The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-28

couldn't interest lily in nohow.
When Nolan used to come down TO
Joe's place of an evening and tell US
how he'd won the last game, lily would
sit in the corner and snort and grunt
and show a general contempt for
every thing Nolan said. One night he
got more o~bstreperous than usual, and
Nolan sort O. lost his temper.
Whats the matter with you, you
knocker?' he inquired, bristling up and
walking over to where lily was sitting.
"Aw, it makes me tired to hear you
brag So"
who's b~ragging?"
why, you are, of course. You go
chasing around the State with your
little half-baked eam playing a lot OF
dinky little outfits that don't know a
football from a punching-bag, and just
because o happen to be a l1ttie
stronger and don't get a you think
you are a football team. Why don't
you line up with something that can
play football? They'd a k the concelt
out of you blame quick"
"Oh, they would? Perhaps o know
of a team somewhere in the State hat
would like to try it."
Huh, 1 could organize one right
here in town that could put it all over
yours if I had three weeks In which to
train them"
you don't say so. Well you go
ahead and produce that team and III
just lay you ten to one that they don't
last as long as a SNOWFALL in an oven.
DO you mean that?" asked lily.
Frightening up. For If you do I've
got one hundred dollars that I'll put
up at those Odds"
Put it in Joe's hands and l Will
cover it," answered Nolan.
I'm Just two minutes" retorted Uly.
jumping up and starting for the door.
My moneys in my room
He was back in a jiffy and handed
Joe a nice, brand-new one-hundred
dollar bill.
There you are" he says to Nolan
"Now cover it,"
Nolan was somewhat taken back
when he found hat Uly was in
and I thought for a minute he was
going to crawfsh.
Where are o going to get your
mem" he asked.
Fright mere in town. With the stones
that builder Nolan rejected will the
cornerstone of the superior team De
laid" quoted Uly, like a preacher.
Nolan put up his thousand, but l
could see that he hated to, and that ne
was mighty suspicious. 1t was too
easy even for Nolan.
Next day U1y was busy organizing
his team. There was a scrub eleven
in town thai Nolan used to practice on
and Uly induced them to join him.
He showed himself to be an expert
enced hand at the game, and certainly
did good work coaching. Still 1T was
evident to all of us that he didn't
stand a ghost of a show to win. We
knew that he would have to go out o.
the state 20 find a team strong enough
to beat Nolan's.
He had three weeks to get ready in
and before that time was up we were
all feeling mighty sorry for him; he
couldn't win any way you wanted to
look at it.
The papers got hold of the story and
did a lot of joshing at Uly's expense
but it proved to be good advertising,
and on the day of the game the people
began to come in from the country n
adjoining towns in numbers that sur
prised all of us.
When Nolan saw the crowd we were
going to have he looked up lily ana
proposed that the winner take all the
gate receipts. lily agreed rather re-
luctantly, saying that he didn't want
to be all hog and was willing that
Nolan get back a part of his thousand.
The game was called for three
land by ~two-thirty Nolan and
his team were on the field. lily a
rented a shed, up at the west end. for
a dressing-room, and he and his team
had gone in right after dinner and
were still there.
1t was five minutes to three when the
shed door opened and something came
piling out and tumbling down the field.
At first no one could make out what 1t
was; in fact it was within thirty feet
of US before I saw it was the team.
And such a team! Uly had bought
brand-new suits for his boys, every
thing from caps to shoes all made OF
nice cleo n white canvas. And all over
these suits, caps, stockings, and even
their hands and faces, lily had painted
footballs-Rugby footballs, exactly like
the kind they were going to use in the
game. And they were SO natural that
you couldn't tell them from h real
thing without feeling of them.
Nolan started to kick right away, but
Uly insisted that his men had on the
regulation uniforms, and it was no.
body's business what color they were.
The umpire sustained him, and Nolan
had to give In.
1t was sure comical to see the ex-
pressions on the faces Of Nolan's men
after they began to play. They were
facing what looked like a wall of roll
ing. tumbIing footballs, and it was
certainly bewildering.
Uly's team had the ball, and instead
of punching themselves and bucking
their opponents, as is customary, they
would scatter as much as they could,
running off in all directions, but al
ways toward the goal, with Nolan's
men running from one to the other try
ing to locate the real ball and never
finding it.
Two or three would tackle one of
Uly's men, throw him down and feel all
owe him to see if any of the balls was
the one they were after.
1-@A