Evening star., 1938-09-30
From the
Press Box
'Thot Lyre Sings Again
For Our Grid Prophet.
BY JOHN LARDNER,


Football team will murder Howard.
The rhyme scheme there Is A-A,
with the ends deployed wide and the
safety back in q deep quandry. Most
quandries these days are shallow ut
one end.
Nebraskas tough, but will vote
Little vote for Minnesota.
I'll tell YOU how it is with us artists
and vidonaries. Some days We put 1t
in the bank, and some days We don't
lay by a nickel. Therefore:
Go beat Yale, Columbia.
Do not fail, Columbia.
Give 'em hail Columbia,
And will win bet.,
In that last ouatrain we detect the
influence Of the great poet Goethe. and
well We might since stole 1t whole
from his works.
Cornell Is on her way again,
And going at her ole gait.
Far above Cayuga. men.
And far above poor Colgate.
There we have an example Of dialect
verse. An old colored nanny used to
Groom that song to me, accompanying
herself on the kettle drum. She would
accompany herself as far as Chatta-
nooga on clear days.
Go bet your teeth and your dia-
mond tiara
Stanford will do well to tie Santa
Clara.
No More Dull Saturdays.
That brings us to little garland
Of classics, the big games Of the day.
There Is no such thing as dull Sat-
urday any more Is there Mr.. Interloc-
utor? No, Mr.. Bones. there amt no
such thing as dull Saturday any
more.
The mighty machine from Bowling
Green
Will crush John Carroll, what
mean.
Findlays legions will set at def
ance
The hosts of the Case School Of
applied science.
Reasoning sanely and reasoning
soberly,
Chillicothe Business School ought
to beat Moberly.
wnl 1t be ouilford or will it be
wofford?
know the answer. What am Of
offered.
With some maseiving. I wish to
state:
Drexel Will nose out open date.
And one Of the days most astonish-
ing, reduced-price (going out OF
business Monday features:
Abilene Christian over Sui Ross
State Teachers.
So much for the headliners. Get
ting back to the minor leagues
One best bet in the second race:
Ohio to win, Indiana to place.
Down In Oklahoma the girls are
very nice.
like them one, like them all, but
my money goes on fIlCe.
Us Harvards meet an ancient foe
In Brown.
So help us, We are gonna NOW
En- down.
A Swing Number.
The other day your correspondent
Knocked OF q little swing number
which has Americas shoulders sway
ing from coast to coast, and I don't
care which coast you start at.
A tisket, q tasket,
A green and yellow casket.
Or, for that matter gasket,
Or basket.
(You certainly set fine table, Mrs.
Claf1ey).
had another winner here.
And on the way mislaid the little
rascal,
Or rasket.
Was 1t Temple?
Nah, Nah.
Was it tie7
Nah, Nah.
Was 1t Pitt?
Say. believe 1t was Pitt, at that.
Many thanks.
CTrombone solo).
On the other hand:
Let the Welkin ring clear, let the
welkin ring loud,
q can sell you two secondhand
welkins)
For Bullet Bill Kern and his Car
negie crowd, .
Who will shortly destroy Davis
Elkins.
And Also:
Wake Forest soon will occupy
A handsomely outfitted He'll,
Constructed to her order by
The thoughtful sons Of Citadel.
And finally:
Syracuse will leave all kinds
OF fingerprints and marks on
The party of the second part
identified as Clarkson).
This department will pay 81 in
stamps for rhyme for New Hamp-
shire and no question asked.
tCopyrisht, 1898, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
HAY LOFT OPENED
AS SKATING RINK
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