The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-27
SMITH AND THE OLYMP|CS
Anaconda's Former Captain to
Reorganize the Club.
HIS RETURN NOT LIKELY
Probabilities Are That He Will Remain
in California, Though 1t Is Under
stood He Stands Ready to
Come Back If Wanted.

From the way things look now, the
Anaconda football team will nave to
get alone without it's old captain.
"Pete" Smith. Smith went to Califor-
mia three or foul weeks age. and from
reports received from San Francisco he
WIN hereafter be at the head of the
Olympic football team of that city.
Smith. during his connection with
the local team, demonstrated that he
is about as big a mar on the football
gridiron as any of them. and his loss to
Anaconda will be severely felt. Smith
believed that his opportunities were
better in California than they were in
Anaconda, and so he returned to that
state. 1t 10 said, however, that he
stands ready and willing to return to
Anaconda ut any time the local team
asks him to. and it is possible that he
may return before the Thanksgiving
game with Putte.
The San Francisco Call prints the fol-
lowing about Smith and his expected
reorganization of the Olympics, and
also makes reference to several other
players now members of the local team;
IL OutlCBh 1OI III oOtpaii SNoSoh -
few weeks back was very d~iscourag-
ing. 1t then seemed as If there would
be but two first-class elevens in the
field. those wearing the blue and gold
of the University of California n the
cardinal of Stanford. But now comes
the intimaticn of the Olympic club to
form a team Without one of the ath-
letic clubs represented on the gridiron.
there would be but n football game
of any consequence, the intercollegiate
match on Thanksgiving day.
Two years ago, when the Olympic
club withdrs from the Pacific Athlet-
&c association of the Amateur Athletic
union, it divorced itself from all posi-
BILE competition with the big universe
ties on account of stringent prohibit
tons issued by that body against all
competition with clubs or organizations
outside the pale of their jurisdiction.
The Olympic club has now seen the err
rors of its ways, and will make an at
tempt to re~enter the Pacific Athletic
association.
Pete Smith. the great organizer of
Athletic elevens, is back from Anacon-
da, and il is very likely that the task
of rmatio will again fall to him.
Smith has Just returned from Montana,
where he put in a season of play and
work. The Reliance club will not put
a team in the field If the Olympic does
that is the agreement that has been
reached tnem. InlS Is que 10
the paucity of football material in and
about this city. Butte and Anaconda
have depleted the local ranks to such
an extent that the search for sufficient
material to fill out a single strong
eleven Will he fraught with labor. The
last graduating classes of the universe
ties will furnish a few players, and
there are still some of the old men left.
Anaconda mas taken six of u best
local football talent. McHugh. Arlett,
oliver. Thierkauf, Wilbur and Edmond
son are playing under Anaconda's BAN
ners. Butte has Benson and Mahoney,
one of Reliance's players.
"The University of California will be-
gin its fall semester in two weeks. and
the preparatory work of the season
will begin at nee. Cochran will be
there to coach the blue and gold men.
Stanford's season will begin at least a
week later. Cross will be their in
structor.'