and fairly howled. 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 a flying Tamerlane
player, hurled through the air by two
Attilas, struck Red Cross nurse and
bore him down, but be was dragged
from the field by 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 a substitute rushed to
take his place. The combat deepeas,,
Now 1t is impossible to"
See here parson," broke in the ma
jor. rather firmly, you're getting too
excited Calm down-you1l 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 boosted about ?''
You may interrupt me If you
choose, but you shant stop me-" said
the parson, with a trace of indignation.
See. the combat deepens! It-well.
no matter. II was . wsoAsrful eane.
And here In what made it unique so far
as known. All the way through we
players felt that something was lack
inS-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 IL was. AT
last the game ended. All had been re-
moved except the two captains. | was
one or them. We lay stretched on the
plain near the middle OF the field of
course. unable TO rise. We heard the
ambulance coming to bear us away.
the captain of the Attilas raised his
head with difficulty and WHISPERED
hoarsely:
Hello. old man. great game. wasn't
Wonderful replied Still, there
was something lacking
i had that feeling all the time,
too. but | can't make cut what It was.
Neither can l. was my answer.
But there was something wrong Just
the same
you're rfght-something wrong.
Hold on-rve got 1t! We didn't have
ball!'
And 1t was fact. and this is what
rendered the game so remarkable
though, as I said before"
"Parson." interrupted the Judge sol.
EMMY. Twill you do us a favor?"
Certainly"
Never mind about what you said
before"
ROW OVER BANDITS BONES