The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-14
BIG jim HOME AGAIN
The Football Cranks and Players Will
Now Rest Easily.
HIS RED HAIR IS HERE, TOO
He viii Play In His Regular Posi-
tion-A Hint to Dereiicts-About
the Coast Trip and Many y
Suggestions and Gossip.

swelling of the head of any one who
was supplied with less than the hard
common sense that Butte's old
grand stand favorite. When the
aupurn-haired giant left Butte
months ago to fulfll his pre-
vious engagement with his alma
mater. the University of Michigan.
tnere were some people who UNDER
estimated his loss and thought that
tne team could get along without him
SUBSEQUENT events. however, and par
ucuiariy the manner in which the
Butte line went to pieces in the Re-
lance game. reversed these opinions
ana pubic confidence in the ability Of
the smoke eaters to win games on their
| California trip would have been great
~ shaken had they been compelled to
| go without Jim Hooper. There is now
no disputing the fact that he is the
mainstay of the Butte line and he can
do more to steady it down at critical
moments than any one else. Hooper's
hair is just as red as when he left
Butte and there is just as much of it.
He weighs 2O4 pounds. stripped, and is
IN perfect condition. He practiced
with the team yesterday morning and
again in the afternoon in his old DO
sition at left guard, and he will be
able to practice with them or 10
times more before the Reliance game
After playing against all the crack
teams of the East, however, his old
position comes easy to him and he
Is not nearly so much in need of prac-
tice as are one or two men who have
been playing with the team for some
time.
Hooper was asked for his opinion of
the team by Standard reporter last
evening and he said with some re-
luctance: Individually the team is
much stronger than when l left, but
In team work / don't think it's up to
what 1t should be with the time and
practice it has had and the material
that 1t has had to work on. There is
material In Butte to make a team that
would be equal to any that can be got
together between Butte and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, not excepting
the University of Michigan or Chi
cago. The Butte football teams fame
has spread and this city is now spoken
of in Chicago and in the East as hav-
ing one of the leading teams of the
West"
In speaking of his recent experiences
he said: 'The practice games that 1
played in after / arrived at Ann Arbor
were all harder than any game / had
ever played in Butte. The five center
men in the scrub team which we prac-
ticed against averaged 209 pounds and
they played good football Michigan
year and she is now classed with the
big four-Yale. Harvard. Princeton and |
Pennsylvania. Harvard was the only
team that defeated us, and we held |
them down TO the same number of |
points that they scored against Prince
ton. / played in nine of the games. |
which were all that were played after /
1 Joined the team. and played left |
guard in all of them"
Hoopers departure from Butte last |
October was all a mistake, and was
due to the fact that one of the players |
to whom he entrusted a message for
Manager Stivers failed to deliver II.
Hooper wanted to remain in Butte, but
under ordinary conditions he could not /
stay here. and he expected to be
brought back before he got 100 miles
away from Butte. One of the men who
was in on the secret failed to perform
his part, however. and the big fellow
was not interfered with, greatly to his
That higher state of perfection in
.eam work has not been reached by the
Buttes is due to the fact that there are
three or four of the players and one in
particular who persistently disregard
he most ordinary rules of training.
rhe one particular individual referred
20 has puffed up all out of shape onJ
account OF the kind treatment he has
received in Butte, and he has not prac-
iced with the team half a dozen times
'ince 1t returned from Denver, besides
'efusing to eat at the training table.
The general tendency of the players is
% live up to the rules and work earn
'stly for the advancement of the team,
Ind the three or four who don't OBJ
erve these rules and persist in carous-
ng around at night are simply laying
lp trouble for themselves.
Captain Brooks has decided that bar
ing accidents the Butte team will
Inc up against Reliance at San Fran
isco week from to-day in the follow
ng order: Charley Hooper, center;
I'm Hooper. left guard; Slater. left
ackle; King. left end; Perham. right
uard; Monroe. right tackle; Bohn.
ight end; Brooks. quarter back: Gil
s. left half back; Mcmillan, right half j
ack; Hartzell, full back. This is
robably the very strongest team that
lutte can put in the field. and IL IL is |
eaten the Reliance men will surely
81 game OF their lives. With old stag
RS like Jim Hooper and Perham in the
ne to steady IL down II should be inn
regnable against all assaults, and IL I'll
i'll probably be so hard and immov- / {
bic that the opposing players viii hurt
lemselves every time they hit IL. With 4
he splendid interference which the
am is now showing Gillis and McMil- A.
N may be depended upon TO make
bod gains every time they get the ball
nd the Oakland men will have TO arm | ,
lemselves with sledge hammers IL
ley expect TO keep Hartzell from go &
& through their line. Monroe, who Is
'wn to play right tackle. is the
rongest man on the team and he has .
lproved wonderfully in his playing
irfng the last two weeks. He Is a fast 1
inner. a hard and sure tackler.
Id he is not afraid OF anything.
We are out for that Reliance game"
Id Captain Brooks yesterday, and
E have got TO have it, IL will be the r
me Of the year on the coast. and we l
oppose TO win it. We are not at all I
er-confident. but we cannot bring I
rselves to a serious consideration Of .
possibility of losing It, We are well
ed for substitutes and particularly
IN backs We are not going into the Z