The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-24
Butte Department.
AN OAKLAND STORY
A Little Football Romancs That PleaSeS
the Butte Boys.
MMlLLAN IS SURPRISED
Bert oliver Is the Hero of the Lat
est Fairy Production of the Pen
Fusher From the Bay City
1T Is News"
MMILLAN is SURPRISED

The following romance is from the
Oakland correspondence in the San
Francisco Examiner:
Oakland is pitted against Butte
City. Mont, for the services of Bert
oliver. athlete and baseball player. The
bidding for his services is now running
high. but up to date oliver remains en-
rolled as a member of the Reliance Ath-
letic club. Politics cut a very large
figure in the struggle for the possession
of Oakland's foremost athlete. The
suggestions and criticisms of Caspar
Whitney are cast to the winds in the
fierce contest over Oliver.
THE Butte men offered oliver a po-
litical position in the assessors office
in that city for two years at 500 per
month II he would join their football
team. Members of the Reliance club
came back with the same kind of an
offer. Butte was not to be outdone,
and offered the big Reliance half-back
s125 per month and guaranteed him a
position for two years. The Reliance
boys met the raise. They secured a po-
litical position for oliver in the office
of the county clerk with a salary of
s125 a month for two years. oliver ac-
cepted, and to-day he was installed as
a deputy county clerk by Clerk Jordan,
who is a prominent member of the Reli-
ance club.
Captain Mcmillan of the Reliance
team was captured by the Butte men
some months ago. They gave him a
political position with a salary of $125
a month and guaranteed him employ
ment for two years. The Reliance men
were determined that they should not
lose oliver the same way, so IL has
been a case of lively bidding. oliver ex-
cells in baseball playing, hammer
throwing, sprinting and boxing. lie is
denied the right to use the punch bag
at the Reliance club because he is sc
powerful: he breaks it every time he
exercises.
~ Cal Ewing. who is deputy county
clerkand a prominent member of the
Reliance club, and who bid with r. NJ
Fitzgerald and Frank G. Jordan
against the Butte men, is very much
elated over the victory achieved in
holding oliver.
1--WE propose to show these Butte
people that we have some local pride
in Oakland said Mr.. Ewing to-day
They have gone just far enough in
stealing our men. We have said Il
them. You can go so far. but nc
farther" The Reliance team will not
be robbed this year. What will Caspai
Whitney say? WHAT can he say? Bert
oliver is personal friend and have q
right to assist him to secure a position
That is all there is TO it, Caspar Whit
ney nor anyone else cannot say IL
truth that we have been guilty of pro
fessionallsm We are out for self-pro
lection, that is ALL
1.-The Reliance club contemplate!
sending a double team of football play
ers on an eastern trip this season. Cap
tain Fred Prick has communicated
with all the leading university and am
ateur athletic club teams in the East
The replies received insure games a
Denver and Butte. The dates will bl
fixed for the trip as soon as a $500
guarantee fund shall have been as
sured. Denver offers $500 and BUTT
81 900. There was a deficit as a resul
of last seasons tour. The management
this season purpose being on the SAT-
side financially"
There are indications that Big Der
has been playing the Oakland peopl
in order to secure a long time Job at
fat salary. The real facts i'm the cas-
are that when the Butte team was II
California oliver was out of work and
as he is a star, his old friend, Manage
Mcmillan, asked him TO accompany tn
team to Butte, with the promise tina
secure a position for him here Olive
replied that he preferred to live in Oak
land, as his widowed mother reside
there, but that If he could not secur
employment there he would come I
Butte. Mr.. Mcmillan heard nothing
more from him and IL was suppose
that he had secured a position long age
No offer was made him of any salar
or position. and the fantastic yarn tina
is spun by the Examiners Oakland COZ
respondent indicates that Mr.. Olive
has been doing a little smooth work.
Manager Mcmillan, who has not bee
doing anything since the team returne
from California. was greatly surprise
TO read in the Examiner that he has
s125 a month job with a two-year guar
antee in IT.