Football -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction
“I suppose you saw what we did to Norristown (Sumner wrote.) It was a
corking game and Sid Nellis got his wrist broken and a lot more of us
got pretty well scrapped. The score was 14 to 6, but we sure had to
work for it. Jim Cleary played most of the game at full-back and was
a wonder, better than Ed ever was. But I guess you read all this. The
big news is that three or four of us, maybe more, will be over on the
twenty-third to see you play in the Kenwood game. Charlie Stone and
Will Meens and Theo Harris and I sure, and maybe Cleary and Townsend. I
guess you saw the swell articles in the _Sentinel_ last week. I meant
to send you a copy, but it got lost, and anyway I guess your father
saw to it. I met him on High Street a couple of days ago and he asked
me what I knew about that article and I said nothing and he said it
was confounded nonsense, but he acted like he thought it was pretty
fine just the same, Dick. We’re coming over on the midnight from Philly
and that will get us to Warne about noon Saturday. Lucky we haven’t
any Saturday game, isn’t it? We hold last real practice Friday and
then only do some signal drills Monday and Tuesday. So we have lots of
time. Charlie Stone’s old man is sort of financing the trip, he and Mr.
Harris, but we are all paying part. You mustn’t put yourself out on our
account, for we know you’ll be awfully tied down that day. But we’ll
dig around to your room when we get in and see you for a few minutes.
Then maybe after the game we can have a good chin. Great, isn’t it?
Gee, I’m crazy about it. Hope you whale Kenwood good. I’ll write again
about Wednesday and let you know if any other fellows are going. A lot
of them want to only they haven’t got the coin.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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