The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-30
Massillion Defeats the All
Westerns by the Score
10 to 4.
CROWD NUMBERS 5000
Ohioans Show Better Teamwork and
the Disabling Of Great Michi-
gan Player Wins Contest.

The Tigers" a stable of football
giants kept by the townsmen of Mas
sillion, Ohio, to prove that they are
superior TO the citizens Of Canton. the
rival metropolis Of Stark county, came
into a violent head-on collision with a
picked team Of graduates from the
pigskin department of various insti-
tutions Of culture, called the All
Westerns" at the American league
baseball park yesterday afternoon.
The catastrophe was caused by the
use OF a single track route to the
gate receipt station.
The casualties:
WILLIE HESTON. left half back, All
Westerns; tibia Of right leg broken
near the ankle
L. f. ROSETH full back, Tigers; left
shoulder dlslocated
The score Incidentally, was: Mas
sillion, 8; All Western, 4. The chronic
professionals, some Of whom have
brilliant careers before them as fat
men in dime museums, were too strong
for the temporarily subsidized heroes.
and there is great JOY in MassillIor-
population 8O.000-today.
1t was a sorry substitute for the
great Intercollegiate championship
games which were features OF Thanks
giving day before football was purged
and purified by the faculties. A crowd
Of 5000 at hopeful estimate shivered
in the grand stands and watched the
struggle with sickly enthusiasm.
MassiIlion's delegation. about 200
strong, decked out in black and yellow
ribbons. just as If they were real col
leGe rooters, urged on their stalwarts
with occasional weak cries of Eat EN-
up, Tigers" The Chicagoans express
ed their feelings with Kisses the few
times that they made any kind of
noise. Coach Stage of the Maroons
sat in one Of the boxes with his wife,
and grimly pronounced the exhibition
q travesty.
The two accidents, coming the sec
ond half after the All Westerns had
tied the score and MassilIon had be-
gun to resort to professional tactics
sent the spectators away from the
field in q gloomy mood.
Near the end Of the game Hare of
Indiana, who was playing q brilliant
game for the All Westerns at quarter
back and as punter, was brutally ell
bowed by F'indlay of Wisconsin. after
he had retrieved a fumbled bail and
prevented another MassiHon touch
down Walter EckersaH. acting as
referee, rebuked Findlay; spectators
along tie side lines jeered, and for a
moment it looked as II the usual pro-
fessional fracas was about to happen
Massillon won the game by virtue
of better team play, harder condition
and greater weight. The Au-Westerns
put up a game fight. however, sur
prising their opponents who. after the
first few downs, were calculating upon
a score of 20 to 0. The game as a
whole was slow and uninteresting, due
IN part to the heavy field and in part
to the fact that 1t was a contest for
money and not for honor
Massnlon scored when the first half
was well under way by a drop kick
from the thirty-yard line. Davidson
booting the leather over the bar.
Early in the second half the All
Westerns tied the score, Hare making
a successful drop kick from the thirty
yard line. Then with hard plunging
line play, the Tigers ripped UP the
defense of the opposition, weakened
by the loss Of Heston. and Roseth
was pushed over the line Stirring,
the 1&SGIS center ana CdRld4tis Aoi4SQ
to kick goal.
But for Hestons injury the chances
are that the game would have result
ed in tie. The secondary defense
playing of the famous old Michigan
half back was a splendid exhibition
Of power and craftiness. Except for
his wonderful work the Masslllon men
would have run over the All-West-
ern aggregation almost as they pleas
ed. Heston plugged every hole made
in his line until he was hurt. and in
nine out Of ten Of the vicious scrim-
images he was found at the bottom of
the heap.
The defense was really sensational
as far as Heston was concerned and
high class by Spaulding. too. Indian"
Schultz Of Michigan and Fat Max
well. the Chicago and Swarthmore
guard. had a stubborn battle all the
way through. with honors about even.