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His tackles were always sure and gains were seldom made thro' right end.
The game was a clean one throughout although the players did not present a very clean appearance. Kansas University is to be congratulated on its team and although the pennant may not come to us this year we have the consciousness of the fact that our 'Varsity has outplayed and out skilled every league team she has met.
About 300 University students attended the game. ___
The result of Thursday's games are as follows:
Nebraska o Iowa o
Michigan 6 Chicago 7
Wisconsin 6 Northwestern 6
Chicago A. A. 12 Boston A. A. 6
Pennsylvania 32 Cornell 10
F. H. Funston in Cuba.
The following extracts from a letter of Fred Funston to a University friend may be of general interest. He writes from Cuba:
I have had some very hot experiences in the ten days just past which I shall tell you about; first I got my command as captain of artillery in the army of Maximo Gomez and we did a lot of aimless marching about the country finally bringing up on the 21st of September before the town of Coscono, defended by three Spanish forts. The infantry and cavalry of the force surrounded the town and cut off all communication with the outside. During the night we built a sort of fortification of mahogany rails about 600 yards from the White Fort and installed therein a twelve pound Hotchkiss breech-loading rifle. I had with me only a part of my battery and a detachment of ten men, half of whom were Americans. The Spaniards did not know of our presence until, just at daybreak, our Old
Ephraim gave a roar and sent a shell crashing ing into the fort. Pretty soon every Spaniard opened on our position and the air was alive with bullets that buzzed like bumble bees gone mad. They rattled on the outside of the barricade and many came through. Most of them shot high however and the trees over our heads were shot up badly. But we gave them as good as they sent and shell after shell tore through the walls of the fort bringing down tons of rock and cement. I did the gunning of our cannon and every time I stepped before the gap it seemed that every one in the fort shot at me. One bullet split open the sole of my left shoe, and half an hour later one of my men who had been opening a box of shells handed me the screw driver and as he did so, fell dead, shot through the heart.
From this position we took up another one exactly opposite but perhaps 1500 yards from the town. This position we held four days. On the fifth day the infantry having advanced close to the fort, we ran Old Ephraim within 300 yards of it but as the artillery ammunition was exhausted we were compelled to retire and were sent to a plantation to remain until more could be brought from the depot in another part of the island. It is from this plantation that I write.
The French used to make hair and tooth brushes for the civilized world but now are largely superseded. Woodward has the new brushes at about two-thirds the price of the old Call and see these brushes, also perfmmes, etc. for the Holidays.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices.
Offices: 1007 Mass. Street.
and West of National Bank.
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