The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-19
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Those Cold Feet
 The Douglas leland News writes an editorial in It's local column, as fol- lows.
 A minstrel show ls planned to
 pay che debts Of the Treadwell
 football tenn. Why have they
 debts2 Because the Juneau team
 got cold feet after that first game,
 in which they were defeated by
 score of n to o. The agree
 ment was for two games and had
 they been played thero would have
 been no debts That 10 plain
 and true statement of the case
 and it is not necessary to soy
 much more, except that the boys
 arc all right, and we shall stay
 by them Co the end.
 There is absolutely no word of truth in the statement Of The News, that the Juneau team had cold feet The Juneau football team this year was organized at the request Of Coach rom Macdonald of Treadwell, after tho Alaska Gastineau Mining Com pany-the logical opponent of Tread well In athleucs-had deemed it in- advisable to put team in the field this year owing to the necessity of keeping every man at his post until tho mines pass from Q construction to an operating stage. The men in the mines arc working live beavers to ac- complish the program Of Operation by February l, 1915' as mapped out.
 Over half oi the football material in Juneau comes from the Alaska Gnstineau mines. These men did not care to play football this year owing to their work. Consequently no "com- pany team" was formed. Then Mac Donald came over from Treadwell, end talked football. Tom had gather ed some college football stars about him, and he wanted to make ID for the defeat Treadwell sustained at the hands of Gastineau last year. In fact Tom was 50 anxious for game that he volunteered to send team of eleven men over to Juneau to scrim- mage against the Juneau squad-to give them practice. His generous offer Illustrated the facilities at Treadwell for tho manufacture Of football teams.
 3. B. Brewster Of Juneau offered to get up 9 team here, to meet Mac Donald's squad in two games. The team consisted of about oleyon men and night after night only seven and eight would turn out for practice. Four men came in from Che mines, walking in four miles, walking a mile to the grounds, walking the mile back to town, and then four miles back to tho mine. The balance of the team was composed Of young men who risk ed their positions to practice
 A raw team went over to Tread well and was soundly beaten 2 to 0. A meeting was held here, and the football situation thrashed out. Hali or tnoae present Wahtao 70 zee Q l5' turn game; the other half did not think it advisable. Juneau had de- felt of SlS0- This was paid here and not chirp was made, no one beefed, and no one got peeyed at paying t. The team had 1t played a return same with Iheadwelli would have been beaten. Unloaa the team was strengthened in abont a half a dozen piaces tbe score Of the second game might have been larger than INHpt Of the frst game. With strength ening the team m impossibility in the short space of time 3etweeen tho games, the second game would moi have atsraeted corporals guard cf spectators, so why all thia childish ory of "coid feet.p Tor the good of lthe good old game of football that second game on December 6sh should moi have been played, md no one