The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-10-23

not especially nOtlced was that the at
traction for them seemed to lie not in
the honor men, but in the stalwarts of
the football team.
The truth is that the joke attending
the proposed game with the girls was
overshadowed by a more serious mat
ter. The annual game between West
moreland and Pompton was to come
off on Thanksgiving day. AS to the
game with the girls on the following
Saturday, no one believed it would
take place, or, if it did, it would be a
sham game intended for a sort of So
cial function. A couple of weeks be-
fore Thanksgiving Captain Ashton of
the Westmoreland university team be-
gan to have trouble with his men.
Several of those he most relied on be-
came very lax In their training, and not
a practice game was played but one or
more men were absent. The captain
stormed and threatened and vowed he
would resign, but to no effect The IT.
regularities grew instead of decreasing
until during the last week before the
great game the condition of the team
approached Generalization.
Ashton questioned the big fellows
as to what was drawing them, but re-
ceived no satisfaction. His best man.
Tomkins, suddenly cast the captain
into the depths of despair by acct
dentally shooting himself in the foot
while cleaning his revolver and thus
rendering himself unfit to take his
part In the annual game Wharton,
another good man, was called home
the day before Thanksgiving by tele-
gram announcing that he was wanted
there Immediately. He did not return
till the beginning of the next week.
1t was only two days before the
game that an incident occurred which
cast faint light on what was the
matter with the Westmoreland team.
Skulpins, who was relied on to do the
punting, while his team was out for
practice was seen walking on a by
lane with Beatrice Wheaton, one of
the prettiest girls in the woman's col
lege. The fact was reported to Ash
ton, who began to 'see through a m. IL
stone" But it was too late. His
team was obliged to go into the game
with PomptOn shorn of several of its
best men and with others whose non
attendance upon practice had untitled
them for their parts. 1t subsequently
leaked out that no less than seven
of them had the evening before been
sumptuously entertained by young la
dies Of the woman's college. The re-
suit was that at the match game the
score at the close stood: Pompton, "a;
Westmoreland, 0.
This defeat of the Westmorelanders
seemed to be especially gratifying to
the goods. They were observed con-
graduating each other, and the defeat
was celebrated by spreads given In
several of the girls rooms. Four men
who had been attentive to four differ
ent girls left college on Thanksgiving
night, and three out of the four never
returned. 1t was rumored that they
had made propositions of marriage and
been rejected.
On Friday, the day after Thanksgiv-
ing, the captain of the woman's team
wrote a note to the captain Of the
Westmorelands asking some question
pertaining to the game to come of on
the morrow. The messenger, returning.
announced that the captains room was
locked and bolted. Messengers sent to
other members of the team failed to
find any one Of them. Not a man Jack
Of them was left in town.
On Saturday evening a notice was
posted on the college bulletin board.
signed by the captain of the woman's
team, claiming the game to have been
played that afternoon, since the mems
team had run away.
The girls scheme of revenge was out,
and to no one was 1t palmer in all its
details than to Captain Ashton. The
triumph Of heart over muscle had been
complete. Miss Horizons management
had been eminently efficient. She had
set the most intellectual girl after the
prizes, placed the most muscular on
her team. while for the breaking down
Of the athletes she had brought up her
corps of beauty, before which their
hearts collapsed like burst football.
The class Of 1916 was the last WON
ans class to be graduated at West
moreland, and the men students swore
great oath that there should never be
another