The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-19
THEIR NEW MANAGER
D. Gay Stvers Steps out and Mcmillan
Goes in.
FOOT BALL OFFICE CHANGE
The Whole Proceeding Came as a
Surprise to People Generally
Interested-It 10 Hoped Dis
sensions Are at an End.
FOOT BALL OFFICE CHANGE

ID. Gay Stivers is manager of the
Butte football team no longer. He was
removed from office at meeting OF the
team last night, and he asserts that his
removal was accomplished to crafty a
personal spite of President Charles w.
Clark, the teams financial hacker. Mr.
Stivers was unanimously reelected man.
ager for 1896 at a meeting held soon
after the team returned from Califor-
mia, but since that time his relations
with the president have not been OF a
very friendly nature, and the troubles
that have resulted from their strained
relations ended last night in his re-
movaI. George Mcmillan, the former
Reliance captain, was elected mana
ger, and President Clark, Captain jim
Hooper and Treasurer j. R. Thompson
were reelected.
At the meeting at which Stivers was
reelected manager committee consist
ing of Brooks, ellis, Hartzell, Jim
Hooper, Thompson and McMillan was
appointed to draft a constitution and
bylaws. The club met last evening to
receive their report and there was
full attendance, King, Charley Hooper.
Dygert, Weisse and Boyce being the
only absentees. The constitution, as
reported by the committee. provided
that all of the officers except the treas
urer, should be elected by vote of the
team. Thompson presented an amend
ment providing that the manager and
captain should be appointed by the
president and confirmed by a vote of
the team, and that the new constitu-
ton should go into immediate effect.
The amendment was carried by viva
voce vote. After a little scattering dis
| cussion the president appointed George
Mcmillan manager
After the adoption of Thompsons
amendment. this appointment was not
unexpected by Stivers. Mr.. Stivers
stated that If the president had any
charges to prefer against him he would
| like to know what they were. He said
| that he had been regularly elected
manager for 1896, and that the pro-
| ceedings looked like a scheme to re-
move him from that Office. He knew
that in the capacity of manager he was
| not satisfactory to either Clark or
| Thompson, but he was satisfactory to
a majority of the players. Brooks also
| spoke against any change and said that
| Stivers had been regularly elected man.
| ager and that it was both unjust and
unfair to unceremoniously remove him
from that office. The president stated
that he was opposed to Stivers and he
! believed the majority of the players
| felt the same way. He thought that
the appointment of Mcmillan as mana
ger would please the majority of the
| players and be more satisfactory to the
| public. He repeated his appointment
and Mcmillan was confirmed as mana
ger by vote of z to 5. Amendments
were adopted requiring the manager
and the treasurer to furnish bonds of
$4,000 after which the meeting ad-
journed.
Mr.. Stivers stated after the meeting
that one of the difficulties between him
| self and Clark was of a financial ma
ture. There is about $500 in the bank
that was left from last season." he said
and Clark wanted me to turn it over
10 MIN to apply on the shortage on the
| California trip, which he paid. I had
no authority to do that, and the plav-
ers urged me not to do it, as several OF
them were out of work and might need
assistance. i also wanted to hold the
money to protect myself. In a yolun.
tary association, such as the football
team, the person who incurs debts is
personally responsible for them and I
as manager, incurred all of the indebt.
edness. / have not the slightest feelinc
against Mcmillan. / voted for him. anc
/ will turn the money over to him to-
morrow"
Without caring much as to the per
| sOndl ulIllcu1ty between Mr.. StiVers
and Mr.. Clark, the general public anc
patrons of the game will join in tn.
hope that the internal dissensions IN
the team are at an end and that every
thing will be harmonious from now on
McMillan's appointment should, anC
undoubtedly will, prove UNIVERSAL,
popular. During his comparatively
short residence in Butte he has mad,
hundreds of warm friends as a man
and admirers as football player, anC
there is no one who is more loyal to tn,
crimson and Dream. He made the Re
lance team the crack eleven of tn.
West, and he may be depended on t.
give Butte championship team. 1t Il
only fair to Mr.. Mcmillan to state tina
he did not in any way seek the ap
pointment of manager. and that wheI
the president approached him in tn,
matter he asked him to appoint som,
one else. That Mr.. Stivers has don,
more for the advancement of football
in Butte even his enemies will admit
He worked the team up from nothinl
to the most formidable aggregation IL
the Northwest, and he was a mos
faithful and energetic manager.