The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-06-13

Looking For
4 Hero i,

Mary Mastin was going 10 see TIT
great football game between the home
university and the Wisteria univer
sity. Her brother was a Wist eri;
alumnus of both the college of art!
and the college of law. Being a 70
mantle and ingenious young person o
49, Mary had informed Jim that she
was sure going to fall in love witt
some football hero.
THE handsome Greek god, who, wher
all seems lost, saves the day for ole
Wisteria or the slender boy whom
the rest thought too light for the
game who gets around the end and
scores for old Illigan. and when he
doesn't rise where he fell in making
the touchdown they find he has been
playing the last quarter with broken
rib-oh, shall fall in love with some
one of them" said Mary, with dane
I Ing eyes.
"Rosh . said Jim, stolidly "There
were no handsome Greek gods on any
team | ever saw"
"Well, there'll be one hero, certain
ly, and when he's carried off the field.
suffering terribly but not a word of
complaint escaping his lips,and I'll send
him some flowers and he'll bury his
face in them, tears starting from his
eyes"
"As the girls do in those fierce
yards purporting to be college stories.
To my notion a football game affords
about as much chance for a real story
as a game of chess" declared jim. Il
never read a football story that wasn't
punk. Hi look at that now"
The visiting contingent of Wisteria
undergraduates LOO strong, headed
by their band, was progressing around
the track that encircled the gridiron,
in an astonishing choragic dance It
was at once a cake walk minuet and
gigantic quadrille With their steps
in ordered rhythm, their hands bran
dished aloft in triumphant gestures in
unison with the cadence of their high
lifted feet, they wound in and out.
Why, it's charming. No, it's awe
inspiringl" exclaimed the girl, look
ing through her field glass. Who's
that leading them? Isn't he hand
some?"
That's Bill Howard, the hottest
alumni rooter of them all"
And look at those people i nthe
box down there How excited they
arel Alumni and their wives, of
course. Isn't it fine to see the alum
nj so enthusiastic and loyal"
Alumni nothing" growled jim
That's bunch of brokers with big
bets on the game probably on the Wis
iting team, for fellows like that
would be likely to back a university
outside their own state"
Suddenly there burst forth from
the bleachers where Wisteria students
were massed a huge roar of inartcu-
late, mindless sound. The Wisteria
team had hulked out on the field All
possible comliness of face and form
was hidden by the ungainly garb, so
Mary hardly looked at the players.
Her glass swept the line of yellmas-
tiers, picturesque, well tailored slim
youths, gay with ribbons, waving pen
nants in a frenzy.
"That one in the middle is such a
dear" she said
That's Red Robertson, said JIM
"He roomed with me when he was a
freshman and l a senior law. He's
the head yellmaster'
Does ne ever play?"
play? He's too pretty to play. A
man who ties necktie the way he
does wouldn't play. He hasn't the
beef, anyway"
Hes awfully graceful, and so quick.
know he could play if he want
ed to-
Illigan won. 1t didn't matter much
to Mary, for Red Robertson at the
close of the game had sought them
out, anxious to see jim, though he
hardly noticed Jim after he had been
presented to Mary He steered her
through the multitude. Some foot
oall men passed. They moved heay-
ly, awkwardly Quick enough on
he field in action, they seemed cut /
If their element now, like crabs on
and
'Hackaday is bowlegged in his
arms as well as in his legs, isn't hep T
'aid Jim. Good payer. though.
Nhere'd they get him?"
Bill Hands, 90, when he was up
uniting two years ago, saw him pol
ng logs in the river, and got him
Town here explained Robertson
Bill is the man who got Dixie, too
Dixie was driving a cab in Denver. A
orking good alumnus, is Bill"
What Do colleges still hire pro-
esional players?" asked Mary
mo. But there are still organiza-
ions called Alumni Students Aid as
ociations that loan money to men
yhom they want to see get college
ducation and the men they want to
ee DO that are liable to be fine
thletes."
Are there no football heroes?" de
handed Mary. mo boys who weep
yer the defeat of their team? Nobody
Dr. me TO give my roses to for him to
leep into?"