Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1911 — He Felt IL [ARTICLE]

He Felt IL

“Football,” cried the old gentleman in the Red Lion smokeroom, “is a sin and a disgrace^' Football," he continued, thumping the table with his fist, “la an abomination and a blot on civilization. The very name of football," he shouted, sweeping two glasses and a pint pot off the board in his excitement —“the very name of football is enough to make a decent, respectable man go and ’ang himself out of pure disgust!” . z a 1 “The gentleman seems to feel rather deeply on the subject," said a commercial traveler, who had been listening to his remarks. “He do,” assented one of the na-. tlves. "Has be lost something at a matchT* inquired the commercial. “Re ’ave so. ’Ad a relative killed at one,” replied-the other, oracularly. “What relative was hr asked the querist. “'ls wife’s first husband V“ was the response—London Tit-Bits.