The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-12-02
A STOMACH ACHE AND
SEVERE MENTAL SPASM
Fowler Paper And High School Re-
porter Grow Venemous in Report
ing Liberal-Fowler Game

loot ball team TeJurHeu lrOHi fOWiSi
after administering a severe drub-
bling to that team it was the concen-
sus of opinion of both players and
that the treatment accord
ed the team was ten times worse
than rotten. However Coach Wood
asked the Democrat to disregard the
requests of some of the fans that we
write the affair up, saying that it
was not in the interest of clean sport.
His advice was followed, but since
the last issue of the Fowler News we
deem that it is necessary to "call"
some of the statements made by the
editor of that two-by-four sheet and
the unsportsmanlike reporter for
Fowler high school.
According to the News the game
ended in a free-for-all on the side
lines, intimating that the Liberal
fans are an ungentlemanly bunch, in
the habit of creating disturbances of
that kind, and winds up by making
the statement that at least one of
Liberals star players was ineligible
The closing statement of the arti-
Gle says: at is more honorable to
play by fair tactics and lose than to
play by unfair tactics and win,"
yelled accusation that the Liberal
team did not win by fair methods.
Now there were some very good
citizens of Liberal at that game,
and according to their opinion the
writer of that article, who, by the
way, was referee of the game, should
take this statement home. We have
not talked to one single person but
Y4at made the same statement in re-
gard to the refereeing of the game
And every one agree that the official
nevee-overlooked a chance of trying
to steal the game for Fowler. The
Liberal team was penalized time af-
ter time for imaginary infractions of
the rules, while he was always look
ing the other direction when his own
team pulled raw deal.
Then the effort he made to forfeit
the game to Fowler as a result of
trouble on the side lines showed
plainly that he was there to win the
game for Fowler by any means, eth
er fair or foul. When he announced
the forfeiture to Fowler with two
minutes to play and the score 81 to
7 the players Immediately left the
field, leaving the impression that it
was part of a well-laid plan to frame
, Liberal.
The high school writer wakes sar-
castle and doubts the statement that
a part of the second string men fin
ished the game, claiming that if this
is true the second team is superior to
the first. The writer may believe as
he chooses in regard to this. 1t is
fact that the second string men are
good foot ball players and they are
full of pep and at the same time ex-
A. hibit championship form.
Just whore they get their dope that
Liberal endeavored to win the game
by unfair tactics is not apparent. The
score would indicate that Liberal
simply played circles around Fow-
Ter with the referee, either ignorant
or crooked to buck as we'll as the
team.
The writer's seem to make much
Of the fact that Fowler won a game
from Liberal early in the season, and
for that reason declare their team
superior. Everyone who saw that
game know that over confidence on
part of Liberal players was response
BILE for the result. The boys went
onto the field with the idea that they
would not have to play to beat Fow-
Ter, and they played too long, became
Indifferent and virtually gave the
game to Fowler.
The Fowler team is no more a
match for Liberal than she would be
for X. U. The Liberal team has gone
against the hardest teams in the
southwest and while she has not won
as many games as Fowler she has
been playing teams which so far out
classes Fowler that she is not in the
running, and the attempts of the
News writers to belittle the team and
cast unfair insinuations is most la
mentable.
Fowler had no chance in the world
to win that game, and she should
have taken her medicine gracefully
and have admitted that she was beat
en- by a better team. This would
have been far better than to have