Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-03
HIGH SCHOOL
VS.. SEATTLE?
COACH soRENsoN MAY ARRANGE
GREAT CONTEST
Expense of $500 Involved in Getting
Northern Bunch Down Here to
Play for Highest
Honors ,...,

Los Angeles high school against Seattle
high school for the interscholastic cham
pionship of the United States on Christ
mas day at Fiesta park
This will be the grand climax of the
local football season, If Coach Sorenson
of l.. A. high is able to pull through his
big scheme.
AS far as arranging the game is con-
cerned all is fair and easy, but the finan-
ciai side is bothering the coach, and he
is in doubt as to whether he could float
enough hard coin to pay for even srcn
star attraction.
All told, thI. game would cost more
than $500. Sorenson says that at that
he would be willing to sacrifice $500 in
order to win the great honor for his
team. AS for Seattle, they ask an even
thousand to make the long trip, and the
rest would go in incidentals.
Sorenson has borne himself with sucn
clean sportsmanship through the season
and he has oealt so fairly and squarely
with the college teams that have had
their own private squabbles that he has
made nearly everybody his friend, and
1t is highly probable that If he finally
goes down the line to bring Seattle here
he will make a great success out of the
game.
Los Angeles highs exhibition in the
preliminary game against Lick won
thousands of admirers Thanksgiving day,
and it is almost a certainty that most of
those who tended then for the St.
Vincent s-Oregon Aggie contest would
turn out to see the high school boys
play again.
The game, as a game, would be a
peach Seattle carries with it the inter-
scholastic football prestige of the coun-
| try, the same team having smeared II
over North Division high OF Chicago last
year, when that bunch was considered
the greatest high school eleven in this
country.
Dope Favors Locals
This is the dope in favor of L. A. high:
Seattle beat Berkeley 80 to o.; Lick tied
Berkeley; L. A. high mauled Lick 27 to 0
According to pure dope l.. A. high should
beat Seattle, for the locals made their
score in one regular half and muchly
trimmed second period.
Three of the local high school players
are heavy enough and fast enough to
make good on a college eleven.
Many football experts pick Stan Mitch
ell, the cartain, as the best tooth Ill
player in Southern California, irrespec-
tive of the class of teams.
Decius, right half, has been out but
a few weeks, but he showed great speed
and plunging ability against Lick; Walk
er is one OF the grittiest tacklers in this
part of the country, and the way In
which he held down left guard was a
revelation to those spectators who went
out expecting to see lot of kids play.
Wallington, right guard, is another tack
Ter who not only is sure but also cripples
his man half the time.
Without doubt, game with Seattle
would bring out a horde of interested
fans who want to see fast rough, heady
football
Such a game ought to be worth dollar
throw, and it is likely that more people
would be willing to pay that much thar,
it would take to pay the expenses of
$780,
The fact that this game means a
chance Ior Los Angeles to not only boast
of the state championship by defeating
Lick but also win the championship of
the entire country would make it fine
drawing card.
1t is probable. too, that the L. A. high
Seattle high game would surpass any
game Of football seen on the coast this
season.
1t is to be hoped that Coach Sorenson
will go ahead and not let the $500 ex-
pense account scare him away.
If thousands of fans wouldn't turn out
to such game good many wise ones
would be greatly surprised.