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Show CHICAGO EARNS THE CHAMPIONSHIP HONOR Defeats Michigan by the ( lose Score of Tm Points Made in Second Half. CHICAGO. Nov StWThS undisputed honor of the Western football champion- ship was earned by Chicago todav by the close score of two points earned on 1 safety touchdown In the second half by tho splendid work of Capt ' atiln of Chl-CagO, Chl-CagO, but also by the poor Judgment Of Clark of Michigan In trying to run back a punt of Eckersaiiej which barelj reached the Michigan goal line He was thrown across the line hy t'atlln after he bad thrown off two Chicago tacklers, and 1 two points, a safety touchdown, wore re- i corded for Chicago," the only tsorlng done In the game No Spectacular Features. Tho game was devoid of spectacular features Brilliant open hold play by Chicago and hard, grinding, man-kllllng lb'" work by Mi. -big. in wa expe.-ted by the 28,000 spectators that surrounded the gridiron on Marshall field. But the contrary con-trary was Hie case Trlcjt plays almost Invariably were unsuccessful, "feckersall, whose remarkable powers were expected at least to score for Chicago, had only one chance at a drop kick, and this was unsuccessful. Was Punting; Duel. Michigan's concerted offense. when hurled against tho Chicago line, failed to produce the expeoted results, and the fight for the honor of the Western football foot-ball championship early resolved Itself into a punting duel between Bd&ersall Of Chicago and QatrettS of Michigan, but with th! umxp difference, that Michigan utterly failed to gain consistently consist-ently against Chicago's defense, while Chicago, wb.se hue yielded to the attacks at-tacks of nearly every team that had played Chicago this season, not onlv held up against the heavy line of Michigan, but gained much more ground than did Michigan on straight football. Curtis Disqualified. Part of this was due to the vllsquallflea-tlon vllsquallflea-tlon for slugging in the ilrst half of Curtis, Cur-tis, tho star tackle of Michigan, for Eck-ersall, Eck-ersall, quick to observe, the consequent weakness in Michigan's defense, directed the majority of the Maroons' line plays against Patrick, who took Curtls's place. Outside of all this, however, Chicago plainly outplayed Michigan, and the MahU find Blue, for the first time In tlve years, waa defeated. Ball in the Air. The ball was In the air a great deal of the time, frequently both Chicago and Michigan ounted on the first down. Although Al-though this was resorted to more frequently fre-quently by Michigan than by Chicago, and In this punting duel. Garrets who did the kicking for Michigan, had none the worst f It; his punts averaged fullv asr manv ids ,s th. long spirals of the brilliant Chicago quarter-back and were high ' DOUgh to allow the Michigan ends to get down the Held. But Chicago made inon- distance on straight football than did Michigan and In the second half this figured In the play that resulted In the only points scored Neither team scored In the first half Chicago Won the Toss Chicago won the toss, and chose the north goal with the wind favorlnit, but only once was the ball even within dangerous dan-gerous distance of a goal line and It was Michigan's goal line that was threatened. Chicago succeeded in getting the bail to Michigan's thliiy-Mve yard llri". following follow-ing an exchange of punts and some hard lino bucking by Bezdek nnd Walker, but at this time, when It seemed that Ecker-taill Ecker-taill would have a chance at drop kicking. Chicago was penalised fifteen yards for holding In the line and any chance of scoring disappeared with the penalty. Touchdown in Second Half. The safety loiirhdown was marked up Late In the second half Both Chicago and Michigan had tried to find weak spots In the opposing line without BUCCOM and the punting duel had been resumed, with what advantage then- was In favor of Chicago, the Maroon backs gaining more ground than Michigan. Finally, with the ball on Michigan's live-yard line, y.-nt there on a punt by ESckersall, Garrets kicked the Michigan's forty-five yard line BJckoraall Immediate!) returned the punt. His long l.'gh spiral" went over the Michigan goal 111 e. Clark Catches Ball. Clark, who had relieved Stuart at left half, caught the hall standing upon the goal bar. and Instead of letting the ball go for a tOUChback, attempted to run With II He shook ofi I 'an I. til t "a I III) nail. I him before he had run ten yards along the line and hurled him across the goal line for a safety. "lark was yanked out Immediately and Magoffin sent In In his 1 lace, hut the mischief had been done. The g.'ine was nearly over, and Chicago, with victory In sight, more than held the desperate des-perate attack of the Michigan backs In the closing moments of tho game. In Michigan Teriitoiy. Through the gum- the ball was In Michigan ten It. i most of tin. time, and not once was the Chicago goal line threatened. threat-ened. In the Ilrst half Chicago made . i 1 1 1 v yard, on downs to Michigan - sk-Ly.four sk-Ly.four In the. second half Michigan made sixty-four yards to Chicago's tifty- nlns Tills shows thS amount of punting that was done and also thc splendid de-f de-f one put up b both t.ains. In only one point In Michigan's line could Chicago giin That was left tackle, while Michigan Michi-gan found only B BHiall hole at the right tackle position in Chicago's Una Trick plays filled to gain. They were broken up as a rule without material gain, although al-though Garrets of Michigan got away twli for runs of twenty-ons nd thirty- yard! on kick. Ecksrsall made nr-i. nr-i. . n yards on the same play once, but . th. rwi-e ihe game was devoid of oi. n field play Time wus called with the hall In Ml hlgan's possession on her own flfty-two-vard lino. Michigan Used Foui Substitutes. Mlohlgan used four substitutes during Ihe game, Curtis Stuart. Caul Nmcross aI)(J ' lark going OUt while ChlCagO used Pni on-- substitute, rVTrriy going In for Walk'T whose Injured knee gave out early Ui the gam. The teams lined up ;l follows Tho Line-TJp: go Ch';,; SSS "::.:r:"::r:&:::r:r:::::::. Schultz c oV.! t;raham ' ...Ruescll Bholneohlld Jt Bs, lenoch II Hnmond re stun t. Hammond "'' Siuurt ln D'' rra Longt'n 0, Besdek oniclals-Hcferce. L T Unckett, Yy.sl p.iint umpire, Rhslnhart, uafsysttsi head linesman. Roper, Princeton; timekeeper. Whiter Whi-ter rami.. Ynl.v Time of halve, thlrty-rtve nilnut- 0, |