The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-26
THEY'RE HOME AGAIN
The Butte Giants Are Practicing for
Thursdays Game.
DIDN'T LOSE THE BULL PUP
And Stivers Has His Locks Yet
The Boys Tell All About How
II Happened-The Umpire
Slightly Roasted.

The Butte football team returned yes
terday forenoon from Denver and were
received at the Union Pacific depot
by Archie ellis and Harry Sheads,
who II would appear at first glance.
are the only ones left of the army OF
fans and enthusiasts of which Butte
boasted prior to that Denver game.
The smallness of the delegation which
met the Butte players, however, was
doubtless due to the fact that they
We're not expected home until eo-day,
when somewhat extensive preparations
had been made to receive them. The
Casino band was to have met them at
the depot and they were to have been
escorted to the city around by Mead
erville and down over the Anaconda
hill and Through Dublin gulch. The.
players spent yesterday afternoon in
a practice game behind closed doors
at their grounds and when they appear
ed on the streets last evening they
were treated IN a manner which thor
oughly convinced them that they have
not lost all their friends nor any great
per centage of them. They were ac-
corded general sympathy I'm the place
of censure and were assured that IL
they go in and win Thursday all viii
be forgiven and forgotten. The knock
ers' were out in full force yesterday
but as Is always the case they had
nothing TO say when any member of the
team was in sight. Manager Stfvers'
appearance was a sufficient oontradic-
tfon OF the rimor that he had lost his
hair ON Saturdays game. "A long
haar against mime" said Stivers, but
hair against mines aid Stivers "but
/ could not accept his proposition, for
my hair is not my own. We have all
registered a. vow that we will not cut
our hair until we beat the Reliance
team, 50 that Ut has something of a
hen ON 1t and did not bet It. l told
the Denver man that / would bet him
our bull pup or my clothes, or anything
else, but 1t was my hair he wanted so
we did not bet"
Mcmillan win arrive from San Fran
cisco this morning and will practice
with the team this afternoon. Charley
Hooper has recovered the fun use of
his leg which was badly injured in
the Iowa game and he will fill his old
position at center ON Thursday. He is
the best center the team has ever had
and he is playing a better game now
than ever before. Gillls was so badly
injured IN the Denver game that he
will probably not play against the
Olympics. He received a hard kick at
the base of the brain and the cartilage
was also torn between the seventh and
eighth ribs on the right side. His i'm
turies are not serious, however, and
by taking care of himslf he will be
I'm first-class condition to accompany
the team ON its Pacific coast trip. The
Buttes all report having been hand
somely treated by the Denver people,
but they are doing some very ener-
getic kicking ON Stanley Pearce, a for
mer resident OF Butte, who refereed
the game. The earnestness of these
complaints and the fact that they come
from members of the team who are not
in any sense of the word kiclxers and
who took their previous defeat without
Offering q single excuse, makes 1T quite
possible that there may be something
in them 1t is claimed that Pearce had
a great deal of money bet on Denver.
which is the accepted reason for his
unfairness.
1t is stated that in the first 10 min
utes of the play the ball was on Den
vers Vineyard line on Butte's second
down. Lasswell went through the line
for three yards and was tackled and
called down" After he had downed
the ball three of the Denvers forced
him back to the line and he did not re-
sist, as the gain had been made and he
had shouted down. Pearce, however.
refused to allow the gain. On the
fourth down Lasswell gained
four and one-haif yards and Denver
got the ball within two feet of their
own goal Later on Brooks was tack
led on Denver's 10-yard line. He called
down, and left the ball on the ground
for the center and stepped back to give
the signal when Captain Heller of the
Denvers fell on the ball and Pearce al
lowed him to keep 1t. although the
nnesmen and umpire declared it to be
Butte's ball.
Lassweil was so badly injured in the
first half that he had to go into the
line, exchanging places with Perham.
Wniie Perham is great line bucker
the fullback position was entirely new
TO him and the team was weakened by
the change. The Rocky Mountain
game. which shows that the BAH was
In Denver territory the most part of
the time.
In its report OF the game the News
said: The Butte team came to town
with its own atmosphere. Ii had that
same atmosphere well chilled before
starting south with 1t. and the chill
was so artisticaily inserted that II
lasted through the visit. But the game
was worth going out the coolest day
or January TO see. Asked what the
features OF the contest were. an enthu-
siast would say: Features. why there
was nothing but features The Ruttes
were strong in their offensive play TO
certain point. -Four times In the
l5-yard line of the Denver goal. and
once TO within few feet OF the coyet-
ed bit OF white wash. and four times
the ID. A. C.s captured the ball and
rushed II back. let the local club show
any weakness 10 might in the center of
the field against the terrific PUSHES az
the copper-smoked mountalneers. in
the neighborhood OF their own line.
cannon ball could not have forced its
way through. In interference the
Buttes played finely and some OF their
tackles were marvels OF neatness and
effectiveness. ellis. Lasswell and Chef
Smith were everywhere 20 be seen al
the commencement OF a scrimmaee
though usually well out Of sight when
the linesmen, umpire. referee and no.
lice officers rushed in TO take the men
on the poor rubbed-in-the-ground bal.
Smith, especially with his one wish Of
hair standing straight up and his two
wisps standing straight out, was an
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