The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-03
PLuVIUS VICTOR.
RAIN HELD THE ODD TRICK IN
= THE FOOTBALL SIT
UATI0N
GAME POSTPONED TO MONDAY
AIinnesotans Rejoice in Result of
wisconsin Nebraska Contest
Chances Of Gophers and Bad
gers Considered Even.

The manager. of athletic sports for the
University Of Minnesota Eulled off a mag
r:fcent naval battle on Northrop pond
yesterday before an impressive array of
). ar correspondents. When Dr. Williams
woke up yesterday and sized up the
weather conditions he hustled his men
over to the armory to take diving les
sons and telephened Prof Jones to order
a supply of pleasure yachts to navigate
Between the goal posts that no invader
might surreptitiously smuggle away the
chalk lines. When the players were IN
formed CONCERNING the bath project they
entered a strenuous direction, but Df.
sButon scame hurriedly upon the scene,
and begged the boys to remember that
s..as John Milton has it, they also serve
who only stand in water, a" and white
the boys were d little shy on j. M, they
W ere wiling to take Burron's word for H.
and gracefully surrendered to the M
sevitable.
At o'clock the umbrella brigade ar
slived at the scene of action, and parade1
twice before the grand stand for the
benefit of 1.-The ---------- Stan Pho
tcgrapher." A trolley wire was strung
across the waters on which the officials
were hung. The Indians came on the
scene singing their new yell We'll sail
round the end in our birch-bark canoe,
to which the Minnesota rooters responded
right cheerily: "He who would reach the
goal must dive below A few moments
later Prof Jones appeared in his private
schooner Notwithstanding the protest
made by the Haskell coach to the eftect
that a schooner would demoralize the red
men. Jones referred him to the CONFER
ence committee of the Big Nine, smiling
sardonically as he recalled that the game
would be over long before the messenger
boy had reached Prof. Waldo
On the toss-up, the Indians got the
Choice and took the goal facing the falf
weather flag floating from the armory.
The Indians got the kickoff, and ADJUST
ed the pigskin in the small battalion can
non and hurled it far toward the Gopher
goal line. Dobie had not quite hnlshed
adjusting two planks of lumber to his
feet. He fell on the ball and disappeared
in the angry waves. He had taken but
one mouthful when he realized to- his
horror that it was water, but with great
presence of mind retained perfect sell
control and started out bravery Tor the
far shore, firing his imagination with the
fancy that he was on his way to chapel
exercises Before the effect OF the lllu-
sion was dissipated he was on the other
side of the Indian fullback, and rising
made his way safely to the goal before
the Indians could turn their fleet A pro-
test was Immediately entered on the
ground that Dobies action was clearly
retrograde movement, and that ne hao
certainly made a loop which rendered
court of inquiry necessary.
Upon these technical grounds the battle
was declared off until Monday afternoon
az 2:9O O. clock, when it is hoped that the
l,a
gagement.
JOY over Wisconsin Game.
With no game of their own to rejoice
over. the Minnesotans eagerly awaited
news of the Wisconsin Nebraska contest.
When the score, IS to o. was announced
there was general rejoicing. That IS
practically the same score that Mime
sofa made against the Cornhuskers, ~
TO O. 1t IS doubtful if the Nebraskans
are in any better shape than they were
three weeks ago They were in the pink
of condition when they played Minnesota
They were badly used up by the Gophers
and have only recovered from the pat
ste,.ine they received then. If Wisconsin
with three weeks of hard work could do
no better than Minnesota when the Goph-
ers were 20 per cent weaker than they
are today there is nothing particularly
alarming in Wisconsins showing. Inc
Wisconsin papers have been saying that
the Nebraska game would settle the
Badgers fate They hoped for high
score, much higher than Minnesota rolled
up.
That they are disappointed at the re-
suit goes without saying.
On the showing of yesterday, Michigan
looms up first among Western teams, de-
feating the Carlisle Indians almost as
decisively as Harvard did. The Chicago
game at Beloit proves finally that s--e
Maroons are out of the running. There
is absolutely no chance for Stages men
TO retrieve the past now.