"Hunting for something, Tilly?" she asked, easily. "I'm afraid you won't
find it in all this mud."
"No--no, I hain't found them," stammered Tilly, uncertain whether Ruby
knew about the spoons. "But"--and her face lighted with sudden
eagerness--"I've found something queer; you see if it isn't queer."
Tilly turned back, running before them up to the door of the miser's
little house. "No, it isn't the tracks," she added, as Ruby hurriedly
explained about the dog. "It's the door-stone; it looks as if it had
been moved lately. If you are looking along on the ground, as I was, you
notice it."
"Well, what if it has?" asked Ruby, wondering, and a little impatient.
"Somebody might have hidden something there," said Tilly, whose longing
to find the spoons was evidently desperate.
"Some of the miser's treasures or his clothes-line booty," cried Ruby,
gayly, for miser Jensen was suspected of petty thieving, and Butternut
Corner breathed more freely when his summer sojourn was over. "Girls,
let's pry the stone up!"
"I tried to, alone, but I couldn't," said Tilly, eagerly bringing a long
stake from the tumble-down fence.
The three girls tried for a long time with their united strength. The
stone was flat and not very heavy, but was unwieldy, while Tramp, let
out of the house, barked and capered with excitement in spite of his
injured leg.
When at last the stone was overturned, there was indeed something snugly
tucked into a hole dug beneath it--a bundle tied up in a bandana
handkerchief. Miser Jensen always wore old-fashioned bandana
handkerchiefs. When the girls opened it they found it filled, not with
spoils of the Butternut Corner clothes-lines, but with watches and
jewelry, most of it marked with the name of Burton, the Bymport
jeweller, whom Dave Perley and Alf Coombs were suspected of having
robbed.
Patty burst into tears of joy.
"It was miser Jensen who robbed the store! Tilly, don't you see what it
means? No one can ever say it was the boys again!"
Tilly trembled in all her thin little frame, but her face was alight
with joy. "I know where they are! I can tell now," she said, proudly,
"Alf wrote to me. They are both in my cousin's store in L----; it's a
jewelry store. It was because Alf liked to see watches and things fixed
that he was always at Burton's, and so they suspected him. Dave didn't
want to be a minister or a farmer; that was why he ran away, but he
wants to come home; he says it doesn't pay to run away; and now he can!"
All the cloud lifted from Butternut Hill. Patty could go home and tell
Uncle Reuben and Aunt Eunice; it seemed to her too good to be true.
They forgot all about the spoons; even Tilly forgot them. And when Aunt
Eunice heard the good news, she said she didn't care anything about the
spoons, but she would do everything she could to make amends to Tilly
Coombs for the unjust suspicions.
The spoons were found the very next day. Jake Nesmith, the blacksmith,
saw the corner of the napkin in which they were wrapped sticking out of
a mud-puddle. Ruby had pulled them out of the basket with the chickens,
and dropped them in the snow.
Wheels had gone over them, and they had to be sent down to Burton's to
be bent into shape--that was all.
Alf Coombs is still in his cousin's store, where he does well, but Dave
has come home to Butternut Hill. He says he isn't sure that he shall
ever be a minister or a farmer, but he is sure he shall never be wild
again. The awful suspicion that fell upon him cured him of that. Miser
Jensen was found and arrested, and confessed the theft; he escaped from
prison, but there is no fear that he will ever return to Butternut
Corner. Dr. Nutting wished to send Tilly to the Academy with Ruby--the
whole story of the ravelled mitten was told after the spoons were found;
no one could expect a human girl like Patty to keep it--but Tilly
thought she had a knack for millinery, and she liked to be independent,
and Miss Farnham wanted her; she says she is a good business woman,
although she is only fifteen.
The doctor always takes off his hat to Tilly Coombs, while he gives only
a careless nod to the other fifteen-year-old girls. The minister, who is
his great friend, and hears a good deal about Butternut Corner people
through him, does so too, and just now the young people of the Corner
are making preparations for another birthday surprise party. They have
hired the new Town-hall, because the little house at the foot of the
hill wouldn't begin to hold Tilly's troops of friends, and everything is
to be in the very best style that is known to Butternut Corner, because
they want Tilly to feel that she is "just like other folks."
