The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-05
0 To D HOODOO;
HOME TO ROOST
Mee's Athletes Hold the
Gasfields to a Low
Score.
GOOD CROWD At GAME
Visitors Have Good Punters, While
Hammond Excels in Straight
Football.
Mee's Athletes, 0; Garfelds, 0.

Mee's Athletes, 0; Garfields, 0.
The HAMMOND football team has
never quite broken itself of that bad
habit of playing tie games. Occasion
ally the members of the team will vow
that they viii win. or. finding that i'm
possible, will deliberately lose rather
than be faced by those hated ciphers
with dash between them. They get
into the game and play the first half
and part of the second without a score
on either side, and then begin flirting
with those nothing -nothings, and be-
fore they know it, time is called, and
they are the victims of another tie
game.
Two games won and four tied this
season. 1t is awful, but apparently it
can't be helped There was a good
crowd in attendance, and the game was
q crackerjack frorE the spectators
point Of view. The Garfields had star
pair of punters, snd that helped to
make the game spectacular.
AS to the relative strength of the
two teams, 0-to-0 describes it to a T.
The GarffeIds were more accurate in
their passing, and they punted the ball
on an average of twenty yards farther
than the Hammond boys did. They
were fast, but they were not strong.
Hammond could not rely at all on
the punting department for gains, but
when it came to employing those backs
how they did go through that line!
They would rip it up on one side, and
then the other, and then go through
the center for the necessary gains.
| Each side seemed to employ the
game that they were best adapted to,
and so when the Garfields would punt
the ball away out into Hammond's ter
ritory Hammond would buckle down,
and by a series of grueling line
plunges would bring the ball back to
the point from which it was punted.
The Garfield line never held Ham
mond consistently, but they were
| strong enough to hold once in while
and then they would get the ball and
repeat their punting stunt. 1t was a
heart breaking game Time and again
Hammond would make good gains, only
to be deprived of the fruits of their
efforts. The crowd would be on the
| tip-toe of expectancy, thinking that at
last Hammond would force the ball
over the line and win the game, but
they were doomed to disappointment.
Once in the second half McMahon got
for a minute it looked as though he
would plant the ball behind the goal
posts, but in breaking away from the
players he stumbled, and before he
could get up on his feet and pull away
from the runners who were after him
he was tackled and brought down.
The run netted his team about thirty
yards, however.
/ Stevens also shown as star of more
than ordinary brilliancy, and until he
hurt his knee tore yawning gaps in the
Garfield line, and made good gains
whenever called upon. Halfman de-
livered the same kind of goods as Ste
vens in larger packages, and without a
doubt was one of the mainstays of the
team. Captain Reel Geib, Norris and
Portz all did fine work. and the team
was far from being a one-man aggre-
cation.
There was a great deal of penalizing
done, and Hammond was the chief suf-
ferer along this line, In fact, at least
sixty yards We're thus lost. This is
accounted for by the fact that the
game was a ffercely contested one Gar
field came to Hammond to win, and
brought lots Of money that they were
willing to bet at the odds of two t.
one.
Hammond was well aware of the fac
that a victory over the GarfeIds at thi.
time would put them in the first divi
sion of the first division, and so they
were in a .'do-or-die" spirit The re
suit was that there was some rough
playing, some hard tackIing, a wrest
l ling match between Farmer" Smith
and one of the visitors, and a couple o
injured players.
The effect of this tie on the cham
pionship is a matter of doubt Ham
mond has not been defeated, and We
has won but two victories. The dop
mixing will begin this week. and doubt
less by the time a game is schedule
: for next Sunday the lines viii be clear
" drawn. One thing is certain: ham
: mond is not out of it yet.