The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-01
THEIR BIG SEND-OFF
The Football Boys Given a Hearty
Cheer on Their Departure.
1T WAS A WELCOME VISIT
Mcmillan VIII Bring Home a
Charming Bride-The San Fran
cisco Boys Show the Buttes
All the Sights.


Sunday contained great "send-offs"
for the Butte football team on its de-
parture for the Sound country. The
Examiner had the following:
THE Butte football team departed
for the Northwest yesterday afternoon
in the private car Minnewaska in
which the Montana delegation has lived
and Travelled during the tour.
About 100 enthusiasts of the grid
iron game assembled at Fourth and
Townsend streets. and the big players
who have added much spirit by their
presence to a season In which so few
games have been played were hidden q
royal farewell. There were cheers for
the team, the manager and the cap
tain, and a general flow of good spir-
its anu goodwill that sent the men of
Butte away on their journey with feel
ings of kind remembrance of their
treatment at the hands of this city's
clubmen and athletes.
Captain Brooks expressed the senti-
ments OF the party as those of entire
appreciation of the hospitality OF the
citizens OF the city in general and the
members Of the athletic club in partic-
ular.
THE team felt especially indebted to
the Olympic club for its kind treatment
and entertainment. Not only was
every convenience of the club room
given the visiting athletes, but a
round of continual pleasure in sight
seeing and visiting points of interest
was afforded them. They were driven
through the park and about the Cliff
house on two occasions, saw the mys-
teries OF Chinatown, were given sun
dry suppers and theater parties, and
were generally recipients of the good
cheer of the holidays.
THE private car of the Butte team
was attached to the Oregon express.
Portland will be the first stopping
place. game will be played with the
Multnomah club of that city on New
Years day. and following this the
cities on Puget sound will be visited
and the athletic clubs of those places
met in match games. The Butte men
expect easy victories over the three
Sound teams. These games will close
the extensive tour and the party will
return to Montana.
THE visit to this city was not as
flattering success. either financially
or from the standpoint of sport, as the
management might have wished. Wet
weather lessened the gate receipts and
the unlooked-for defeat by Reliance
was of course an eyesore to the play
ers. Manager Decay Stivers figured
that about 81 500 would cover the losses
of the entire trip. Nevertheless, he
stated that the experience was not dis
couraging. and that a plan had already
matured to make an eastern trip next
season to meet the crack Middle West
teams. With Harry Clake, the mill
lionaire, back of the Butte organiza-
ton, the players even have hopes of
competing with the elevens of the col
leges, known as the Big Four
Before leaving the city an offer was
made the Butte team to play an exhi-
bition game with the Reliance eleven
in Santa Monica at a near date The
Southern Pacific company was back of
the project and free transportation and
additional living expenses were offered
the two elevens. From a financial
the scheme was a good one
but Reliance declined to keep her play
ers in the training that would have
been necessary to maintain her prestige
and the trip was abandoned.
THE visit of the Butte organization
may be prolific of transfer of several
football heroes to different chimes
Gillis, the sensational end-runner of the
Montana team, may leave his place in
Butte for the balmier climate of this
city, while Ii is reported that Porter of
the Olympics will accept a position In
the higher altitude of Butte"
The Chronicle had the following:
THE Butte football players left last
land, at which place they will play
against the Portland Athletic club
team on New Years day The men
were in the best of spirits and one and
all expressed their appreciation of the
kind and hospitable treatment given
them during their stay in this city.
DIR. L. N. Short, director OF the
Olympic club took the visitors out on
for a drive through the Pre-
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after an elaborate dinner at Delmon-
ico's the party witnessed 1892" at the
Baldwin. On the following day S. II.
Seymour. the noted horseman, enter
tanned the Butte athletes with a drive.
dinner and theater party.
Captain Brooks and Decay Stivers,
manager of the team. voiced the senti-
ments of the visitors when they said
yesterday: The Olympic club as well
as the rest of our friends In San Fran
cisco. have been more than kind to us.
The Olympics threw open their doors
to US and not only gave US the full use
Of their club building. but did all in
their power to make our visit as en-
joyable as possible. So successful were
they in this that II is with regret that
we leave San Francisco"
The Chronicle also had the follow
Ing account of George McMillan's we'd
ding. accompanied with pictures OF the
bride and groom:
There was a happy and hurried
wedding last evening in Oakland at
the residence of DIR. A. ]. Merry. 67S
street The bride was
Miss Frances T. Merry. a charming
and popular Oakland young woman.
and the groom was George w. McMll-
Ian OF Butte. Mont, the well-known
player.
The ceremony was performed In the
double parlors OF the Merry residence.
which had been beautifully decorated
with evergreens. smilax and roses.
Rev. Robert Richie of St Paufs Epis-
copal church officiated. One OF the
of the decorations was a regu-
lation football suspended from the
ceiling above the heads of the con-
parties.
The bride was gowned in cream
silk and chiffon. and the bridesmaids
In white organdie. Little Alma Far
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