The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-30
THEIR BIG VICTORY
An Interesting Report Of the Butte
Olympic Christmas Game.
RELIANCE HAS HAD ENOUGH
The Home Boys VIII Play In Port
land on New Years Day-CIllis
and Hartzell We're the He
roes Wednesday.

San Francisco on the homeward jour.
ney. No game was played Sunday
The Buttes were unable to get another
game with Reliance, which team was
willing to rest contented with having
beaten Butte twice, and neither Berke-
ley nor Stanford would play Butte. A
game might have been played with the
Olympics. but as Butte has beaten
them three straight games there was
no object in playing them again.
The Buttes will arrive in Portland
for a game on New Years day. IL the
weather is favorable. They have a
game scheduled for Seattle Jan. s, and
are due home on Jan. 6. unless they
change their programme.
The following is said by the Exam
liner respecting the game Christmas
day with the Olympics:
A small boy with a Christmas gun
ribboned with the red and white of
Butte shouted:
Look out for Gillis."
The bleachers echoed back:
Look out for Gillisi"
Indeed. during the early part of tho
first half of the football game at Cen
trail park yesterday the Olympics were
kept very busy looking out for ellis,
and they did not look sharp enough.
The little Splinter from the north
seemed to be doing 1t all. Perhaps
you have never heard a football sig
nal 1t is the mysterious combination
of figures by which the captain OF a
team directs his men. Perhaps IL
means flying hump or a golden buck
or a red-headed right OF way. If II
Is objected that this Technology is not
exact. no matter. 1t will serve. The
signals:
'Seven-twenty-eig
''Four-eleven-forty- -four"
'Fifty-four-forty-or fight"
These will do as well as better, and
TO the small red-and-white boy with
the gun they were all an arithmetical
expression for Look out for ellis"
Now. figures won't lie, whatever
facts may do. and the small boy who
packed the gun for Butte was usually
right The ball had not been in play
for hve minutes when Gillis made an
astonishing run pretty nearly from one
end Of the field to the other. The ex-
perts will tell you the exact distance
TO yard. He was simply too speedy
for the Olympics. In few minutes he
made a touchdown. and that was four
for Butte, although they failed to get
the goal.
But ellis seemed to tire. He is a
great beginner. but he did not last.
Hartzell was the man who did the
bruising work for Butte. They used
him to buck the center. That is. they
used him as a human projectile for
over an hour and a half. No wonder
he laid fiat on his back nearly knocked
out of time at the close. but when the
star of ellis waned the red-and- white
boy with the small gun adopted Hart
zell for his hero.
600 boy. Hartzell. Give 'em the
crooked elbow"
The umpire. Mr.. Dygert from Chi
cago. was not a popular person with
the crowd or at least that part OF II
bearing the Olympic colors.
why, he's giving US the old rules!"
XIII the umpirel"
The Olympics were certain that he
was a decayed umpire, or words to
that effect. They certainly got the
worst of 1t in almost every dis
puted play.
Bert oliver and Pete Smith played
a magnificent game for the Olympics.
and they had perfect support from
Weldon, the full back. They and their
colleagues played well as individuals,
why" said Bert oliver. I'VE don't
know the signals"
That tells the story. No doubt the
Olympics were a finer aggregation OF
Individual players than the Buttes,
but they had little or no practice as a
team. The Buttes outplayed them al
in team work.
Robert NJ. Fitzgerald of Reliance
was looking on while somebody re-
marked that the team work of the |
Buttes was perfect.
NO" said Mr.. Fitzgerald. "it is not |
perfect. We found means to meet and |
break IL up. but IL is far too good for |
The Olympics. They are not in IL for |
team work with the Buttes.
The olympics should play an open !
on punting the ball. II
you will notice. the Buttes don't seem 4
% be able to catch the ball"
1t was true, and the Olympics found I
{ out. but not before the Buttes had
'cored two touchdowns and a goal, 4
making the score 10 to 0.
Just about the time Mr.. Fitzgerald
poke the bali sailed up with a mag
lificent punt from Weldon. Down IL
iropped into the hands OF ellis. He
umbled. He dropped the ball and
when he grabbed IL the Olympics were
N him and II was too late to make his
un. The Olympics has secured the full
advantage OF the long punt into the
nemy's territory by the time ellis got
he ball.
You see," said Mr.. Fitzgerald. "he
ught to have been down here by this
ime. All that ellis wants to make
lin a really great football player Is 10
'et out in a field and have a man kick
ootballs to him every day for a week
or practice in catching"
Pete Smith played with a bad shout
er. from which he suffered no little
ain. but that did not prevent his
ruising his way through the center of
lutte for a touchdown that broke the
e for the Olympics. Weldon. the full
ack was TO have played in the same
osition for the Stanfords, but on the
forming OF Thanksgiving day he was
aken OF. They were afraid he was
OF a sure tackle. and IL that is true
he change is wise. for IL took all that
ochrane knew to stop Ransome But
7eldon Is a magnificent punter, and he
ID fauitless work for the olymplcs
esterday.
The Olympics picked right up after
lie Buttes had scored ten points in the
rst half Despite the ease which the
uttes seemed to go through In wedges,
le fine individual plays OF the Olym-
cs told. The ball trickled out OF
uddy huddle OF squirting men. Bert
furar - q A. i