[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]
[Illustration: J. J. PURTELL, Tackle.]
[Illustration: LEE BEARDSELL, End.]
[Illustration: GEORGE CALAHAN, Centre.]
The All-Boston interscholastic football eleven for 1895 is as follows:
JACK HALLOWELL, _Hopkinson_ end.
J. J. PURTELL, _English High-School_ tackle.
L. WARREN, _Cambridge High-School_ guard.
G. CALAHAN, _English High-School_ centre.
W. D. EATON, _English High-School_ guard.
R. C. SEAVER, _Brookline High-School_ tackle.
LEE BEARDSELL, _Cambridge High-School_ end.
A. D. SAUL, _Cam. High-School_ quarter-back.
T. H. MAGUIRE, _Boston Lat. School_ half-back.
A. C. WHITTEMORE, _Eng. H.-S._ half-back.
C. WATSON, _Cam. High-School_ full-back.
[Illustration: T. H. MAGUIRE, Half-back.]
[Illustration: L. WARREN, Guard.]
[Illustration: W. D. EATON, Guard.]
The substitutes for this team are S. W. Lewis, Brookline High-School,
end; A. P. Martin, Hopkinson, tackle; Oliver Talbot, Brookline
High-School, guard; Brayton, Boston Latin School, centre; E. H.
Sherlock, English High-School, quarter-back; and W. W. Aechtler,
Brookline High-School, back.
[Illustration: A. C. WHITTEMORE, Half-back.]
[Illustration: R. C. SEAVER, Tackle.]
[Illustration: JACK HALLOWELL, End.]
The first requirement that has been considered in selecting the players
for this representative All-Boston eleven has been sand. By sand is
meant not only physical fearlessness, but even more than that--the moral
courage to go into every game and play the hardest kind of football to
the end, whether the team is winning or is being overwhelmingly beaten.
That is the spirit that is worth more to a team than muscle or science,
for without it muscle and science are powerless. It is that which has
had more influence than anything else in determining the selection of
the All-Boston team. Not that the eleven _sandiest_ boys have been
chosen, but the eleven who combine sand and skill in the best ratio.
There are no quitters in this combination.
[Illustration: CARROLL WATSON, Full-back.]
[Illustration: A. D. SAUL, Quarter-back.]
For centre, there is no doubt that Calahan of English High is the most
capable man. His playing is as aggressive and lively as any boy's in the
League; for he makes himself felt in tackle and end plays, and opens up
holes in beautiful style for his backs. The best man for substitute
centre would be Brayton of Boston Latin. Warren of Cambridge High is
probably the best guard the League has ever developed. He has unlimited
sand and endurance, understands the theory of his position perfectly,
and is a most valuable rusher and interferer. Close behind him in
prowess comes Eaton of English High. Before this year he has played
centre, but now he has turned out to be a powerful guard. English High's
surest play was to rush Eaton through the other guard. When the referee
would call "third down, three yards to gain," Eaton almost invariably
would make it first down. Far behind these two guards, but next best, is
Talbot of Brookline.
For tackles, one is easily decided on; that is Seaver of Brookline High,
who has played a steady, sandy, reliable game throughout the year. The
other tackle is harder to choose. I give the place to Purtell of English
High, because, while not so valuable a man on the attack as Martin of
Hopkinson, his defence is much more reliable. At end one man has shown a
decided superiority in all the duties of the position; that, is
Hallowell of Hopkinson. He keeps his eye on the ball every moment that
it is in play, gets down on kicks beautifully, and I doubt if the
aggregate gains round his end in all the League games would amount to
ten yards. The other end I give to Beardsell of Cambridge High. He is
not so brilliant as Lewis of Brookline High, but is much steadier and
more aggressive. Lewis is apt to weaken when his team is losing ground,
while Beardsell can be depended upon at any stage of the game.
