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BUTTE, MONTANA, DECEMBER 15,1926
Mines Tearn Ends Successful Season After Poor Start Spurt to Strong Finish. FootBall Review by "Nig" Warren. The Miners got off to a poor start, dtopping their first three games. The fans in Logan, Utah, branded the light Mines team as the wildcats from Butte. They dropped a 29-0 defeat at the hands of the strong aOcky Mountain contenders. The team has the honor of cherishing an e~etlasting alliance with the Utah Aggles due to the clean sportsmanship for which the Mines is known. Coach 11:cAuliffe obtained an early season line on his boys in this game. Twentyone men made the trip and every man had the chance to show his stuff. The 6-0 defeat by the Anode IndelJendents will always be history, for the services of a civil engineer were l'eqUired to verify the touchdown. The accumulation of beef on the Anode line figured easy picking but every man on the Anaconda team realizes the scrappy spurt showed all season by the Midgets. . Lady Luck smiled on Helena's fightIllg Saints by informing them of the one Weak spot the Mines possessed ~t .the opening of the season. The 11:~lntspierced, cut back and ran the Illes' ends until they had piled up a ~Cotein the first half that could not e overcome after Coach McAuliffe straightened the difficulty. On in~trUctions received from the Mines' tltor the second half was a different story. The Mines staged a comeback ~nly to meet defeat with a few tough teaks at the wrong time by a 21-12 SCOre. t In the fourth and first home game he Miners ran wild. Intermountain tealizing that the Mines could not as ret boast of a victory intended to con/ntle hanging up a string of defeats Or the Mines. At the half, Interll)Otlntain was on the long end of the sCore and then Coach McAuliffe instil!ed in his team the real Ore-Diggers' spirit. The Midgets came back
and came back strong and administered to Intermountain a 27-16 defeat. It may be well to mention here that the Mines team' possesses a letter from the Intermountain Panthers admiring the team for their clean sportsmanships in the game with them at Clark Park. Spokane University journeyed from the Washington city with a series of victories tucked away. They were all set on another but the Mines still cherished that spirit which their coach had put over in their last game. The Midgets handed their heavier opponents a 14-0 defeat. The Miners used the second string against the Teachers from Dillon and handed them a 14-0 defeat. Practice before the game had been light, since the Ore-Diggers were at a serious loss awaiting the recovery of their coach, who was ill. Steve Sullivan of Butte Central, was called upon to handle the situation and endeavored to make the last game a victory. Steve was well rewarded for his work, since the subs brought in the season's last bacon.
Silver Crisis Threatened India May Cause Downfall of White Metal. India, that British-ruled Asiatic nation, with her millions of people, her fine spices, her precious jems; and because of this, ever the goal of the early adventurers and merchants, today, has much the same command over precious metals as she formally had when foreign ships visited her ports to partake .of her wealth. Her command over precious metals is in a different form than that it once was, however. India is the largest buyer of white metal-silver-in the world. Her monetary system is based ori a silver standard-her coinage is largely silver. During periods of great market depressions and exceedingly low silver prices, India never lost faith in the white metal, but remained a consistent buyer. But we are now con(Continued on page Eight)
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INTERSCHOLASTIC FOOT8ALL CH路AMPIONSHIP GAME THANKSGIVING DAY NORTH
BUTTE COMPANY GIVES SLI1)E COLLECTION AND FILMS.
Mines Sponsors High School Football
The North Butte Mining Company During the last of October and has presented a collection of 1500 lan- through November, the School of tern slides to the Montana State Mines became very much interested in School of Mines. The slides are the high school football, largely because result of a-safety first campaign con- the interscholastic eliminations for ducted by the mining company some the state of Montana are worked out 'years ago. To illustrate the right and under the direction of a faculty comthe wrong way of doing everything mittee of the School. Professor Scott around the company's properties it as director and President Craven and was decided to make the slides. They Coach McAuliffe as the other memrepresent an original cost of several bel'S of this committee handle all the thousand dollars, much difficult pho- adjustments necessary in securing distography and careful study of mining trict champions, inter-district victors, conditions. and final contestants in the championThe slides represent all kinds of ship game held' at Butte on Thanksscenes under ground and above ground giving day. and illustrate proper methods of stopThe season just past wound up with ing, breaking ground, timbering, Havre from the Northern district handling ore cars, operating chutes, pitted against Missoula from the handling explosives and other details Western section. After a contest fillof mining. ed with thrills for the spectators, After using the collection for a Havre left the Clark Park field with number of years the management a 39 to 19 triumph safely stowed found that it was not being used to away as the result of the first time any great extent, as most of the em- a team from that city has gone into ployees had seen and studied the slides the finals for state honors in any bearing on their work. The m1anage-[ s?ort. A fast, hard-fighting. collecment then decided to donate the col- bon of ball hounds made their own lection to the state school of mines, breaks, smashing the 13 to 13 tie realizing that it will be of great value with which the fourth quarter started in teaching mining engineering. by clever work, and later piling up a The collection also includes twenty wider margin by seizing opportunity rolls of movie film and two teaching when it was offered by their heavier models of square set timbering. The opponents from the Bitter Root. The films illustrate various mining opera- quality of football displayed was' not tions. always high class but there was no doubt that it was pleasing to the four thousand fans who were present. A. S. S. M. MEETING The Northern eleven won its way to the semi-finals by a surprising 9 to 0 A meeting of the A. S. S. M. was victory over Great Falls the last Satcalled November 5, for the purpose urday in October. Out in the Eastof transacting business which had ern district Custer County of Miles arisen since the previous session. (Continued on page Three.) Electing a president and a secretarytreasurer to the Dancing Club occupied the major part of the business meeting. Mitchell and Wirak, respectively, were chosen to fill these positions. After the first elections, ballots were cast for two cheer lead-
ers to officiate at the Mines-Intermountain Union game which was to be held the following day. Miss Winchester and Howard Dunn were' elected after a close contest. (Continued on Page Three)