field looked.  Sawdust had been lavished on the muddiest spots, in the morning, but now they scarcely showed it.  The rain came down with ever- increasing fury, soon forming into puddles here and there over the field.  A few players were out practicing and the way they slid around in the mud made me think that a football-player was a real nervy fellow to go out in it.
     All the time, the Alliance rooters, who had pronounced upon the eastern section of the grandstand, kept up and incessant yellow.  A medium-sized fellow, always alert, stood down in front of the tiers in of seats with a huge megaphone in his hand, and when he gave the signal, they would burst forth into some weird chant