The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-27
BLAKELEY WON THE CUP.
Iae Mil Tswn People Scored Three to
Seattle's One.

The Port Blakeley football team invaded Seat
tie yesterday and carried home with them to
the hyely sawmill town the silver champion
ship cup. Their laurels were deserved, too, for
the three goals that they kicked in the after
Moons game, as against one for Seattle, were
earned oy superior play. As the the teams toek
the heid at Madison street PARK the visitors pre-
sented rather shabby appearance in their ILL
htFing suits OF white shirt and blue pants, al
compared with the trim blue jersey tights of the
nome team; but their play was not TO be judged
from outward looks. They were q sturdy lot of
fellows, strong of limb and sound of wind, who
forced the fighting from the time the whistle
nieW Tor the kickoff until the wind-up OF the
second half. They had at their backs q crowd
OF Scotch and English lads from across the bay,
who swarmed up and down the field as the
battle shifted this way or that, and with
Prophetie voices, kept insisting with all the
force oil lusty lungs that Seattle was not sin it.
1ney were given abundant opportunity 10 exer-
else their Threats, for during the greater part OF
the nrsl nall, IN which all the points OF the
game were scored, their champions kept the ball
IN dangerous proximity to Scattles goal The
play OF the Port Blakeley forwards was in uni
sol, and seldom did any of them fail in support
ing the others in rush. In the serimmages,
TOO, not one hung back, and il was hard task
indeed to get the ball through them. On the
other hand, the play of Seattle seemed wholly
LACKING in concerted action. Whenever player
got in timely bit OF work il was not followed
up to any advantage. In fact, three or four men
played the game. The balance seemed to think
they had done their full duty when they had
Kicked the bali once, and stood of TO watch
some other fellow take crack at il. In the
ser.mmages, too, they hung back and seemed
afraid OF their more energetic opponents.
PROBABLY $50 people, about one-half of whom
tramped through the mud on the field in order
to get a close view, saw the kick -of at sharp
O'Clock. Seattle had the ball and started OF
with g rush. 1t was short-lived. howsves, as
Port Blakelsy soon turned the leather egg the
other way and gradually worked it up In the
neighborhood of Seattle's goal, where it stayed
most OF the time. Two or three times the strug
gleswung down toward the opposite goal, but it
was soon headed back. After twenty-five
minutes OF this kind of work Seattle caught an
field A rod from goal Port Blakeley's inter-
ference sent it over to the left
ner. But McCann, the clever little
forward OF the seattes, was laying
for it, A quick tap sent the ball square
in front of the gate, and II. Wark sent 1t spin
ming through. This style of play made things
look bright for Seattle, but another aspect soon
showed itself No sooner the ball in play
than Port Bakeley was of with squirt that
must have made their opponents heads swim.
In less than fifteen minutes play they had
rushed the ball up to Seattle's goal three times,
ana as many times kicked it through. Peter
son, MeInnes and Yates each shot a goal.
Strangely enough, on each occasion the ball
WAS helped through by reboundIng from the
head OF a Seattle player. The last ten minutes
o! the first half brought out nothing but weak
hearted, desultory play that amounted to moth
ing.
In the second half Seattle braced up some
what and assumed the offensive. The ball Was
now oftener near Port Blakeley's goal but it
never went through. The visitors, satisfied
with the good lead acquired in the first half,
coptented themselves with defensive tactics.
They no longer forced matters, but kept strict
guard of their own goal. Often the ball was
right in front OF the opening, but they rallied
like flash and formed Q barrier that Ii seemed
impossible to get through. Seattle fought des-
perately as the minutes wore away and darkness
settled down on the field, but all to no purpose.
The whistle blew and left the score as II had
been at the finish of the first half. Following is
the summary of the game: