The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-22

SPORT.I
FOOT BALL

Tbe Gladiator OF the gridlron Satur-
1,,, was king, and he was paid homage
Gay rsaTiy every hamlet In the land.
mmosI weather and big crowds helped on
!se contests. OF which there were many
~ Inc decisive order, notably those
oi.y"d by the big -Four" Yale SUR
pr'sed the talent by beating Princeton
Z Ia n and Harvard, after O stubbOrnly
I,rght game, went down before "Old
p"nni TO the tune OF 10 to Q. The Penn
| s~,Ivnnians can claim the championship
., al without dispute, OF more than
iacaI interest were the games at
Crssnsburg and Pittsburgh. for upon
them hinge the question OF superiority
IN three states, Had the undefeated
c,aensbuTgB won their claims would be
onuaI 10 W. & Us In the event OF the
,1t,sF beating DuQuesne next Thurs
Jry. but although Duquesne defeated
Iatrobe u to 9. and Greensburg
;rounced Duquesne "a to G afterward,
Iatrobe, like Yale. surprised the coun-
nv by trimming Greensburg Saturday
is'to 6. Playing in Latrobe's line were
White and Krebs. OF the West Virginia
University team. At Pittsburgh Du-
ouesne defeated p. A, c. 10 toe
II was said In these columns recently
that Cant. Bob" Edwards is too easy,
that he gives in too much TO the kicks
m opponents, rather than delay the
same, This fact was demonstrated
forclbly Saturday afternoon when W, A.
n was bilked out of time near the close
M the first half, with the ball a few
Yards from S~teubenvIlle's goal and in
Wheellng's possession. The gentleman
responsible for this and failures to no.
lice foul tackles, offside play and other
Violations, is a MI. Foley, who distiu-
gulshed himself likewise at Steuben-
Vile a week previous. Nevertheless the
Acnes surprised W. A. c. Hall. w. q
J's big guard, and Curtis, from Beth>
any college, were towers OF strength to
them, and Hall made big gaps in w. A.
CIs line. The ball was In Acme's ter
rltory all the time. and though never
AT any time dangerous, they managed
10 hold ". A. c. down, the game ending
90, II was the best game OF the eason
on the home grounds, played hard and
long, darkness coming on ere the last
half concluded. W. A, c. might have
scored twice when near Acme's goal II
well, fumbies viii occur with the best
OF 'em. Over 100 Steubenville rooters
were on hand; in fact they were in the
majority, illustrating that Wheeling
doesn't appreciate the splendid aggre-
cation that represents 1t on the foot
ball field. The Steubenvile rooters
we're helped out by "slug'' McAninch,
who formerly played with the Tigers.
But Slug has developed into a first
class "knocker," and his knowledge OF
the locals signals was taken advan-
tage Of by steubenville. For this rea
son Capt. Edwards changed the signals
toward the close OF the game, and 1t
resulted in some fumbling.
W. A. c. will practice hard every
night this week for the Thanksgiving
game with Pittsburgh college. win
Edwards will likely play, as his arm is
rounding to nicely, The playing OF his
brother, John, wasithe sensational fea-
ture OF Saturdays game. He was a
whole team in himself. and the visitors
were struck on him. Weddings quar-
let OF backs is the best even had. They
gain ground like tornados. Specht,
little Sweeney. Barrett, Gray, Cook and
Thompson were very much in the
game, and good practice In signals
with the playing OF one or two trick
formations VIII give w. A. c. the II
OF team needed against the fast Smoky
City colleglans.
The Ritchles went over to Bellaire
Saturday, and captured a well earned
victory from the Bellaire team. The
was 6 to 0. There were no other
junior games. but there promises to be
this week. Elm Grove boys
have a team now. averaging lis pounds
and they are willing to take on a team
At that weight.
Nearly every man, woman and child
in Little Washington will go to Pitts
burgh Thanksgiving day to see w. & j.
play the Duquesnes. The collegians
win. West Virginia University
will tackle the mighty Latrobes. at the
town that day, and expect TO keep
the score down.
BOWLING.