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A Natural Kicker

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

William W. Heffelfinger, the once famous kicker of the Yale football team, to whom President Roosevelt has offered a place on the civil service commission, has just been in Washington looking over the ground, says the New York Tribune. On learning the duties which would fall to him as a member of the commission Mr. Heffelfinger was sorely disappointed and went back to his home in Minneapolis with the president's offer still under advisement. Speaking of his disappointment, he said: "When I came down here I thought my job as civil service commissioner would be finding out infractions of the law and kicking people out of the government service. Now I find that most of my work would be getting people into office. There's no fun in that. l'd rather kick them out. I don't know whether I will accept or not."