Weekly journal-miner., 1920-12-01
GRIDIRON TEST IS ONLY WAY
 ID END TALK
lBy CROSS BUCK. IRl

What ho, me lads-there's dirty deeds afoot!
 When Cross Buck laid the foot ball season judiciously to rest, he little thought that reveille would fol- low his sounding of taps across the gridirons of northern Arizona. And when he figured out, with what he foolishly considered mathematical eNactness, that Prescott High was the legitimate holder of the northern Arizona football championship, little did he dream that the mathematical experts of the Santa Fe shops would dispute his well-reasOned figures. Such, however, is so. Come; let us read 'em an weep!
 Having defeated the Badgers F to 7 i'll their Thanksgiving day argu- ment, the Apprentices step up and lay claim to the northern Arizona championship. They reason that if they have defeated the erstwbile champs, they now should carry the scalp-belt Though it upsets all of Cross Bucks diligent figures, the argument sounds reasonable. Let us examine it.
 The High school team was just as much in condition as we ever were," says R. V. Haynes, who played right end on the shop-work CTS team. "They practiced twenty times to our one all through the season, and as far as being out or training is concerned we never did have a chance to train the way they did We have had to work eight hours a day in the shops here, and have had to do our practicing in the evening or on Sundays.
 "We defeated the High school team Thursday morning by playing better football than they did and we resent the inference that they hand ed us the game by breaking train ing a few days before the event.
 "Our first game with the High school was played before we had really organized a team and prac- ticed together. We were defeated 43 too which was not as bad as the 70 to 0 score which Phoenix hung on the High school, but bad . enough to give us chance to claim that it was because we weren't III training. We didn't put Up that excuse however, and inasmuch as we didn't, we think that the High . school team ought to admit its de- feat at our hands last Thursday without intimating that they could l have beaten us if they had wanted 1 to-"
 Thus the case stood last night Cross Bucks figures include the Thanksgiving day drubbing of the Badgers by the Apprentices, and still give the latter the champion ship of northern Arizona.
 Coach Napier in a statement last night said: "The Prescott High 1 school football team holds the north i ern Arizona championship despite the efforts. of the Santa Fe Ap- prcnticees to dispute it. The dope proves it. The High school defeat ed the Apprentices ln one of the first games of the season, with a | score of 43 to 0. In every scrim- mage game played with them, the High school has held the Appren- tices, never allowing them to score. On one occasion, the High school second team held the railroaders.
 Since the Apprentices defeated ! the Badgers F to 7 last Thursday l the Railroaders have been claiming the championship of northern Ari- zona. They forget the time they were defeated 43 to O."
 And in a friendly discourse with Coach Haggard, Coach Napier last night intimated that he and his foot ball ficnds are willing to test the validity of mathematics by another gridiron engagement to be held at once if the Railroaders so desire.
 "Come on. Railroaders," says Nal pier. Don't argue-playw