The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
A Game Of Fight. Fight. right

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A Game Of Fight. Fight. Right
l.alwHys like to zee that Army
Navy game. There's never n second
In IL when eitbor team sags In oven
the most momcntary ndmlssion OF
pending defeat. Its "f!ghl-nght-
tight all the way. just Ike tho
chant OF the rooters. The badge OF
courage is always fluttcring where
Army and Navy play
That last three minutes. for In
stance. In the recent game, when
the Army team, battling for long
hour, In mud, ankle deep. against
a foe that had the edge In tcamplay
and brilliant individual ground gain.
Ing runs made It's last furious at
tack ah5 came within few yards
OF reaching the Navy goal line.
Every man on both teams was
mud plastercd from head TO foot,
40 that the field seemed in tho pos
session OF twisting, tumhline mass
OF black warriors. indistinguishRble
one from another except for the po-
sitions they leaped TO as each new
play started.
The Army had not been able to
make ground against the Nays
strong defense For 81 minutes n
/ had not made first down. But II
never stopped trying.
/ Suddenly French broke through.
eVaded one tacklor after another,
and ran so yards through the mud
before Noyes cut him down, 22 yards
/ from the Navy goal line. Then.
driving turiously, the Army crashed
nlonR TO the S-yard line. where the
| Navy held the first fresh attack.
/ Came a forward pass--and leap
| Ing mud -smeared Navy back inter-
cepted the ball and turned back the
/ fighting Army team until the whistle
blew.
Courage the Main tcquIsite.
The muddy badge Of courage
might have been pinned on every
man of both teams. There wasn't
a moment OF weakening by any man
In the long, hard struggle It's al
ways that way Courage, above all
4 other things. is the demand OF the
game AZ West Point and Annapolis.
Tho same may be said Of every
college team, although IN ability
to fight losing battlo 10 the last
second OF play, without for an in
stant showing sign OF discourage
nent or weakness, Army and Navy
are supreme.
was talking this over with Tad
Jones Of Yale
"They always fight ovcry step Of
tho way" said Tad That's why
some people say they don't play az
clever a game Of football as some
Of the colleges do They play
mighty good football. But the clov-
crest attack In the world may not
make much of "A showing when It
goes against a fighting defense.
These Army and Navy teams. on the
defensive, line up Ike lot OF Wild
cats, ripping tearing, clawine.
IF they can't get an arm or leg"
said Jones, grinuing, they'll take
an ear. That's the spirit those boys
have"
ITS the spirit that sDimRtcd Ser
geant Woodflll, 4. $. A., when his
ammunition ran low In battle in
France, and he cleaned out the last
German machine gun nest by charg-
Ing into II with pickaxe. The Red
Badge Of Courage! He had IL!
I've often beer asked who was the
gamcst man / ever raw IN the ring
That's IA question impossible TO an
swer, because after all a majority
OF men are game. Fighters are US
ually game, for II they hadn't been
game they never would have gone
I far in their profession. And when
a man is game there's no halfway
station for him-he's game to the
| finish.
But "A few Incidents stand out In
my mind-picturos that will not
fade. There Is one OF Kid McCov
sneeringly beating Kid Carter with
/ punches designed to finish him
slowly, suddenly caught desperate
swing and Knocked him out cold.
/ The bell rang while Mccoy was
down and unconscious. His seconds
/ ran In, lifted him and dragged him
toward his corner. Mccoy woke Up.
/ Dazed, he pushed the seconds away
and looked around for Carter. 20
/ sec him. grirning, Just sitting down
/ In his chair.
Mccoy, tried 20 walk toward hls
/ corner, rseled sideways to the ropes
and refusing aid pulled himself
slowly along, guided by the top rope
until he reached his corner and sat
/ down. Only half a minute remained
/ for the rest, and as the bell rang
4 Mccoy rose unsteadny walked
straight across the ring, eth unable
I to raise mis- hands. and dizzily
ducked under Carter's first blow into
saving clinch. Six times Mccoy
was knocked down, but he fought
grimly and had turned the tide OF
I battle and had Carter rceling him
self when the last bell rang at the
end OF six rounds,
! Only = !c% a!sats ag" nt hAdl-
Z son Square Garden, | saw fine MT
/ OF courageous fighting when Joe
! Lynch. (who was "a good soldier "
/ France, by the wayJ weathered
| heavy punishment by Midget Smlth