The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20
ANN ARBOR EXCITED
Caspar Whitney'S Criticisms Have
Reached the Football Ear There.
HOOPER EXPLAINS THINGS
II Is Probable That the Smoke Eat
ers VIII Make an Eastern Jour-
ney This Season No Game
Before Decoration Day.

The following interesting football Cos
sip is from the Ann Arbor correspond
ence in the Detroit Free Press:
students and baggage have been
pouring into the city from every di-
rection to-day. as work begins to-mor-
row morning in all departments of the
university.
Probably the first question to agi-
tate the students on their return will
be the vexed question of athletic con-
troll. The attacks and charges made
against Michigan by Caspar Whitney
in Harper's Weekly are taken more Sc
riously now than at first. His first ar
ticle was so full of glaring errors and
misconceptions that the truth con-
tanned was ignored, and much indigna-
ton was aroused at his misstatements.
Reflection has shown, however, that
there was much ground for his accu-
sations, and his last article is likely to
call forth the consideration and inves-
tigation IL deserves.
The next meeting of the board of
control will be held in a few days, when
the matter will probably get a thor
ough airing. There is also a general
demand for a thorough investigation
of the charges that Hooper was paid,
and that the matter be either authori-
tatively denied or some action taken
II the charges are found to be true. The
rules are decidedly against any such
thing. and there is a general feeling
that so serious charges should be met
and answered II possible"
Jim" Hooper. who is now captain of
the Butte team, said yesterday that
neither he nor the Michigan university
team had anything to fear from a full
investigation of Whitney's charge of
professionalism. He admitted that last
years Michigan team was a collected
one, made up of varsity men, but he
denied that II was a professional one
All that the players received was their
actual expenses. The only member of
the team against whom there are any
grounds for charge of professionalism
is HOLSTER, who during the previous
season had coached a college team at
Beloit, Wis. Caspar Whitney seems to
have an old grudge against Michigan
and he has roasted their team without
interruption.
The football game that had been ar
ranged with Spokane for Easter Sum
day has been cancelled and the season
will not open until Decoration day.
when the soldiers team from Fort
Douglas will play here. The Omaha
team has been given the Fourth of July
and Reliance is after THANKSGIVING
day. 1t has been decided that Easter
is too early for the opening day, as IL
makes the season entirely too long.
II has about been decided that the
Butte team will take a trip East next
fall, and the negotiations have reached
such point that the players regard
the trip as good as settled. The Bos-
ton Athletic club wrote TO Manager
Stivers for game in October. and ii is
probable that their proposition will be
accepted. If the team goes east IL will
play the cadets at Annapolis. and prob
ably play the University of Missouri at
st. Louis on the return trip. A game
may also be arranged with Harvard, as
that team would not be in Champion
ship form that early In the season, and
the smoke-eaters might stand a chance
of scoring.
j. V. Bohn will leave in a few days
for British Columbia, where he has ac-
cepted lucrative position with a
large mining company. His departure
will be a serious loss to the Butte foot
ball team unless arrangements can be
made TO have him return next summer,
as will probably be done. Johnny
Bohn is as good a right end as is to be
found on any of the big college teams.
and he probably possesses a better
knowledge of the game than any man
in Butte. His hard and earnest play
ing and his congeniality have made him
very popular i'm Butte, and his depart
ure will be greatly regretted.