Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-24
= HOPE NJ o U T
~ CLANCY, prob

an a fair player at lucky pool, an cute at draw
poker, didn't take kindly to the rah- rah game
o football which Sluggitt Corners an Sure
Eye Simmons declared to be the rage. He
couldn't the sense in it, he said. You
couldn't get no batting average, nor no fielding
average and there wash any prize for stolen
bases 1t appeared to him. he said, that the
only thing BODY could expect to win in the
O. colored lamps a broken Jawbone m some
low proved guy with hands like hams who
didn't know enough not to get enthusiastic
over the game.
That's where you're dead wrong, Chop,
SAYS Sure Eve Simmons, when he hears the
brilliant short fielder advance these opinions
"Footbal1 is a contest O brains. Siren tn IS
needed, O. course but it takes brains to tell
where to put that force to do the most good.
Brains it takes. Known how, cuts ice. I'm
RELY enamoured of it,
You're howl says Chop.
"Enamoured," saws Sure Eye,-"you know,
I'm stuck on it. Its great possibilities fer the
exercise O. brain power has got me hooked
There's brains into every part OF 1t.
Yes, and you'll be spread all over the field
some day wen we go up against some O. these
long haired boys that RELY know it, says
Chop. For me- nix l keep on the outskirts:
play deep left field wen there's football
trouble in sight Me for the underbrush when
husky lad with horseshoes in the knees of his
pants comes gallopin along with the ball"
However what Sure Eye had said about the
game being full G brains got Chopemout think
ing. He was strong on headwork in baseball,
and he didn't want any old and spawned up
left fielder who could only hit to one field laying
over him at any game, so he retires to his
room and gets his gray matter buzzlng along to
find out how he could beat the game o football.
Chopemout's Discovery
LIE didn't talk all that evening or the next
IL day but set with his eyes turned towards
the back of his head an smokin' like a fresh
fired engine and when the shades o night
were falling fast he suddenly gifts up, slaps his
leg enthusiastic, an says
Il got it
Got WHAT" we all chimed in. We all knew
Chop, an had been waitin'.
How to beat this blessed breakneck game
SOS nobody'n get hurt, says he III make
it a reel contest O science
Of course we all wanted to know how, and
Clancy-like he wouldn't tell us. Only he got
leave to 60 way for day or two. an when he
come back he had package under his arm
an smile o triumph on his face.
Right here" he says, Il got the mines o
destruction that's goin to make that Whoop,
erup college leyen look like poor poor quality 20
things which'll make us winners in one Jump
pair O. steps witch link the musty past an the
glorious present." and he unrolls the package
Out pops-w' at dye think? Two wrlnkled
pair O old boots Say us that had been ex-
pectin to a mplete set brasS knuckieS
for the gang, or a couple O sticks o dynamite,
just yeiped Had Chopemout got dippye
we asked -,
He didn't mind us. He just stood there with
stern, pitying look onto his face till 1t was
quiet, and then he says Kind O down at
the heel amt they? Ruther frayed at the
edges an out at the toe too' Wrinkled an
musty an ancient, amt they Well they got
right to be-. These are the famous Seven
League Boots"
The WHAT" we ask, struck with wonder.
The famous Seven League Boots, says
Chop, lookin as proud as Washington crossin
the Delaware, the git-up-an- git propositions
what II put us in class by ourselves
Sure Eye scratched his head Seems to me
I've heard O them things. but it was when l
was a kid, an that's sometime ago. says he.
What do we do with 'em?"
No Show for the Whooperups
WEAR 'em, O. course" says Chop. "What'd
w YOU think we did with 'em-put EN- on
ice Didn't YOU never hear o Jack the Giant
Killer, who-no it wasn't Jack the Giant Killer,
was it, ANYWAY, his name was Jack, and he
pnched pair O these boots of Giant. You
put EN- on an you go seven leagues in one
jump OF course that's got ordinary sprlntln
beat a block That's where we win. Our two
halfbacks wear these boots: the ball IS passed
to EN- an whsk they're down at the other
end of the field, and a touchdown scored before