Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-02-06
Manchester ys pubuaue.

Manchester vs. Dubuque.
The Y. M Q, A basket ball team
WAS defeated at Manchester Friday
evening by score of IL toy A crowd
of three hundred witnessed the game
and made the walls of the Central
opera house ring from the start TO the
finish by their constant cheering. In
comparing the teams on their merits,
Dubuque was as good ss their oppon-
ents, but they were at great dlsad-
vantage on account of playing in q
strange hall and also appearing before
q hostile audience. A feature of the
game that made 1t unpleasant for the
spectators was the continuous iouling
and rough playing practiced by both
sides, especially Manchester. The UNI
pires were much to blame Tor this, as
they witnessed foul after foul without
penalizng the team making them.
The game started in a good lively
manner, both teams playing hard, and
in about two minutes Manchester
scored their first goal. Shortly after
ward Hauser fOuled and Ibach scored
one point. The game continued
through the first half in lively maa-
ner and closed with the score tie, 6 to
8. The second half was characterized
by vicious and hard playing. Man
chester Immediately took the Lad and
ran the score up to IL, making two
goals and scoring on two of Duhuqne's
fouls. The locals also scored thrfe
points on the fouls of their opponents.
| During the latter part of this half there
was mixup which might have ended
seriously ii it had not have been for
the prompt action of the officials. Maj
thews, of Manchester, and Eilwanger,
of this city, we're both after the ball,
and it slipped from under them. AT
the same time one of them accideptly
struck the other with his fist, they
clinched and both fell to the floor with
a thnd. Befare any other injury could
be done, however, the officials stopped
the affair. Both teams were very much
angered, and it was fully fifteen min
utes before the game was resumed.-
Dubuque Globe Journsl.
The basket ball game at Manchester
Friday night, when the local Y. NJ. c..
| A. was defeated by ascore of IL to 8,
and the incidents connected Herewith
furnished an excellent topic for CON
versation at the local Y. M. @. a. gym
nasium Saturday. That the Dubu-
que team and those who accompanied
them are disgusted is but putting it
mildly. They report that no such dis
graceful treatment was ever accorded a
visiting team anywhere. 1t was more
in the nature of prize fight, they say
with the Manchester team the agrees,
ors All the rules of the game were
ignored by the home players aud they
were allowed to continue in their bull
dog tactics because of the ignorance of
the referee of the game. After the
"bully' of the Man chester team struck
one of the Dubuque players and they
had been separated the Dubuque team
left the floor and refused to play out
the game. The secretary of the Man
chester Y. M. q. a. went to them and
expressed his regret at the manner in
which the home team was treating
them and begged them to finish the
| game. On his representation that the
rules of the game would be observed
during the balance of the play, the
Dubuque team returned to the floor
but the same rough, prize fighting. tao
tics were continued to the end of the
game by the home players. A Dnbu-
quer, not member of the team, who
witnessed .the game, supports the
statements of the members of the team
and says that after the game different
Manchester citizens in conversation.
with him over the game censured the
Manchester players in nnmeasured
terms for their disgraceful playing
The Dubuque man said there are two
members of the Manchester team who
played gentlemanly game, and he WIS
told that the other three were of the
tough order of society and not recog-
nized on the streets by respectable PEG
i Pile. 1t was the Dubuque teams first
defeat, but the fact that they were de-
feated does not sting SO much as the
fact that they were literally robbed of
the game. The Manchester team re
Gently played in Waterloo and the pa
pers of that city give them the Credit
OF playing q rough game. Dubuque
Times.
In behalf of the "aggressors of the
prize fight" at Central opera house Fri
day night, the Ignorant referee ard
the "bully" of our local team; to the
contradiction (fe! on him) of the truth
full (?) and upper four hundred men,
Der who witnessed the game AMI who
quotes our prominent citizens with an
intimate; freedom with full apbrecia-
ton of the blazing honors conferred
upon us by having aDhole team com.
posed of respectable" people not one
of whom belong to the slough order of
society, with the happy memory of
hauing seen whole team OF this sort
playing on the Manchester indoor grid
iron, we would refute a few of the
very unjust statements made by our
Christian friends of the Dubuque Y.
M. G. A.
Dubuque came here to win, this was
their "frst defeat in two years and
though the beating does not sting, still
we have fellow feeling of sympathy
for them: we have been beaten in our
day though that day was never for
minute last Friday evening we are
sorry we could not have accommodated
them with victory on any other side
than it turned.
The Manchester boys never once be
came angered either for one minute
| V hAANNNA ehNy dAO yVubS WIFI
comfortable tempers and no amount of
Smith or Ellwanger tactics would make
them forget their responsibility or hon.
or as Y. NJ. C A. team, though they
might stand still in hecenter of a room
and let a big muley center man run
into them and be thrown half across
the hall, if that center, by the petty
ways such charactered people have,
forced them to the extremity of doing
something in their own defense. We
believe Manchester also defeated Wat
erloo. Strange it is the teams who suf-
fer defeat who cry "bully" at the OPP
ponent.
/ Manchester critics say the game was
next to the Independence game the
fastest game of the season. 1t is the
concensus of opinion that the indie.
pendence players were more in Man.