The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-30
ANACONDA news.
TO-DAY'S GREAT BATTLE
Anaconda Will Go to Butte in
q Body.
THE TEAMS RED HOT YELL
Game viii Be Called at 3 O'Clock and
wm Be Finished in Ample Time
for People to Return on the
s O'Clock Train.

Decoration day this year viii be one
Ions 10 be remembered. by some people
i'm Anaconda at least. Those who will
remember il are those who take an in
terest in football. To-day. for the first
time in its history. Anaconda viii put
forward a football team that can lay
claim to being a football team. The
game at Butte to-day will surely result
in a victory for this city's club.
Attempts at organizing a football
team in Anaconda have been made for
three or four years past, but always
without success. Butte had a football
team years ago that was conceded to be
the best club in the West. After a few
years Of more han ordinary success in
Butte at football. some of the players
came to the conclusion hat Anaconda
offered a better field for them than
Butte. and as Butte held out but small
Inducements to keep them there. they
came to this city. Upon this nucleus
has been built the team hat will to-
day go against The champions of the
Smoky City. Many Of Anaconda's play
ers are men from other states who have
obtained satisfactory employment in this
city, while Others are boys who have
been in Anaconda for years. and who.
under the tutorship of college football
men. have learned the game with a
thoroughness that Will be a surprise 10
the Buttes to-day.
That football has taken a hold in Ana
conda there can be no doubt. Everybody
who cares anything at all for sport is in
terested in IL, and this statement VIII
find verification in the crowds of Ana
conda people that will go to Butte to-
day to cheer their townsmen on to vic
tory. Football was a long time in gain
ing a status in Anaconda. but now that,
through the efforts of a few enthusiasts,
the city has a club that IL may point TO
with pride, the sport will rank abong
the other games and pastimes that have
found liberal patronage in Anaconda.
The football players of the Anaconda
clu will leave his city at 1853 o'clock
this morning. For the enc of those
who are not much accustomed TO the &C.
centric hours at which railroads run
their trains. il may be stated that 1859
O'Clock a. m. Is so close to IL O'Clock noon
tha they can safely figure IN hearing
the whistles blow when the train leaves.
The round trip fare TO Butte has been
fixed at 81. a reduction Of one-half over
the usual rates. The train will be made
up In two sections II II becomes appar-
ent that one train will not afford suffi-
accommodation for the crowd. The
running of the train in sections will, OF
course. depend upon the condition of the
weather this morning. From the num-
bers of those who declared their inten-
ton of attending the game to-day. 1t is
safe to say that. should the weather
prove at all favorable, the railroad peo-
pie will find hat two trains will not
come amiss in handling the crowds.
The game will be played at the Butte
grounds, which are situated
just north of the race track. The game
will be called promptly at 3 O'Clock. al
IL is advertised tina il is to begin
at 2:30. People who have been I'm the
OF attending football games. base
ball games and horse races. however,
be pretty well satisfied that IL will
be 3 o'clock, or nearly that hour, when
the game begins. BY starting the game
at ; O'Clock there will be more than
ample time for Anaconda people to come
home on the train which leaves Butte at
s o'clock. Those whose duties do not
require them to return at so early an
hour may remain in Butte until the train
leaving that city at $40 In the evening.
The members Of the local team spent
yesterday in thoroughly resting up after
the weeks Of hard pratice that they
have INDUCED i'm. All of them, with
possibly one or two exceptions. are in
fine shape and have not the slightest
misgiving as to the outcome. They ad-
nit. however, that IL they win. the vic
tory will be gained only by the hardest
kind of work and will be a battle royal
from beginning TO end
The yell for the Anaconda team was
adopted a few days ago. and il is ex-
pected that the strong-lunged Anacon
dams will practice the yell from now
until the game rs on, In order that they
may cheer on the big fellows in their
work. The yell is a. follows:
Boom. bah, dab:
Cooper City. Copper City;
Hah. he. hah."
With this yell. a hundred tin horns,
and other implements of torture to the
Butte players, the A~nacundas expect 10
carry of the day.
copper and green. and everybody who
the colors.
going over on the train, there will be a
arava Of the hottest sports that ever
hit the trail go 10 Butte in A big band
wagon. This crowd consists of about
30 machinists. ali employees Of the foun-
dry department. who are enthusiastic
football cranks. Tbs vehicle will b,
drawn by six horses and will be gaily
decorated with the colors of the hons
team. The machinists have provided