. Old Boston boys and the games they played . ls were Beacon Street Mall uponone side, and the path leading from Flag- 84 OLD BOSTON BOYS staff Hill to Charles Street upon the was quite a wind blowing, andDixwells boys, winning the toss, chosethe side with the wind, thus giving us thekick-off. In this game they started in likeyoung tigers and did us up in fifteen min-utes. In the next game we woke up a bit,but although we had the wind to help us,it took forty minutes to land the ball pasttheir goal. This evened things up as faras games went, but it could be seen at aglance that we
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . ls were Beacon Street Mall uponone side, and the path leading from Flag- 84 OLD BOSTON BOYS staff Hill to Charles Street upon the was quite a wind blowing, andDixwells boys, winning the toss, chosethe side with the wind, thus giving us thekick-off. In this game they started in likeyoung tigers and did us up in fifteen min-utes. In the next game we woke up a bit,but although we had the wind to help us,it took forty minutes to land the ball pasttheir goal. This evened things up as faras games went, but it could be seen at aglance that we were being outplayed. In the third game we managed to standthem off five minutes longer than in thefirst; but they finally warmed us again,this time requiring twenty minutes to dothe trick. Right here was where their un-doing came in; for if the match had beentwo out of three, they would have hadus beaten then and there; but we have allhad, I take it, more or less experience withthat short but potent if. We started in at once upon the fourth. John P. Hall James DWoit Lovett OLD BOSTON BOYS 85 game, and though we again had the windto contend with, after a protracted struggleof forty-five minutes we gained the covetedgoal. The match now stood two all, andevery belt was drawn up another hole; forthe tug of war was on, and the wind hav-ing died down, we were upon an equalfooting. The fifth and deciding game wasat once called, and I cannot do better thanto quote the late lamented Cliff Watsonsentertaining version of it forty years after-wards at a reunion dinner (several of whichhe gave at the Union Club to four of usveterans, Gat Miller, Jim Ames, John Hall,and myself), relating how Jim Lovettloafed around with his hands in his pock-ets, during the first four games, and then,when everybody else was used up, finallywoke up and finished the game, after forty-seven minutes, by kicking the winninggoal, thus ending the match and justifyingthe selection of a third class player. Right her
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