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Confound you, you turned out in togs at this late hour, just to put me out of the running!" Before noon the next day Lehigh turned up -team, subs., howlers and all, and as many as could crowded into the conveyances that had been sent down to the railway station to meet the team and coaches.
We were henceforth to walk in the company of great rivers: the Susquehanna, like some epic goddess, was to lead us to the Lehigh; the Blue Mountains were to bring us to the Delaware; and the uplands of Sullivan County were to bring us to the lordly gates of the Hudson. Our chests expanded as imagination luxuriated in the pictures it made. Our walk was only just beginning.
Only seven minutes of playing time were left. It seemed too short in which to do anything in the faces of the Army players there glowed the light of determination. Within three minutes the ball was well down in Lehigh territory. The college men fought grimly now. They were becoming rattled; the Army players seemed more confident and more full of spirit than at time in the day.
Numerous petitions, therefore, came before the legislature to stop the immigration of Negroes. It was proposed in 1840 to tax all free Negroes to assist them in getting out of the State for colonization. The citizens of Lehigh County asked the authorities in 1830 to expel all Negroes and persons of color found in the State. Another petition prayed that they be deprived of the freedom of movement.
For the next few minutes the Army eleven indulged in practice plays and kicks. During this period, the cheer-master cadets and the corps of cadets were busied with the various Army yells and songs that promised victory for the young soldiers. Nor were the Lehigh "boosters" anything like idle. Every time an Army cheer ceased, the Lehigh sympathizers cheered their own team.
Spirits were gloomy among the West Point rooters. Yet, within a few moments, they sat up, taking notice. Dick, with his nerves a-tingle, his eye keen, measured up the Lehigh batsman and sent in one of his old-time, famous Gridley spit-balls. It looked slow and easy. The Lehigh man swung a well-aimed crack at the ball. "Strike one," announced the umpire.
He was one of the leaders at Lehigh, who first organized that University's football team. He was a truly remarkable player. What he did in football is well known to men of his day. He loved the game; he wrote about the game; he did much to help the game. "Hail and Farewell," crowded by the Hawaiians into one pregnant word! Would that this message might mean as much in as little compass.
But the afternoon of Saturday belonged to pleasure -on this Saturday to sport! Lehigh University was sending over the strongest baseball nine it could put up, in the effort to beat West Point on the Military Academy's diamond. "It'll seem just like good old Gridley High School days," repeated Greg. "Yes," smiled Dick darkly, "with the same rascal, Bert Dodge, to keep my thoughts going."
In connection with this phase of his college life I quote from an appreciation which M. A. De W. Howe, one of Richard's best friends both at college and in after-life, wrote for The Lehigh Burr at the time of my brother's death: "To the credit of the perceptive faculty of undergraduates, it ought to be said that the classmates and contemporaries of Richard Harding Davis knew perfectly well, while he and they were young together, that in him Lehigh had a son so marked in his individuality, so endowed with talents and character that he stood quite apart from the other collegians of his day.
I am to caution the persons that whatever they say will be taken down, and may be used against them." "Quite right. You'll be an Inspector yourself one of these days. Now, miss!" With that he dismissed her, under my care. Lehigh Street was not very far off about twenty minutes' walk from the station. I confess I thought the Inspector had been rather hard on Priscilla.
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