Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25

At the same time there must be
some jealousy over the increasing bally-
hoo for intercollegiate foot ball. All
of the bigger colleges are just about
sending their foot ball squads to train
ing camps after the fashion OF the
professional base ball clubs. The train
ing camp base ball was more for the
sake of baIiyhoo than for getting the
players into condition. The base a
magnates will begin to suspect that the
foot ball training camps has been estab-
liShed for the same reason.
Each veal the advance cheering for
the intercollegiate foot ball season starts
Just a little earlier and what the boys
call the AFTERMATH" lasts just a little
longer, interfering with what used to be
called the hot stove gossip" When
the world series is On this year there
will be some very crucial foot ball
games being played concurrently. which
is somewhat embarrassing to the ivory
industry which held the undivided at
tention Of the sports writers in the old
days.
Among those who will agree that in
tercollegiate foot ball is being grossly
overemphasized are the base ball mag
mates.
Beans for His Honor.
MAYOR JAMES J.. WALKER Of New
lV1 York has received a crock of
beans, the gift Of the mayor of Boston,
delivered to him by airplane. This feat
was accomplished on schedule time, and
the aviator did not spill the beans en-
route. If the mayor Of New York must
have his beans every day, delivered
straight from Boston, he a have
them, piping hot.
But it seems an expensive ar
rangement. If the mayors beans
must come from Boston there is a
more economical plan. My notion
is to have them grow Mexican jump
ing beans in Boston and have them
driven down the Boston Post Road
to New York. The idea is eminently
practical, because the Mexican
jumping bean can get through the
thickest Of traffic under its own
power.
OF course, you cannot bake a Mexican
jumping bean and then expect 1t to
travel. Once the Mexican jumping
bean Is baked it becomes as inert as a
British heavyweight. But then Mayor
Walker could make arrangements to
have his beans baked on their arrival.
From what I have heard Of the
Mexican jumping bean, while 1t
might not make the trip from Bos-
ton to New York with the speed OF
an airplane, it is no slow traveller.
I understand that in Chihauhau
City, Mexico, they have a jumping
bean ace track where sorne impress
sive records have been maze over the
hurdles by thoroughbred Mexican
jumping beans. OF course. the
mayor Of Boston would send to the
mayor of New York only thorough
bred beans.
In Chihauhau the herds of Mexican
jumping beans are driven by hairless
Chihauhau dogs which handle the
peans quite as i~ntelligently as colltes
handle sheep. Chihauhau dogs could
be imported to drive Mayor Walkers
beans from Boston to New York. These
CANNES are very intelligent and would
learn the route more rapidly than a
New York taxi driver.
The Faithful Jumping Bean.
MEXICAN jumping beans make very
1v1 faithful and intelligent pets, and
one can become very much attached to
one, especially when he raises 1t from a
beanits or little bean. There Is a very
touching story of q ranchero OF Chihau-
hau and his faithful Mexican jumping
bean, which he called Manuel.
Whenever the ranchero rode his
range Manuel would follow MIN,
jumping gayly beside the horse.
When he Slept Manuel would keep
watch beside him. Unfortunately
the ranchero became involved in a
revolution. He wal captured and
was whisked away to Mexico City by
train, where he was tried and con-
demned to be shot against a wall.
On o cool and misty morning the
ranchero was led out to be executed.
He was blindfolded and the firing