Everybody admits that Arthur Saul, of Cambridge High, is the best
quarter-back of the year, and everybody is full of praise for his plucky
work. Not since the days when Bob Wrenn played quarter for this same
team have such hard tackling and clever passing been seen. In only one
thing does Sherlock of English High, his nearest rival, outclass him;
that is in running his team. But giving signals, while very important,
is not essentially the duty of a quarter-back, as in many of the
'varsity teams some other player calls them. And Saul is far and away
ahead of all the other quarters in every other respect.
The trio of backs I would select are Whittemore of English High, Maguire
of Boston Latin, and Watson of Cambridge High. On offence, it would not
matter much just who took the middle position; but on defence Whittemore
and Maguire should play rush-line half-backs, and Watson full-back, for
he is the surest man to tackle and handle punts. All three of these men
can kick well; but the brunt of this work would fall to Maguire, as he
gets the ball away much more quickly than the others. Whittemore and
Watson could both buck the centre, and all three are exceptionally good
'round-the-end men. For substitute half we have Aechtler of Brookline,
who is just a trifle behind the others. It is his weak defence that
deprives him of a regular place.
Maguire should be Captain of this team. After his work with the Boston
Latin team there can be little doubt of his capability. To be sure,
Calahan was Captain of the winning team, and did all manner of fine work
in that capacity. But his team was much better supported by the school,
and had the services of a thoroughly competent coach, while Maguire did
all the work of getting his team together. Moreover, Maguire has the
advantage of position and of experience, having been Captain part of
last season. And Calahan has never been really put to the test, as his
men have always been victorious, and never even in danger of losing a
game. In Maguire the team would have a courteous, energetic, brainy
Captain, and, above all, a Captain for whom they would always
instinctively do their best work.
The standing of the teams in the Senior League is as follows:
Games Games Games Points Points
Won. Lost. Tied. Won. Lost.
E. H. S. 5 0 0 56 14
Hop. 4 1 0 40 36
B. L. S. 3 2 0 14 14
B. H. S. 2 3 0 22 16
C. H. & L. 0 4 1 8 40
C. M. T. S. 0 4 1 14 36
SCORES OF GAMES PLAYED.
English High 4 -- Brookline 0
English High 18 -- Hopkinson 6
English High 4 -- Boston Latin 0
English High 16 -- Cambridge High and Latin 0
English High 14 -- Cambridge Manual 8
Hopkinson 6 -- Boston Latin 2
Hopkinson 6 -- Brookline High 4
*Hopkinson 6 -- Cambridge High and Latin 8
Hopkinson 16 -- Cambridge Manual 6
Boston Latin 6 -- Brookline 0
*Boston Latin 0 -- Cambridge High and Latin 4
Boston Latin 6 -- Cambridge Manual 0
Brookline High 18 -- Cambridge High and Latin 0
*Brookline High 4 -- Cambridge Manual 0
Cambridge High 0 -- Cambridge Manual 0
* Protested; ordered to be played over; forfeited by Cambridge.
The standing in the Junior League is:
Games Games Games Points Points
Won. Lost. Tied. Won. Lost.
Somerville High 5 0 1 106 10
Newton High 4 1 1 69 32
Chelsea High 4 2 0 76 74
Roxbury Latin 3 3 0 82 41
Dedham High 1 3 1 16 40
Hyde Park High 1 4 1 20 84
Roxbury High 0 5 0 6 70
The results of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut
Interscholastic League schedules are here given for the purpose of
record:
NEW YORK I.S.F.B.A.
FIRST SECTION.
Cutler 24 -- Hamilton 0
Trinity 16 -- Columbia Grammar 0
Trinity 54 -- Hamilton 0
Trinity 24 -- Cutler 4
Colombia Grammar forfeited to Cutler.
SECOND SECTION.
Berkeley 30 -- Barnard 0
Berkeley 34 -- De La Salle 0
Barnard forfeited to De La Salle.
FINAL GAME.
Berkeley 38 -- Trinity 0
PHILADELPHIA I.S.F.B.A.
