The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-01
OFF DAY FOR THE TIGERS
Defeated by the Western Buck
ers Six to Nothing.
GAME WAS A FAST ONE
Stony Field Responsible for Many Bruises
Among the Players - Western
Buckers Did Not Score Until
the Second Halt.

It was fast. fierce game of football
the Tigers and the Western Buckers put
up yesterday afternoon on the stony
gridiron in Lakeside park. and perhaps
the former team has a little kick coming
because the score chalked up as it did:
Western Buckers, G; Tigers, 0.
That's not meant as a suggestion that
the w. b. S didn't win the game fair and
square: but sympathy. like a tin can. will
follow the tail of the under dog, and the
It's are mot so big
1t was an ideal football day, cloudy sky,
cold enough to be crisp and just enough
cross-field wind to lift the locks of the
players and keep the onloolsers shivering.
Your enthusiastic football lad (and there
Is no other sorD. naturally expects to be
more or less used up by the end of the
game. and it's seldom he's disappointed:
hut II there aren't "a good hogshead of
witch hazel and a full gross of two-inch
bandages used on the limbs of certain
ruddy-cheeked youths of this borough be.
fore nightfall, the sporting editor of the
Standard will be after losing faith in his
Judgment. Positively, that gridiron is
nothing more nor less than a cobble field.
Il graveyard of venerable stones only the
houlders are not the regulation four feet
down. It's bad enough to succumb to
one sinks violently beneath 1000 pounds
of animated human frames to the treach-
erous embrace of a rock pile-welL it's
not good for ones stomach and thighs.
And as some one has remarked, That's
no lie.
Ssh0yelin and Trudeaus defense work
largely saved the day for the Fuckers.
while La Pointe's line bucking. II. Show
crs' end running and Balls defensive
work kept the Tigers from worse defeat
The feature of the game was a 35-yard run
by II. Showers. Quite crowd witnessed
the game.
The Buckers kicked off at 3 o'clock
Trudeau got the ball and carried it back
10 yards. In the first half the Tigers
were frequently forced to kick on the
third down. and the ball was se-sawed
over the field till time was called. Fl.
Showers did some good end running in
this half and La Pointe distinguished
himself by his vicious bucking of the
| Buckers' line.
The second half opened with the Tigers
kicking off. The ball was caught by B.
Leonard. who carried il back IL yards.
Gains for the Buckers We're made by 7.
Leonard and Roe breaking through
the line and by Trudeau, who made a fine
sprint around the end and succeeded in
carrying the bali to the Tigers 40-yard
line. But here the Buckers We're given 10
yards for ofr-sde play. This was one Of
several like penalties inflicted on each
side for the same oftense of off-side play.
The Buckers pulled themselves together
by fast work through both tackles and
succeeded in carrying the ball to the five
yard ]ine. where r. Leonard was given
the pigskin and shot through for an easy
touchdown. Trudeau kicked the goal,
scoring six points for the Buckers.
The Tigers kicked off. II. Showers got
the ball and carried it back five yards.
From this time on the ball was mostly in
possession of the Tigers. and at one time
it looked as though they would score. H.
Showers, aided by the fine interference Of
La Pointe and j. Thomas. made mag
nicent 35-yard run, Sarrying the ball
around the Buckers' right end. doubling
back around the left end. The game
wound up with the ball in the possession
Of the Tigers who held 1t on the Buckers
3;J-yard line