The record-union., 1895-12-23
VERY SNAPPY GAME OF FOOTBALL.
And Sacramento's High School Lads
Were the Victors.
The Stocktonians Are Excellent Play
ers, But They Were Out
Classed.

The Sacramento High Schools pur-
pie and white are on top, and Stock
tons light blue and white are at half
mast
Van Voorhies, Captain of Sacramento,
says he does not know how it hap
pened, but Il guess we did 'em up pretty
WELL" he added.
Herkner of Stockton says that they
did not bring up a team representative
of the power of the San Joaquin Valley
Railroad city, and r. A. Barnes, who
wore about six yards of Stockton blue
and white, said, why, three of our star
players, Dorman, Griffith and Yost,
went to Modesto to play there"
But the Sacramento boys wink the
other eye'' when such tales are told,
and, without mentioning names, say
something about some of Stockton's al
legged star players having passed their
High School days.
Eight to six was the score. Sacramento
had the eight, and Stockton the six. The
Sacramento High School boys had the
and it was only through over-confidence
in themselves that Stockton scored
against them.
The day was an ideal one for the
players, but a little chilly for the spec
tators. A cold wind prevailed the whole
afternoon, but Jupiter Pluvius was con-
siderate enough to withhold his element,
although for few minutes before the
kickoff he seemed to get rather i'm
patient and tried to make the boys get
down to business by letting them have
a few drops of rain.
The grounds were, in some places,
pretty sloppy, but as football grounds
go, they were good, and the paddock
of Agricultural Park on Saturday was
the scene of the snappiest game of foot
ball that has taken place in Sacra-
mento
About 300 people were there. The
CAPITAL City boys had a goodly sprink
ling of rooters along the line, and the
judges stand was crowded with the
new woman in the form of the coming
sweet girl graduates bedecked with
purple and white, who evinced their
love and knowledge of the game by
yells as piercing as the tin horns and
cries of the rooters on the line and of
Badly" Leach and his crowd in the
handsome four-horse turnout.
The Sacramento boys, each and all
OF them, played a star game. The tan
dem plays of Van Voorhies and Bauer
through the center were sure ground
gamers every time, and Ira Mays mag
nihcent runs around the end, assisted
by the fine interference of the ends and
tackles, did much to carry the pigskin
TO the spot coveted by the Sacramento
boys. Hornlein made some pretty tack
les, and his play at quarterback on
snap-back was steady and reliable for
novice. Before the first touch down
Stockton had the ball but once, but it
was only for a minute, being lost on a
tumble, and regained by Jack Bauer
on a quick dash through the center.
Captain Herkner of Stockton made
some star plays for his team and it
was only through his desperate ral-
lying of his men that the Slough City
boys We're not '+eternally wiped out"
At 12:10 both teams came on the field,
and it was not long before the biting
wind made them get down to work,
practicing signals, goal kicking and
other tricks of the game, preliminary
to the grand melee. Charles Bentley
and A. E. Powell alternated as umpire
and referee, respectively, and R. w
Tully. Jr., of Stockton acted as lines
man. The young ladies in the judges
stand gave Charlie Bentley a spirited
''U. c., Berkeley yell when he was rec
ognized on the field but Charlie needed
1t not He was arranging for the dread
ful slaughter that was to follow NO
mass plays are to start before the ball
is in play" said he to Captain Herkner
And so ii was agreed. The teams lined
up as follows:
Sacramento. Stockton.
Merkley, v. Right End. Langley
Payne. 49,. Right Tackle. Listener
Merkley, R. Right Guard . Hansel
Birdsan ..... Center Moody
Reed. ...... Left Guard. Wortmiller
Faris. ..... Left Tackle .Deganna
Flint. Left End. Henderson
Bauer. >. Right Half back. .Mowbray
May. Left Half back. .Herkner
Hornlein. Quarter-b back. E. Flaherty
Van Voorhies FULL back. - Post
Average weight-Sacramento, 80
pounds; Stockton-145 pounds.
Time-First half, p minutes; second
half, 20 minutes
FIRST HALF.
Stockton won the toss and took the
ball. The first kickoff went into touch.
and it was returned to the center Of the
field and again kicked off. Ira MAY
promptly got possession of the ball and
was downed on a ffteen-yard run.
First down. Sacramento's ball-no gain.
Second down, Sacramento's ball-Van
VOORHEES, went through the center for
three yards. Then the ball was passed
to Jack Bauer, who gained another
ten for Sacramento.
And so it went-Van Voorhies
through the center, a sure gamer every
time. till on the eighth down the
ball was on the thirty-yart line.
after a pretty run by Ira May of
fifteen yards. Then Van Voorhies
and Bauer took their innings On the
thirteenth down, still Sacramento's ball.
Stockton got the ball on a tumble. II
was now on the five-yard line Stockton
was a little shaky and they fumbled.
and Bauer was on the ball like
a shot for Sacramento, two yards
to the goal line Van Voorhies was sent
through the center, and at 2:54 made the
first touchdown.
Stockton protested. They claimed a
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