The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-14
A VICTORY FOR BUTTE
They Held Anaconda Down to an
Even Score.
WERE MET BY THE BAND
In Spite OF the Shape in Which the
Team Found Itself They Put Up
a Great Game and Surprised
Their Opponents.

The Butte football team came home
last evening i'm high feather. and pro-
ceeded to celebrate as though they mao
come of victorious. and. indeed, the
fact that they succeeded in holding the
Anaconda team down to an even score
may well he regarded as a victory for
Butte. considering the disadvantages
the team labored under. with a center
who had only four practices. a guard
who had but one lesson this season.
and a tackle who was virtually a new
man. AT the request of Frank kiepet-
ko of the Boston & Montana company
the Boston & Montana band went down
to the station to meet h boys and
escorted them up town, and for han
an hour they paraded the streets. the
band playing and the boys and their
rooters cheering and voicing the team
veil. Every one rejoiced, for no one
expected to see the team make so good
a showing. From the reports brought
back by those who went down TO see
the game the team put up a great
game and greatly surprised their OPP
ponents. 1t is the Judgment also OF
those who saw the game that but ior
an error of judgment on the part. OF
me OInCldlS 6ultt MObiu fioNt N'hs 49,
the boys were making no complaint.
They expressed themselves as thor
oughly satisfied with the work of the
officials, who undoubtedly did the best
they could with their knowledge of the
game. One enthusiast. who knows foot
ball backwards and was i'm a position
to Judge Of the merits of the game,
said both teams showed marked inn
movement over the last one, and that
the result was strictly due to merits.
AS in the Decoration day game the
Anacondas made many fumbles. when
Butte again took advantage of. This
authority said il was a case of brains
against muscle. meaning hat the
Butte boys showed "A better knowledge
of the game than their opponents and
outDlayed them in this respect. thus
enabling them to stand off their heavier
antagonists.
Captain Benson when seen relative to
the game said: They will probably
say in Anaconda. as was said before.
that the result was due to a fiuke Per
ham having made Rutte's score much
as he did before. by picking up a fuin-
BILE from Anaconda and running To a
touchdown, but ! dom regard IL as a
fuke. Anaconda Ia at least n dozen
bad fumbles. and the fact that an end
whose place il was to be on hand To
snap up lust such fumbles did what
he was there for can't be regarded as
an accident. We outplayed the other
team. and had there been greater
equality in weight and strength, we
| would have won the game"
Slater redeemed himself for the poor
showing he made in the Decoration day
game and won perhaps greater indiVld-
ual credit han any other player. He
was in every tackle. and there was
scarcely q play of any kind that he
was not In. DyGert also retrieved him
self and played a great game. he and
| slater making most of the gains.
Mahoney did rot come quite m tn
the high standard he set for himself In
his first game in Butte. but that was
no fault Of his. He was not quite I'm
form and was unable to make the bril-
liant showing he made In the Memorial
day game. Bean PLAYED "A good game.
He tackled bard and played his posi-
ton well. and the wav that the enemy
made him their mark and made most
of their gains through him was no fault
OF his, as he was against q man 30
pourds heavier than he. who had y
vastly greater experience. With more
experience the operation will not be re-
peated in the next game.
Parrot, who had n rib dislocated in
the first game Of the season, PLAYED a
great game for n man in his condition.
He got in pretty good condition I'm the
Interim between the two games. blu at
the outset he was injured again in the
same place, and while he pluckily
STAYED in the pame he was badly hand
icapped by his hurt. He is another
who will come out in future games.
HARRINGTON was not used much on the
offensive. as he was still suffering from
the strain no received I'm the openinR
] game. He nlayed full back on the de-
fensive. and no one could get mast him.
The STANDARD predicted that Bob Per
ham would he on hand To convert stray
funbles into t~ouchdowDs. and the pre-
diotjon proved correct. He repeated his
star performance OF the Decoration DAY
game ard again saved the dav for
Butte. Hugh Perham bad had but one
practice. ard therefore could not be ex-
nected to play m to his old form. Stiil.
he held his position down in fire style
and in the next game. when he viii
have he'd time 70 practice up, he will
show his old admirers he has not for
gotten the game. lie Blan" at cente'
was another who suffered for want al
practice. having been thrown IN
Rrahm's nlac &c AZ tho last moment. hui
II was notable that the enemy did rni
GO through him. while he ~repeatedl'
broke th~nuEh tho eremy's line and
stoned the quarter. His nassinc I'm thu
first nart Of the game was not very az
CITRATE. but In the latter mart he stead
led down and passed perfectlv. He 4
another man to keen an eve on for fut
tura events. PirceH. the new ono
MIA we'd an excellent game. We tackled
well end II was impossible to re
around him. BENSON Of course. wa
alv-ays in the came. There never Wa
q time when he wac not and his goo,
JUDGMENT IN handiin~ tho team wa
aoain manifest. All thinSs eonsidere'
there Is good reasnn to feel proud +"
putte's showing !, the game. and wifi
tho s~oreheads out ars new timber q
w-ho are willipr IN he Instructed ~
their can.ain. Pntte's long line NJ vic
tories viii he enhanced in games tina
are to follow.