The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
'Varsityites and Pickups Call Each
Other Names.
DIDN'T PLAY THE MATCH
FAILED TO AGREE ON SEVERAL
POINTS.
Pickups Said, s'They Are Pikers,"
and 'Varsityites Said, They're
Scrubs"-Pickups Played a Prac-
tice Game Just the Same and De-
feated the Junior Varsity Team.

The University team and a picked
eleven, with Dana Smith at its head,
had arranged to meet in battle royal
yesterday on the varsity campus. But
they didn't come together, and the bat
tie royal wasn't to be seen. The Pick
ups say that it was all the fault of the
Varsity that the game was called off,
and the 'Varsityites proclaim that they
were humbugged by the Pickups and
would have nothing of them.
The doughty warriors who were to be
led on to their fate by the alluring pur-
srple sweater of their captain, who had
come together quickly at his call, ask
ing no why's or Wherefores, were cha
grined and down in the mouth because
of the fact that they would not, after
all, have a chance to meet the 'Varsi-
tyites in battle. They had their suits
on and Were just ready TO go down to
the Varsity campus when Manager Ri
ser of the Varsity team came into the
Y. NJ c., A. gymnasium, where they
had gathered, and told them that his
men wouldn't play, and that the game
was called off.
y Game Called Off.
Whats the matter now?" asked Cap
tain Smith from behind his effulgency
of purple.
Our men are willing to play the Y
NJ. c. A, but we refuse to meet any
picked aggregation that has nothing TO
lose, and We therefore refuse to play
A look of disgust. mingled with de-
spair, oerspread the features of the
Pickups. But they didn't say much
no, not very much, but they meant all
that they said. They insinuated that
the men of the Varsity were afraid to
meet them because of their greater
skill and because they had practiced so
much In fact, they became quite sar-
castle, and said several mean things
Il can't understand it, said Captain
Smith, land 1 don't believe anybody
else could. What they have done is
against all rules of sportsmaniike con-
duct. 1t is the rawest deal that I ever
heard of. They are, in short, a gang of
pikers.'
They are lot of CUTTERS said
Scare, and Augustus expressed himself
by saying that they were bunch of
hoodoos."
Statement by Riser.
Manager Riser made the following
statement with regard to his side of |
the controversy: "A few nights ago l |
came up to see the Y. NJ. c. a. with re- |
gard TO game. Manager Axton said |
that the game would probably be ar
ranged, and that the team would take it /
under consideration that night The |
next day Axton told me that he couldn't |
play ths game, and / said that it was |
all right. But Dana Smith saw me |
later and told me that the Y NJ. c. A
would play, and arranged with me for !
today.
We went On practicing, thinking
that it was the Y. NJ. C. A. that we
were to play, and then Smith comes
out and says that it is not anything
of the kind. 1t is a game of crawfish
that they We're trying to play with U.S.
and because we saw their hand and
called them they are sore. The Uni
versity team is willing to meet any reg
ularly organized team in Utah. but we
draw the line at playing scurbs.
And there the matter rested The
PickupS thought that they might as
well have practice, since they already
had their suits, so they wendell their
way to the Varsity campus. They were
met there by the second team of the
Varsity, who volunteered to play them
a practice game. Gatehouse. yelling
and Nielsen, who We're attired in their
suits, went in to fill out three vacant
the game started merrily.
The most striking features were
Smiths purple sweater and the way in
which the crowd swarmed over the
field. The spectators were mostly small
boys There We're two girls at first
but they quickly disappeared when they
learned that the big University team
was not to play.
Margetts Makes Touchdown.
No touchdowns were made in the first
half, and it was nip and tuck. Some I
fine long punts by Dana Smith were {