The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-29
Compelled to Play Against The
Umpire, Too
DECISIONS AAeERED SPECTATORS
CRIES OF PROTEIN, ROTTEN"
PRESSED THE DISAPPROvAL
OF THE FAlRMINDED.

1.-The officials played the game" is
one OF the terse remarks which fell
from the lips of one of the returned
Whitman college football players yes
terday in speaking of the game with
Multnomah Athletic club.
The boys are not kicking. Whitman
teams are not composed Of the stuff
that does, and they are not talking for
publication but a person who dropped
in at Billings yesterday and heard
them telling the fellows" about the
game would not doubt for a minute
Whitman campus would be a pretty
good place for one Professor Boyd of
the Portland high school, who was UNI
pire, to keep away from.
There is not a member of the team
who, when asked point blank, will not
admit the umpiring was rotten. They
say it was so bad that even the side
lines yelled rotten, rotten" again and
again. It was so bad that some of the
players wanted to quit playing when
there was no hope of victory as o. A
c. mad done last year because of like
treatment.
spasIe Expressed Himself.
And they like to tell now Captain
Spagle, after the game, went up to
the umpire and gently tapped him on
the shoulder and confided to him that
1T was the rottenest piece of umpiring
he had ever seen in all his football ex-
perience." And how Umpire Boyd had
not a word to say in explanation, or
defense.
Coach Baird would not admit directly
that the boys had been cheated but
said, 1--WE want to forget about the af-
fair as quick as we can. That is best
He did deny, however, with fervor,
that there had been holding at the
eventful time on the ten yard line
when Whitman was penalized at the
cost of touchdown.
Il was the man who they claimed
was holding" said the coach, land
am absolutely positive that 1 was not
touching anybody at all at the time"
The boys say that time and again
Baird and Spagle called the attention
of the umpire to holding on the part Of
the Multnomah players but the official
seemed to be blind to anything but
Whitman errors.
Baird is a Great Star.
Coach Baird played his old position
of tackle and played a tearing game
the boys says. In fact they cannot say
too much for the coach. He is the idol
of the team. He mas been popular
personally all the year and now the
boys have great confidence in his abil-
fly as a coach and the whole college
is at his feet.
Quarterback Schmidt was the only
man to get hurt in the Multnomah
scrimmage when Whitman's gritty
team went up against men averaging
IS pounds heavier than they were. He
received a slight injury to mis- right
elbow which caused him to be taken
out and Brainard put in. Schmidt WILL
- &C.
game with Washington next Saturday.
This game is now looked forword to
with confidence. The only thing is that
the boys are pretty tired after the two
games just played.
The members of the team speak nigh
ly of the courteous treatment accorded
them both in Portland and Salem by
their opponents.
Football at w. S. c.
The football season opened this year
with a change of management. Mr.
Grimstead resigning and John Slattery
succeeding to the position of general
manager of the Associated Students,
saws the University of Washington
Newsletter. A heavy schedule has
been prepared for the season and at
present there is much promise that the
university will have winning team IN
the field. If this can be done there Is
little doubt that the people of Seattle
will turn out in large numbers 10 the
games.
Coach Victor Place has been working
vigorously with the large squad oi
forty-five men that has been turning
ont nightly. This is the largest squad
the university has ever nad
Last Wednesday afternoon the team