The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-04
A VERY MUDDY GR|NRON
THE DALLAS AND VARSITY bows
PLAYED IN A SEA OF MUD
YESTERDAY
The VARSITY TEAM BADLY BEATEN
The Dallas Tigers Walked All Over
Them to the Tune of 1S to 1.-The
Varsity RIOTERS Were Very
Crestfa{leR.

Dallas, Tex, Oct. 3O.--tSpecial. - III
the mud and rain, after an hour and hall
of pOwwow which Disguised every spec.
tator, the Varsity team went down in
defeat before the rushes of the Dallas
Tigers this afternoon while the Dallas
roOters went wild.
The score was IS to 4.
The Varsity players arrived here last
night accompanied by something ike
100 of their hackers. They made night
melodious as they marched from The
train to their respective hotels and
had the yell of the victors to such per
lection that they well nigh believed that
they had beat the Dallas eleven. The
beating, however. was only in their
dreams, for after they came on the
ground this afternoon the home team
walked all over them, they fairly made
monkeys out of the visitors and then
held them up to public ridicule as foot
ball players. The Varsity boys had
hackers by the dozen among the crowd.
and they yelled themselves hoarse hours
before the game was called. They were
here with their yellow ana white Colors
and horns galore. They ilanked the field
on several sides and checred until the
soggy atmosphere fairly vibrated with
the music of their howl. They were IN
n holiday mood, too, and did not mincc
matters much as to whether their col
lars were up or down. They stamped
around in the rain and talked about their
team and gave all kinds of tips on the
game. They had come here from far
off Austin to see the Tigers done up.
They wanted eleven scalps at their
belts and they wanted eleven lifeless
bodies left on the gridiron to mark their
triumphant passage. That was all this
morning. Tonight they are the saddest
Of hat Vic
was thought that the republican and
populist campaign managers were Il
sad set here last election when the re-
turns came in, but they were not mark
ers for the Varsity men, who came
struggling into town tonight in the
gloom of evening from the scene of their
Waterloo. The heavens were dropping
and looked as glum as funeral process
sion, but they looked no worse than the
Varsity eleven and their hackers They
had all kinds of explanations to make,
such as professional had bee rung
in on Them" muddy fields" and the
like, but throughout it all they could
not hide their sad and dropping feel
ings. They had been beat all to pieces,
and fairly at that, and with all their
explanation they could not get around
that fact. They had come here pre-
pared to have hot old time in the
town tonight, but on the contrary they
have slipped off to their little beds and
the Tigers are roaming in wild freedom
and great exultation, seeking in vain for
new worlds to conquer. The world is
theirs tonight and the Dallas rooters
are wildly happy.
The gridiron this afternoon looked
like a hog wallow fifteen minutes after
the first play was made. The players,
in running about over it, had churned 1t
up, and its black waXy appearance was
perfect eyesore to the crowd of cranks
who had ventured forth in the wet and
cold to see the game. Thus it was that
the players in short time looked like
mountains of mud moving around the
sridiron. The battle was at times fierce
and the mud was scattered to all
points of the compass. The spectators
came in for a share of the situation,
and, taken all together, the crowd which
came back to town tonight was Il much
ly bedraggled set, and no mistake about
The Game.
The game was advertised for 2:1J p.
m, and later for 3 o'clock, but play was
not actually begun until 4:10. The
weather was execrable: a cold, nasty east
wind was blowing, bringing with it per-
slstent "Trip OF ram i ne STlulrOH WIS us
muddy and sticky as black wax.
President Winston of the University,
Ex-Governor Hogg and Col. Louis
Workman were among the rooters for the
Varsity team.
Three o'clock came and the Tigers
were all on hand ready to play, but the
Varsity had not shown up. Rumors
were set going that they were not com
ing because Scott was to play full back
for Dallas, and the Varsity considered
him professional, and also claimed he
had been added to the team since the
match between the clubs was made. The
waiting continued for nearly an hour,
when the Varsity came into grounds led
by a man bearing n gorgeous yellow and
white flag. The Austin rooters shot II
good sized shower out of the lowering
clouds with their applause, and the
Tigers began to skin off their sweaters.
Here another hitch arose. The 'Varsi-
ties refused to go on the field if Scott
played Capt. Moseley said that rather
than not have game he would with
draw Scott, but the matter was finally
temporarily patched up and he was allow
ed to play.
Dallas Positions Varsity