The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-30
IT WILL Be A WARM GAME
Butte and Anaconda Meet on the
Gridiron To-Day.
OPENING OF THE SEASON
1t Will Be a Close and Exciting Contest
The Butte Team Will Go Against
a Set of Husky. Expe-
rienced Players.

To-day will witness one of h i'm
portant sporting events of the year. the
opening of the football season by a
game between the Butte and Anaconda
teams at Athletic park. In contrast
to games between Butte and Anaconda
i'm the past. to-day's game will not be
a one-sided affair, for the men in the
Anaconda line will not be as hereto
fore, green hands at the game. but on
the contrary. they are experienced
players. who know as much about hard
football as the Butte giants. and the
game will be. undoubtedly, a close. ex-
citing contest. with the chances as
much in favor of one sid winning as
the other. While no line can be given
with any degree of certainty as to the
probable winner, the admirers of the
Butte players are not apprehensive of
the result. but with their usual con-
fidence in the prowess of the Butte
players, are laying their money that
Butte will win.
Some idea of the metal the Butte
men viii have to go gains may be
had from a size-up of some of Ana
conda's- principal men. ~Edmundson,
one of the cracks of the visiting team,
is a production of the University of
Oregon. He got his first training un-
der Captain Benson o6 Butte, when the
latter was coach for the Webfoot
Varsity" team at Eugene. Edmund
son is rated very highly by Captain
Benson. He is very fast, weighs about
100 pounds, is a student of the game
and plays with his head. He is con-
sidered an all around good man. He
will hp nittpd against "a man in Slater
who will undoubtedly prove his match,
however. as Slater is also a man who
plays with his head. and he has never
yet gone against a man he could not
hold down.
Wilbur is another of the visitors well
known to Captain Benson. He played
guard on the University of California
freshman team when Captain Benson
was captain of the "'Varsity's." Later
he played with Reliance and Stanford.
and still later coached the Portland
Athletic club team. He is a hard,
rough player and a bad man to handle.
He, too. will meet n man who will keep
him engaged. PARROT will fall to his
lot. and Parrott has been one of Butte's
strong cards.
Pete Smith is still another of Ben
son's former pupils. He played in the
Berkeley team when Benson was cap
tain N is regarded by the latter as
having been one of his best men. Smith
went from Berkeley to Reliance and the
Olympic club, and later came to Ana
conda. He is undoubtedly one of Ana
conda's strong points, n unfortun-
ately for Butte. is TO play opposite
Paustian. one of the new men. who.
though strong n a hard worker. has
not had Smiths experience, and 1t will
behoove Butte to back up her line at
this point well.
Bert Oliver is another crack on the
Anaconda team who knows good. foot
ball and can play it. He started out
with the Oakland. Cal. High school
team at a time when that team was
pretty nearly "A match for any of the
college elevens. He proved so capable
that he was quickly gobbled up by Re-
lance. with whom he played up to the
time of his coming to Anaconda. His
main forte is interference. but he is also
very fast and a good tackler. He will
have to meet Bud Jones. one of Butte's
old hands. who will keep him jumping
sidewise to handle him.
Mcmillan. whose abilities are well
known in Butte, will, although a strong
card i'm any team. find his match in
Dygert. and Arlett. one of the men who
did as much as any other man to help
Reliance TO make as much of a show
ing as she did last winter, will go
against Mahoney. a new man TO Butte,
but an old hand at the game.
Other members of the visitors are
not so well known here. but they have
good regulations. and Ii Will be seen
thai the two teams are very evenly
matched and that the game should be
exceedingly close.
With good weather the attendance
will undoubtedly be very large. as
much interest is manifested in the con-
test. The game will be called at 3
o'clock sharp. The officers have not as
yet been selected. Chief of Police Null
holland will detail a strong force of po-
lice to keep the crowd from the field so
that the pleasure of the game for those
I'm the stand may not be marred.
The lineup of the visitors complete
has not been received. That of the
home team will be as follows:
Braham. center. 16s pounds: Parrot.
left guard. 1915 pounds; Paustian, right
guard. 10 pounds; Slater, left tackle.
$50 pounds; Jones. right tackle. 1855
pounds: Perham. left end. 115 pounds;
Bean, right end, 40 pounds; Benson.
quarter back. 100 pounds: Dygert. left
! half back, 1866 pounds: Mahoney, right
half back, 16S pounds; Harrington full
back. 100 pounds.
Subs-Jack Sullivan. 40 pounds; NJ.
F. lie Blanc. 40 pounds; f. Z. Adams,
15S pounds.