The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-16
NOT DlSMAYED.
The Big Eleven vii. Give Denver a Game
That viii BE a Corker.


Neither dlsmayed nor discouraged by
their defeat of Wednesday BItte's foot
ball players are hard at work again
practicing for their trip to Denver
They are devoting particular attention
to their interference and to bucking the
line all in bunch. They are also ia
miliarizing themselves with short
passes by the use of which there will
be less chance for fumbles than with
the old long passes. The team will
probably leave Wednesday afternoon
for Denver. and will play there a week
from to-day. A travelling man, who ar
rived In the city yesterday from Den
yer, stated that the game with Butte
has aroused the greatest interest and
that 1t will be the event of the season
in sporting and society circles On ac-
count OF the Salt Lake game having
fallen through an effort is being made
to 'arrange a game in Omaha, and
Manager Stivers telegraphed to that
city yesterday asking for a date. IL a
game can be arranged there the team
will leave Monday and go straight
through to Omaha and play there be-
fore they go to Denver. They will re-
turn Immediately after the Denver
game. and will arrive here on Tuesday
before Thanksgiving.
The members of the team have all
registered solemn VOWS that they will
not cut their hair until they defeat the
Reliance eleven even IL takes them two
years to accomplish 1t. In speaking of
the Reliance team Captain Brooks
says: "A football team is no stronger
than Its weakest player. We had a
weak spot and we knew II.
Reliance found that weak spot
and played the deuce with 1t,
and that tells the whole story. But
they won't do II again, and when we
go to the coast we will beat them
worse than they beat u.s. We will be
playing some fast football ourselves by
that time"
1t was reported yesterday that some
member OF the Butte team who had
control of and consequently free ac-
cess TO the clubs funds had drawn
S2oO OF the teams money without the
knowledge of the other members and
bet II against the Reliance eleven.
captain Brooks and other members of
the team, however. stale that there is
absolutely not a word of truth I'm the
report and that IL was probably start
ed by some "knocker' who wanted to
inJure the standing of the team and
stir up discord among the players. In
addition to small individual bets NJ is
stated that Charlie Clark. president of
the club, gave the boys $3.50 to bet on
themselves, with the understanding
that IL they won he was simply to ger
his money back and that If they lost
ne was to stand 1t.
Speaking about knockers recalls n
statement made by Harnelson. the Re-
lance quarterback. on Wednesday
might. In conversation with one of the
Butte players after the game, he said:
you've got the worst gang of knock
efS here i ever saw. They're worse
than the knockers I'm San Francisco
and We thought they were as bad as
that class of buffers can get. Before
we got here we received letters from
several fellows in Butte telling us all
about your style OF play and all of
that, and we had not been in town an
hour before people commenced taking
US OF to one side and putting us onto
all they knew. They told us what men
TO hook out for and what plays TO
watch, and told us everything they
knew that amounted TO ANYTHING.
When We went on the field we knew
all about your game, with the excep-
ton of your signals. When you come
to Frisco our knockers viii get In their
work. but 1 don't believe they are as
bad as yours"