White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-27
Students Win
Weird Battle
HIGH SCHOOL TEAM PROFITS BY
MISTAKES OF PICKED ELEVEN
AND WIN OPENING GAME OF
FOOTBALL SEASON 13 TO T..

with the strange struggle that was
staged on the local grounds last
Sunday. 1t was neither cannon nor
glove battle but merely the opening
clash of the football season, where
large coterie of young men slashed
around In puddles of dust until the
certain issue on which they differed
had been decided 1t took some time
for us to get hep whether 1t was an
exhibition of the college pastime or
a bunch of acrobats performing In
dusty ring.
In a moving picture la typewriter
of the big game constituting several
rells of what happened on the Ely
field there is only one word that
covers everything fully. The word
is "Smeared d"-hardly suitable for
drawing room. but expressive.
Smeared is what the high school
team cid to picked eleven.
The goat of the select crowd is the
saddest and most forelorn creature
in existence The losers are also sad
to the extent of 13 to Z. AS mat
ter of fact they fondly anticipated
tearing the lining out of the young
sters but that sounds wishy washy.
Perhaps we should say cleaning them
up or slamming them around. The
dope on this game went wrong as the
dope on football games often goes
wrong Oh what fall. my country
men. They had fondly anticipated
teaching the students a lesson that
would sink in and last, and now you
zee what happened. No wonder they
are sad.
The .'boobs" tossed opportunities
about as uneeremoniously as if they
were the Jonahs of the pigskin art.
Any quill squeezer would think twice
before taking a running jump at a
public writing desk to praise their
efforts. Four times they were in the
shadow of the goal posts in the sec
ond half, after Peters had carried the
ball over for the first touchdown,
but the men refused to do their own
brain cranking. Billy Sabbath, our
old time friend, once remarked THE
world is full of half done things" an
expression that aptly delineates the
antics of the picked team in the
closing stages of the clash.
With all the laughter torn from
the scene, 1t can be said without fear
of successful contradiction that their
knowledge of interference would
suffer in comparison with that of a
wooden headed man. In the matter
of laundering they were in a class
by themselves with no one else in
the immediate locality, and they
seemed to lack a knowledge of every
thing laid down in football instruc-
tion books.
Slow up. Let's get slant at
Bethea. right end for the losers.
Trail him down in the story and get
a proper earfull. U-um get a whill of
this. Nobody home but the statue
and that's of its base" is one of
Tad's brightest. 1t certainly applies
TO Bethea's efforts when he was de-
signified to carry the oval around
the right extremity.
Bethea fumbled the ball at the
strategic moment. The allied forces
were marching down the field before
they realized that serious mishap
had interferred with their we'll laid
plans. Dick Barnes always on the
alert and possessing a desire to
wander In the wildness OF opportunity
took possession of the unclaimed pig
skin. The plucky end made his way
through scattered field for the first
blemish on the reputation of the
enemy. Seven points we're cr.uited
to the youths, when Benson sent the
ball flying between the goal posts.
If the readers will kindly visualize,
toiling their way through the first
half 1t brings you down to the time
when Eddie Benson. accepting for
ward pass from Zobernick. was OF
like fash with the opposition in close
pursuit. No one succeeded in stop
ping his progress until he had cross
ed the coveted spot. The second
touchdown increased the financial
standing of the high school lads to
the extent of six points. as Benson
missed chance for goal.
II the picked eleven had decided
In the first half to merely go in wad-
ing. they were going to swim
mile in the later period. Brown and
Peters were the shining lights. They
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