The San Francisco call., 1898-03-15
FOR
 FOOTBALL MEN The Butte Eleven FlndS d Dangerous Rival Tn
 AnacOnda.
M.,,o,s Dalv. the Football Angel. and His Novel and Costly
 Hobby.

First it was Butte that reached out it's tentacles for our football prayers and whisked them across the plains to a mountain home McMillan was the first to go; Benson followed and others shook the dust of San Francisco OH their heels for positions in Butte with good salaries attached, with the under standing that all idle moments were to be utilized on the grid1ron.
 Now Butte has a rival city in Ana conda, another of Montana spor'ihs towns. and there will be regular auc- tion bidding for our football men De- fore the season is over.
 The "angel' of the Butte team IS young Clarke, whose father was mayor of the city and whose wealth Is esu- mated at $1O000,000 or more. Footpali teams are his hobby and he carries them al md the country on speclals, furnishing them with all the com coIilAoi s .s and conyeniences of a Well-Stocked ana well-eouipped clubhouse. Anaconua has municipal aspirations to De the biggest city in Montana, 10 Suppldnl Rutte on every field. Another Clarke has been found and his name Is Marcus Daily of Anaconda. l., ..,,,
 Da1v is as well provided in this worlds stores as his competitor and he has also developed the same form or athletic mania, guaroi-n n to looeoall eleven. Butte's ei wen. gathered rom the four quarters or the Slope, pecaIiie A sonorouS trumpeteer or the city dlh- Ietic prowess. Jealous Anaconoa con
 ceived the same idea anu III niio tn.,, oiis,
 month she will have 1ootDall tedhl as heterogeneous and as costly as that of Butte. ,o,
 DaIv began to reach out for our men few months ago. So far he mas se- cured two and they are the very pest we have. Pete Smith and Burt OrVer. Smith will leave this city on Tuesday for Apaconda. where he has choice of two commercial positions Tn the Anaconda Mining Company. Burl ,iI- Oil- ver will follow him soon after. The halt offered these men is a goou, Sup- stantial salary, with just enough lapor attached to make it worth the Whlie
 for the San Francisco men 'o tO,e tio . inc measures of city life for rustic existence colored with the soil or the gridfron. ,1ov ers secured at the present tlme put It is thought that Sexton will soon folloW. Overtures have been made to SlnpsoIl' and it is very likely that he Will ac, cept upon his graduation from Meolcai
 College in the summer. Carter IS ah- other WnOSe IldlllS 10 Oii 1iiN AA'S didates for the new Anaconda eleVen'
 which it is expected will sweep every thing before it on the gridiron- SeV-
 eral Eastern players of reputation are already in Anaconda aWaltlng lHe opening of the season. Phil Daniels, the manager ot the An aconda eleven, promises great things for the men who will wear his uniform. First. there will be the season in Mon tana. the feature of which will be the games between the rival cities. Alter | that will come a trip East, where the new team from Anaconda will line up
 against the big eleyens of the coun- | try. Then 1t Is the intention of the An- 1 aconda enthusiasts to traverse the con- 1 tinent and play our local teams during | the Christmas holidays!
 1 When the local athletic clubs prepare
 to form their teams this year they will l find big gaps in places that were al ways filed Smith was looked upon as
 prospective captain of the Olympic l eleven. Oliver, Sexton, Carter and
 Simpson would have played in athletic club teams this fall. and, as the ma- terial is not superabundant, their ab- l sence will be felt. Instead of a visit | from enc Montana team during the winter, we might now have a brace to
 fight out their own differences on our
 soil.