Missouri Tigers Off to Mexico Without Leave

A special to the Post-Dispatch from Columbia, Mo., has the following to say about the Missouri Tigers that are starring down in Texas: After long and mature deliberation of the discipline committee of the State University it was decided that the papas of the members of the football team should be notified that their sons were dallying with Texas teams, without the written permission of the faculty. In other words, the faculty committee on discipline has decided that if there is to be any punishment of the eighteen stalwart lads who have been walloping all comers in Texas that it must come from parental hands.

On the 10th of this month the team left Columbia for a Texas tour. They carried with them a neatly worded epistle to the effect that the eighteen young men on the tour were excused from university duties for one week. This was duly signed by the president of the university.

After playing a couple of games, in which they demonstrated to the Texans that they did not know the rudiments of the game, one Hill, with sundry Pullman palace cars and other things conducive to a good time, proposed to the Missourians that he take them into the Mexican republic, where they were to play for the edification of President Diaz and the natives. So delighted were the Missourians that without further ado the proposition was accepted, without even so much as an intimation to the faculty of the proposed trip.

When the team failed to show up on Wednesday, President Jesse notified the discipline committee of the infringement of the rules, being out of town without excuse. The discipline committee immediately went into a star chamber session and, after mature deliberations, decided that President Jesse should notify the parents of the footballists. President Jesse is out of town and in all probability by the time he returns the football team will be back.

The team will go in company with a Texas team into the republic of Mexico, where during the holidays exhibition games will be played in the City of Mexico and Monterey. The team has been assured by personal letter that President Diaz will be at the Mexico City game. It will be the first football game ever played in the Aztec country and the Mexicans are waiting to get a line on the relative brutality of the game, and bull fighting.

President Diaz has signified his intention of declaring a holiday and making the game a state affair. Since the Missouri team left on its southern tour it has played four games and scored 101 points to its opponents' nothing.