Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-01-03
A LETTER FROM
GLENNS FERRY
Glenns Ferry, Idaho, Dec. 81, 1873
Editor Elmore County Republican
Mountain Home, Idaho.

Ao cry, IuduO, Dec. 81 1915
Editor Elmore County Republican
Mountain Home, Idaho,
Dear sir:
In Mr.. Monroe's declaration of wal
upon the Glenns Ferry High School
and others through your paper. he
seems to keep away from facts as
much as he can, in order that he
might get really more credit out OF
1t than he thinks he is getting.
In the first place, he says that
the Glenns Ferry team had the
Mountain Home team out-weighed.
lie knows, and they all know, that
he Is only drawing upon his imagina-
ton, and getting away from facts as
they really are. He speaks of his
team looking like infants by the side
OF this team. Well, the infant that
played right end, and was my oppon-
ent, weighed 172 pounds, one of the
men in the back field weighed 184
pounds. Then in his unsportsman-
like article of defeat, he says only
four high school boys played. There
We're four playing on our team who
were not high school boys, and these
were Nevens, Wicher, Hitler and my
self We told him here that we were
not registered as high school studentS.
He knew that | was not, and | told |
him at the time he was crying here
that we were informed when asked |
to play that he and Mr.. Sunderland
had agreed to play outsids rs on
both teams. He had ON on his team
that was not or is not a member of
his school, | asked Mr. Monroe, my
self, to come on and play with his
team and line UP against me, no he
said he didn't have suit, l told him
| would get him one, but nothing do
ing for him.
We wonder if he ever played a
game of football, or had anything to
do with one, whether he ever saw
coach leave the field before, just be-
cause the other team had some fell
lows who were nearly as large as
some he had. He would consent only
for me to play the first fifteen min
utes of the game, but he didn t state
in his little sympathy-hunting item
that the fellow who took my place s
after the first fifteen minutes of the
game only weighed ninty-four pounds
as against the one hundred and sever /
ty two pounds of his opponent. He
didn't tell i'm his article that he came {
to me and wanted me to play full q
back on his team the last half. All
this he left out. h
AS far as wondering what I am
pursuing in school, he need not lose !
any sleep, but just go right ahead n
and teach school. That will give him I
enough wondering. Ii / were to q
AXE a course in Domestic Tranquility
might come over and pursue that
rom him for | expect he could do a V
better job coaching in that line q
han coaching a football team.
Now the Mountain Home High n
school boys are a clean, gentlemanly II
,unch of fellows, ard from the amount
If practice they have had, | will say, c.
hat they are as good a bunch as / K
AVE ever gone against with the same
experience, and next year, with a 81
oach that understands the game, b
hey will make any of the teams
AXE notice. This years work shows
hat they are an apt team to pick up b
he game by themselves as they OF
aust have done. Had We put the
cam on the field that he tells we vi
i'd. with all due respect for the L.
oys from there, the score would tn
ave been so much different that he nj
,ould have been running yet. W
Yours Respectfully, pr
IRA T. PIPER. m