The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-14
JUST A MINUTE MORE
NO KICKS.
Mr.. Prsngie Has n Pleasant Word for the
Butte Boys.

| Butte Boys.
| The Buttes took their frs defeat
without any kicks. complaints or ex-
cuses, and the Reliance men did very
| little Growing. The fact of the matter
was that they felt that they had very
little to crow over and their exultation
was exceedingly modest. They simply
said they had met a much better team
than they had expected to encounter.
| and had beaten II after the hardest
game they have had this year-and let
| IL go at that. They saw Lillian Lewis
In Cleopatra" at Maguire's opera
house last evening. and then quietly
and unostentatiously went of to bed.
Strenuous efforts were made to have
them play another game to-day. to-
morrow or Saturday. but they respect
fully declined. even when they were
offered a guarantee of 5000 for
game. The team is about $500 behind
on the trip, owing to the slim attend
ance at Seattle and Tacoma, and Man.
ager Pringle telegraphed the directors
of the Reliance Athletic club last even
ing asking whether he should accept
the offer of $1,000 for another game this
week. He received a reply late last
night from the president of the club
instructing him not to play another
game against Butte under any condi-
tions. He said that the directors were
proud of the record the team had made
against Butte and that they were pre-
pared to make up the financial loss in
return for the honor. Consequently
the Buttes will not have an opportunity
to get even until they go to San Fran
cisco next month.
There are a number of Butte people
who backed the team for all the money
they could get yesterday and they
would have liked chance to get even
at once One pool of $500 was made up
to bet on Butte Tuesday evening, but
only $500 of IL was taken.
You have got football team and
city here that you ought to be proud
Of" said w. b. Pringle, the manager
of the Reliance team last night. The
Butte team has made a better record
than any team in the country of such
little experience and short study. 1t is
a great deal better team than we ex-
pected to meet. Most of your men,
however, lack experience and that is
what counts in a football game. Our
men are nearly all old and experienced
players and they ought to play a much
better game than the Buttes. / don't
consider a man is entitled to be
classed as a good football player until
he has had at least three years expe-
rience.
prised me is the treatment we have re-
ceived. From what / had heard / ex-
pected when / came here to be bum
coed out of everything; but these re-
ports originated from defeated and
soreheaded teams. We could not ex-
pect to be treated better anywhere
than we have been in Butte. We have
got a square deal in every sense of the
word and have been treated royalty.
We have not a single complaint of any
kind to make against anyone.
There was no smuggling and we were
most agreeably surprised in that re-
spect. The crowd was very impartial
and 1t seemed as though we had al
most as many friends in the grand
stand as the Buttes. The audience
treated us better than the San Fran
cisco crowds do and their liberal APP
plause of our good PLAYS was decidedly
pleasing. If Butte beats US in San
Francisco. I will be quite willing to
play the deciding game In Butte pro-
vided that our men can get away and
that our expenses are paid. 1 believe
that we can get as square a deal in
Butte as in any place that l know OF.
We will have a better team when Butte
goes against us in California, though.
than we had to-day and they will have
to play fast football to win. We play
fast down there. We will have our
crack half back. Harry Walton, with
us then and he is a whole team In
himself. Our team did not play up to
their mark to-day bgt they won, so 1t
is all right.
About the game? Well. to tell the
truth about II. don't thing 1t was a
football game-that is the kind of
football we are used to. We play a fast
game and execute every play as quick
ly as possible. We started in to play
fast to-day but we cannot stand 1t on
account of the altitude. and as the
Butte players r,ayed slow we played
the same game. II Butte had played
fast from the start believe we would
have been beaten. The altitude af-
fected our men more than the Buttes
knew. and II they had played fast 1
don't believe we could have stood IL.
As ID was some Of the boys got winded
but the slow playing OF the Buttes
gave them time to catch their wind. /
had our men out to practice yesterday
afternoon and when / saw the way the
altitude affected them / practically
gave ND the game. After % minutes
play some of them had the nose bleed
and they were all badly winded. II
Butte had given us a fast game. such
as we are used to playing. the altitude
would have got In its work and we
III H.