The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-05
THEY MET WITH SUCCESS
Football Cranks Are Jubilant
Over the Advance Sale.
ANACONDA HAS THE FEVER
To-Day's Turnout Is Expecsed to Be
the Largest in the History OF Ath-
letic Sports in This City.
The Junior Game.

The people of Anaconda are thoroughly
mbued with the spirit Of football and to-
days game will draw out crowd such as
has never before been seen at any ath-
letic event in this city. This much WAS
made a certainty last night when those
who went out to canvass the city with
tickets reported their success.
The canvassers met with the warmest
kind of a welcome everywhere they went,
and people who had never been present
at any athletic contest before expressed
their willingness to come out and shout
for the home team. Not only did they
express their Willingness to do this by
word of mouth. but they dug down deep
into their pockets and produced the evil
denee of their good faith in the matter.
When the canvass was completed it was
found that a snug little sum had been
taken in and should the crowd to-day
prove anything like what is expected
there will be no necessity for the mem
bers of the team bearing any OF the cx-
pense.
day and after lunch the men will pro-
coed at once to the grounds. The game
will be started promptly at o'clock and
there will be no delay in getting through
with it. AS was before stated. the crowd
will not be permitted to overflow the field
to-day as was the case al the former
Butte game. Everybody will have to stay
in the grand stand and from that point
of vantage all will have an equally good
view of the gridiron.
To-days game will be the game of the
season so far as Anaconda is concerned.
1t will be to this city what the Butte
Reliance game was to Butte. There viii
be no comparison between the game of
to-day and the former Butte game, as
that affair was gotten UP in order to that
the boys might gain little experience
in playing against football players who
understood the game. That they have
profited by that days work Is evidenced
by the excellent showing made each day
at practice. The Anaconda team to-day
Will prove itself a credit TO the city, and
one of which all citizens may well be
proud
The Buttes come determined to carry
the day. They will have in their ranks
some of the best football players in
Butte, but it is predicted that IL they
return home victorious they will nave
been in the hardest fought battle that
they have ever participated in.
The Anaconda team expects to go to
Missoula on the 18th and after that it
is though game will be arranged with
the University of Nebraska, which team
has asked for "a date in Anaconda and
one in Butte, to be p-ayed during the hol-
idays. Already correspondence has been
going on between the sister cities relative
to a proportionate division of the ex-
penses of the Nebraskans. The univer-
sity this year has very strong team,
being the champions of the five-team
league of the Middle West. They have de-
feated the universities of Kansas, Iowa
and other strong CLUBS.
This morning at 10 o'clock the High
schools and Anaconda Juniors will meet
| on the gridron The game will be war TO
| the knife, as its result will be to deter
mine which Of the two teams shall go
against the state university team of Mis-
soula. Admission to this game will be
free to all.