Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-11-25
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ball teams went to kiowa on Saturday
to play q return game with the high
school team of that city, but the game
ended In row at the end of the first
half when it was discovered that the
Klowa boys were playing two men un.
der assumed names. These men were
old hands at the game, good fellows and
spendid football players, being heavier
and stronger and more experienced
men than our high school boys. Prof.
Evans, the Kiowa principal, himself
an oldtime foot ball player, was also
in tbs game, but Medicine Lodge had
agreed TO allow him to play as it was
admitted that Kiowa could do nothing,
playing strictly students. It seems that
there are two Kiowa students ,Brannan
and Harry Garland, who are enrolled,
In the Kiowa school, and Prof. Evans
put in man by the name OF Jesse
Langley and represented to Medicine
Lodge that he was Harry Garland; and
put in another man, whose name is an
known, and stated that he Was Brannan.
In fact, both these men assumed the
names under which they played.
At the end Of the first half Medicine
Lodge quit the game because Evans re-
fused to bar these professionals. Med.
icine Lodge played a strictly high
school team. and prevented Kiowa
from scoring for twenty minutes. The
action OF Prof. Evans In making false
representations and playing men under
assumed names. connOt be too strongly
censured, when 1t IL is considered that
in his position rs principal of his school
he should set a high standard of athlet-
les for his students. The Medicine
Lodge team and those who accompani.
ed them have nothing to say against
Kiows or her foot ball team in general,
but are loud IN their denunciatlon of
Prof. Evans, from hom they looked
for fair treatment. The Medicine
Lodge boys seem to think that they
could match q game with Kiowa and
play 1t amicably at any time were it not
for Prof. Evans.
The Index deplores this condition of
affairs and hopes to see better feeling
in the future.
Prof. Evans write up of the game
played here is decidedly unfair state.
ment. His statement that Kiowa had
to agree to play her smallest men is not
correct, as Kiowa put in anyone she
wished, barring Evans, and he was al.
lowed to go in the last half, and Medi.
cine Lodge continued to score on them
His statement that the referee mali
ciously persisted IN not hearing the
call'' and thus scored FIVE points fol
Medicine Lodge is direct slap at Ell
mer Long OF Kiowa. to whom the ref
cree referred this matter, accepting
Longs advice, which was against Kio
wa. Evans, at the time, disclaime6
any feeling in the matter. Evans also
went in the entire last half instead OF
Is minutes and during the entire game
the ball was never in Medicine Lodge
territory.
Last week the Index tried to over
look Prof. Evans littleness and his
blunders because we regard the Kiows
boys rs individual gentlemen, but his
action IN his homo town whore the Wis
itors were entitled TO at least q small
pootion of respect at his hands. is in
excusable and he has inYited and en-
couraged criticism. We now move tc
amend by striking from the files the
word "gentleman" and substituting In
lieu thereof the PLAIN word, ''ragchew
er."