Show Ylf D GA BEAT fARMERS Davis County lads Were Shut Out GAME NOT ALTOGETHER BAD I When the Youth of the Season Lack of Practice and Other Things Are I Considered tho Work Was PassIng Pair Old Conceit of a Davis County I Coun-ty Player Some of tho Individual Work of Men on Both Sides and tho I SummaryResult May be Reversed I When Teams Meet Again 1 Y M C A 10 Davis County Nursery 0 The first gridiron scramble of the season betwcon the big lads occurred I yesterday afternoon at Walkers when J the Christians of this city extracted a I grame from the farmers of Davis county coun-ty It is early yet and the game 1 snowed It There were some very good features but there were lots of other features not what you might call good I such things as offside plays swiping the ball out of the hands of opponents side kicks foul tackles and other events admired more for their Interest than for their loveliness I The Christians won the game on its merits Neither team pleaded guilty to having practiced together much The Davis Countys manager blandly assorted as-sorted that two of his men had never heard of the game ot football until I Friday night On of Jils best men I 1 he stated mistook the ball for a dirty I watermelon that had been disabled by the frost and was for cutting it open tee t-ee if the rind might not be fit for ma king preserves Fortunately his purpose pur-pose was discovered and the only ball in Davis county was saved to the Na tion The Y M C A management did not go to the length of claiming their men had never seen the ball but they said a couple of their stalwart statues I had not practiced at all this year until Friday night FAIRLY GOOD GAME When all these things are taken into consideration the game cannot be called very bad and for the first slaughter of the season It was rather good The Christians had the best of it all the way through securing two touchdowns and having the ball well within the enomys territory when each half closed The yokels made one mighty fine rally In the last half taking the ball from within a couple of feet of their goal to a matter of some yards away Bert Reading the fullback of the Nursery did some mighty good kick work Hes something scandalous with his feet is Reading and there is some talk of lengthening the grounds to enable the ball to he kept within a reasonable distance of the center of attraction The RIgby lads who played halves for the strangers also did some very good work Of the Christians mention should be made of Demllng Dcmllng unfortunately unfortu-nately only weighs something between 200 and 2000 pounds He made himself very disagreeable by smashing interference I inter-ference He Is a man who docs not seem to have any conception of etiquette eti-quette at all and more than once ho knocked seven gentlemen down simultaneously simul-taneously without apologizing The I Margetts brothers made both touchdowns touch-downs Nels in particular making sev 1 einl mighty fine end runs Bert did likewise but common decency demands stating that Bert could not kick for a I I plugged nickel yesterday His hind sights seemed to be out of adjustment and he produced some of the weirdest I creations in the shape of curves that ever strolled through space hereabouts I Walter Scare did some good work in advancing tho ball and did not commit many more than his share of fumbles A SENSATIONAL TACKLE One of the prettiest plays of the game was a tackle by Reading whp nailed Nels Margetts after a twcntyAveyard run and threw the noble Nelson clear over his head backward Wade was ad judged guilty of a foul tackle during the first half and the customary penalty pen-alty enforced the first time It is be lieved a man has been declared guilty of foul tackling In Utah or any other State for many years The new rule about coaching from spectators was enforced and the Christians were struck for ten once during the Second half Those who saw the game believe that when a return game is pulled off If I the farmers keep up practicing the result of the game yesterday may be reversed re-versed Only a small crowd attended the doings yesterday but being J the first game it was not expected that the attendance would be very heavy The lineup was as follows Davis County Y M C A I Chn c 1 c Jennings Duncan r 1Roblns Demllnp Jllllor A ivr VVr77 Bcniieil Evans CO r cMarfctt3 B Thomas A Whltnker 1 g Mvcre Rnmpton I t Ilorilck Chipman 1 c Davis RlRby A 1 hDemllng Marcetts B Reading B f b Scare Rigby hMargetts N Capt Roberts d b Winlo Touchdowns Nels Margotts Bert Mnr frotls Rcfcrre J Fred Odcll Umpire A B Howard Timekeeper Sam Porter Linesmen George E Maycock Hal Hempstead Time of halcs Twenty minutes Scorer Y M C A 10 Davis County Nursery 0 |