The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-11-06

cheeks and loosened tendrils apd flying ban
ners shrill chorused the Sophomore girls,
loyalty punched and mutually chaperoned.
A bold deed, this, and done out of great
exuberancc, a 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, hahl Boo!"-a retort crushing.
In the midst of this feminine exchange the
Freshman phalanx of fighters entered the
field. 1t numbered, as forcasted, sixteen
substitutes. Among his fellows Harold heard
the Freshman girls rejoinder to the Sophie
more girls crow, and recognized it because
Bright Eyes had very, very con6dentially (oh,
in delightful conhdenceD told him the plan.
He could not now distinguish Bright Eyes
voice, of course, but he felt certain that she
was there, dearest in the bevy of maids.
And he vas glad that she acas there,
escorted only by her kind He hated to pic
ture Bright Eyes conveyed by some chap,
even fraternity brother of Delta Phi Omi-
cron. The current of fraternity affection,
'twixt brother and brother, is always liable to
be short-circuited by Girl.
But he was given no opportunity, now to
look up and try to descry Bright Eyes; he
could only trust that she was deserving him.
For Heckie, important and busting, with a
cline up! Get to work, put them through
their PAGES.
The Freshman battle garb was not impos-
ing. Hughes, the center, wore ragged jer-
sey, tight high-water pants" of creamy
IL 81 Il,
fullback, wore baseball suit of proud high
school vintage-but already curiously con-
stricted. Graesley, who was German, wore
natty Turner gymnasium costume of gray
trousers, low rubber-soled shoes and gray
shirt with no sleeves Smith, half-back,
exhibited peg-top trousers which must have
been filched from his roommate or father, so
voluminous were they in length and breadth
and so markedly were they gathered in, by
tucks, at the waist. Lewis was unmistakable
in his pink undershirt 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
wonted stockinged feet with boots cut off 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, were
being put through their PAGES. Between
plays the Freshman squad cast furtive, esti-
mating glanees at the enemy, measuring his
formidableness.
Soon the whistle blew. Amidst exhorta-
tons of sEat 'em up, Freshest" go to it,
Sophs!" and a medley of whoops and cat-calls
and bells and hornsand cheers thegame was on.
A terrific battle it proved. High over the
field aoated the dust of conflict, agitated by
the fervor of combatants and non-combatants
alike. In the amphitheater and along the
side-lines the male spectators waxed hoarse
and hoarser. As for femininity, it waned to
merely the appearance of excitement. Sophie
more and Freshman maiden cheeks were still
flushed, Sophomore and Freshman Grant
tresses were more disheveled, Sophomore and
Freshman dainty banners fourished inces-
sanity, but those gleeful piping cheers, those
hen crows, grew faint, broken, and sank into
state of innecuous desuetude.
In the arena was blood, tatters, painting,
CRIME, short temper, perspiration, 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 trophy. Harder to
bear, his beloved suspenders, fair mark for
clutching hands, hung dangling and useless
behind. He muttered maledictions upon
such Ill treatment and wanton destruction,
and ever and anon apprized by friendly adj
vice he hitched at his jeans But he played
on. He was game, Lewis was.
Yes, in spite of the facts as narrated above,
and of the additional fact that all the substi-
tutes, on both sides, had been summoned into
the fray, now with the second half well along,
there yet was no score!
Between halves Heckie had feelingly talked
to his squad, the members squatting around
him, Indian fashion, tried warriors all, by
deed and rags, while over the field pranced
Freshman and Sophomore adherents, in cake
walk and serpentine parade; eventually,
egged on by the Laws and Medics, to mingle
IN splendid, care-free, banner-rending, hat
smashing, cap-stealing, even nose-punching
scrap"