hout the day, physically as |
|well as sentimentally. If ever there was a sodden, |
|cheerless, disheartening afternoon for the battle of|
|the two arms of the service, yesterday was the one. |
| |
|Luck is with the boys, usually. The golden sunshine |
|usually glints off the gold of braid and buttons. |
|The nicest looking girls that ever assembled within |
|the confines of any particular area of space turn |
|out and smile and put lofty notes into the |
|atmosphere with their giddy gowns and hats. There's |
|snap and verve and pepperino in the very air. |
| |
|But for the first time in a long while the weather |
|forbade all this sort of thing yesterday. From early|
|morning a fog-blanket, wafted in from the Atlantic, |
|hung over the town. Now and then it rained. And when|
|you thought maybe it would clear off it rained |
|again. The good old golosh was brought out of the |
|spare bedroom closet and placed upon even the |
|fairest of feet. The old brown raincoat was dragged |
|forth into the light of day and placed above the |
|gayest of garments. |
| |
|No girl was so foolish as to take a chance on the |
|ruin of her apparel by doing without a moisture |
|shedder of some sort. And not a general or admiral |
|or member of a governor's staff or other person |
|holding the right to wear a uniform was so |
|intensely proud as to expose his ornamentation |
|uncovered and take a risk at pneumonia. |
| |
|It was, as a matter of fact, a pretty drab-looking |
|crowd that began to file into the Polo grounds a |
|little after noon. You can't get much local color |
|out of a gum shoe and a mackintosh.... |
| |
| =The Game Play by Play= |
| |
|It was 2.15 when the navy squad ploughed through the|
|mud to the center of the gridiron. The Navy stands |
|upheaved and the midshipmen sent their battle cry |
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