The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-04
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TWAS ANACONDA'S GAME
Crimson and Cream Wilt Before
Copper and Green.
A BRILLIANT GRAND A
The Rooters We're All Out, but the
Buttes Didn't Play Up to Their
Average. While h Anacondas
Were at Their Best.
A BRILLIANT GRAND STAND


series with Anaconda by a score of 10
to 0. Each team having won a game.
and n game resulting in a draw, the
teams quit eve till the fall season
opens, except that Anaconda has a
shade the best of it by having pre-
vented Butte from scoring in the last
game. 1t was the poorest game the
Butte has ever played and the
boys cannot TAKE refuge behind the reg
ulation Spanish explanation of a defeat.
w were defeated, but with honor"
for the home team did not do it's best.
1t is r that many circumstances for
which the players were not responsible
conspired to enhance Anaconda's vic
tory. most notably the fact that the
visitors got all the best of the decisions.
but this did not win the game for An
aconda. Butte would have been de-
feated anyway, and the manifestly un-
fair decisions only helped make Butte's
defeat the greater.
The result was most directly due 20
the fact that the Butte men persisted
in standing up to the line instead of
getting down. and, with a lew excep-
tions, the tackling was too high to be
effective, with the result that the Wis
itors went through the line at Will, and
until they lost the ball on the tumble
they were sure of their gain. for the
home line could not hold them, and the
ball did not come to Butte on downs
more than two or three times. Without
depriving Anaconda of any portion of
her well-earned victory. much allow
ance is to be made for this weakness
of Butte's line. Many of Butte's men
were inexperienced. the visitors had
the advantage of at least 10 pounds to
the man on the average in weight, n
practically every man in the Anaconda
line was an old, experienced player.
The home boys therefore have much
consolation to soften the sting Of de-
feat, but there was no excuse for
standing up to the line as they did
for they were repeatedly cautioned %
go in low.
The work of the Anaconda team was
by far the best the team has shown n
any of the three games. There was
less of the costly fumbling that marred
the efforts of the visitors in the previ-
Gus games. their team work was ex-
~cellent, and when on the offensive their
-! work was spectacular in it's excellence,
while their defensive play was almost
equally as effective. Butte's offensive
play was good at times. much better
| than in either of the previous games,
but the defensive play was lamentably
week. These conditions were shown
by the fact that when Anaconda had
the ball and was on the offensive they
would break through Butte's line for
gains of from three to ten yards. while
Butte, though they succeeded in get
ting through, could only make small
gains. rarely exceeding five yards. 1t
was a line-bucking game throughout
and very little kicking was done.
Notwithstanding the disparity be-
tween the two cams. a harder fought
,xvA .f4r4zoAl an Afh
letic park field, for Butte contested
every inch of the ground as best she
could inc the game was won distinct
ly on the merits OF superiority on the
part of Anaconda
individually there were few instances
in which the players of either side dis
tinguished thmselves. OF The Butte
men, Slater, Bean, Dygert, Benson
Sullivan and Harrington are entitled &c
the most credit. For the visitors. Nc
Milan, Arlett, oliver, Smith and Sulli-
van did the best work, but while tho
lions share of glory belonged TO them
II was chiefly because their opportunl-
ties were the most numerous, for every
man played his position well.
The game was unusually rough and
more men were temporarily laid out
than in any previous game for a Ions
time. The tempers of the men got tht
best of them in frequent w~rangles ovel
decisions, and from not being in the
best of humor smuggling was frequently
INDUCED in.
With reference to the decisions. N. w
Simmons and f. A. Merely. who alter.
mated as referee and umpire. were un'
q~uestionably conscientious In theil
work, and. while Butte got consider
able the worst of several errors o.
judgment. there was clearly no unfair
ness intended.
Butte's colors were lowered In defeai
mid as brilliant surroundings as ha,
ever graced the field In Butte. The da,
was perfect, too warm for football
perhaps, but ideal for the enjoyment o
spectators, and fully 1.500 people turne,
out to see the game. A big c~ontingen
from Anaconda sported the copper a
green on the visitors and rooted as onl,
the supporters of a winning football
team can. The crimson and cream o
Butte was everywhere. On the cas-
line were many carriages. among then
some smart t%urnouts, and nearly al
decorated to indicate the preference o
the occupants of the equipage. Ii
the crowd were more ladies h hav
favored a football game with thei
presence in a long time, and with thei
gay costumes and enthusiastic supper
of their favorites added much TO tn
gaiety of an intensely animated scene
Butte did not lack Tor encouragement
for the football far were out IN grea
numbers and shouted themselve
hoarse, with encouraging shouts to urg
the team on TO its best efforts. On
thing that was most marked was Tn
conduct Of the crowd, in contrast VIII
former occasions, when a dozen pole
were always on hand to keep the crow
and never did. Without n police yes
terday the people kept of the held an
80, Aa.,narfn1 the unrk z
the players. The Boston & Montan
band. furnished by Frank klepetk'
added to the pleasure OF the crowd q
rendering a number of selections duI
ing the waits.
The game was scheduled to begin q
2:s0. but the teams were slow In arrlf
ing. No so the crowd. BY the hour s.
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