Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, November 6, 1947
FICTION CORNER
POINT
TOUCHDOWN
Rv RICHARD U N IS IIN
You see what they're doing. Kicking
early. Keeping us away. They've
got a touchdown and we haven’t.
Get it back. Get the six points and
I'll send Jerry out there. That's all
we need.” And he had turned to
Jerry and smiled.
Jerry bit his lip. Even Dan didn't
realize that you couldn't kick them
all. Sooner or later he was bound to
miss. And this was the last game.
“Here we go,” muttered F arra
day.
The Aggies kicked off. Taggert,
the Tech quarterback, took it on his
five, and brought it back twelve
yards. The Aggie tackier barely
WAS still raining when they
I T came
onto the field for the second
half. After the heat of the dressing
room the air was cold and biting.
Jerry Ellis grunted, and drew his
blanket tighter. He splashed toward
the Tech bench, staring up into the
stands. The spectators, huddled un
der umbrellas and newspapers,
looked as if they'd melted in the
drizzle and had run together.
“They must be nuts,” said Farra-
day’s voice beside him.
Jerry turned. "They?”
“Sure.” Farraday grinned; he
nodded at the stands. “They paid
money to sit in the rain. Am 1 glad
I’m third string. You’re going to
freeze out there without that blan
ket.”
Jerry frowned. He said: "You’re
sure I’m going out there?"
“You always have,” said Farm
day.
Jerry winced. He always had
Since he’d been a sophomore he’d
kicked every extra point that Tech
had made. Automatic Jerry Ellis,
the newspapers called him—Tech's
place-kick specialist. There'd been
columns telling how he hadn't
missed in twenty-two games, how
he’d run up a string of forty-eight
successive points after touchdowns.
Most of the sportswriters mentioned
the part he’d played in Tech's un
beaten, untied season, and that this
was his last college game.
There was straw strewn under the
bench and Jerry kicked it into a pile
for his feet. He sat down and one of
the assistant managers tucked a
blanket around his legs.
Jerry wished that he'd missed in
the previous game. He was due to
miss. He was overdue. He'd expect
ed it a week ago, and the Saturday
Jerry froze, grew rigid; gave
before. Tech had had a nice com
gert screamed.
fortable lead in both those games.
They didn't need his points. Today,
they were trailing the Aggies 6 to 0, brushed him, but it was enough to
and it was raining, and it was his send him sliding in the mud.
last game in a Tech uniform.
Tech tried three plays and then
There was a hoarse murmur from punted.
the crowd in the opposite stands,
The game settled into a punter’s
and he saw the Aggies sprinting out battle. Taggert had the wind at his
on the field. They’d changed to dry back and counted on picking up dis
uniforms and it took Jerry a mo tance on each exchange. But the
ment to spot the two new men in the Aggie kicker was good, too.
Aggie backfield. Tall men, and fast, j Jerry couldn’t keep from watch
Farraday sat next to him. He ing the clock on the scoreboard. The
said: ’’We’re wearing them down. big second hand jerked around,
stopped, moved again. Jerry found
See those subs in there?”
“Subs!” Jerry said. “They’re himself nodding as the hand jerked.
three deep in backs. They're play He was cold inside: a chill that had
nothing to do with the wind and
ing safe, that’s all.”
“Sure.” Farraday nodded. “Try rain. Every minute passing made
ing to protect their lousy six points. the odds against him greater.
The quarter ended; the teams
Just like Big Dan said.”
Jerry ’ remembered the coach’s changed goals. Mow. he'd have the
words in the dressing room. Big wind fighting him when he tried to
Dan Winowski didn’t go in tor pep- kick. His luck was out all right.
talks. But there hadn’t been a sound J “Hey!” cried Farraday, startled.
except his calm voice, and a drip “Hey!”
Jerry snapped awake. A fumble.
ping shower.
