Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1931, Page 101

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, P. C, OCTOBER 18, 1931, STORIES SPORTS GAMES PUZZLES e E ARE all glad when the foot ball sea- son returns, and this week we have a foot ball puszle to help us celebrate. THE FOOT BALL. The definitions: HORIZONTAL. 1. Mother. 3. To kick a foot ball. 5. ‘Toward. 6. Cunning. 8. A Southern State (Abbr.). 10. Autumn sport. 12. Either. 13. Behold. 14. Foot ball field. 18. Year (Abbr.). 19. To scatler seed. 20. Electrical engineer (Abbr.). 22. A kind of foot ball kick. 24. Indefinite article. VERTICAL. 1. Greek letter. 2. An insect. 3. Game played on horses. 4. Roman garment. 6. Regretful. 7. Yukon Territory (Abbr.). 9 10 Permit. . Mist. 11. Longitude (Abbr.). 15. Angered. 16. Exists. 17. To frolie. 21. Period of time. 23. Upon. g Below we bave four different kinds of “balls,” words beginning with the same four letters. ¥Fill the blank spaces and form the words. Ball - -n, Ball - - t. Ballr - - -, Ball - -, L8 B . ¢ The captain is an important man on a foot ball team, and the word is important in our word diamond. The second line is a period of time, the third is deceived, the fifth is to be filled with longing, and the sixth is racket. [ A . CAPTAIN A 1 N - In the sentence below, the missing words have the same pronounciation, but are spelled differently. What are they? Their — as champions was ended when they lost a close game in the —. - GUESS THESE FOOTBALL WORDS /%L@f D On the Street Car He knew that she would thank him not, He cared net for her scorn, He offered her his seat because It kept her off his corn. Beacons on Bar 4 Ranch Story of Adventure Near the Mexican Border “Put ‘em [ up! commanded Sheriff Leighion. BY W. BOYCE MORG AN. One night when CUff Stover's visit on the Circle Y ranch in the Southwest is almost over, he is awak- ened by the sound of an_airplane flying very iow overhead He and Obie Young. son of the ranch owner, think the plane has fallen, and rush to the neighboring Bar 4 ranch to investigate. They find the plane has landed amid beacons on a temporary landing fleld. Their suspicions are aroused by the actions of Mr. Granville, who lives on the ranch, and the sllot. Also two men whom they had seen from a distance have disappeared when the boys reach the plane, but Obie hears a sneeze that tells him they are concealed in the cockpit. The boys return and tell Obies father the story. Convinced that the plane is running in aliens from Mexico in deflance of the immigration laws. Mr. Young phones the sheriff. While waiting for him to come the boys €0 back to watch the plane. When they see it is about to take off again and escape, Ob:ie cripples the machine by tossing a rock into the whirling pro- peller. Erraged. the smugglers pursue the boys, who flee for their lives. INSTALLMENT V. HEY'RE shoc®mg at us!"” gasped // Cliff, and his feet, which had already been moving at top speed, began to move even faster. But he was not one step ahead of Obie. Again came the crash of the revolver, and again the feaful zing of the bullet! “It will be just luck if they hit us!” panted Obie, “but don't take any chances.” They didn't. They ran in a zig-zag course, taking advantage of every dip in the grcund. At last, when their strength was almost spent, they reached the ponies. As they did so, they heard excited voices ahead of them, and up galloped Mr. *Qung, followed by the sheriff and two deputies. The officers had raced out from town in their car, had been given horses by Mr. Young, and had started for the landing field. Their pace had been quickened, first by the noise of the motor and then by the shooting. “Obie!” bellowed Mr. Young. “What's that shooting about? What have you been doing now?” “They tried to get away in the plane and we wrecked it!” gasped Obie, barely able (o get his breath. “Then they chased us.” “Oh, they did, did they?” growled Sheriff Leighton. business.” The officers dismounted and, with drawn guns, began to march toward the landing field. With an abrupt eommand to the boys to re- turn to the house, Mr. Young, also with gun in hand, began to follow the officers. Obie and CIliff hesitated, looked at each other, paused for a moment to get their breath—and then, without & word, hurried, not toward the ranch house, but after the armed men. MOMENT later Obie's father saw them. Angrily he told them to go back, but when he saw the eager expressions on their faces, he hid a smile behind his hand and gruffly told them to come along. “But keep back,” he commanded. “And drop to the ground at the first sign of gun play.” They reached the landing field, to find the plane standing where it had stopped. There was not a sign of life about it. “Te the house, men,” said the sheriff, “They may try to get away in a car.” Nor were they a moment too soon. As they ran up to the front of the dilapidated Bar 4 ranch house, they saw Mr. Granville's power- ful car drawn up before the door, and at that very moment the front door of the house burst open and the smugglers dashed out. They stopped in dismay at sight of the armed men before them. “Put 'em up!” commanded Sheriff Leighton. “I'm the sheriff of this county, and you are under arrest.” The man farthest back decided to make a break for it, but at his first fleeing step a bullet from the sheriff’s revolver whizzed past his heels, and he immediately thought better of his action. He joined his two companions, the pilot and Mr. Granville, in stretching his hands toward the stars, “Come on, men, we'll see about this - “Well, we got you,” said the sheriff grimly. He walked past the smugglers to two frightened Chinese who were cowering by the porch steps. “So this is your game, is it? Running in Chinese boys from below the line. The Federal agents will know just what to do with you. Pile in that car, now, and come with me. But first we’ll search ycu.” HE two deputies removed revolvers from the three smugglers, and then ordered them into the car. As one of the deputies climbed in after them, he made a startling discovery. “Look, here, Ed,” he said to the sheriff. He pointed to a number of suspicious looking packages in the bottom of the car. The sheriff hurriedly opened one of them. “Dope!” he gasped. “Narcotics! Opium and I don't know what else. Why, there are thousands of dollars’ worth of it here.” Mr. Young whistled his surprise. “This is bigger game than we thought, Sheriff,” he said. “Evidently these fellows were smuggling dope as well as aliens.” “What a haul for us!