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WORLDSPOt.M ItiM!■•*9»■mOF STATE THIS WEEKIm*f all members of the* S. A. T. O. severs j £ays furlough. This will extend to October fourteenth. Forty of the fourty-four men on West Virginia j 'Varsity squad are in the S. A. T. C.| and the commandant has ordered eM i of these ’Who can possibly leave town to do so. There are not a half doz-. ... en here now and practice, of coarse,Would Travel to Kenttu 3*Cy | has been Indefinitely celled off.fr^^iiHpwe these conditions are more or less general but West Vlrgina’s geographical location makes the rul-jf f iIf lt;Itl*or Ohio, Owing to SpanishInfluenza Here.ing of the committee hard for her.particularly1if? Forbidden by authorities to stage 9 game in West Virginia because the ^ •crowd drawn would tend to the spread ( Of influenza, the management of the | local high school eleven is endeavor-* Jt•Ing to secure 'a contest wltn somethe 1tAL DE ORO LONm*: high school team ou •®tato, for -‘{Saturday. Ashland, Ky.,•and Ironton, Portsmouth and Galli--jJ , % J’y . ft, ■*Hppfe O., are under consideration.Prior to the order annulling all *liome dates on the Red and Bine *l»cftedule until tTre drive against in- jnzs is successfully consummated.]H| Harvey college! had I cancelled |ths game which was to have been! ,iftajred here Saturday. Many students; Alfred De Oro. former champion, oiof the Barboursville institution have j th« world at three-cushicn caroms. | been stricken with the malady and «♦ lwhote» *»tive of Cuba» *8 * real vetdThree-Cushion Title-Holder Active Billard Star for ThirtyYears.«*williis probable that the Methodists play but one or two games this year.Under the able coaching of CoachGlen Colby, the Red and Blue grid eqQadron i« fast rounding into shape. :a new se cf signals is being triedand are rapidly being mastered. The new plays, inducted into the C. H. S. repertoire by the former college athletic director, are more complex than are generally undertaken by high school elevens, but the local warriors a#e quite adept at such things and ^Promise to put some of the feats ofwell-ordered Red and Blue machines of other years in the shade.- The new plays entail much passinc: and the squad is now engaged in perfecting itself cn the open game: not forgetting, however, that stiff defens* and the heavy line plays have won *C. H. S. more than one championship ;in*he past. Quarterback Keith Sea-! ton and Left Tackle Oablish are both » •good passers and will be depended! ~upon for initiating the open plays, it j is said.The illness or injury of at least five good members of the squad is more, regrettable because these new plays j are now being tried out, but their substitutes are, in each instance, of such ability that the eleven as it stands today is strong enough—Red and Blue •loyalists believe—to deflfct the strongest teams in the state.eran of the game.De Oro was born 55 years ago ini the province of Manzanillo, in the southeastern part of Cuba, where his father owned a large sugar plantation. He went to New Tor lt;wl n only 10 jrars old and attended a French academy. It was some years later, while8 peel aineSui#-IMade ToYour OrderWe have been succer%-v -iquantityofveryfimPitt, Army and Nebraska GamesCancelledandPracticeCalled Off.lt;Two things have made West Vir-■fr - ^2 ' $ Hi!7.; j., ;i5-5v ■ ■ ■.. / \ * ginia’* whole football season, and especially that part of it scheduled for Oct her, extremely uncertain. Tn the 'first place the committee cn education which has charge of the military *TCrk st all S. A T. C. institutions.has ordered that football men may be s~hsent from their institutions only;from noon on Saturday till ‘taps’ that' night. This makes inter-Coilegiate f^otbatl ot»t of the question for We* t ’Virginia since her nearest neighbor-1 are Pitt at Pittsburg and W. J. ot Washington, either of them foi r hours ride from Morgantown. In the next place the prevalence of !nfluen?a here wth about three hundred case in the two sections of the S. A. T. lt;\ has caused the commandant to givecontaining a large perc exceptionally desirabk mohair overcoating encmills in America.%These materials are no price, and, when theywill not be possible unNo extra charge for : linings.If you^need clothe3, thiiThe Unitedtra de- ma mAii
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Oct 10, 1918
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