Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-12-02
Foot Ball Troubles.


advertised for last week took place.
The Moore township boys were to play
KioWa OIL Thanksgiving and had plain
understanding that the game would be
played at KiOwa, but when the Moore
boys got to Kiowa they learned that
Prof. Evans took his team and went
TO Alva. The Moore team was very
indignant at the treatment received
and from this time on will sever
diplomatic relations with Evans. The
Prof. seems to be doing all that can
possibly be done to make himself thor.
ouRhly despised. and even the citizens
of KiOwa are denounclng his unfair
action.
The game which was to have been
played at Attlca on Friday between
Medicine Lodge and Attica was not
played on account of Attica's inability
to get her team together. This game
will be played on Saturday of this week
at Attica. It was reported that Medi-
cine Lodge and Kiowa were to meet at
Attica, but it was a mistake. Medicine
Lodge, like Moore has all of the Evans
football she wants.
On Saturday, December 10, Harper
and Medicine Lodge Will meet, but the
place OF meeting has not yet been de-
cided upon.
Prof. Honnold Of this city last week
sent communication to both Of the
Kiowa papers giving fair and honest
statement CT the facts in the con-
troversy between the two football
teams. The News Review published it
but the Journal refused. Instead of
publishing the facts, the Journal pub
fishes another Of Prof. Evans charac-
teriStlc language crucifxions in which
ne assails practically everybody but
Evans. It is fair to say that his con.
duct is very pointedly condemned by the
citizens Of Kiowa and he stands practi
cally alone
III the face Of the gentleman's admis.
sions and, as the courts would say,
the preponderanee of evidence to the
contrary, 1t is worse than time wasted
for him to even attempt to convince
anybody that he was not guilty of sub
Stituting Langley Of AlYa and DOnahue
OF Wellington for two of the Kiowa
boys who he represented we're members
OF the team and were playing. A
Medicine Lodge citizen happened to be
in wellington soon after the fuss at
Kiowa. 1t was positively stated there
by Wellington citizens that Donahue
never was student IN Kiowa but that
he was then aud Is now q citizen of
Wellington aud an expert foot ball
player who follows it as a profession
and plays with different teams provid.
ed they pay him. He stated that his
fee for playing at Kiowa was $40.
That Mr.. Langley was also engaged
to play for Evans can be proven by q
perusal OF the Alva Pioneer OF Sep
tembor 21st, where it Is stated that
"Jesse Langley and Maurice Thoma g
went to KtOwa to take part in a foot
ball game between Medicine Lodge and
KiOWA."
Tho Index iS not q football en-
thuaiast. 1t has not contracted the
fever and is not worked up to a frenzy
over it. Or course, when the Medicine
Lodge boys get into game we would
like to see them win if they can do il
on their merits fairly and honestly, but
il they should ever resort to Evans
tactics, they would find that Medicine
Lodge would denounce them as prompt.
ly 40 Kiowa did Evans. We have q
peculiar notion that q man should be
honest and honorable in everything.
An instructor in a public school, es
pecially. who departs from the path OF
rectitude ia this respect does positive
injury TO himself and is to be pitied.