™ exulted the officer. “Won't the Pederal men just love to get hold of this. Why, with the help of these boys here, we've probably nipped in the bud a smuggling game that would have made these birds a fortune.” ‘Without further talk the sheriff ordered the car to proceed. At his request, Obie and Cliff were to go back down to the spot where the horses had been left, and take them back to the Circle Y corrals. Since the excitement was now over, the boys gladly complied. “What a night this has been!” said Obie, as they walked slowly back toward the boun- dary fence. “I never had so much exictement in a few hours in all my life. And now that it’'s over, I feel all weak inside.” “So do I” admitted Cliff. “But I'm glad it happened before I left. I had begun to think that the ‘Wild West’ was pretty tame, but now I'll have a really exciting story to tell when I get back home.” “You certainly will,” agreed Obie. “Even dad’s yarns of the old days can't beat this. He can tell of outiaws and Indians and two-gun men, but they don’'t beat airplanes and o'z cars and international smugglers and thousands of dollars’ worth of dope!” THE END. M. asquemding HE custom of “dressing up” is very old. Primitive people disguised themselves in various ways to protect themselves from evil Sspirits. Today savages wear masks to frighten their enemies and the evil spirits. The savage mind pictures its god as a fearful creature, and the medicine man of the tribe is supposed to have a kinship with the god of the people, wearing a hideous mask at the time of tribal ceremonies to show this kinship. 3 ‘The ancient Greeks wore masks at the feast of Bacchus. Later they made large ones to wear on the stage to represent different char- acters which the actors impersonated. In Italy, during the sixteenth century, masks were used for comedy purposes. From Italy the custom spread to England and masked disguise became widespread and very popular. For American children the jolliest season of the year is Halloween, when they may don costumes and sally forth to play pranks upon their friends. So It Ap-pears He (bragging about ancentry) —“Yes, my father sprang from a line of peers.” Bored listener—"“Did he drown?” " he makes facss and “busts.” RIDDLES There's nothing that is so much fun a8 guessing the answers to catchy riddles. These are pretty tricky, and may require some inten- sive thought, but don’t let a little thing like that discourage you. 1. What is the longest word in the language? 2. What State is round at both ends and high in the middle. 3. Why is a sculptor’s death the most, ters rible? 4. What is the value of the moon? 5. What musical instrument is the most meral? 3 ANSWERS. 1. “Smiles,” because there is a mile between the first and last letters. 2. Ohio. 3. Because 4. Four quarters, 5. An upright piano. History of Foot Ball TODAY foot ball is without doubt the mcst populzr sport in America. More than 7,500 schools and colleges are represented by teams, and a quarter of a million boys and young men play <n them every Fall. During the brief sea« son, more than 25,000,000 persons attend their games in the United States, and the most im= pertant collegiate contests draw huge crowds ranging from 20,000 up to 110,000 spectators, Yet 50 years ago there were only a few teams representing some of the leading Eastern colleges, and in 1875 it was considered quite remarkable when 150 “rooters” made the joure ney from Cambridge to New Haven for thé first Yale-Harvard game! As you play and watch it today foot ball is a vastly different game frem that played 50 vears ag>. In fact, if you had been present at a contest in the year 1880, you would hardly have recogniz:cd the strange game as the foree runner of modern American foot ball. The original rough and tumble game of fook ball had bz2en rplayed in England for centuries, although the edicts of kings had attempted to stop it. The sport was brought to America by the early colonists, found popularity in many places, and soon made its way into the young Nation's new colleges. The first real intercollegiate foot ball game was played in 1869, although there had been many interclass and unorganized contests bee fore that. And what rough and blocdy afirays they were! Onee, in 1873, a game between Yale and Princeton was delayed for more than an hour and a half because they couldn't get a ball to play with, and when they did get one, it burst in the middle of the game, calsing another delay! i In its earliest form, foot ball was mainly & kicking game, much like modern association or soccer foot ball. But in 1874 one of the teams from the United States played a Canadian team and saw the advantages of the Rugby game they played, in which the ball was carried as well as kicked. Two years later the Intere collegiate Foot Ball Association was organized, and adopted the rules of the British Rugby Union in modified form. The game as then played would appear strange to us. There were 15 players on each team, and the field was half as long as af present. Goals were counted in the seoring, and four touchdowns were the equivalent of one goal. In the modern game, of course, the touchdown is the important thing in secxing, while gosls are of minor value. In 1880 the number of players was reduced to 11, and the use of “scrimmage,” the foundae tion of modern foot ball, was started. Change$ in scoring also were made. Thus in 1883 thé value of a field goal was five points, while & touchdown counted only two and a goal after touchdown four. And until 1888 tackling wa§ only permitted above the waist! The game now gradually changed from theé old Rugby to our modern foot ball. Interfere ence for the runner was first used in 1888. Id 1889 the fashion of long hair for players camé in, and for some time after that all players hagd great crops of hair to protect their heads. And they needed it. About this time mas§ plays were very popular, and the “flying wedge™ and “flying interference,” based on the prine ciple of a huge mass moving at high speed, were widely used. PFinally the game got s0 rough that the Government abolished théd Army-Navy game, and in 1896 these “flying™ plays were outlawed. . ANSWERS. 1. Cross Word Puzsle Solution. 2. Balloon, ballast, ballroom, balot. 0 3. The diamond is C, day, diped, capsain, yearn, din, N, 4. Reign, Rain. 8. Block, penalty and box defense.