The Washington herald., 1909-07-04
GRTDIRON ROMANCE
Yale Football Hero, Worth S4,OOO,OOO, Wins the
Most Beautiful Girl in Kentucky

coaches could not at first decide where 20
play him. He was big enough and strong
enough 20 be a guard FOR be weighed 20
pounds and was six feet tall Guard he
would have played or tackle. but Tor his
extraordinary speed. Never was a big
man so fast Make him an end" said
the coaches. They did and such an end
as was never seen before or since.
The 6eerfoOt outer wing men OF the
other elevens. the famous sprinters. had
nothing or him for speed He could step
with any OF them. but IN addition 20 that,
his immense strength and the ferocity be
put into every play. enabled him 20 ac-
complish about three times what is ordi-
nariIy expected OF an end. He not only
got down the field lightning fast on kicks.
and pushed al the interference out OF the
way. but no matter how many men there
miEht be TO oppose him, he could get the
man wlth e'2e ball. too. And when On de-
tense. there were no end runners who
could get by him. no interference that
was so sood that he could be boxed of.
For his four years al college. Shevlin was
always voted unanimously by al the crit
ics. 10 be one OF the two Au-American
ends. Not many football players have
had this experience from their freshman
years 10 the finish OF their athletic ca
reers.
Shevlin is the son OF a Minneapolis
broker. His family is welI-known in the
West, and as they exact out in that part
OF the world that a man must be able
TO do something on HIS merits. Shevlin
already worth in his own right 100000.
decided that ne would hardly need to
Worry about things material. so he de-
oided to make an athletic reputation for
himself He had the physique and the
courage to start with. T-ns.afore he
would go 10 Yale. the hardest collesa in
the world for a football PLAYER 70 make
good, since 10 Il comes from an over the
country the pick OF the nations Rridiron
material.
But Shevlin wanted 70 be the hest NJ
nothing. Two resolves we're IN his mind
when he donned the moleskin- he wouI5
be captain Of the Yale eleven. and he
would lead his team 10 victory over
Princeton and Harvard Later he added
20 these two ambitions a third. Of a far
more tender nature. though the final OF
his three dreams did not come iii he had
already established his gTidiron reputs-
ton so securely that II can never disap-
pear from the annals He would wed the
BEAUTIFUL Miss Sherley- Then with wealth
health, success on the football field. and
this lovely daughter or the South FOR his
bride he would have all that man could
ask
Miss Sherley comes OF the Kentucky
elect She Is dark. both eyes and hair.
and the wealth OF croVning glory tops a
head and neck 70 merit the finest apprecl-
alton Of the most inspired OF poets. She
carries herself with the proud aristocracy
OF one OF those superb thoroughbreds OF
her own blue grass country. and in addi-
tion 10 the gifts that were native. she
has the others Of cultivation, for her
mother took her 10 Paris. and there al
the Convent OF the Sacred Heart she
gained the finishing touches. After that
she went 10 fashionable school in New
York, and made her debut into the So
cioty Of the Metropolis
Shevlln. at Yale. conveniently near.
found himself running down TO Gotham
once in q while 70 sec n show, and have
dinner with friends. and II was under
these conditions that he met Miss Sherley-
From that. time she became the most
ardent OF all Yale rooters. and the flag
OF blue she waved IN the big contests be-
came not only 10 Shevlin. but 10 the
whole eleven the banner that carried
them 10 deeds Of might and 70 victory.
Veterans or that eleven. as well as an
good sons OF Yale. welcome the termina-
ton OF that romance. for it would have
been crime to let the blue mascot 90 to
some one else.