Mexico Missouri message., 1916-01-27
BEATS HANNIBAL.
Hardin Gymnasium Crowded
Big Demonstration The Victory.
By Frank Houston.

Oh the HannlDal- McMlllan game sat
urday night brought the home boys
score up to where it quadrupled the
number of points made by Hannibal.
The final score was coils. Though
one-sided, the game was snappy
and interesting scrap. The Bulldogs
had the Hannibal aggregation bested
at all times and kept the ball in NC
Milln territory during most of the
game. Our fast team work kept Han
nibal at our mercy.
Johnny" Kistler and doc" Rodes
we're McMillan's stars. "Bill" Atchi-
son also played fine game and
"Keathy" and High" Cunningham
as usual, put up good fight, Kist-
Ter was veritable streak of light
inng and his goal shooting was won
derful. Rodes was as 1.-THE and as
full of fight as a young panther and
was always on the job. Atchison's
work was the best he had done this
year. His playing was fast and furi-
Gus. Sam Locke was put in to re-
place Kisler toward the last. Robert
Campbell refereed the game.
The Hardin gym was crowded with
spectators. Nearly every student in
Mcmillan was there and the enthusl-
asm and school spirit displayed was
greater than ever before. A big
crowd of outsiders also attended the
game. This was the first experience
with basketball of a great many Nc
MILAN patrons,
After the game the boys, wild with
joy over this great victory, donned
their nightshirts, and, forming long
snake-like procession, pulled Hanni-
balls coffin, elevated on black
hearse, to town and on every corner
made the town ring with their Nc
MILAN yells. After their voices were
gone and they could yell no longer,
they honored Manager Shirley
Thompson with their presence at his
Orpheam Theatre
The two teams celebrated the vic
tory in an entirely different way. The
visitors feasted in the company of
McMillan's fairest at Buckner's. The
Hannibal boys say this was the
most enjoyable part of their visit.
The mass meeting that preceded
the game in the afternoon was near
ly as exciting as the game itself. Our
efforts would have made a good
showing beside the famous Kansas
mass meetings held at the University
before each Kansas game according
to some who are in position to know.
Amid a volley of revolver shots an
effigy of Hannibal fell from the top
of the stage and the meeting was on,
The sophomore class then performed
funeral ceremonies over the mangled
body, Six solemn bearers carried it in
most realistic coffin made by mem
bers of the manual training class
Hannibal was laid gently in the box
and slow procession of girls in wild
owls weeds and boys in deep crepe
entered sobbing and placed beauti-
full floral offerings on the casket,
The peps of the different schools de-
feated byMcMillan this season then
made their appearance. First came
Hannibal pep in dropping array
of black and close beside her plodded
sad Jefferson City pep in convict's
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typical Pike County outfit next made
his pitiful entrance. Alumni pep
wearing long white whiskers and
leaning rheumatically on cane hob
bled in with Fayette's pep, dressed as
the Fayette yell leader. Mcmillan
pep, one Of the sophomore's most
; attractive girls, all "dolled up" in
crimson and gray, vnded the stunt.
, The revY Mr.. Garrett, with true
shuIlenberger air, preached the ser
mon. With weeping and chanting the
} casket was removed, Then the make
: believe mourners showed their true
: characters and drying false tears
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