The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-25
THEY WERE PRAISED
The San Francisco Papers Are Proud
of the Buttss.
SAID OF THE GREAT GAME
Oniis' Magnificent Run of 90 Yards.
They'll Never Forget-Cartoons
of the CIants-A Splendid
Word Picture.

The San Francisco papers, Whicn
arrived in Butte yesterday. were feao
by numbers OF the football cranks still
left In town. The papers all have ex-
tended accounts Of the game With
sketches by their artists on the scene.
The Call portrays oliver making MS
splendid run to a touchdown; CAP
tain Mcmillan smiles IN his o,u
friends" "Mr. ]. Hooper OF Butte.
"D'Gay Stivers and his medals. me
Call says of the game: 1T was such
contest as football enthusiasts see nut
once In a decade. The two heaviest
and most powerful teams that have
ever been seen in the West fought In
slime and mud for nearly two hours
and a half. and so hard and fercely
that four men were assisted from the
field unable to continue the struggle
Time after time big men, great ZOO
pound fellows, lay on the muddy
ground completely Frustrated from the
severity of their exertions and the tre-
mendous force of their compact with
the human wall they encountered. But
with all their herceness and rushing
and terrible smashes the splendid game
was unmarried by any exhibition Oh
smuggling"
the Call says: How hard and how
valiantly Butte played in the short
time that remained! Again and again
their great sprinter nearly got clear of
the crowd by his dashes. And then
when It looked as though Reliance
would surely score again that wonder
full run came. A man in black jersey
flashed up the field with the speed OF
racehorse, almost from one goal to the
other.
Butte had scored at the very end
when every one was momentariiy ex-
pecting the call of time. 1t was mag
a
run of 80 yards with eleven men rail-
ing further and further behind In flu
tile effort TO catch the man with the
ball under his arm.
A little while longer and the game
was ended. although the Butte men
tried repeatedly to send their remark
able runner on a second squirt that
would have tied the score.
The Reliance backs were playing
close up to the line, when the unex-
pected happened. Butte had just
stopped Reliance up for the third time
and got the ball on the 2o-yard line.
Reliance did not fear a kick, for Butte
had not been very successful in kick
ing. II was a line smashing drive that
Reliance looked for. Big Hartzell had
hurled through them too often to be
forgotten in the crisis. The ball was
snapped back. whisked to ellis. who,
starting as though he were fired from
a cannon. cleaned canyons END and
sped up the field. skirting close to the
human fence that bent and curved for
ward over the side lines.
With one roaring burst or non-partf-
san admiration the crowd went wild
wilder than IL had been at any one of
the brilliant performances of the home
team, with which the great majority OF
the hundreds of spectators had shown
their sympathies.
The game merited all the praise that
the spectators with one accord heaped
upon the great exhibition. Men rushed
along the side lines telling each other
that IL was the best match they had
ever seen; and the only regret is that
the unfavorable weather prevented Its
being seen by more people, for IL was
one of those exhibitions that spectators
go about after and tell their friends,
You ought to have seen II"
For Butte, next to Gillis' great run
Hartzelrs unfailing plunges into the
line were a revelation to California.
When the game started a big man
from Butte called out repeatedly, "s10(
on Butte" but no one took him up
The Butte manager was there with al
his insignia and medals and emblems
and trophies and flags attached to hi:
person. People wondered who he was
but he went steadily on writing hi:
two-minute bulletins and sending then
TO the telegraph instruments, for Butt,
and two other Montana towns wer,
taking a half holiday to receive thos,
bulletins. 1t was not enough that tive
special correspondents should be pres
ent. Butte must have a special wire
and she had IL. with all the munificen
style that has characterized her reck
less backing Of a sport into which tn
people of Montana have plunged hear
and soul"
The Examiner says: "The football
ers from Butte were defeated yester
day at Central park. but they were no
by any means disgraced. for they CAV
the Reliance cracks a tussle that will
linger in their memories when othe
games are forgotten"
The Examiner speaks of two sta
plays. the touchdowns of oliver an
the run of Gillis. OF the latter IL says
ellis, the wonderful Splinter of tn
Butte aggregation. created the othe
sensation. They did not play with hin
in the first half. preferring to save hi
strength and speed for the later stage
of the game, and in this the Butt
managers were wise.
''Gillis is fast, but he is no mud
horse" is the way the Butte capital
explained the renowned sprinter's All
sence from the early lineup We wi
probably need him later and we war
10 keep him clean and dry
rGillis made some telling end run
before he accomplished his coup and
warning cry came from the stoopin
Reliance men to look out for ellis
THE ball after changing hands wit
great rapidity several times was in II
possession of the Buttes. II wa
passed to ellis and he started o
around left end like a bullet out of
gun.
'Lanyon reached for him and I
lodged past. Then Prick caught
slight grip of the fieetfooted Montana
but failed TO hang on. Now wycko
rushed to tackle him. only to miss, ar
the speedy youngster was away on
journey. IL was fully 80 yards to Il
Reliance goal. and though Hanlon ar
HARRISON. the swiftest runners in Il
ranks of the Oakland players. made Il
race OF their lives they were left q
behind. The boy from Butte out-foo
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