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 along and upset calculations horribly. Horner came from a long way off, but a hard railway journey had not hurt them a bit, it seemed.

Wyndham scored first, in the second quarter, when, held firmly on Horner's nineteen yards, Stoddard kicked a goal from the twenty-eight. But that was the last of such performances, for after that the game was all Horner. The Blue-and-Brown took the ball on its forty-two when the third quarter arrived and rushed it straight down to Wyndham's twenty-six, using off-tackle and round the end plays varied with one forward-pass that was good for eight yards. Wyndham held for two downs and then succumbed before a tricky play that should have been either a kick or a pass and was a quick quarterback plunge at center that landed the ball just short of the required distance. A wedge on the left of the dark blue line made it first down, and from the fifteen Horner took the ball over in six plays, battering at Desmond and Weldon until the right of the Wyndham line finally crumpled and the last charge yielded four long yards and a touchdown.

"G. G." replaced Desmond with Smythe and, still later, sent half a dozen other substitutes dribbling in. But Horner couldn't be seriously dented between tackles, and although, as a final desperate enterprise, "G. G." sent Sproule in for Whitemill with instructions to round the ends, Wyndham came no nearer another score than the enemy's thirty-two yards, from where, well along in the fourth quarter, "Big Bill"