Evening journal., 1922-08-09
DEFIANCE STARTS
KICKOFF EARLY
Tenth Warders Create Sem
sation at First Practice
Play
WELSH TO COACH
AGAIN THIS YEAR

the Defiance Club House on Jack
son street had a puzzle on their
hands last night.
II started when Red Hesslon and
Joe Filliben were eeen TO dart from
behind the screen at home plate At
The end OF the Defiance South Side
snapper game yesterday and make
their way toward center field. out
there they met Fuze Quinn. captain
OF last years football team. The
three had their heads together for
near-y ten minutes talking conf
dentlally. However. drifts from the
conversation like this was heard;
NO. MS too early yet"
Walt tlil baseball seasons over"
"But we'll get the jump on them"
1T ain't too hot
"Aw. Il looks like rain. not to-
night" etc.
The conversation ended when F'uze
walked away and hailed Swinger, a
youth from out OF the crowd, and
whispered something TO him. The
youth shot out OF the playground
and went up Third street like he was
on the run for a doctor.
O. o'Brien. Moon Carroll and
/ Bill Walsh Joined the crowd which
/ by thiE time was acting like they
were a little silly They were hitting
! each other on the back. calling out
ali kinds OF numbers. bucking each
other Ike a gang OF Wild steers.
Finally the boy swinger came down
| Hf
| the playground with a limp object
under his arm not unlike a drowned
pup. or course the bystanders
/ thought there was something drown
ed FOR Immediately a cry went up for
n pump. Whose got a pump?
Hurry up. unlace H." everybody was
saying at once. The plot thickened
when Buddy Clarke ana Eddie shan
{ don dashed across the street TO the
club house and emerged breathlessly
/ carrying a good-slzed bicycle pump.
! This complicated matters very
much more for the hystanders. az
b they never used bicycle pumps 10
resuscitate drowned dogs or what
ever q was Anyhow, the crowd,
which now numbered about twenty
made an opening big enough for a
steam roller TO come through for
/ Clarke and Shannan.
Cries like Take your time. now"
Not too much air." 'Untighten Il a
BIT more" etc. again convinced the
bystander that there surely must be
n sick dog or something. They al
most believed themselves when the
little brown object was seen 70 stir
and move like Il was breathing. But.
my. what are they feeding that dog ?
From a limp object IL had now ex-
banded 80 six or seven times its nor
NAL size and seemed TO be full OF
life. insisting on jumping up and !
down with every thrust OF the pump. /
Here's another mystery that vexed I
the bystander. Two cops from the
beat sauntercd up 20 the crowd and .
broke through. but didn't stay very
long: In fact. they came out smiling.
II IL certain a blg-hearted police
man wouldn't laugh at a suffering
dog.
ANYHOW the object must have
heen brought 10 life or something.
for everybody started TO smile and
commenced TO hit themselves on the
shoulder and to go bucking like
lot OF stars. The object was then
picked up carefully and It looked
like the boys were trying 10 force
SOM ething down its throat. At least
Il looked that way from our View
point. An object that looked like 4
a spoon could be seen every now
and then between the crowd. but.
anyhow they weren't going 10 hurt
the dog. They certainly did handle
Il carefully.
Finally The motion with the spoon
or whatever Il was ceased and ev-
erything was still for a minute. The
bystanders were commenting on the
gentle way the boys had brought
the dog, or whatever II was. back
to life. when suddenly the crowd
opened and the object was given a
savage boot. which sent Il high in
the air. The bystander scratched
his head. Surely the boys would not
he so brutal as to kick a dog around.
The object hit the ground and
bounded several times till II stop
ped right in front Of him. The lat
ter was in the net Of reprlmanding
them for their brutality. when the
object rolled right against his foot.
He stopped down 10 caress the poor
thing. and as he did he looked again,
He stood looking for quite a while |.
and then laughed. The object that
created all this worrlment and
was nothing moro than
football Yep. a football!
The 1922 season was formally
ushered In last night in the Tenth
ward in an unofficial manner Al
though no practice call has been Is
sued by Charley welsh, coach, thir-
teen Of last years team were out
last night for the practice and the
coach kent on the go until well az
ter 10 o'clock.
The fact that Charley welsh Is
as coach will disperse ru-
mors that the peerless leader OF
wilmington football will not be with
the Tenth Warders this season. Last
nights workout will also disperse
rumors that Defiance will not he
on the gridiron this sea-
son.
Manager Edward Shannon said
ast night that the entire roster OF
asst years squad will be back and
With several newcomers, the Will
nington fans can he assured OF
ome fast football this fall.
The first real practice will prob !