The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-11-27
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On meWOFJb wall
tW'h apolOg cs II YOU insist Il
~ All the horrible pictures
That hang on memorys wall
IL one Of a football battle
That Seemeth the worst OF all:
Not for the money wnSted.
Counting the kalc IL cost.
Not that bleak gale whstled.
Not that the wrong team lost;
Not That the quarter fumblet
-Four punts while | madly curAqd.
Nor the tackles fivered and foundered.
II seemcth TO me the worst
/ once had little sweetheart
with eyes that were deep and dark;
Unto that game | took her.
Into that football park:
Fleet as the winds Of morning
The hnlfbacks rushed the ball:
Loud as the roar OF trumpcts
Echoed the cheering cRll:
And | heard my heart beat loudly
M tackler hurled one fiat
When the dame Of my fancy murmured
Say. look at that woman's hat
Swiftly the ullback dartod.
Bringing the ticng score;
Wildly the crowd up.started
Yclping n gladsomc roar;
Softly there came the whisper,
Poured In my throbblng ear:
Why Is that poo, man running
lH'l'lNl's VI hu wv IINAhlFr
Thet hang on memorys wall
/ That one ~ football battle,
II seemeth the worst OF all.
Word comes from McGraw that the
Giants won't trade Fletcher for Horns
by. Word follows from st Lotus that
the Cardinals won't trade Hornsby for
Fletcher What could be falrer1
Beating Colgate.
AN that Brown needs now for n
| championship season" advises one
writer, IS victory over Colgate"
The opinion seems to be widespread
| that Brown win accomplish this result.
| But II IN by no means the foregone cinCh
that most sidcnors believe Il to be.
Admitting Browns unusual strength,
| n In just ns well 10 remember that Coll
gate also has n fine team this year
one " the hes, In the east Two Of the
best football Judges that we know of
told us after the Yale-Colgato game.
which Yale won that Colgate Was at
/ lcas, two touChdowns better than Yale,
despite the result
The Colgate array overlooked num-
ber " chances against Yale II may not
overlook ~ many against Brown.
Aud with things breaking gently In
| her favor Colgate has the stuff TO beat
any eleven In tho land
Brown has conquered both Yale and
| Harvard. But Brown still has her hard
est game to play
Penn start, Also.
! pennNlvBnle, under Rob Folwcn.
hasn't come back TO her old days OF re-
| nown
nut Penn has started. and, with Fol-
! well In charge, hy another wear or 80
! tho Red and Blue should resume whcrd
| n left off some years ago when its
| coaching system went 10 smash
! Folwcll has proved 10 be the man that
! Penn needs He has already beaton
! Penn State and Michigan IL he can
head of Cornell his record viii be a
notable one,
! In Spite of Which,
| The cost " living hooms apace--
Expense In piled upon expenses
| Each day We run n dizzy race
Across llfes high financial fences.
! Old High Cos, sonks n lot Of us
| Where living prices ne'cr diminish.
But you can bet the moa, of Ne
VIII swing on grlmy 10 the finish,
Ths Cos, OF. Living s-day by 1ssy
The howl runs high and aver higher:
! Thcy soak us every blooming way
| Until the outlook gtowe,h direI
| We wall because llfc'a bleak and drear,
And. yet while troubles hurt and
fret va,
We srIp our toes In thl. old spher,
And stlck-until they como and get us
/
| A football championship season lasts
sls weeks. A Holf championship lAsts n
week. tennis championship lasts only
| ten days a baseball championship that
lasts SIN three months each, with q
semi final play-oif at the finish three
months each. with n seml.fnal play or
at the finish before world perlos
would bolster up general interest ~ per
cent
| The All American tidal wave In about
ready to break Duck from under while
you can.