The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-09-10
BARBER JOE


Il hit the home trail just in time to
be one of the mourners that Iamped off
the Overwhelming uncalled-for thresh-
In that yellin' blood-thirsty Redskin
Willie Weller and his tribe give the
home bunch Sunday. 1t was plumb
pitiful. jumped up and turned
around in my seat and spit over my
shoulder till ! was groggy, but even al
that couldn't give 'em no luck. The
less any party says to me about that
game, the better I'll like it.
Il used to go in fer baseball and
boxin', forceful, and I'll still opins
that there's nothin' better'n a good
game or lively scrap; but maintain
that gink's duty is to branch out.
So believin', | started out last season
to get smatterin' of football educa-
tion done pretty well and learned
the difference between kick from
placement and game of pinochle. Also
got wise that all the casualties re-
sultin' from football come between
labor Day and Thanksgivin', inclusive.
"I'y splashed around in the last few
hours and learned considerable about
the prospects for the coming season.
When 1t comes to powers of deduction,
that's good word, too, me and Sher-
lock Holmes and Bill Burns is triplets.
have done some deductin stuff ana
have come to the conclusion that there
is nothin' in sight for the local grid
iron guys-except the state champion
ship. That's flat. I'm Johnnie ].
Wise to the fact that Old Sports As
sociation' has been cooked up here for
the purpose of helpin' the kids out.
Sorry that / didn't get my name down
on the dotted line first, but seein' |
couldn't, I'm pinin' for the chance to
climb into the band wagon and whang
the stuffin' out of the big drum, or get
out and hitch myself onto the end of
the tongue. Anything to help 'er
along.
Sorry to hear that Wallace got his
on one O. them devil wagons, mostly
called motorcycles, and that his bum
ankle will keep him out of the runnin'
this year. There amt but one thing
10 do though, and that's just go ahead
and beat every bloody team in the
state anyhow. If a gink's automobile
breaks down, he fixes it. Figerin' that
Wallace is one part to the Chickasha
machine and can't perform. just wire |
to the supply house and get new
part and there you are.
Sure it takes some coin to make
a winnin team and l hear the 'Old |
Sports are comm along with their
money rasin', promisin'- like. get 1t
tipped off to me that the next deei is
to be dance pulled for the benefit
of the fund. If you see the guy what's
5ellin' tickets for that hop, put him
wise to your old friend and tell him
that I'll buy tickets as long as the
bank roll lasts. After that I'll hook
the furniture.
The wise ones have piped 1t to me
hat besides quite smatterin' of the
Did gang, there is some promisin' II
about the size of a skinned
* that's booked for school this year.
There's no chance for the head boss,
hey call him the coach, believe, let
In them big huskies trail around and
lot come out for practice. / say it
would be criminal for the sports OF
his berg to let ton or SO OF good
ootball material dry up in its skin
md rattle around like a shriveled pea
n o blistered pod, just because it
axes few dollars to develop 'em into
ood football men.
y can't figure nothin' else but a
unch of beef out there that would do
redit to what them guys call the
iarsity, meanin' I calculate the foot
all ginks that plays on these, college
lubs. Whatever happens. I'll march 4
J the parade until I'm ham-strung and
ou can bet odds that I'm goin' to be
n the side lines this winter every +
me that referees whistle squeaks.
o long old horse and don't forget the 4
lmber.'