“All right,” the coach had said. There was a wild, awkward scram
“I know it’s wet, and bad footing, ble for the ball. An Aggie, stumbling
and we can’t pass much with that in the mud. dropped on it. The ball
ball. But they've shot their bolt, i popped from beneath him, bounded
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1 High card
4 Exists
6 Ordinary
11 River in
Pennsylvania
13 Despicable
15 Upon
16 Sparkle
18 To cloy
19 Greek letter
21 Heraldic
bearing
22 Part of
“to be"
23 Ferocious
spotted cat
26 Posed
29 Soothing
ointment
31 Drink made
from manna
33 Six
34 Land measure
35 Doctrine
38 To stain
39 Man’s
nickname
40 Note of scale
41 Leaping
amphibian
43 Ethereal
45 To recede
47 Howling
50 Conjunction
52 Slender
53 Witnessed
56 Exclamation
used to
frighten fowls
58 Quaking
60 Prefix: two
61 Annual church
celebration
63 Escaped
65 Stop on a
theatrical
tour
66 French
article
67 Poem
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9 Second U.S.
President
10 Illumined
12 Whether
14 French for
“from”
17 To close
noisily
20 Completely
24 To give
forth
25 Author of
“Life With
Father”
27 To state
positively
28 Neat
29 Large bundle
30 Desert
dweller
32 College
administra
tive official
36 French coin
37 Wild duck
42 Fees
44 Pronoun
46 To raise
48 Fold of the
front of a coat
49 Archaic:
to anoint
51 List
54 On on’e
sleeping-
couch
55 Broad
56 Compass
point
57 Owns
59 Greek letter
62 Printer’s
nitasure
64 To perform
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SR. CUDWILl'S
bench only Jerry was silent, his
N am e
eyes shifting from the clock to the
field. He sat on his hands to hide
Address.
their trembling.
Tech stuck to power plays. They
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The Aggie backs were playing close, ?
backing up the line. The next play 7
A quiz with answers offering
Buy U . S. S avin gs B o n d s!
bounced off the Aggie wall. No gain 7
7
Taggert suddenly faded back,
information on various subjects
passed. It was out in the flat and 7
7
risky. The Tech half juggled the
ball, but he held it. He went all the
1. The quotation ‘‘For the appar 5. Michigan.
way to the seven yard line before
el
oft proclaims the man” comes
6. On December 15, 1792, by the
the Aggies caught him.
from?
Insurance Company of North
Taggert opened up. He called a
2. Approximately how many of America.
spinner, a reverse, a delayed buck. Bolivia’s 3,000,000 population is
7. About 2,000 miles.
The referee's arms went up. Touch pure Indian?
8.
The Bible says gopherwood.
down.
3. How much leaf surface has a In this country gopherwood is
Farraday pulled the blanket off tree?
called stinking cedar.
Jerry. He said: “Get going.”
4. The mythological dog who
9. The outer part of the kernel.
Jerry saw Big Dan beckon. guards the gates of Hades is The
hull and germ are removed,
"There’s the ball game." he said, named what?
and only the hard part of the corn
smiling. “Make it legal, Jerry."
5. What is the only state split is used to make the corn flakes.
Jerry swallowed He opened his completely into two parts?
10. Eighty-five miles.
mouth, and then shut it tight. He
6. When was the first life in-
nodded and trotted out onto the surance policy issued in this coun-
Ostriches K ick Forward
fleld. His legs moved him stiffly to- try?
ward the referee. He heard his
7. Hawaii is how far southw est of
voice, thin and strained. "Ellis for San Francisco?
An ostrich can kick hard enough
Melkovich. At full." He walked
8. What kind of wood did Noah to break a man’s leg—or even kill
woodenly into position and stared use in building the ark?
him if the blow should catch him
• TO FIT ALL LEADING
up at the cross-bar. It was a dim
9. What part of the corn is used right. Since ostriches can only kick
line in the gloom.
forward, not backward, ostrich
in making cornflakes?
MAKES OF PICK-UP TRUCKS
Taggert was drying the ball with 10. How far can one see from the keepers always come up on the
birds from behind.
a towel. He wiped his hands and top of the Eiffel Tower?
You can get a Caravan Top to fit your
knelt at Jerry’s feet, Taggert I
make and model o f pick-up truck . . . in 4,
grinned and said: "In the bag, kid
5 or 6 ft. clearance toeuit your specific need.
The Ana w ere
T h e waterproof, mildew reentant, heavy
I’ll put my hand under it. The
Hamlet—Act 1, scene 3.
duck cover fit« trim and neat over ■
mud’s like grease.”
