The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-04
THE ABORIGINES

Somehow this college gridiron game don't seem to me to be the same since Carlis1e's reds have drop ped football - no, it don't seem the same at all.
 I always rooted for them ducks; they surely played the game-them bucks; the way they trimmed the paleface guys was sure sight to cure sore eyes.
 The Great White Father has de- creed that good tame Injuns are the need to make the redskin toll and think, and so football is on the blink
 And though it makes him very sad Poor Lo obeys his Great White Dad; but honors still as heroes bold the plucky gridiron braves of old.
 Yep, at their best they were some team-believe me, Bo, that ain't no dream; fast as the wind and full of tricks that made opponents look like hicks. :
 At running they were mighty fleet, but used their beans as we'll as feet; anad many the schemes they put through that made the paleface boys feel blue.
 Daring and brave and bold and fast, game as a bulldog to the last, cunning and full of vile and guile such was the bucks of old Carlisle. If that $163,O0O worlds series mel on had been distributed among play CTS of thirty years ago, a few days or weeks later the athletes could have been seen beating their way home on the roads.
 It is reported that several umpires visited Bayonne during the strike in order to accustom themselves grad ually to a quiet, peaceful existence. All of the big league parks now seem comparatively quiet and desert ed and melancholy, except Shibe Park where the attendance continues about the same as it was in September. That robber who held up a golf caddie certainly has rotten idea of the ethics of his profession, which de- mands that a highwayman keep to his own side of the street and re- frain from putting into a brothers ter ritory.
 According to the latest reports, the Dodgers haven't cracked under the strain of having so much money. All of the clubs in the Western league are said to have made money this year, except seven. Salt Lake City wants Larry La
 joie as manager, but if Mrs. Lajoie is wise she'll never let d handsome, dashing, fascinating young fella like Nap go to Utah.
 The various pugilistic promoters who were so anxious to get Madison Square Garden in New York prob ably wanted to raise a crop of lem ons.
 "Everybody can't be happy" says Bugs Baer somebody has to live in Cincinnati" See no necessity. Sev- eral lines of railways lead out of Cinn- cy, and, then, there is always the river.
 Grouchy Gus says: ''The man who invented basketball was in all other respects respectable and decent citi- gen.
 English and German soldiers in an- cient times used to play football with heads of captured enemies. Only time heads ever figured in the game. As long as alienists and hot stove league fans are permitted to roam at large, I can't see any excuse for sending anybody to an asylum for nuts.
 An optimist is a fellow who says that the baseball season is over, and a pessimist is a guy who says the 1917 baseball season will soon begin Football rules say that it is desir- able for a gridiron umpire to have a horn, but I notice they don't say any, thing about brains.
 Since that Oklahoma Methodist col lege eleven was defeated by nor mal school team 183 to o, it is under stood that the college authorities have recommended crokinole and authors" as desirable sports.
 The venerable Packey Mcfarland, who was pugilist in his early man.
 hood, is finding golf a pleasant pas time for his declining years. The old timer passed his twenty eighth mile- stone few days ago. Most of the big league players are 1 now back in the "bIshes" where they originated, and the Athletics have also returned to their homes.
  Improvements involving an expendi- t1lre of S4 Q0Q QQQ have hnar,