The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-11-16
200 RO0TERS
GO To IDAHO
Rain Does Not Oampen A.
dor Of WhitmaniteS
WHAT GAMES TODAY DECIDE
If WHITMAN PULLS DOWN VIC
TORY WILL BE ONE OF TWO
TEAMS ON COAST WITH
UNsPOTTED RECORD.

Just an even 200 bought tickets to go
to Moscow on the excursion train this
morning, and in spite of the fact that
it was raining to beat the band when
the train started, there We're about 40
of these sold at the depot this morning.
Decorations on the outside, of the
cars we're out of the question when the
train started but Inside the coaches it
took no experienced eye to tell that
the train was from Walla Walla and
Whitman college, About 20 band mu-
sicians from the town and college.
went up on the train and were pre-
pared to make music all the way there
and back.
Weather Discourasins.
Had it not been for the fact Of the
damp poor weather. it is thought there
would have been hearly as many
more who would have gone. But the
drizzle which started in the night
seemed so businesslike in the way it
went after things that many were dis
couraged and did not go.
At Moscow a section of the bleach
ers is being reserved for the Whit
man delegation and they will be able
energies ir yelling A special assign
ment of cowbells was received last
night by the Billings Hall boys and
to the tune. of this music Whitman is
sity of Idaho. Everyone who was
armed with some kind of yell weapons
Horns, megaphones, bells, everything
which could be secured to make a
crowd from Walla Walla will be out
numbered it will rot be drowned in
the yelling.
Hard Game Says Baird.
ledNluS SOdcll was re-
ticient about the prospects for his
team landing the victory. The game he
thinks, is to be one of the hardest
Whitman has to play this season. By
the time this paper is on the press the
game will be decided but at 2:30 this
afternoon nothing at all can be fore
told as to the outcome. Captain Dim
ick felt more confident than the coach
and expressed himself yesterday
along these lines:
1T is to be without doubt the hard
est game we have had this fall but
believe with no accidents we will be
able to wipe the mup all right Of
course, there is no telling what sort of
adverse circumstances we may run
into up there. Wind, rain. cold
weather almost anything might serve
to turn the game against us. However,
we go up with the expectation of win
ming and will do our best to do so.'
What Whitman's Victory Means.
If Whitman wins the game today, it
will stop a great deal of croaking by
some of the colleges she has beaten.
Whitman has a good team and every
victory she has pulled down yet has
been justly earned. If Idaho is sue
cessful today, it will be because of su-
periority in trick plays which have
been worked up under the new rules
and anyone who has watched the
Whitman practice lately will hardly be
able to understand just how that
could be. Whitman has a tower of
strength in Brubaker and on him she
relies for victory, to a great extent.
But every member of the team is a
player and there will be things doing
before the Moscow bunch runs over
Whitman.
Rain has made the field muddy, ac-
cording to dispatches received at the
Statesman Office this afternoon and
this may give the lighter. team some
advantage. If it should become mud
dy enough to make open playing i'm
possible, Whitman should have much
the better of the game in line plays.
Two weeks ago the speedy Carlisle
team was defeated by the heavy
Princeton team in. a rain storm and
on a muddy field, because the lighter
team could not work their fancy plays
with heavy ball. Something like this
may happen today, but it is to be
hoped it will not A cleancut victory
for one team or the other is much pre-
ferable.
If Whitman wins this game it places