The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-31
IT is SEATTLE'S CUP.
Captain Wark's Men Win the
Football Championship.
TO HOLD THE EMBLEM A YEAR.
A Hard-Fought Battle in which Ia
coma IL WOrsted-Hugh Wark's
Splendid Playing.

Seattle covered herself with glory at
football yesterday, winning the final for
the'silver championship cup from Tacoma
IN hard fought game that taxed the skill
and endurance of both teams sorely. The
first half did not witness any great amount
of very vigorous work, and ended with
honors easy, each team having goal to
its credit, but the last half brought out
play of the whirlwind order The players
went at each other as if they were fighting
for their lives, and not a few times did
men go crashing down in the dust 1t was
here that the Seattles showed their super
ior team play and staying qualities to adj
vantage. Once fairly started they bore
down all opposition with a rush. and
forced the fighting right up to Taeoma's
goal. This was done, too, with the slope
of the field handicapping Seattle consider
ably. After fluke that gave Tacoma her
second and last goal of the game within
fifteen seconds after the kickoff in the
second half the home team let themse yes
out. and from then until the finish kept
their opponents in whirl.
The four goals that they made before
the whistle blew for the close were all
earned by hard fighting and scientific
play. The right to hold the championship
cup for the next year was Won by the
hardest kind of work.
The individual honors of the day fell
easily to Hugh Wark, Seattle's great half
back. He played like demon. Using
his feet and head with equal effect he took
the ball with him wherever he went, and
more than once his impetuous rush turned
back the tide of battle that had started for
Seattle's goal. White did some phenome-
nal work at half-back. and Captain Bob
Wark was the same reliable back. On the
left wing of the forwards Jimmy Beggs
and Bobby Mccain did some of the pref
test combination play imaginable and
kept their admirers busy shouting. Lilli-
first half, but in the second came to the
front and held up his end cleverly.
The Tacomas showed up on equal terms
during the comparatively easy work of the
first half. but in the second the pace grew
too hot and their play began to get ragged,
although the Herculean efforts of some of
their men kept the team from going to
pieces. Bowman, the big forward, was a
host in himself, kicking both of the goals
for the visitors, and he was we'll backed up
by Captain Daring and Mcfarland. AT
back both Patton and Charlesworth did
some splendid kicking and many time
their timely shots kept the ball from being
carried up to their goal.
With the kickoff Seattle took the ball
and for several minutes made things
decidedly lively. Then with pretty rush
the forwards carried the ball down the
center of the field. Close to Tacorna's
goal the keeper ran out to meet the ball.
and in an instant it was by him and under
the pole, Stirrat giving the kick that sent
it through. Time, five minutes. With the
ball in play again it took Tacoma six and
half minutes to get it up in Seattle's end
of the field. Then, just when least ex-
pected, Bowman got in one of his terrific
kicks and the ball shot by the goal keeper.
For the half hour and more that renamed