The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-17
ANDNOW THEY'RE OFF
The Pigskin Artists Are Flying To-
wards the Coast.
THEY'LL TRAVEL SKY HIGH
Next Saturday the Big Game OF
Football VIII Be Played at San
Francisco-AiI Prepared to
Win New Laurels.
THEY'LL TRAVEL SKY HIGH

Butte, for Montana and for themselves.
to conquer or die on the field Of battle.
The members of the Butte football team
spent Sunday night in their special car.
Minnewaska, to save getting up too early
in the morning. All were out bright and
early, however, bidding goodbye to q
score or two of rooters who were down to
see them of.
The football car was at the rear Of the
train. On each side were long streamers
extending the full length of the car.
with the words. Butte Football Team,
Butte, Mont"
In the teams baggage is a bundle Of
1,50o small streamers bearing the word
Butte" which will be used to decorate
carriages. and will be carried by any
friends the team may find on the coast.
ready to root for them.
The war cry of the Buttes was given
again and again as the train pulled out,
while answering shouts came from the
crowd on the depot platform. The cook
was busy and the delicious aroma of cof-
fee and the appetizing smell of frying
pork chops was left In the wake of the
speeding train. The boys were to have
breakfast just as soon as they left Butte.
They have an abundance of provisions
and will live on the fat of the land
A furry of excitement was created just
before the train started by a letter which
came I'm the mail and was handed Man
ager Stivers. The letter was from the
secretary of Claus Spreckels, and desired
to know the terms on which Butte would
make trip to Honolulu. There are two
good football teams in Honolulu. Man
ager Stivers said the team would go to
Honolulu II all its expenses are paid,
but would not take any chances. Most of
the boys seemed anxious to go to Homo
lulu, but 1t Is doubtful IL satisfactory ar
rangements can be made.
Twenty-Five Of the "a berths in the Min
newaska were occupied. The party in
cluded Is players. namely, Brooks. Jim
Hooper, Charley Hooper, Perham. Hart
zell, ellis, Mcmillan, Monroe. Ellis, King,
Slater, Smith, Richards. Weiss, McPher-
son and Boyce. There will thus be seven
substitutes to take the place of any who
may be incapacitated of the IL regulars.
In addition to the Is players the car Goa
tains D'Gay Stivers, manager: James
Thompson, treasurer; Bert III. Smith, of
the Standard, and b. f. st. Charles of
the Miner
Mayor Thompson did not go in the foot
ball car, but found accommodate lions I'm
the regular sleeper. Governor Richards
and the members Of the capitol commits
sion were also on the train, en- route for
Olympia. Wash.
Now that the team has started, betting
has begun. The main interest lies In the
game with Reliance next Saturday and II
Is generally believed that IL Butte wins
that game 1t will make a clean sweep
There were all sorts of bets made yester-
day. Odds of $25 to 800 were accepted
that Butte would win every game. Slight
odds were given that Butte would not
lose more than one game and even money
was accepted on the match with Reli-
ance. Since Butte met Reliance before II
has been strengthened by the addition of
three marvelously good men-Jim Hoop
er, Hartzell and Mcmillan. The Reliance
team has also been strengthened In spite
of the loss of Mcmillan and a man who
takes either side of the bet on that game
is bound to get run for his money.
recent issue of the San Francisco
Call says of the coast teams:
THE Butte city football team will ar
rive in this city Monday, the 18th inst.
in a special car chartered for the occa-
sion. The team will line up against the
Reliance clubs football eleven on the af-
ter noon Of Saturday, the 2lst inst. 1t is
said between 1900 and $1,000 will ac-
company the northern athletes and that
this money will be placed in wagers that
the Butte city team will defeat the strong
and able football players of the Reliance
club.
ION the afternoon of the 18th inst. the
Butte city and Olympic club team will
try conclusions at Central park. and the
many friends of the o. c. eleven are
in hopes that the local eleven will come
out on top.
THE Reliance and Olympic players are
now on the very best of terms, and on
Monday the Reliance club boys will leave
Oakland for this city, where they pro-
pose to remain until after their meeting
with the Butte City team. The Reliance
and olympics will practice daily at Gen.
IL
the invaders be in very good condition
they win meet with another defeat by the
Oakland club.
The Reliance football team will elect
a captain Tuesday evening 20 the posi-
ton left vacant by McMillan's recent al
lance with the Butte eleven, and the
Oakland men hope to have two practice
games at Central park before they face
the Butte giants Dec. 81"
A Fort Douglass man, in an interview
In the Salt Lake Herald, says of the con-
with the Butte players:
Our boys know how to put up a fine
game when they take a notion and that
crowd from Butte who were here not long
ago didn't do the square thing exactly. /
found out all about the BLUM they tried 10
run in on US. You see the fort team
couldn't get excuesd from duty often
enough to practice when they wanted 90,
and the way the Butte team went about
the thing wasn't just exactly to our view
OF preliminaries. Why. they wouldn't
even reply TO a letter we wrote them once
and when they arrived here we saw
Brooks Immediately and wanted TO ar
range for a game on their return trip
from Denver. Brooks wanted to play
then. couldn't walt at all. and we finally
but after they came up and
saw the fort team they backed down. We
wanted to arrange for a game on the
18th OF last month. after all the work
around the post was done, but they
wouldn't agree to It. We wanted to play
them any time. and would have done so
II they could have stopped over until we
could have got the team together. The
captain Of the Butte team made the re-
mark that he didn't want his team bro
ken up'-after he gazed awhile upon the
Tigers The Butte team Is a collection
like to see once in Is years.
Now we have always had a lot OF
trouble with those blamed reporters.
They come up here sometimes and some
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