Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-17
POST M0RTEMS IN
ORDER; WHY OTTAWA
WON FROM LA SALE
LA SALE TRIB BREAKS OUT IN
VITUPERATiON WHEN FREE
TRADER,JOURNhL PUTS CRiMp
IN ANY ROUGHkECk ASPlRA-
TONS.

managed to execute that most pho
nomenal OF feats when it uncorked for
it's other two puzzled readers 'slz'
cling, scathing, scorching vituperl'
ton" against the Free Trader-Journal
az "A means Of s0ftcniug the defeat the
LIP team was sure 10 suffer at the
hands Of the Ottawa High School the
following day.
The attempt was a hopeless subter-
luge to bolster up la Sales game
after the Free Trader,Journal had had
the temcrity to issue a general war,i'
ing CARRIER in the week that Ottawa
was not only ready but willin to meet
Fellows team on any sort OF grounds
they wanted to play, rough, clean or
mixed.
That the Free Trader-Journal was
right in its prognosIcation, the word
was sent out in La Sale to get
Woodward" get Reed" get Ander-
SON. get Formulas" Is openly con
fessed in the Tribunes own story OF
La SALES ignoninous defeat.
Somewhere in his verbal spewinss
the author says in the scratching re-
buke, which resembles more the lit
erary raying OF a diseased mentality,
Laying aside the irony and camou'
flage. fer downright squeal before yol
are hit alibi dirt. II is one OF the mas
test lit.le articles We have ever had to
waste our good linotype lead upon.
II Is delightful to the bomuddled or
befuddled few readers OF the IT'D
to have explanatory notes in conncc-
ton with such a density OF nothln,-
ness as that epOchal and record break
ing Journalistic zero Without the
foot notes no one would have detected
irony" in the hard and rusty out.
burst Camoutiage Is generally az
cepted to mean deceive, and IN
France was used as something 10
hide behind The author deceived o
X, but made q horrible mess Of tip-
ping his nit 10 a conscious puDllc.
After he broke into print there was
nothing for him 20 hide behind. His
soul was laid bare to the scOrnful
gaze of a people who have relegated
the unfortunate squib OF a writer to
the tasty growing cubist element,
dry land-.but still insist upon their
being called journalists writing
much and saying little.
Because OF the senseless prattle Of
the thing, the Free Trader.JOurnal
thinks too much Of its space TO waste
our three good inotypeS lead uron
THAT the author had distorted mln!
is too apparent and patent. The
clinching proof Of this is found in his
answer" to the Free Trader-Jou mai :
article in which La Sale was warned
to play foe ball and not attempt its
ordinary roughEeck tactics under pen
atty of Ottawa's being forced to re-
sort to the same style Of play In II"
own defense and to the decentralization
of the LIP. eleven.
Fact is. tina: when Woodward was
almost cut in the carly periods after
he had been thrown into the fence by
La Sale tacklers, the whole La Sale
Peru team joined gleefully in unison
that's the time We got the big stiit.
The side lines heard the boast ana
noted the gloom when spread Ovci
La Sale when Woodward arose to his
feet and again to0M his place in the
line.
In its reNort CT the game the Tri
bune's wedgement of dirt Is
printed In black face type. There are
spots srecked throughout the who'll
story which smack Of bilious brain
and the most conspicuous part Is
where all the credit Is given Weed
ward Now, Woodward is easily a elias
sic all by himself on the Gridiron, bu'
all the stars in chriStendom would bt
obitera ed under a cloud caused rs
weak lines. weak denfense, weak at
tacks and weak defense. Football
never can nor never Will degenerate
to a one-man game When 1t does /
will cease to be football
Coach Grady had In Woodward ;
good man to build upon. but withou
the snappy work OF the linesmen ant
the aid OF the offensive interference
formed for his work Ottawa coul'
rest assured its defeat OF Frida.
would have been as certain as thor
Is dooms day in the citing. Rea
sportsmanshjp, Of which the Trib ego
tistiCally lays claim to more than It
share. would have given WoodwarJ
credit for his shining plays. and at tn
same time credited the combined fea
lures which alone made 1t possible 10
him to show up so prominently owe
the rest Without Anderson. Roet
Formulas and seven other player
Woodward would have been jue
Woodward, an o. H. s student, an
not Woodward, the stellar of the va
ley football season.
Appended are comments take
from the La Sale, Peru and SIe9to
press concerning Fridays game:
Strcator Free Press.
"Thc Ottawa Hig. School lootba
team pulled the Unexpected yeS,e
day when they defeated the La Sail
team Is TO 0 at Matthiessen field b.
fore u crowd of 1909 people.
"l.a Sale had little chance again'
the boys coached by Coach Grady, b.
ing outplaycd in all stages of the gam
both on the defensive and oifensiv
In the first quarter neither tea
scored. but at the end OF the secon
quarter Ottawa worked the ball
their opponents twenty-fye-yard liz
and then Woodward, the star OF II
winning team, dropped back al
placed pretty kick over the go
post, scoring first blood Of the gam
In the third quarter the giant full bat
again displayed his class by makir
another place kicl and also ran
kiokoff for eiphtv.hVc Yards for