The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
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THE CASEY OF FOOTBALL.


1t looked extremely rocky for the Aggy
The score stood six to six with just three
minutes left to play.
1t seemed the Aggy rooters had bet all
their coin in vain.
Time after time the powerful Casey,
Had ripped the Podunk line to threads
with fierce. headlong attack.
The quarter either fumbIed or the half
And now the time was almost up and
ninety yards to go:
The frenzied crowd Caught up the cry.
"Give, it to Casey. stormed the mob.
he'll surely save the day"
The powerful Casey paved the ground
and stamped in awful rage,
And reared lust like an angry hon fret
Give me the BALI he beloved, as he
His teammates RAJ rallied ali their strength.
the quarter called the play.
the charging Aggies back;
1t looked as though both teams were
heaped in one big, squirming stack.
But no-far out around the end sped Casey
He bowled two tack1ers over and laughed
loud to see them sprawl.
The Aggy- rooters jumped with Joy and
AS Casey flashed across the chalk lines
He lodged the Podunk safety man and
But suddenly he stopped and then was
seen to reel and sway.
solemn hush fell Ger the crowd as
The 10Y had turned to sorrow and of
,r. cheering there was dearth
The referees whistle blew the ending OF
Each mourning Aggy rooter breathed a
curse on CaSey's name.
There is no joy in Aggy camp for Casey
failed to score.
he stopped and toppled Ger.
He said a pain came in his side because
But one things sure-that Podunk game
was powerful Casey's last.
-Quarterbaseman.
1.-THE Man From Home" drew two
large audiences at the Grand Thanks
giving day.
Thanksgiving day weather was ideal
for the football rooters as well as for
the diners out.
Senator Charles Curtis left today for
Washington after eating Thanksgiving
turkey at home.
Thanksgiving day was a good day for
the vaudeville houses. Both houses
turned away crowds last night.
The football season will be closed a
week from Saturday by a game be-
tween the old stars and the Washburn
team.
Gen. Hugh Cameron is in Topeka He
is planning to write an account of his
peregrinations to be published in book
form.
H. ]. Bone, United States attorney,
has bought a big ranch in Colorado so
that he may make hay while the sun
shines.
Major A. NJ, Harvey always goes to
one football game year
ON THANKSGIVING day and he always
bets on Washburn and so far is ahead
of the game.
Why can't Topeka have an automo-
bile race? The city is fairly overfiowing
with fine cars and the roads in this
vicinity are excellent
Fred Bullene is the possessor of a fish
pond. He intended to have it as a
cellar for his new house but the ele-
ments postponed his hopes.
The Saturday Night club will meet
Saturday night at the office of Elon s.
Clark to consider emergency measures
and hear a paper by Henry Scandrett.
The hotel, restaurant and theater pro-
prietors will meet at the Commercial
club rooms tonight to select a repre-
sentative on the Commercial club direc-
torate.
Rev. w. NJ. cleveland. of the Third
Presbyterian church, has received a
call to a large church in Joplin, Mo.
He has not decided whether to accept
the call or not.
Work has been suspended on the To-
peka- Southwestern for the past few
days ION account of the mud" 1t will
be resumed again as soon as the condi-
ton of the ground will permit.
A big celebration in honor of the tie
game with the Oklahoma university
team, will take place tonight, on the
Washburn gridiron. There will be a
big bonfire and plenty of "speechify
ing
The smallpox scare in Lincoln school
has passed over. Some of the pupils
who were sent home early in the week
have been placed under quarantine,
while some of the cases have been
found not to be smallpox and the
pupils allowed to return.