The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-05-06

kish bath.
How many teeth has a rabbit"
the tall man asked suddenly.
Il don't know" the student answer
ed with candor.
The two looked triumphantly at
one anoter.
"He doesn't know" cried the
goggle-eyed one derisively.
"I should recommend you to count
them the next time you have one for
dinner" the other remarked. AS
this was evidently meant for a joke,
| Tom had the tact to laugh, and very
gruesome and awe-inspiring laugh 1t
was, too.
| Then the candidate was badgered
about the pterodactyl and concerning
the difference in anatomy between
bat and bird, and about the lamp
rey, and the cartilaginous fishes, and
the amphioxus All these questions
he answered more or less to the sat-
isfaction of the Xaminers-generalN
less. When at last the little bell
tinkled which was the sign for candi-
|
taller man leaned over a list in front
of him, marked down upon it the
following hieroglyphic:
IS. B."
This Toms sharp eye at once de-
tected, and he departed we'll pleased,
for he knew that the IS. B." meant
salts bene, and as to the minus sign
after, it. it mattered little to him
whether he had done rather more than
we'll or rather less. He had passed
good dodgers and fast runners. They
never join in the very rough work,
but they always follow on the out
skirts of the forwards, and if the
ball is forced past it is their duty to
pick it UP and make away with it
like lightning. If they are very fast
they may succeed in carrying it q
long way before they are caught
tackled as we call it. 1t is their duty
also to keep their eye on the quar-
them If they get away Behind
ter-backs of the enemy, and to tackle
them again are the two half backs
or three quarters, as they call them
in England. | am one OF them. They
are supposed to be fast runners, too
and good deal of the tackling comes
to their lot, for a good runner of the
other side can often get past the quar-
ters, and then the halves have got to
bring him down. Behind the half
backs, is q single man-the back. He
is the last resource when all others
are past. He should be sure and
long kicker SO as to get the ball
away from the goal by that means
but you are not listening"
"Oh, yes, l an," said Kate. AS a
matter of fact the great throng and
the move. sights we're distracting her
so much that she found II hard to
attend to her cenpanion's disquis-
ition.
you'll understand it quickly enough
when you sse it," the student re-
marked cheerily. Here we are at
the grounds" AS he spoke the car
riage ratified through a broad gate
way into large open grassy space
with great pavilion at one side of
1t and staked enclosure about two
hundred yards long and a hundred
broad with goal post at each end.
This space was marked out by gaily
colored flags and on every side of It,
pressing against the barrier the whole
way round, was an enormous crowd,
twenty and thirty deep, with others
occupying every piece of rising ground
or coign of vantage behind thCcn.
The most moderate computation
would place the number of specta-
tors at fifteen Thousand. At one
side there was a line of cabs in the
background, and thither the carriage
of the Dimsdales drove, while Tom
rushed off with his bag to the pavil-
ion TO change.
1t was high time to do so, for
just as the carriage took up it's posi-
tion hoarse roar burst from the
great multitude. and was taken up
again and again. 1t was a welcome
to the English team, which had Just
then appeared upon the ground. There
they were, clad in white knickerbock-
ers and jerseys, with a single red rose
: embroidered upon their breasts; as
gallant looking a set OF young fell
= lows as the whole world could pro-
duce. Tail, square shoSlldered,
STRAIGHTFORWARD, as active as kittens
and as powerful as young bulldogs
1t was clear that they would take a
lot of beating. They were the pick
: of the University and London clubs
with few players from the Northern
countries; not a man among them
whose name was not known wherever
football was played. That tall, lone
legged youth is Evans, the great half.
back, who Is said to be able to send 8
l drop-dok further than any of his
predecessors in the annals of the
game. There is Butler, the famous
Cambridge quarter, only ten stone II
weight, but as 1.-THE and slippery al
an eel; and Jackson, the other quar-
: ter, is just such another-hard t.
D tackle himself. but es tenacious as {
: bulldog in holding an adversary
That one with the straw-coloreC
: hair is Coles, the great forward; and
there are nine lads of mettle who
will stand by him today through thlcl
r and thin. They were a formidable
4 looking lot, and betting, which haC