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TITO ATORYl Daaaft Hoaa.
plar bak of Macola Field
radef pilot foolhall tram, la
MrnahlnK" Nanrr Hair, mara to
tha morrow of I)lr(ha Miller.
Kaner.' a anldtrr'a yoanc widow
Willi a amnll aim, araa rrarned hr
Inane from an aula wreck, and
Siren a lob and a plaeo fo lire
at Inn field. Neither Ddh nor
Kaner knowa lhat la-rear-old
nirfhe fa In lorn with Dnaae. 8a
lllrthe Baa aer problem. But ao
doea her father. Pop Miller, the
endeta1 football roach. For hea
Jnat been vlalted by a downtown
irambler who glrea him asono. re
aiteallna that tho eaileta loae to
tnorrow'a same with a crack col
;Jrg team. , . ,
INTERFERENCE
CHAPTER VIII
JIN hour before practice timi
this Friday afternoon, Blytht
Miller parked her bike outside th
Lincoln gym and started around
to Pop's office. She had agreed,
when Nancy telephoned her, te
help Pop while Nancy ran an er
rand downtown. She turned th
corner of the building In tune to
see a man leave by the main door.
The man was a stranger. H
-wore a derby, and an overcoat
with collar turned up. He almost
trotted out front, to a taxlcab
which had been waiting. Hedidn'l
see Blythe at all, and she walked
on In.
When she entered Pop's office,
though, something in the very at
mosphere arrested her.
"Golly, Pop, you look like Mus
solini! Sitting there red-faced,
with your lip all pooched out!"
He didn't answer, but quickly
he took a fat envelope from the
desk top and stuck it in the middle
drawer. Blythe noted, with fresh
surprise, that his hand was trem
bling. His eyes avoided her. He
began swearing a little, under his
breath, and Blythe knew she was
witnessing one of his extremely
, rare fits of anger.
.. He got up and left the room
and she stared then at the desk
drawer. It was where he kept a
referee's whistle, a book of foot
ball rules, two stop watches, a
- timekeeper's pistol and boxes of
blank shells, a few newspaper
clippings and photos and such.
SVhy had he hastily put a fat
envelope in there? And why was
he shaking?
Blythe had an impulse to open
the drawer and explore. Instead,
she opened it and pushed the en
' velope far back under the papers
end photos there. She couldn't
v have said why except that this
was Pop's private office and this
was Pop's business. Too many
people liked 'to loaf in here. Over
to one side was the typewriter
" desk used by Nancy Hale.
"If my curiosity doesn't bust,"
Blythe murmured.
TT didn't, and she went on with
her stenographic work. . Oi
4with Nancy's, until Nancy re
turned. Pop didn't come back in.
Baby Scooter, who had been
asleep upstairs, was brought down
' dressed in his own football suit,
;to report for practice in due form.
' (He rode out on Duane Hogan'a
; jshoulder, with Link the puppy
. rolling on his leash of shoestrings.
Being a cocker. Link got a great
workout just stumbling over his
own ears.
Practice was spotty, as it fre-
quently is on the day before a
major game. Norman Dana, quar
terback, would perform brilliantly
for five minutes, then do some-
Ithing inexcusably dumb. The two
' ends developed butter fingers, and
ell three cadets who played cen
ter began fumbling the ball. In
6hort order the second team
' seemed better than . the first
Scooter sat in Blythe's lap on the
sidelines bench, and big Duane
came over once and knelt beside
. them.
"Something's on Pop's mind,
Bly," he spoke soberly.'
"You're telling me! And II
-seems to be catching."
"Fellers all have the pre-game
Jitters," he nodded. "Guess even
.: Pop wants to win this one bad.
Well "
"Oh, Duane! Of course he does!
But he he was mad about some
. thing. Biting mad!"
"Mmm? Well well, by George,
I feel swell, myself. Maybe I can
hop the gang up for him tomor
row. Playing the old alma! I
wanta show those new punks back
there how it's done! By George,
, I will!"
He ran back to the field then,
moving with infinite grace despite
the 188 pounds of him. His
muscles seemed to flow. Blythe
watched him hungrily, lovingly,
as he charged the subs for four
straight first downs. She saw his
punt soar 70 yards and cross the
side line with amazing accuracy.
Whatever jitters the others felt,
big Duane was still solid, cooL
And it was that way, too, on
the morrow.
a
O ATURDAY threw down a splash
of rain, a dash of sleet, a
itwo-inch Bpread of snow, then
lurned on the sur. in rU its glory.
At 2 o'clock th st-.dium was full.
At 2:30 the bands were silent and,
quoting the loud speakers, "Duane
Hogan, All-America fullback from
the school which is his opponent
this afternoon, is kicking off for
the Lincoln Field cadets. Hogan
is a Texas cowboy whose miracle
runs and punts last season made
him the nation's outstan mumble,
mumble, mumble." It was like
a radio voice fading out while
other sounds took over. The other
sounds here were a frenzy ot
cheering, a rumbling of military
drums,
The 5000 Lincoln cadets saw
Dunne's kickoff shoot upward.
The ball seemed to hover up there
a moment like one of their own
planes stalling, glided a few yards,
then nose-dived down. When it
crashed it was on the seven-yard
line and three Lincoln lads were
all over it, to the Aggies' con
sternation. But the Aggies fought out of
that hole, and indeed kept fighting
all afternoon. They knew about
big Duane, and they knew ntout
Normdb Dana, his old dyajfrjim, I
a rival schcM.. State D. Tney ava
both experts plcaty of work to
do. Pop Miller pranced nervously
all the while. Between halves his
talk was vehement. The score
then stood 0 to 0. .
"Lads, lads, you are like boys
in grade school!" he chided. "I
have taught you to drive, but you
must drive with care! Don't over
run your interference. Don't let
their ball carrier wreck your tim
ing with a simple change of paccl
Haven't I snowed you now?"
They drank water, sucked
oranges, tried to relax. They made
solemn vows. They donned fresh
socks. They went back with grim
vim and vigor. And again tho
teams played stand-off ball until
late in the last quarter when
Duane backed up to the far corner
and himself caught a punt Then
before anyone quite realized it.
he had charged through 10 Aggies
and was outrunning the 11th in
a race diagonally across the field.
On the Lincoln bench, Nancy,
Blythe, Scooter and all the subs
shrieked in excitement Staff pho
tographers and even a newsreel
man leaped out Big All-America
Hogan was coming! Hell-bent,
driving, and grinning happily
withal. Link the puppy yapped
In frenzy, snatching at his leash.
Nancy Hale dropped it to hug
Blythe in a wild dance. Scooter
picked up the string. "Run, Ho
gan, run!" That was Pop's quite
unnecessary coaching, shrieked as
he too jumped up and around.
Then in one dramatic instant
a near silence swept tho whole
bench, the whole stadium.
One of those things that just
don't happen but do! ..us hap
pening there before 60-odd-thou-
sand people!
Yapping wildly, and towing
baby Scooter on his string, Link
the puppy had dashed onto tho
field to greet Duane Hogan, the
man both babies loved!
(To Be Continued): .
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