October 18 -- De Lancey 22 -- Adelphi 6
" " Penn Charter 68 -- Cheltenham 0
" " Germantown 30 -- Haverford 0
" 25 -- De Lancey 34 -- Haverford 0
" " Germantown, by forfeit from Cheltenham.
" " Penn Charter 28 -- Adelphi 0
November 1 -- Penn Charter 54 -- De Lancey 0
" " Cheltenham 40 -- Haverford 0
" " Germantown 12 -- Adelphi 2
" 8 -- Adelphi 12 -- Haverford 4
" " De Lancey 34 -- Cheltenham 0
" 15 Germantown 18 -- De Lancey 6
" " Penn Charter 34 -- Haverford 0
" " Cheltenham 4 -- Adelphi 0
" 22 -- Germantown 6 -- Penn Charter 4
CONNECTICUT I.S.F.B.A.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
October 26 -- Hartford 22 -- New Britain 12
" " -- Norwich F. A. 4 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 4
" 30 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 14 -- Norwich F. A. 0
November 2 -- Hartford 22 -- Conn. Lit. Inst. 0
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
October 26 -- Bridgeport 14 -- Hillhouse H.-S. 4
" " -- Meriden 54 -- Waterbury 0
November 2 -- Bridgeport 42 -- Meriden 0
FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
November 9 -- Bridgeport 10 -- Hartford 10
" 16 -- Bridgeport 4 -- Hartford 4
" 28 -- Bridgeport 16 -- Hartford 12
If we may judge from the number of protests continually cropping up in
the New York League, there must be something radically wrong with school
sport in this town. The unhealthy desire to win seems to characterize
the young athletes of New York to a far greater extent than the healthy
spirit of indulging in sport for sport's sake. The greed for medals and
pennants seems to overshadow the true object of all these contests, and
this develops a spirit of professionalism, which, if not smothered at
once, will, in a very short while, put an end to every kind of
inter-school contests that are now known.
When I speak of the greed for medals I am not talking at random. I am
telling of what I know. Last spring, at some games on the Berkeley Oval,
two young men who were tied for second place in a certain event sat on
the turf near where I stood, talking over the commercial aspect of their
prowess. They were trying to arrange a deal. One proposed to the other
to surrender second place if his rival would allow him to keep the
medal. The second mercenary, however, would not agree to this. He, too,
wanted the medal, and was perfectly willing that the first "sport"
should take the "empty honor" of second place. Both athletes being
therefore so morally corrupt, no deal could be arranged as to who should
have the medal, and they were thus forced by their very spirit of
unsportsmanship to decide the tie by actual contest. This is a true
story, in spite of its apparent enormity, and I know the names of both
young men.
When such a spirit exists among individuals, it is easy to see how
entire teams may be led into a misconception of the ethics of sport. I
have no doubt, too, that a good many young men look upon it as clever
work to evade the rules and to compass an end in some unfair way,
provided they can do it without entailing punishment. A great deal of
this sort of thing doubtless started from ignorance, but nowadays it is
done because former breaches of honesty have been allowed to pass
unpunished. This sort of thing could not happen if the principals of the
schools were unanimous in their determination to keep sport clean and
absolutely honest. There are two or three head-masters, I know, who feel
this way, but the others wink at a great many small infractions, and by
so doing encourage greater ones which they know nothing of.
Now that athletics have become such an important feature in the life of
American boys and men, I believe that it is just as important for school
athletes to be instructed and advised in these matters as it is in any
other branch of endeavor where morals and honesty and similar qualities
are involved. The trouble is that young men hitherto have been left
entirely too much to shift for themselves in athletics. It is not to be
expected that they should always do the right thing, and so those who
are responsible for these young men are to blame if they have not
counselled them as they should.
In other words, the time has now come when every school that recognizes
athletics must recognize that there is a moral as well as a muscular
development to be looked to, and those pedagogues are unfaithful to
their trusts who do not give a greater amount of attention to the former
than they do to the latter.
