The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-18

son. He turned sharply and stared into
! the grand stand. In the mass of people
| low down near the fence Billy Parker
| looked straight at a brown-haired girl.
| who sat between an old man who had his
hat in the air, and elderly lady who
wore red carnation. But it wasn't that
| fact that sent the blood from Billy Par
| ker's face. Miss Baxter was not in red,
| for Dickinson. She wore a blue flag in
| her dress. Billy Parker stood up on the
| side lines with his mouth open and stared
| at her. The next moment she saw him
and tore out the blue flag and waved it
at him. Billy gasped. In spite of the fact
| that fresh Harvard yell was going up
| at that time, Billy Parker jumped through
| a crowd of grooming substitutes and dived
| between two coaches who said things to
him. and grabbed Tommy Nolan by the
| shoulder.
Here, Tommy" he gasped quickly.
Drop that pad. Come here" He jerked
the perspiring Tommy to his feet and
3! shook him.
| Now" he said shortly and his eyes
blazed, what do you know about Miss
| Baxter"
Tommy Nolan grinned. Billy Parker
shook him again.
"Out with it, he said. He was hot all
| over.
L" said Tommy Nolan. II knew a
1.-The deuce you did"
| II did. Let go of my collar. / found
! out Dickinson was bigamist; that he
| had two girls engaged TO him at the same
| time he met Miss Baxter" Billy straight
| ened up. If Dickinson had done that he
would punch his head Il told her-hold
| on a minute told her that If she want
ed to leave the summer piazza business
| I'd find her nice quiet kitchen rocking
| chair in your fat in Harlem. | told her
you had pair and a half of curtains a
| book case that belonged to me, an oil
stove and a high seat on bookkeeper
chair in my fathers office in prospect
changed her mind. Then | told the coaches
all about it, and told them to look out for
YOU and see when the disease broke. Now
| run along to Martin. There's five min
utes left to play inland win the game.
Billy Parker sat Tommy Nolan down so
hard on the bench that Tommy Nolan
giggled Just one idea was in his mind
Dickinson had tricked the girl he loved
And Dickinson was out there on the Har-
ward team and was winning the game for
Harvard The next moment Billy Parker
ran out on the side lines and nodded saw
agely to Martin, the head coach, who
looked from him to Tommy Nolan and
then grinned. Then he pushed him out on
the field, In a sudden, knife-like cheer:
''Yalel Yalel Yale Parker!'
He only turned to glance, on the run,
Just once, at a girl in fur boa who sat
between an old man with a red flag and
a disapproving aunt and who looked the
other way quickly. Then he went in to
meet Dickinson and play football.
The whistle blew. The Yale quarter
back running rapidly around from Billy
,, Parker. patted each Yale man the
back. 1t was Harvard's ball. first down,
| five yards to go, on Yale's five-yard line.
One final rush like those that had pushed
Yale eighty yards down the field and the
game would be over. There was mo-
ment's hush The crimson quarter
| snapped the ball. Dickinson took it. There
was a red rush of men in front of him,
and with a dive Billy Parker broke
through the Harvard tackle and end OPP
posite him and flattened out the crimson
halfback with thud two yards back of
where he had started.
terrific yell broke from the Yale
stands:
Parker"
Another signal. another fash of Grim
bis rms about Dickinson's legs, with two
more wards lost for Harvard.
"rhird down, nine yards to 60"
The vale stands were frantic. There was
ono m,nute left to play Billy knew what
he was going to do. The Harvard backs
dronnad behind for a kick for goal. Billy
parker. swinging forward loosely at his
end. watched the pass narrowly. He saw
what ten tired other pairs OF Yale eyes
did not see, and that was the stumble
that Dickinson made as he reached for
/ ward to take the ball. With the pass,
RilIv was through the line and on him
With rush. Suddenly swerving he iunged
J forward and, as Dickinson kicked, blocked