New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-13
NOW INDOOR FOOTBALL.
Professional, School and College
Teams to Meet IN Garden.

For six nights Of the coming week at Madison
Square Garden there IS chance for lovers OF foot
ball to compare the indoor game with the sport aS
played In the open.
College men, schoolboys. professional and semi
professional" football players will take part. and
the result will be- says President Wise. OF the
WATERFOWL Athletic Association. under whose au-
spices the tournament Is given, 1.-The finest exhibit
ton Of the game in this city.
To prepare the Garden for the football players
between the time the six day bicycle racers left
the last night and the time for the first
game means the hurried work OF a large number
of men and teams. Even before the crowd which
attended the finish of the had left the Gar
den, gang Of men at work tearing down the
track All night they worked. and this morning
work begun the floor This must all be
taken up before the work of preparing the grid
iron can be begun. This afternoon the first Of the
five hundred loads Of dirt needed will be dumped
in the All tonight the work of carting in
and dwelling the dirt will go on. and early to-
morrow morning great steam roller will be driven
in TO pack the dirt down sufficiently for playing
purposes
Much interest is taken In the series between the
teams Of the WATERFOWL Athletic Association, the
Oreos Athletic Club. Of Asbury Park. y. J.; the
Orange Athletic Club, of Newark. and elevens
from Franklin, PENN and Syracuse. y. Y. The
Watertown team is one of the strongest profess
sional teams in tho land Last year its backfield
was lent TO the Syracuse team, and helped 1t win
a the tournament at the Garden. This season
with only one defeat. that at the hands Of Buck
nell College, but this retrieved by the de-
feat IL gave the college team Thanksgiving
Day-2 to 6. The series in which these teams VIII
engage is for the championship Of the United
States and a purse of S2,UJO of which Sl,25O goes
the winners and $50 to the losers" The nrst
game will be Monday night between Water
town and either OreOs Syracuse On Tuesday
night Orange and Franklin will play.
The elevenS that have been playing around TIE
city this will have a chance TO settle the
question of supremacy President Wise has offered
prizes to the value of 81 400 for this series alone
The four teams that will meet those OF the
Knickerbocker Field Club, the Olympic Athletic
Club St Peters c. L. G. and the Mohawk Attn
Ietc Club. The first game IN the series Will be
day night, and the second between the Mohawk
and St. Peters Tuesday evening The winners
will play for the championship Thursday even
ing.
Negotiations pending for the appearance OF
two college teams to play on "Wednesday night
when, in addition, there will be a game between
two school teams for the intersCholastlc cham
ponship." This will be amateur night on sat
urday night two Gaelic teams. the kicknannS ana
the OConnells will end the week with one OF their
characteristic carnivalS-
This is rather interesting tournament, as IL
has it's rise in the civic pride of WATERFOWL IL Is
James B. Wise, who has been Mayor Tor -FOUR
years and IS president of the ChamDer OF
Commerce. The members of the syndicate nave
Unexpectedly made 5000 on the WatertoWn team
this fall and, as they not in the game lot
money they say, they willing 10 invest me
amount in hiring the Garden for a week tCr lhe
glory of Watertown and its football team