1,500,000.
•tu rd y alum inum frame conforming to'
Jerry stood rigid. His forehead
Get SLIMMER this
the streamlined contour o f your truck. On
A large oak may have as
was clammy.
or off in a jiffy. Slide faetener opening
much
as
87,000
square
feet
of
leaf
vitamin
candy
way
“Steady in there.” called Taggert.
each side o f back curtain.
Have a more «lender,
“Keep them off him. Steady.” His surface. That is, if all the leaves
graceful figure. N o exer-
from
the
tree
were
spread
flat
on
head turned as he glanced along the
cifcing N o laxative«. No
drug«. W ith the simple A Y DS
line. "Ready, kid?” Taggerts voice the ground and touching, they’d
,
VitarninCandy
Reducing Han
sharpened. “Signals!” he raised his completely cover two acres.
vou don’t cut out any mrala.
4.
Cerberus.
starches,
potatoes.
M M or
hands.
butter, you «imply cut them down. I t ’« ra«ier
Something clicked in Jerry's
when you enioy delicious (vitamin fortified i
AY OS candy before meal«. Abanlutely harmlea*
head. This is it, he thought.
3 holflhti fo re v o ry len g th . A voiloble
In rlim cal teat« condurted by medical doctor«,
4» »’ *«1,‘4. jS.
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“Seven, nine, eleven---- ”
more than lO O persona lo st 1 4 • • I S Iba.
from your autom otive
Get Well
•v o ra g o In a few w aaka w ith A Y D S V itam in
At worst it was a tie. But a tie
Candy Reducing Plan.
”* .dealer or write direct.
spoiled the season’s record. He
Regular size S2.2S. T rip le aiie IS .50. You get reaulta
on
very
first
boa
or
money
back.
Call
or
phone
couldn't make it.
F ro m Y o u r C ou til*
“Three, five---- "
C.K.TURK CORP.
Q uo to a C o ld
Wherever Drugs Are Sold
He'd done it too many times. A
Tear Owl This Ad a t a Ramlndar
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miss was overdue. He was going to
■ v l » L I w Cough Compound
miss.
"Two!”
The ball moved, grew large. It
came back straight. Taggert caught
it, placed it in position. Jerry took
a step. He froze.
_ a || « ,« d iffe r e n t bran d s you sm o ked
"Kick!” Taggert screamed, wild
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eyed.
Jerry gave a gasping sob. He
w hen so m any p eo p le d is c o v e r e d -fr o m e x p e rie n c e
stooped, snatched the ball from
Taggert’s fingers, and ran.
—th a t C am els s u it th e m b e s t. Y es, e x p e rie n c e is
He nearly hit the Aggie end,
th e b e s t te a c h e r. T h a t’s w h y . . .
charging in. The end tried to stop
himself, slipped, went down. His
mouth was still open in amazement
as Jerry dodged past.
He raced for the corner of the end
zone. He could hear Taggert pound
ing along behind him, shouting in a
high, excited voice, but nobody
came near him. As he crossed the
line, Jerry looked back. The Aggies
were standing motionless, bewil
dered.
Jerry touched the ball down. He
started to laugh. He looked up at |
the scoreboard and saw the 7 move
into place.
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toward the sideline. Taggert dove,
gathered it in. He slid all the way to
the Tech bench, and got up.
Farraday swore in sympathy. He
said; "Murder! That ball's slip
pery!"
“Tough to handle," agreed Jerry
“ You needn’t worry,” said F arra
day, chuckling. "They even hold It
for you. All you got to do is kick It.”
Jerry glared. Everybody figured
it was easy because he only played
a few minutes each game. He never
even got In a practice scrimmage;
too light, might get hurt. All he had
to do was kick it, and he hudn't
slept in a week thinking about it.
Tech started to drive. Taggert
sent his plays into the line. He was
snarling the signals, snapping his
backs at the Aggie defense like a
whip. Through tackle, guard, the
other tackle. Then, back along the
line. Five yards, three, four. A first
down. Another.
Tech kept marching.
"Yow!" shouted Farraday. Big
Dan leaped into the air. On the Tech
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