The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-03
The Great Adventurer,

ne 0TcAt SuNcNtutu's
With all itA misery and death.
Its battered hills and shattered plains
with all It's drift Of poisoned breath,
Its Ashing gales. its sodden rains
We know--with all It's bleak despair,
with all its phantom exodus,
That omewhe re somewhere over Tnere
The Great Adventure beckons us.
We know In Flanders bloody sod
How deep they sleep in endless dreams;
We knov how many crosses nod
BY silent hills and shadowed streams
Rut through the ghoetly drifts that play
I'VE know, through hugle, ffx and drum,
That somewhere over There today
The Great>Advcnture Whispers Come"
We know the rare thanks We should feel
SO far from any foes advance,
Safe from the shrapnel and the steel
Which rains It's fury down on France;
But in our hentB We also know
" The old contents totever cones
Where on some fst dreams undertOw
The Great Adventure calls us on.
BY all the ghosts OF No Mans Land,
Through all its fury, fame and flood,
On through the anguish each must stand
In wallow drifts OF mud and blood,
On through whatevg hells may wait
With marching feet and rolling drum.
Beyond the NAL rip Of Fate
The Great Adventure whispers Conner
Co,gntes now has the $3.50 feeling. She
understands completely Just how Brown
felt about II eleven months ago, when
the ultimate verdict stood at 2S to 0.
In all this talk about tho prrponderance
OF Georgia Tech and Pittsburgn uich-
ignn would esteem polite word or two,
ANY machine that cnn rumple Nebraska
20 to is not to be left out of the days
gossip Not precisely In fact, by no
n,@Ans
Informal football as phrase poesi-
Ny means something Blu. just how
mech (ormallty have you ever observed
ir the average fooklall game? Or any
other sort Of football gPme, including
tho cheer leader and the rcferee7
Why Shouldn't They BEL
Probably the two best hackfield men
Of the yeu. suggests contemporary,
are Ollphant Of the army, and Guyon
~ Georgia Tech"
They probably are Why shouldn't
they bc7
This Is a season, In the main. of new
men. Most Of the old stars have gone
on, But Oiiphnnt and Guyon are foot
bah Veterans even beyond the extended
lluit Of the term
We happened very recently to be delV-
'He IN some football guides dealing with
gridiron events Of 1912 and 1918 In these
the Ail-AmcriCnn merit o. Ohphant of
P"rduc, aud Guyon uf Carlisle
And those were hack In the days when
star talent was pbOunding and plentiful
Figure in ali tho unusual experience
they have both drawn In these last four
or five years and the lack Of compet
tive talent, and the only wonder Is that
any others could be even close
Yet there are Rt least one or two who
ore willing to indulge tho hunch that
Struppcr NJ Tech. and Berry OF Penn.
are not very far away frum either vet
Gran, who might be known M the Wag-
ner and the LAjole OF football
Fittssimmons at his best miCht have
whipped Willard at his best Jess had
been willing to lend Bob the use OF his
Jawbone for moment or two Other
wise, no Az great n boxer and as hard
u hitter as Fitz was, snortlng Willard
lO2 pounds Is another affair
How dies II feel " queries a reader
80 play golf against man who plays
the last nine holes In 307' On. any
where from to Q down That's Aboi,
all
"Germdny still has punch left 81
pessimlZes an exchange Undoubtedly
But this Is no one runch" war