To bring a general discussion to a point with specific examples, let me
cite St. Paul's School, Concord, and Lawrenceville. At both of these
institutions the professors give personal attention to sport, and there
are especial and particular men--men of position, education,
integrity--in charge of the moral side of the scholars' athletic
development. Because of the clamlike attitude of the authorities of St.
Paul's, I know less of the particular methods in vogue up there. But
with the conditions at Lawrenceville I am familiar.
Several years of experience there have shown the authorities that the
sports of the students can be kept in better condition if expert players
are detailed to manage the coaching and the games, but yet they do not
believe in hiring a man for the football season regardless of his
character and career in college. Since 1889 the policy of Lawrenceville
has been to have men as instructors who were not only the best
all-'round athletes of their college, but also the best scholars, and
held in high esteem for character. In 1889, for instance, George,
Princeton's centre-rush, went to Lawrenceville to teach mathematics.
After school hours he coached the football team, following up the
players day after day throughout the season. This is done in the just
conviction that boys should be taught how to play as well as how to
study. Two years ago Mr. George retired from active work in football,
and is now only an adviser, holding his position in the mathematical
department.
In 1893 Lawrenceville secured Street, who played with Garfield on the
Williams team for three seasons, and received the cup given to the man
who made the best record in athletics during his college course. Street
was engaged to teach Latin and English, and incidentally he has taken up
the control of athletics. To him has been intrusted the responsibility
of allowing certain men to engage in football and baseball; he gets up
all the plays the boys use; he also follows up the team every day in its
practice, being practically Captain at all times, except when a
match-game is in progress. Street is a man of most excellent character,
and will not allow boys on the various teams to use profane language for
a moment.
Evert unfair dodge and trick which a boy exhibits is instantly stopped,
and the men are urged to play perfectly straight, honest ball. Such a
thing as slugging, therefore, is unknown. The same thing is done in the
baseball season. This year Ward, the Princeton player, went to the
school to teach mathematics. He was the Latin salutatorian of his class
last year, and won the Fellowship in Mathematics, besides being
considered the brightest man Princeton has graduated in fifteen years.
He is to help the Lawrenceville students in football and baseball just
as Street is doing.
Now the point of this recital is to show that Lawrenceville has at
present on its pedagogic staff representatives of five large college
teams, each one of whom is known as well for the honesty as for the
quality of the game he played on the field. I believe that the future of
our college athletics rests with the schools that are this year, and
next year, and so on, sending out to the larger institutions men who
will control the athletic organizations. Boys who learn bad tricks in
schools will play them in a more outlandish and stronger way when they
reach college teams. I believe, therefore, that it is the duty of
schoolmasters to see to it that their wards are instructed in the ethics
of sport as well as in the rule of three; for boys who have been left to
themselves to learn, and have learned to win by unfair means, will turn
out badly, as far as their future in athletics is concerned, and they
may then justly look back to their school days, and blame those whose
duty it was to teach them the truth of sport. Beneath the surface of
these words are a wanting and a suggestion which I sincerely trust may
be heeded and accepted.
It is pleasant to learn that all the world is not hunting after medals,
and that the spirit of true sportsmanship is still alive in the
land--even if it is in the minority! As a consequence of my sermons of
the last few weeks I have received a number of letters. One
correspondent says: "I won a swimming match once, and got a ribbon for
it, and I prize that just as highly as though it were a gold medal. I
think the old Grecian and Roman method of awarding wreaths a striking
lesson for this age, and I hope they will play a prominent part in the
forth-coming Olympian games."
The poor showing made by the Cambridge Manual-Training School team this
fall was largely due to poor management. They had for manager and coach
a graduate who knew nothing of football nor of training a team. As a
consequence, they went into the games a pitifully overworked and
spiritless set, depending upon fantastic tricks to win victories. The
futility of it caused the appointment of a coach who had played football
and understood the game. It was too late, however, to do any better than
tie the demoralized Cambridge High team in the Thanksgiving-day game.
Owing to a delay in the receipt of the photographs, the announcement of
the All-New-York interscholastic football team has been necessarily
postponed until next week.
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