Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-16
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From a Report
 CTS Note Book.

That old saying that murder will
 putt is being certainly proved by the
 trial which has been going on in the
 superior court the past week. It only
 goes to show how when one or more
 fellows are i'll sight of the gallows
 they will tell everything to save thel,
 own necks.
 Tt may be only coincidence but
 1t looks amusing" said prominent
 citizen to the As You Like It man,
 yesterday morning. that these policy
 shops are rounded up by tine police
 about once a year, and always a week
 or two before or after Christmas"
 The As You Like It man tried to con
 vince his listener that the detectives
 do their duty during the entire twelve
 months, but he could not see it ill thnt
 manner and went of with the parting
 shot, Watch and see when the next raid is made"
 Coming on the Christmas holidays. boys and girls from this city who are away at school will begin to return, and 1t always appears to the writer at such times that Waterbury, for a city whose citizens for the most part cannot be called rich, sends away surprisingly large number of students to the various colleges and private inl stitutions around the country. Prob ably the majority of the residents dc not realize how big this total is, but if they should take the time to inquire Into the matter they will discover that lWaterbury's college contingent is larger than the average.
 Among the callers upon pr Doug las Hyde Thursday evening at The Elton after his brilliant lecture in Polls, was Michael Drury of 450 North Main street. Mir Drury knew Dr Hyde in the old country, and all his family, and therefore they had very pleasant half hour talking orer old times and the change that have taken place there since NIT Drury left 1t. The changes were many, A Hyde said, the entire face of tiie west of Ireland having undergone many vicis- situdes. but all for the better. MT Drury looks so much like the brilliant Gaelic scholar that they would be taken for twins at the first glance
 Although, there is much agitation going on now concerning the abolition of football, or at least changing the rules so as to eliminate some of the dangers, it Is not unlikely thar the game will be just as dangerous next year as far as this sport itself is con cerned, but in all probability much of the roughness or dirty football will | be cut out Many and varied are tho 1 changes proposed, some being so radi- ! cal that they sound almost nonsensi. | cal. Conservative men are crying for an open game which would do away | with the heavy mass plays and pre- vent smaller teams from being worn | out by their heavier opponents. Sev- eral experts would like 10 see the game placed under Walter Camps | control for year It is only natural | that when twenty-two men get into contest that there Is likely to, be some chance of. injury. Besides those pee i pie who are iclamoring for change ot rules admit they don't want to lose the game and have to acknowledge that they don't know what suggeS tions to make in regard to framing a new set of rules. After all changes are proposed and talked over, those who really understand the way the players act in a contest are the ones whose opinion Is to be regarded. It is good wagering that they would say the thing that would be the most ben eficial to the sport lies in the power of the players to give. and that Is. for those engaged in the contest to resolve to play clean game and forget the ''mucker tactics" If the men them selves do not determine upon thii course a volume of new rules will have no effect as long AS twenty-two players are on the field trying to get In little of their work on the side.