The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-11-08
REFEREE WINS FOR P. & S.
His Rank Decision Defeated Mootharts
with q Score Of S for p. as.

son ruled arbitrarily In taking the ball
from the Pennington team on the OPP.
ponents' eight-inch line, it was moth
ing more than scattered interference
and poor handling of punts and for
ward passes that allowed the football
team Of the st. Louis College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons to triumph over
Moothart's Business College by score
Of to 0 on Doss Field last Saturday
afternoon.
In straight football 2. & S had
nothing on Moo,hart. 1t was the other
way. Football so old, so antquated,
so utterly a remnant Of the dark ages
that the Pennington warriors had for.
gotten ii, Melted the chief part of the
Z. Il S, gains. A delayed forward
pass, masked behind fcint at the
ends, succeeded admirably in pulling
in the Moothart ends, leaving clear
field for 7. & S. back to epcircle the
opposite end.
Equally effective was uiple. jointed
Criss- cross, gray. haired as the Old Man
of the North Wind. But it worked,
man, it worked. And thereby hangs
the chagrin of the Moothart ends and
backs, for TO be beaten by trickery is
worse than to be defeated by main
strength and awkwardness.
1t is hard to say the one word which
spells the deiea, Of The Mnothart team
There are SO many things to account
for an unfair ruling by nm official so
closely connected with a football team
as to be its manager. One does not
like to even intimate that Moothart was
robbed" by an unfair decision, Yet,
ii was even so, and being so, why gag
or gurgle at the truth? Fair minded.
ness is "A most rare virtue, and in that
particular did the Moothart captain
show bis superiority over the pseudo.
Taft, one Herr "Brown," coach to the
Z. " S. team, end upon the neither side
OF whose optic some ambitious Moot
hart man did raise most unbecoming
welt that hlossomed and lowered as
does the geranium in the spring time
But football makes no question of
eyes or nose. Here's the proposition
and there is no disputing it: lsenmun,
our Dutch Metoxen, the line splitter
extraordinary, starting on the p. 4 S.
eleven-yard line, in two trials went
} through the right side OF the Doctors
line, like the proverbial drug, for all
but about four yards of the eleven
yards that separated the Moothart team
from touchdown The third down
left about three yards and four inches
to be gained IA Older to make first
down for Mouthart on the Doctor $
eight-inch line Iscnman went through
again and made his three yards and
four inches ana another inch To spare
1t was measured aud measured fairly.
II was MOOtbart's ball on the Pill
mems eight inch line and the first
down. Oh! Glory. 1t was saddle
bags TO the wood. pile. 1t was time
for rejoicing. 1t was proper that Cane
Cayce should exercise his leathern
lungs aud throw decorum to the winds.
Was not the eagle Of victory lowering
over the Moothsrt quail? Even so and
Selah.
| The Referee hesitated to make a
ruling. In that period of hesilancy
Moothart was lost. There was a beam
In that Referees eye. 1t was no mote.
II was beam; bridge-timber il
you will, even whole lumber. yard,
an accumulation OF timber like unto
the forests of Lebanon. II was not Moot
hats ball, SAID the Referee, elbcl
Moothart had made the distance.
Moothart was naughty to make the
distance and so should Mouthart be
punished. And long and loud was the
wal of Game Cayce.
Up IL ). bali; first down." the |
Referee said, and punt BY the Doctor
fulI-back smashed the Moo,hart wreath
Of victory into the scmblancr Of Il last /
year BIRDS nest
There is little else to the story. .
The team, fought up ard down. over
aud across the field until the final |.
sounding Of the Referees whistle.
The Muuthart back field PLAYED u /.
scattering game, though in individuality .
ii was three TO one the better Of the |
Doctors. Lack OF practice aud the
resuItan, absence Of team work pre-. |
vented the formation of effective inter |
ference aud Captain PipKin was un-
able to get away from the l.. IL : |
ends and backs. lsenman and Nations
were the most consistent ground gain.
ers for Moothart and their gains were
mostly through the line, where DeGran,
tore great holes in the rauks of the OPP
poncut-. Rozicr had no fair chance,
being unacquainted with the signals
aud stvln Of ala, 4.