The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
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alfalfa fields will be exchanged for the tweeds Of
the tenderloin and the hickory shirt, with its
open 'front.' will give way to the vestments Of
gentility and diamonds big enough to make Tom
Sharkey's headlights look like a lighted match
on shipboard three miles in the offing.
JEFF has found the orange occupation a trifing
slow as compared with leaning up against the
beer pump and telling how glorious battles were
won. The odor Of hay is not in it
with him to the of the cordial bottle.
The call OF the COWS is to be replaced In the
ears of the champion by the tinkle Of the cash
register as 1t announces the dropping In of the
results of sales of the joyous jigger of gin and
the luxurious hiss Of the wealthy water.
JEFF has tried out the Jasper game and it
don't CO. He don't think any more Of the simple
life than pickpocket in jail.
It's JEFF back to where the green lights glow
and he may fight n bit If anybody gets up SUI
fcient courage to try him out. If Parson Wag-
ner should drop into Jen's joy joint he would
get knockout drops in his soda water. The
champ has tried out the simple life and de-
clales that there's nothing doing.
Frisco bids him welcome. ANY one is well
come in Frisco If they come with the avowed
intention Of starting saloon.
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The Scene Shifts.
T HE coming of September opens up a new
line of sport and football such as the
bullying -browed reformers have left
comes to the front, while baseball, in university
cities at least, crawls up on the shelf for the
winter. -
Locally, the rooters anxious as ever to
see the gopher teams contending at Northrop
field, but every one Is up in the air as to what
Is coming in the line of play The changes il,
the rules have been revolutionary that even
the best Of the coaches men of years and ex-
perts thru practice, can only give vague proph-
ecies to what the outcome will be-
Here in the west, the big nine" has acted
SO foolishly as to limit the games to five, have
cut out the training table and made the play.
ing Of football by student little less than a
penal Offense. Instead of attempting to sim
plify the restrictions. codes and regulations they
have only made them more complex. Turn a
group of college professors loose In a legisla.
be expected to wrap themselves and everyone
else up into a mass like thea kitten that wen,
to sleep in the sticky fypaper. This grand &C,
was performed last January at Chicago-to the
queens taste.
Nevertheless football is going on and there
will be big games, big crowds and all of the
enthusiasm of years gone by. Most Of the bog1ef
which beset the reforming professors were
Frankensteins of their own ponderous and per
haps overworked tntellects. There were evils
of all sorts connected with football as is the
case with every sport. and it will take time tt
weed them out Football is going to live II
is too strong a game to die Of over-legisla ton
From all angles 1t looks as tho this seasons
football is going to bring about the usual nun
Der of injuries. a great deal of kicking, a worlt
of ground bestowed by officials for fouls AM
thru penalties and not a few games won by
fukes The ten-yards crime sponsored by Wal
ter Camp has been the most revolutionary move
I 50 We perhaps, the much restricted forward pas.
provision. There will be no more guards ant
tackles, BAGS mss plays, as those worthless hay,