The herald., 1898-12-11
INDIAN SCALPS TAKEN
PASADENA ELEVEN DEFEATS
THE PHOENIX TEAM
BY SCORE OF SIXTEEN TO SIX
One of the Local Team Ruled Off for
Slugging-Indians Make a
Costly Mistake

Victory refuses to alight upon the banners
of the dusky gladiators from the cactus
covered deserts of Arizona. For the third
time since they arrived in Southern Cal
iiornia have they been up against the real
thing" and found to their sorrow that
there were others who could play football.
A large crowd watched the Pasadena
Athletic club eleven put it over the Indians
yesterday afternoon on the Athletic Park
gridiron, in Pasadena. As usual, the In
dian eleven played clean, square football.
and did not indulge in any slugging. To the
disgrace of the Pasadena team, such can
not be said of the playing Of some of its
members, and to such an extent was the
brutality carried that Thomas was finally
ruled off the field by the umpire. This de-
cision almost caused riot, but the official
was firm, and his prompt action put an end
to the digustng exhibition of slugging and
gouging that had been INDUCED in by the
players.
Pasadena won the game by end running
and magnificent defensive work on the part
of the line men.
Williams, Belts and Mann did the
ground gaining for Pasadena, and through
their mutual support made several beauti,
full runs around the end. Fowler, Silvas,
Vavages and Mendoza were hard workers
on the Indian eleven, but their only gains
were made through the line and fumbes
at critical moments lost several opportuni-
ties to score.
The toss went to the Indians, and Belts
clicked off for Pasadena. After several mass
plays had been successfully worked Oft
against Pasadena, the line braced up and
got the pigskin on downs. A series of pretty
end runs by Belts and Williams landed the
leather behind the Indian goal, in posses
sion of Williams. Bettis kicked the goal.
Vavages toe lifted the wind bag forty yards
into Pasadena territory, but Bettis brought
it Back fifteen yards. Guarded by strong
interference and aided by his own fine
straight arm work, Williams cleared the
left end for a sixty-fve yardrun, ending IN
d touchdown. Belts failed to kick hard
goal On the kickoff by Vavages, Williams
made brilliant run of forty yards through
scattered field. Clever lodging and
brushing shook off five tackles in succession.
A tumble gave the pigskin to the Indians,
who worked it down to the twenty five
yard line, and tried to drop kick goal, but
failed. a touchdown resulted, and after the
kickout the aborgines brought the ball to
the fve-yard line and tried the turtlebaclS
wedge to make touchdown. The wedge
worked nicely, but some one neglected to
bring the ball along and it was left lying
quietly to one side. Hayes found it, and
after carefully ascertaining that it was the
"real thing" started for the Indian goal
like scared jack rabbit Several bucks
started in full pursuit, but to no purpose,
for Hayes covered los yards and made the
third touchdown. Belts missed an easy
goal. Another kickoff and two or three
plays ended the half with the score l6 to c
in favor of Pasadena.
In the second half the endurance OF the
Indians told, and they outplayed the Pasa-
dena boys. The latter apparently, mad.
dened by the frightening prospects of the
Indians, began a series of trough house
scrimmages that ended in the disqualified.
tion of Thomas by the umpire. The In.
dians steadily forced the ball down the field,
and Manuel went over for the touchdown.
Vavages kicked the goal. The pigsllin see
sawed back and forth in the center of the
field until the end of the half, which found
il in possession of the Indians on the Pasa.
dena forty-fve-yard line. Score during sec.
ond half: Pasadena, 0; Indians, 6.
The lineup was:
Indians, Pasadena