Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-17
The Football Match at the
Athletic Park.
A Very Holly Contested Game
From Start to Finish.
Newsy Paragraphs About the Will
low Wielders.
Baseball Game to Be Played This
Afternoon-Chatter and Gossip
About the Crack Ball
Players.

Young Mr.. Stimson halls from Chi
cago town. Stimson is good looking,
and is considered an Apollo by society
folks. Yesterday Stimson in an un-
guarded moment consented to referee
the football match between the Olive
club and the Law Students. Several
years ago "Stim" was quite football
player himself, and it is reported that
he once carried two of his opponents
past the goal line and obtained touch
down. This was in most important
match, and as result "Stim's' picture
appeared in Harper's Weekly. Now, as
a matter of fact, Stimson is well up on
football rules and etiquette, but the
young Chicagoan never struck so many
disciples of Blackstone in one game
before.
A football referee has more power
than the czar of Russia. There is no
appeal from his decision. Yesterday
every point of the game was discussed
with the referee. The law students did
themselves proud. They argued with
all the cloquence OF Demosthenes, but
Referee Stimson overruled all their
motions. Wilson, who was never known
to be on the on side of the line, was on
deck every minute with an objection to
some ruling. Wilson has read the rules
once day for the last four years, con-
sequently he is posted. There was one
decision yesterday that raised the ire of
Mr.. Wilson, and he threatened to take
the issue before the supreme court
Referee Stimson awarded the ball to
the Olives when it was in dangerous
proximity to the law students goal.
A half minute later Merle Manning Sc.
cured touchdown. There was kick.
Every lawyer in the team surrounded
the mild and gentle Mr.. Stimson. They
tried persuasive eloquence for fully ten
minutes. Stimson smiled over at the
umpire, as much as to say: "You are
lucky that you are not the referee" At
all events, the referee allowed the
touch down. The law students were
highly indignant.
George Wright essayed the kick, and
he sent the ball over the bar in
good style, and then half score OF
young athletes yelled, "Wah hoo wah
Wah hoo wah! Olive club! Olive club
Sis, boom, ah !"
The score stood 6 to 4 in favor of the
Olives, the law students having made
four in the early part of the
game. Chapman made the touch
down. The first half was hotly
contested. The law students opened up
with wedging and gained considerable
ground. The Olives appeared to be
little ratified and were quite nonplused
at the tactics employed by their op-
ponents. Harry Heffner smiled and
urged along his men to greater effort,
but it was a CHASTITY smile as the legal
luminaries kept crowding the ball closer
and closer to the Olive goal line. The
half-backs might as well have been in
Pasadena. They never got their hands
on the ball. This state of affairs contin-
ued for about twenty minutes. Chap
man was playing hard game for the
Blackstones. In fact, the great bulk of
the work fell on his shoulders and
score of times Chapman found himself
at the bottom of heterogeneous mass of
humanity.
The second half was very exciting,
both teams striving to their utmost. Not
point was gained, and the game ended
in favor of the Olives by score of to A.
The game was fairly interesting, and
the teams were unusually we'll matched.
In the second half Manning and Heffner
made several good runs. The former,
however, did not show to such advan-
tage as in the former game. Wright, the
Olive full back, played capital game,
and near the close of the match made
one of the best runs of the day. Pauly
and Downing tackled in good style.
The lawyers put up much stronger
game, their rush line doing much more
effective work than in their initial game.
Guthrie did yeoman's service, especially
as he was hurt in the early part OF the
game.
The law students claim that the ruling
of Stimson was incorrect, and that they
should have had the game by score OF
A to O, and that they were arguing the
matter when Manning got the touch
down. The teams were as follows.