The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15

HNm REAT sp1otches of blue hecked the east
 ~ of the stadium Like patches of living
 NH blood, solid of crimson the
 west seemed ready blur or to blot the
 5. $ #@ SNW few modest corn-fowers that had strayed H6S6h there. The massive stadium hang M3H# ing garden of human color. The sur H2G&H mounting curves of co1onnades gave the
 H@& only touch of impersona1 dignity in the [tV reverberatng excitement that preceded the 1a@lH@ historic struggle These columns of Dorc
 <D&a effect seemed the imaginative eye em-
 @s9 blenatc of that innate and eternal lust
 for violence which in the Casarian age
 heralded by bloody proclamatons, and in is concealed under the mask of sport
 On the side of the Blue couple sat in the cheering section Above and below them the frantic mob of undergraduates howed in drilled unison negaphonic leadership When the band played "Boola Boo1a," and the stirring refrain taken up by ten thousand throats, it seemed if the volume of sound would irresistibly blast the crimson wall opposite.
 Mrs. Alexander Penwith Her face was flushed a girls. Her eyes fixed, almost eata- leptc. Her features rigid She in the grip of martial emotion which she felt she must control die At the age of fortyseven, she had the figure of amazon and the hard flesh of professional athlete.
 This army girl born in the Civil War the daughter of general had been reared in camps had been brought up hoqses and had made god of exercise In moment of passion she had married a sober civilian. The tempest of feeling had been replaced by the serenity of abiding love Alexander Penwith military hero, but he less conqueror by reason of his tireless tenderness and unerring intuition. To his placdity the volcano gradually yielded And when Alexander junior went to college there only and then outburst of white steam
 was in their only child that of hers, that Mrs. Penwith living again the almost forgotten military days of her childhood, just as in that of his the father trying to recast his college life of tnirty-ive years ago.
 In the b1ackness of the night when he awak- ened by the clangor of the hrebells Alexander Penwith would wonder at the alien and heroic qualities of his own son. Whence that torso? That heshless weight? Those cable muscles? That undauted determination? That impersonal ferocity? That canine itheness? That untanted discpline7 That phenomenal popu- lary? "The best a1l-around in college" the popular cry It honor to be the boys father
 All at the antiphonic cheering amalgamated into hoarse Forty thousand spectators arose to their feet to greet the athletes they loped into the What giants How light of stepl How fleet of footl How grim of jawI Neither King Arthur William the Conqueror had such knights these. No of the olden days forged to Whether it be ousting football, each century the form of grows nobler. We have gained six inches In stature in the last four hundred years
 Each heart, like each college, has its hero In the few minutes practice that preceded the referees whistle there doubt about the worship that edu gated brawn commands In the of Captain Nor gan of the Blue, his repeated three times like three snaps of whip at the end of long cheer, like the starting pistol metlesome trotter. But this peer of all kcers this plunger feared by all op ponets only frightened his lips into grim smile. He
  softo insults, sM6 spiking, dark "smearing.' Not whit behind him in defensive tack ling and offensive plungng in brilliant and quick witted courage was Captain Cabot of Harvard, the giant and smiling tackle of the Crimson squad. Op posed to each other in sped and power the two af-bacsBates of the one, and Penwith of the other college But no one doubted who the better As supplement to Morgan, Penwith was the trainers ideal. The eyes of his university of the whole foot bail world were upon him. Ills opponents feared him than any other
 Penwitf had burst of speed combined with dodg- ing instinct phenomenal in so heavy Moreover he certain catcher. In whole of kicking he only muffed punt But beyond and above all else that which would have distinguished a sity player, he had the quality and power of being able tackle and bring down a of any weight speed. Nor did he fail in any game to make that transferred the play his opponents goal, and give his team chance to score He dangerous cool, couchant irtesist- ibe; he the acknowledged star of the first magni- was sure candidate for Walter Camps final Al-Amer- ica football eleven.
 } "Penvvit1L Penwthl PeszUitES!?I" Why, the name itself carried with it victorious swing that insured a certain triumph He three grouped into one He was no ha1f-bacl made to order by patient coaches He was created fill that position. That is what football said.
 But hfs mother knew. She thought she all woman yet she ought have been born man, her son as He represented militant soul in the most strenuous of athletic achievements Tn her veins coursed vaor which in her transmitted into ntrepidlty Her natrue was that comrnand his of courageous obedience Both military virtues of the highest quality Neither could spell the word "fear.' She o1oried In his nerve he rejoiced in her compre- 4,enson of his athletic prowess. Her natural audacty had in him through years of training been transformed l:,~of;rad daring that terrifyinp He tackled