Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — In the Heat of Battle. [ARTICLE]

In the Heat of Battle.

* c There had been a hotly contested football game between the Steam Rollers of the Benjamin Franklin School and the Avalanches of the George Washington SchooL After the' game was over and the contestants had returned to their various homes one of the heroes of the winning team complained of a feeling of soreness in the lower part of his neck. “I didn’t feel it until just now,’’ he said; “but hurts like sixty!” His father examined it. It began to swell, and was very sore to the touch. “I believe your collar bone is broken, my boy,” said the father. A surgeon was hastily summoned, and made an examination.

"Yes,’’ he said, "the bone is fractured. H<?w did it happen, Walter? Do you remember anything about it?" “Why, yes,” answered the boy. “I remember that when I tackled Skinny Morgan I fell on top of him, and I heard something crack, but I thought it was his collar bone.”—Youth’s Companion.