The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-20
NOTES Of
THE CLASH
It was a dark and gloomy night


II was a dark and gloomy night
Davenport had four men on the
team who can do the 100 in 10 fat
The visitors had some good drop
kickers along, but never used them.
PRO" football has come to say In
Hammond. You can put that in your
diary.
'NClink'' Meyers should change his
brand of chewing tobacco. Better luck
next time 'Clink."
Passing Show saw the game and
sobbed aloud. but there wasn't q wet
eye in the house.
Fully two thousand people saw the
game but the box Office receipts didn' I
show 1t by jug full
The only times that Hammond has
had a band this year she has lost
Moral: why the band?"
Paul Parduhn covered center field
q
kid who crawIed in under the tent.
| Among the ardent Clabby fans :
Peter Crumpacker. If Pete had only
got out an injunction after the first
| touchdown.
Flappy Monnett had taken four
boxes of throat lozenges just for the
occas sion and did some plain and fancy
yell-leading.
What the Davies did to some OF
those forward passes was agonizing.
1t was heartbreaking. 1t was what
Sherman said war is.
Every paper in Davenport sent
man along with the team to cover the
game and they passed many compli-
ments about Hammond
IF the Davenport fans had brought
something else besides carfare with
them. they could have taken home
lot OF Christmas money.
The Clabbys gained three yards to
the Iowa's nix in straight football and
the ball was in Iowas territory for
nine tenths OF the game.
The pee-rade before the doings was
a spectacular affair and made Ham
mond's loop look like the heart OF a
college town for few minutes.
Davenports back field was fast as
chained lightning and it was 10 to
among the knowing that it would be
all day if those backs got loose.
The Davenport RIOTERS Association
brought along fancy lot of yells
which they unbottled during the game
and before it-prlncipally before it.
lone freight car on the NJ q
switch gave a lot Of panhandlers a
good chance to see the game free.
Must be republicans" one cruel wag
said.
One OF the high lights of the game
was the smoke the Iowans brought
along as a trainer. He has had some
experience at getting out of melon
patches.
Ivy Chsyken the W. k sporting i'm
pressario had the long end of a 500
SIG bet with Davenport fan and
will feed press very fast this week
to catch UP.
In six trials with the pigskin CAL
vim carried the ball so yards and
should have been allowed to make his
own touchdown for he had never fail
ed to make his distance.
Sternberg of Indiana Harbor didn't
have the opportunity to gain yester-
day as ne did week ago The fact
Davenport ends boxed up the plays
before Sternie could get away.
John Finn. the human creased pig.
never shone to better advantage. He
was never stopped once without max
ing a gain, and his elusiveness was
remarkable. There was no stopping
him.
The management should provide a !
wider exit for the crowd. Several peo-
pie were jamned in the crush going
out and one lady was slightly hurt.
This should be taken care of before
the next game.
Hammond's tendency TO tumble was
fatal. 1t cost the boys hard game
and a magnificent game. The score
should have been 10 to 0 in. favor of
Hammond That was the relative
strength Of the two teams.
Frank Hitchcock, exalted ruler Of
section in the grandstand never
lost faith in the Clabbys ability TO
win the game even with the black
cloud of a 1910 score and tumble.
and hoped that miracle would han
pen at the last moment.
Those who saw the Fort Wayne
game are emphatic in their assertion
that if Hammond could only meet the
Friars again the latter would be wip-
ed off the football map. Hammond
believes it has the professional foot
bali championship Of Indiana despite
the F'riars' technical victory.
Before she lined up for the kick the
game was called with the two point
margin in Davenport's favor.
The Clabby fans sent Melvin Mon