Rutgers Gets Stolen Cannon After Tip-Off by telegraph

Rutgers had its Little Red Cannon back when it took the field against Lafayette Saturday and still had it when its team trotted off the field two hours later, 20 to 1 victors and Middle Three champs for the third successive year. They had beaten Lehigh, the third corner of the conference, the week before their trip to Cambridge, and their victory over the Crimson.

Rutgers Targum editor William Mackenzie and cheerleader Douglas Campbell took possession of the cannon Thursday afternoon at a Kirkland House rendezvous. They came in answer to a midweek telegram from the thief reading: HAD NOT REALIZED THE CANNON MEANT SO MUCH TO RUTGERS. THE DEED WAS DONE OUT OF A SPIRIT OF PRANKISHESS.

The little Red Cannon, symbol of Middle Three football supremacy, was whisked up into the Crimson colonnades between the halves of the Rutgers game. Distraught Targum editors branded the theft "poor sportsmanship." The cannon is "a very important thing" to the Middle Three, they pointed out.

Delirious Lines

When the editors had the Little Red Cannon back in their hands this weekend, the staff odist penned some delirious lines to be sung to the tune of 'Casey at the Bat." They follow"

O somewhere in the football leagues A little trophy stands, Surrounded by a cheering throng And gaily-playing bands. But up at quaint old Cambridge Town The flag is at half-mast, For there is no gun at Harvard; Our cannon's back at last.

News travels slowly at a college of 4200. The day after the Little Red Cannon left Crimson hands, the syndicate's Kirkland House headquarters received an offer of a free plane rids to and from New York if they would bring the cannon.