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Show JORDAN WINS BY Off FINGER Salt Lake West Side High Loses Battle in Cold Sea of Mud. SALT LAKE. Oct. 28 A finger tho index finger on the hand of Halfback Half-back Thompson upset tho inter-scholajrtlc inter-scholajrtlc football stew this afternoon after-noon on Ciimrnings field. Jordan won from the w'est Side. 6 to 0 Tt was a meritorious victory earned earn-ed by outfighting, outpasslng and outplaying the Panthers, but all that would have gone for naught had Thompson's finger been an Inch shorter. IS SEA OF MUD. Tt occurred in the second quar-t. quar-t. r Jordan had scored, but had failed to kick over the seventh point Tho Panthers had their noses headed south toward the Jordan Jor-dan goal, somewhere around the 40-yard 40-yard lino there wa.i a line buck Everybody smeared In tJ- sea of mud and out of that mtij flopped the ball. Somebody had fumbled "Rot" Roberts reached out, grasped the oval and started staggering1, slipping, slip-ping, sliding toward the Jordan goal But out of that pile Thompson came and he wasn't asleep With three long strides he caught Roberts Rob-erts and made a plunge Just one ringer -the Index caught, snapped lover tho top of Roberts' pants and hold. The best chance for the Panthers Pan-thers to score was lost. Jordan can ho mighty proud of this fellow Thompson and the saving finger. That wns one Incident j little thing hardly noticed by tho shivering shiver-ing group that stood in tho ntnnds and stamped to keep warm but It was a valuable Incident for the Beet Diggers. JORDAN ON DEFENSIVE. It gave thcjn their first victory of the division and gave the Panthers a severe setback in the pennant race. After Jordan using the old University Univer-sity of Utah spread, punched the ball oor in the finrt five minutes they went, on the defensive and thwarled every attempt of tho Panthers to score. Auk who did it and there Ifl only one answer the line. To be a Jordan line-mars Is to bo proud. Everyone Ev-eryone of them, hardened with two weeks vacation in the beets, was powerful and they smothered everything ev-erything sent through the line bv the Panthers. Eventually West tlrod and used Roberts to run around end, and then only did they appear to daz-le the Jordanltes. oo |