The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-06
NEITHER TEAM SCORED
Butte and Anaconda Contest for
Two Splendid Halves.
ARE TOO WELL MATCHED
Visitors Has the Heavier Team, but
Anaconda Has the Faster-Mahoney
Suffers Broken Bones and Has
to Leave the Field,

Butte and Anaconda teams on the
Athletlc park grounds. It was a game
remarkable in the history of the sport
IN Montana, the teams being so even
ly matched that in two 25-minute
halves neither side could place a score
to its credit
Butte put on the field a team that is
E pronounced the heaviest ever seen in
3 the state, the average weight of the
men being nearly 200 pounds, or IS
pounds more than the Anaconda team
average weight. Butte would charge
through the Anaconda line for heavy
gains, while Anaconda would gain
ground by end runs and quarterback
Kicks on third downs. These styles of
play, so different in character, were so
even in results that when time was
called at. the end of the last half the
n ball rested near the center of the field
In many ways it was a spectacular
game, Anaconda's open style of play
contributing to that effect. There was
considerable enthusiasm in the crowd
but the crowd was too small to grow
wildly excited. In the grand stand sat
a few ladies and their escorts shVer-
ing In the chill breeze that swept
across the open valley. On the field
was a crowd Of several hundred men
of the players, crowded over the grid
iron despite the earnest work of the
substitutes and officials to keep them
back, making runs practically impos-
sible and shutting off the grand stand
view of the game.
The car service to the grounds was
excellent, but on the return there were
bitter complaints of the manner in
which the cars were handled. When
the game concluded there were no
ND
on un to Carroll and there found a
train of three trolley cars and boarded
1t. Before starting for town the cars
made two trips back to the grounds
ana then came home at a slow pace.
1t was one hour and 90 minutes after
the game closed when the cars reached
the city.
The Anaconda team suffered in the
absence of Wilson from the line. He
was i'll with facial neuralgia and al
though on the side lines encouraging
the boys by his voice, was unable to
play. Big Jim Hooper. the deni-god
Of the Butte enthusiasts. was in the
Butte line, playing a full game for the
first time in three years.
Two Butte men We're injured in the
game In a head rush Captain Ma
honey struck his face against a knee
Grams elbow ffacturirfg @the orbital
Z, bone and also, it Is feared, fracturing
his skull He did not lose conscious
II,
was sent home to- Butte on the first
train. McAlister was injured also, re-
ceiving kick in the groin. Mahoney
was the only one obliged to leave the
field, but IS his injury was received
near the end of the game Butte did not
suffer materially.
A feature of the game was Butte's
heavy line playing, it having adopted
the Pennsylvania guards back system
of play, and interference on end runs.
rI-
TEN of interference, introduced by Will
son for the first time in Montana,
Butte's plan of action was to mass
three or four of it's heaviest men back
of the point Of attack, then charge
through the line, while the hafback
hurdled over them. On the other hand,
the Anaconda men made most of their
plays right behind tackle, and on long
end runs, which, by the way, were not
very successful. Kilroy was called up
on repeatedly to kick to make up lost
ground.
the wind, which carried Mahoney's
splendid kicks along for tremendous
gains. This same influence compelled
kilroy to depend on runs instead of
return kicks. In the second half the
wind died out, depriving Anaconda of
the advantage Butte had possessed.
One of the brilliant plays of the first
half and. indeed, of the game, was
Sam Emmons block Of Mahoney's place
kick for goal. 1t ELECTED the widest
applause of the day.
At the end of the first half Butte
was crowding the Anaconda goal line
closely, being but 10 yards from it, and
but for an unfortunate tumble, would
have been still closer.
In the second half Butte with but
five minutes to play and Mahoney out
of the game, made splendid dash for
l1
the field Gain after gain would they
make through the Anaconda line. Now
and then Anaconda would recover
ground by a quarterback kick but
steadily and rapidly would Butte force
the ball, back, making gains of three
five and eight yards at time. 1t was
desperate and fruitless effort, how
ever for the game closed with the ball
near the center of the field
One of the oddities of the game was |
the fact that Anaconda did not discover
the weak spot in Butte's line-Hoopers
end-until late in the game. When it
did Sam Emmons repeatedly made |
gains through it, Hooper, slower than |
when actively in the game, being I'M
able to stop him.
The chief ground gamers for Ana |
-cnnda We're -Emmons. Storey and Fitz- |
patrick. supplemented by Kilroy's kick |
ing, which was due largely to the splen- |
did work of the line. Sneson is entitled |
to much credit for breaking up inter
ference on end runs time and again.
Keller broke holes in the Butte line re-
peatedly, breaking up their left end
runs. Bob Emmons displayed great
agility in getting the ball on fumbles.
Griffith was the star of the Butte
team, but shared his honors with Ma
honey up to the time the latter was
injured. Griffith's kicking and manner
of hurdling was splendid. Brown
catching of punts was a notable fea-
ture.
The Game in Detail.
Butte won the toss and chose the west
goal. Kilroy kicked off for Anaconda
at 2:45 p. m. The punt was returned
by Mahoney, when Kilroy punted
again. driving the ball out of bounds.
1t was returned in touch by Emmons
on Butte's 35-yard line. The ball was
given to Butte on downs. Mahoney
went through the right end of the line
for small gain bl1t Anaconda sepured