Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-06
STATISTICS BREEzEs IN
OLD MAN PICKS SPIDERS
AS PROBABLE CHAMPIONS
Hints Carolina Money VIII he Plenti-
full In Spite OF TrohibitiOn-Techs
VIII MIKE Virginia sertions.

The door OF the sporting room swung
open before gust Of air and "we-all"
looked up TO see Old Man Statistics
standing in our midst. The wind had
blown him In.
Gimme" says the old fellow, ex-
tending fingers that had become
crampcd and knarled from pencil push
ing.
'WEatchuno?" we Qucried AS we ex-
tended our twist OF Sailors Delight.
. Old Man Statistics squintcd at us
from over his horn glasses and winked.
Some dope furnished up Saturday. eli.
son." he remarked. Let's see" and
he drew forth his ell-thumbed sheep
skin book.
Cant offer much out of the ordinary
there. can /? 1t did pear AS tho the
Jackets 'ud make Il stab at that game
Tor time. tho. But when Cogbill
managed TO get his'n and there WAS too
much of Ut. they jest as we'll as have
been facing Big Berthas those
singing Spiders. How much'ud YOU
VIM"
We admitted that we had kept our
wallet out of sight after peeping at
the Jackets in practice couple of
times.
Better pick up something to meet
the high price OF coal this winter" OBJ
served the old fellow. and lay few
bucks on the Spiders for the cham
pieenship. What with Cogbill and
Thurman out Of the game for some
time. that DobSNn crowd has got one
powerful good chance
Virginia huh. Want that a power
full drubbin' those Crimson subs gave
the Charlottesville crowd? And that
on the same day the Techs was abeatin'
Carolina It's beginning TO look might
ly Ike the Tarhccls liz booked for q
sweet revenge this Tsanksgivin' Day.
And II they do lick Virginia. listen to
the Blacksburg lads then,
They sho will allow as how 1t has
been proved they have better foot
ball team than Virginia for one season
anyway. Course that 'ud be Somethin'
new in the way Of a claim. but you je st
listen. An what's more, they'll come
powerfully near havin' the figgers on
the university boys. TOO. That coal ac-
count could bn helped considerably with
couple Of iron wheels on the Tar
heels. too. It looks TO muh
say. son, ut kinder pears that we
Will have something of n real fracas
here Saturday. don't vt? IF the rub
bers and the coacher fellows get those
V. NJ. ]. men into shape again, they
are goin' TO give the Clemson crowd
some interesting moments, mer-
chant shippers observe when they sets
their sails for submarine. My nrgers
Indicate Clemson has the odds, but
ana the old man Strokcd the stray
hairs on the top OF his Uranium ms
though he doubted even his own rec
ords.
Likewise, Washington and Lee will
likely furnish your listeners some
lively entertainments when they runs
up against that Washington and Jcf-
ferson team Saturday week Tha
set of Generals shur did hand the flu
ture admirals one package. They have
got powerful good team this season,
and cf they can battle forward .passin'
ne we'll as they meet the terra tirma
attacks, they are goin' TO give my
friend Sol NetZger and his crowd "A
(. hot tussle. Sol and his team didn't
play Saturday because the game was
cancelled. 1t was jest a practice af-
fair anyway. so II didn't matter.
"Now. ef you warta take some long
shots" and Old Man Statistics purred
through hi; figures carefully. you
might lay n. couple OF wheels on the
John Marshall High School crowd
against William an Mary"
But which way?" We demanded.
which team to VIM
"Ch!' and Statistics grinned at us.
that's fer you ter decide
The old fellow was getting tocu!ar,
comes bore. so We decided to get
rid OF him.
We reached up and grabbed the
switch controlling the electric fan that
Is always kept Just above the sporting
EDITORS desk TO cool his temper Be-
fore we remembered that Old Man
statistics nad not returned ou.' twist
or Sailors Delight. we turned on the
current and blew him on his wav