The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-11


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mosphere reverberated with defiant cries far
flung from faction to faction. While
"'Rah, 'rah, 'rahl 'Rah, 'rah 'rahl 'Rah,
'rah, 'rahl Nineteen Levenl" with flushed
cheeks and loosened tendrs and flying ban
ners shnll chorused the Sophomore girls,
Loyalty punched and mutually chaperoned.
A bold deed, this, and done out Of great
exuberance, hen crow. And instantly,
answering the challenge, crowed back the
Freshman girls also loyalty punched, with
flushing cheeks and flashing eyes and banners
waving: "Hah, hah, hah Hah, hah, hah,
Hah, hah, hah Bool"a retort crushing.
In the midst Of this feminine exchange the
Freshman phalanx Of fighters entered the
field. II numbered, as forcasted sixteen
for every candidate had made the team and
substitutes Among his fellows Harold i ard
the Freshman girls rejoinder TO the Sopho-
more girls crow, and recognized il because
Bright Eyes had very, very con6dentially (oh,
in delightful con6dcnceD told him the plan
He could not now distinguish Bright Eyes
voice, OF course, but he ielt certain that she
was there, dearest in the beyy Of maids.
And he was lad that she ads there,
escorted only by ler kind He hated 10 pic
ture Bright Eyes conveyed by some chap.
even fraternity brother OF Delta Phi Omi-
cron. The current Of fraternity affection,
'twiyt brother and brother, is always liable 10
be short-circuited BY Girl.
But he was given no opportunity, now, 10
look up and try to descy Bright Eyes; he
could only trust that she was deserving him.
For Heckie, important and busting, with
"Line up Get 10 work, " put them through
their PAGES.
The Freshman battle garb was not impos-
ing. Hughes, the center, wore a ragged jer
scy, tight high-water pants Of creamy
shade, and low tennis shoes. Jenkins, the
iulIback wore baseball suit OF proud high
school vintage but already curiously con-
stricted Graesley, who was German, wore 4
natty Turner gymnasium costume Of gray
trousers. low rubber. soled shoes and gray
shirt with no sleeves Smith, hall back,
exhibited peg top trousers which must have
been iilChed from his room mate or father, ~
roluminous were they in length and breadth
and 80 markedly were they gathered in, by
tucks, 4. the waist Lewis was unmisakable
in his pink undershrt and suspenders, and in
Difference TO the warning that the opposing
tackle would doubtless be mean enough to
tread upon his Toes he had protected his
wonled siockinged feet with boots cut oil at
the ankle
Harold, in old cadet trousers, baseball
shoes and outing shirt, hoped that when the
gaze of Bright Eyes singled him out he would
appeal to her as the superior OF his associates
The Sophs had arrived, and they, too, we're
being put through their PAGES. Between
plays the Freshman squad cast furtive, esti
mating glances at the enemy, measuring his
formidabIeness.
Soon the whistle blew Amidst exhorta-
tons OF Eat 'em up, Frcshies" Go 10 it,
Sophsl and a medley OF whoops and cat-calls
and bells and hornsand cheers the game was on
A terrific battle il proved. High over the
field foated the dust Of conflict agitated by
the fervor OF combatants and non-comba;ants
alike In the amphtheater and along the
side.lnes the male spectators waxed hoarse
and hoarser As for femininity, il waned TO
merely the appearance Of excitement. Sopho
more and Freshman maiden cheeks were still
flushed Sophomore and Freshman errant
trcsses were more dishevcled, Sophomore and
Freshman dainty banners fourished inces-
santly, but those gleeful piping cheers, those
hen crows, grew faint, broken, and sank into
state OF innocuous desuetude.
In the arena was blood, tatters, painting,
Crime, short temper, perspiraton, ever more
and more prevalent.
But no score.
Harold lost sleeve Of his shirt. Lewis lost
one of his cutoff boots, which rescued from
amidst the melee and tossed aside, gaily circu-
lated among the Sophomore and Law contin-
gent Of the spectators as a trophy. Harder to
bear, his beloved suspenders, fair mark for
elutching hands, hung dangling and useless
behind. He muttered maledictions upon
such i'll treatment and wanton destruction,
and ever and anon apprized by friendly adj
vice he hitched at bis jeans. But he played
on. He was game, Lewis VAS
Yes in spite Of the facts as narrated above,
and Of the additional fact that all the substi-
tuies, on both sides, had been summoned into
the fray, now with the second half well along,
there vet was no score
Between halves Heckie had feelingly talked
70 his squad, the members squatting around
him, Indian fashion. tried warriors ALL by
deed and rags, while over the field praneed
Freshman and sophomore adherents, in cake
walk and serIentine parade eyentlallY,
egged on by Inc Laws and Medies, to.mingle
IN splendid, careiree, baptIeffrending haf
smashing, cap stealing, ever nos punching
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