Judge — November 22, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Secon Gable T Football SIDE from its prominent place in the curriculums of colleges and univer- sities, football is something of a sport, although in pop- ularity it bears the same relation to baseball that the coach-and-four does to the more thronged means of transit. Persons who do not know how football is played, and who never participated in the game, im- agine that it isa scrimmage something like those formless but effective contacts that tradition has associated with Donny- brook fair. But those who hold college diplomas and have enjoyed the practical beauties of the game know to the contrary. Football, like so many other institu- tions in the United States, has undergone “reform” in recent seasons, the changes in its practice having been designed to reduce the number of casualties conse- quent upon its playing, although accidents still happen in well-regulated football, and ambulances as well as joy wagons are frequently seen among the multitude of vehicles that take persons to the grounds. In spite of precautions against acci- dents in football, no less an authority than George Huff, athletic director at the University of Illinois, has found that the game is again becoming ‘“‘rough.”” He says he has lately seen ‘‘neck wringing”’ in it—which will be news to persons who have supposed that this practice was con- fined to farmers, who thus subdue fowls meant for the pot or the market—and he has also noted that players drag their feet over the heads of opponents. ‘‘Piling up,’’ Mr. Huff adds, ‘‘even when easily seen to be unnecessary, goes unrebuked, and it is a matter of common report in the conference camps that certain coaches encourage their men to lame and slug, if they can get away with it.”’ O R I! But at its mildest football is no parlor game, and it must preserve its essentials if players are to get any real benefit from it for the fight in real life after they leave their books. The college course without THE LOVER'S WISH football would leave graduates poor in- deed in initiative, and they would be ill equipped to make runs for positions in business, to kick obstacles out of the way, to tackle hard competitive propositions and generally to show that muscular fa- cility which, associated with determina- tion, forces the way to success, THE THIRD TABLE Thanksgiving "THANKSGIVING DAY comes around every year just in time to give a tip that Christmas and New Year's Day are in sight. If Thanksgiving Day should come after the other holidays, some persons © would celebrate it with greater joy than they do now, while others would regard it with less hilarity. There are reasons for this, but there-is no reason why they should be set forth in detail. Sufficient to each holiday are the duties, disappointments and pleasures thereof. About this time of year professional readers of the stars get busy on prognos- tications about future events. Of course current events of late have been quite in- teresting. A good many persons have not yet got through looking at the muck up- turned by recent political upheavals, and another large number of persons are won- dering what is going to happen next. This is peculiarly applicable to Mexico. But everybody should cheer up, on the theory that the worst is yet to come, if not on general principles. There are greater revenues and a larger percentage of profit in optimism than in pessimism in any circumstances. If you haven’t got turkey for dinner this Thanksgiving, just make up your mind that you are going to have it next Thanksgiving. If you have turkey and get the small end of the wishbone this year, make up your mind that it is going to break in your direction next time. The wishbone is a picturesque tradition that relates to luck; but, as some sage has re- marked, backbone is more useful. And remember that the most frugal dinner on a holiday with an appetite that gives it savor is better than everything on the bill of fare without the appetite. comicbooks.com