Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-01
DRAW CANE OF FOOT BALL
Yesterday Between the Tigers and Mar
tins Ferry VigilantS.
4 Crowd Of Enthusiastic Rooters
Bncroached Upon the Field, and
Prevented the Teams From Fin
ishing the Game-A Touch Down
Which Was Not Allowed-Other
Sporting Matters.


Which Was Not Allowed-Other
Sporting Matters.
The word "scrappy" does not find a
place in Webster, but when the un-
abridged is revised, it should be inclu-
ded. There is no term which is more
comprehensive or appropriate, in de-
scribing such contests as the foot ball
game between the Vigilants and Tigers
at the Fair Grounds, yesterday after
noon. If the State Legislature had
been in session in the grand stand, 1t
is dollars to doughnuts that law
would have been enacted, forever pro.
hibiting foot ball games on the sou Oh
West Virginia. 1t was treat Tor the
lovers of the sO-called manly art
Tumbling. jostling and rushing, alter
Mating with masticauOns OF the prov
erbial cloth; unwilling baths IN pools
of liquid mud; long-winded ana Ill
natured wrangling over DECISIONS
hOoting and yelling and tin horn dow
ing by enthusiastic rOOters; and nnally
an encroachment upon the field which
made it impossible to finish the contest
These were some of the principal tea-
lures of the argument of the eleVehS
which represented this city ana Mar
tins Ferry There were quite num-
Der of minor arguments among the
spectators, but there was no bloodsheu'
although the affair threatened at sew
eral points to terminate in rough
-tumble-free-fOr-al battle.
There were about 500 spectators.
About 200 settled with the gate keeper
The remainder took fence tickets. The
crowd was about evenly divided in It's
choice of teams, and every man ana
boy came prepared to root. The result
was mdescribable cOnfusion-a Verlt-
able Pandemonmm. The rooters gath
cred i'm knots. and the opposing groups
tried to out-yell each other, using TN
horns when their lungs were IlreG'
There was not an officer on the grouIu'
This was a serious oversight, ana was
entirely. responsible for the unsatlsIac-
tory termination Of the game DuT.ns
the first half the crowd was fairly well
behaved. although il required the COM
binad efforts of all the substitute play
.ers to keep the field clear. In the sec
ond half. they gave up their job IN as
gust The spectators swarmed over
the ropes. and encroached upon the
nl9vers i'm such manner as 10 make
end plays impossible.
No person kept tab on the kicks, put
they we're as numerous as leaves IN the
autumn There were three disputes
which overshadowed all others. Inc
frst was made before the game COM
manced bv the Tigers When the con
test was arranged, the Nigilants were
qiven the privilege Of playing Ely
Trgliss and Frye, three OF the star
nIayers of the Wash-Jeff eleven. Inc
first two named did not come down on
acconnt of illness. but they sent Brown
lee and Fiscus in their stead. Ely ana
Tngliss were regularly slsheu i leiil-
hers of the team. but their substitutes
were not. and this fact LED 10 WIdil-
ole which was finally decided by Ine
consent of the Tigers to allow IHeln "
play. In
In the second half, when the ball
was in the Tigers territory, II was
ICED Inv Robert to Will Edwards
Who ,i was standing in the crowd, and ne
rnade run of thirty yards, and was
downed bv Sweeney. The Vigllants
objected to the play, and Umpire Gum
MINIS refused to allow it, but claimed
that he said at the time that II the pan
In vent into the crowd, it would
b9ve to he brought back 1t was not
ioDo after until the Vigilants had an
onnortunitv to profit by similar play:
,rbe hail was in Vigilant territory, ana
,,.ae nassed to Brownlee, who broke
tbroueb the crowd on the right end,
o,d With clear field made a run OF
obout * Yards and scored a touch
Jown The umpire alleges that ne
oolied time when the ball went into
Tho crowd. and for that reason refused
20 ll'C oIlow The touch down. There was
Ii, lick the crowd mingled with the
-, Us threats we're made, the umpire
55noliDed to reverse his decision, bets
80, - declared of. and the game was
Lied Inv mutual agreement, 1t being
eDnarent that it would be Impossible
TO finish IL. o,,o,,+ 9.oo
clock The teams lined up in the
following order v;u;,on+
-r;.,ors Position. Nlgllahl'
lsei9' coD+er Smith