The daily sentinel., 1906-11-27
THE INDIANS
LAST SHOT
FOOTBALL TALK
Manager Stack of the Red
Mems Team Goes After
Coach Alderman in a
Pretty Stiff Manner.

Editor Sentinel:
From the interest that the average
Grand junction man takes in football.
he will doubtlessly wonder what's
this fuss all about. anyway" beg
his Indulgence and promise that 1t
will never happen again" When
sent YOU my last statement. which
you kindly published. had no inten-
tion of entering into hot air con
test with any one. l have none now.
| simply stated facts and from them
our position. That is our position
still.
About Wednesdays game | disputed
nothing. The officials were on the
square They have our sincere thanks
for their decisions II never occurred
to us that he would see fit to upset
the accounts of that game given by
three papers of this city. which we
supposed gave "all the news and gave
II right" If il Will act as balm to his
Injured feeling we will concede the
other FIVE points. Our only regrets
are lUll inc bllililH Ntlf o' NpAtt''i 80
tive in forming their opinions and
that the facts leaked out so late.
In his history" he says that he
is ready to prove that my description
of the play. which l sent TO the two
authorities, is false probably he can
in the same way that a dip can
prove property to a watch that he has
nlched, on the corroborative evidence
of his "crowd" that he came by 1t
honestly. We are not foolish enough
to go back and look for justice from
those that held us up, in that game OF
October 13. Every one who saw it.
outside of some little high school boy,
will admit that the official In that
game handed out to the Indians one
of the rankest and rottenest deals
on record Perhaps he used his best
judgment. If he did. to say the least,
1t was very warped. slop-slded var
iety. In spite of this the manage
ment of the high school almost in
sisted on his officiating as umpire in
the last game.
The ball went high over the goal
and with the wind that was blowing
will leave it to the honesty of any
fair-minded person If the bal! could
have been returned to the position
where the Indian fell on II, by
mere attempt to fan on IT, by the
high school player. He picks II up
or attempted to, stumbled, fell, drop
N
and Castleman say that 1t was a
touch down. That settles it. The
high school coach may write all the
history he pleases but It will never be
accepted by us as an authorized YER
sion.
His presence on our field even Tor
"forty-five minutes" during time
when We were attempting to test the
practical working of some of our for
nations on the line of scrimmage,
was uncNcusable ana totally out of
line with his preaching of square
deal The game referred to was over
and the boys had gone back to town.
He even claims the game of October
& when we kindly consented to play
practice game to better acquaint both
teams with the new rules and with
the understanding that the score was
not to be considered. We are not
surprised as 1t is in accord with his
puerile actions in all the deals we
have had with him,
We encourage football base ball
and other games believing that In an
institution of this kind II is a neccs-
sity. 1t has got to be a clean article
or ii does not 80 with as. How we'll
we have lived up to this l will leave
that to the teams OF the surrounding
towns ana country to bear us out
When we visited them. they always
treat as royalty. Why can't we be
treated the same az home We con-
slider this institution a part of Grand
Junction We cNpcnd annually thous-
ands of dollars and every cent where
is possible. goes TO some firm in the
city. All we want is to be given Il
reasonable consideration
Personally we hold not the slight-
est III feeling toward any player on
the high school team. nor DO we to-
ward their management, we simply
appeal to their fairness. II we can
not be given this consideration by
them. then we are going to drop the
matter where 1t stands.
Respectfully,
r. ]. STACK