Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-10
| ENDS IN DISPUTE.
'Ic;ony Claims ) 10 0 Victory
Over Gardiner.
Dispute Arises in Last PERIOD
Gardiner Claims Sam by Forfeit.
Relations Between ihe Two Schools
Seyered.-iame Hard Fought.


ond period by Lefty Purinton was
the result, Saturday afternoon, on the
Reuel Williams field OF one of the Bit
terest struggles ever Waged on the
grdiron between two old rivals, Cony
and Gardiner. The margin was close.
but is the contest wageG those three
points proved t6 be amply sufficient,
although Cony men would have pre-
ferred that the margin ut the finish
should have been little more con-
Vincing than that represented by the
final score, Cony 3, Gardiner ..
Sad but true. an argument was
waged, such as eharaeterizes all ath-
letie contests between the orange and
the red, and as result, the relations
between the two schools have been
severed.
Gardiner claims the game by a for
felt / to o, by Referee O'Brien's de-
cision. Is this true. or does the we'll
earned victory justly belong in 8 the
Cony camp? This will be forever dis
puted.
The dispute arose in the last few
seconds of play in the final period.
After playing Gardiner to standstill
for the whole game with the exeep-
tion of the opening minutes in the first
quarter. Cony weakened. Purinton in
a vain effort to punt the pigskin in
order to place his team out of the
reach of the danger zone had hard
luck. Gardiner rushed the ball to
Cony's yard line. Here a dispute
arose as to whether it was first down
fer Gardiner. \ 5minute contreyer-
sy in which referee, coaches. and
players took active part The ball
was finally given to Gardiner and four
downs to make two yards.
Fooled in its attempt in three sue
eessiNe tries to battle down the Cony
line, baked in every effort to sue
eessfully push the mighty Brisk or
Libby through for that much wanted
score, there was but one more chance
left to score a touchdown. Approx
mately 10 seconds We're left To play
the fourth down started, both teams
were off side, the referee blew his
whistle to start the play over again,
the ball had not been snapped and
therefore vas not in play. Here the
crowd began to surge upon the field,
second was taken to clear the field and
before the play could be resumed, time
was officially declared out by the tim
ers Cony left the field as would any
team, and started for their dressing
room.
A cry Immediately went up that
time. had not been taken out by the
timers when the crowd was being
driven back of the sidelines, the tim
ers Know nothing of this, simply the
referee, and here this official pulled
off something unknown in football
category, and that is to start another
down when time had been officially
declared out. The Cony coach re-
fused to place his team upon the field.
The referee ordered Cony to appear
again on the field or forfeit the game.
They did not appear, and there is the
situation.
Against these points by Cony, which
loomed larger and larger as the aft
ernoon passed Gardiner could show
nothing but a wasted opportunity,
when on the two yard line in the in
stance of the dispute. the punch to
keep the pigskin upon it's goalward
journey via the rush route was not
forthcoming. Brisk, the powerful full
back of the orange and black, had
crashed twice into the Cony line, the
second time he was injured, Libby was
tried and again the attack was smoth-
cred by the fighting warriors in the
Cony line.
Gardiner Starts with Rush.
Captain Babbtt won the toss and
chose to defend the north goal, Purin-
ton lifted to GARDENERS 30-yard line
Brisk set, to receive the kick, and
fumbled. Davis recovering the ball
On the first play Libby crashed
right tackle for yards.
Brisk tore off Z more and first down
the same hole. Davis tried
center for no gain. Libby went