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BOYER AND DUNKER TRAIN FOR ATHLETICS

     The two Phi Delta Theta upholders of the athletic standards at that rooming house, one and only Jack Boyer, and the all-exceptional Charles Dunker, train consistently for the gridiron. Boyer at the race track in *the vicinity of Pawnee City (where's the city) and the Dunker at the Rockville asylum, may be found working their muscular talents into shape for coming tests on the battle field.

      Now we might mention that Dunker came into the ranks of the Phi Delt boarding table through his unquieted efforts at the known Ft. Snelling in the year 1924. Dunker, who could scarcely get into his large size uniform because of his manly physique, invited the formerly well liked Junge (Youngee), Brinkerhoff (long deceased), and Jack Boyer (his co-athlete at the Coloseum) to partake of the Minneapolis Minnehaha Pale. The Minnie stands for Minnesota nector and the haha for the fooling of the Phi Delta boys. It was not as pale as supposed but caused the eye-sight to fade in favor of the camp hospital following Independence Day celebrations on the part of this self-rusher.

      Oh, yes. Stryker fell hard, too, for he was present at the encampment. As the summer drew to a close the Dunker lad had set himself up for a Phi Delt pledge button which he received the following fall when, you remember, the Youngee gab failed to attract the rushees.

      Well, Boyer and Dunker, in the pink of condition, started out for the pigskin game. When Dunker first saw the ball it appeared as an egg for he was so used to playing about with the eggs. Later, after the squad picture had appeared in the newspaper, Dunker persuaded Boyer to fade out of the spotlight towards Dreamland and the following year towards dear old Auditorium.

      Now Boyer, you may, if you get advice from Stryker, some day amount to something, and Dunker, if you could only live at Snelling and burn the oils of early morning as in former times, you might get away on our campus--away off, we mean. Don't cock your head too soon, old boy. You ought to letter about the time Shostak does anyway.

 

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