The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-11-08
INTEREST CENTERS
ON SPOKANE
Football Game With Spo-
kane Will Decide Whether
Locals Get Aberdeen.


street today with a paper getting
signatures from the business houses
for an agreement to close their
doors at $3.50 next Friday afternoon
for the MISUNDERSTANDING football
game. He did not meet with a sin.
gle refusal. A big crowd is there
fore assured for the battle with
Spokane.
This will be the first game on the
local field this season with one of
the strong teams of the state. We
natcfee expects to win. She must
win. Aberdeen holds that as the
only condition to giving Coach Slew
ers' pupils place on its schedule
remarkable condescension.
Aberdeen is beginning to smart
under the taunts it has received
about it's silence while Wenatchee
has hurled challenge after challenge.
In recent issue of the aberdeen
World, that paper puts the issue
straight up to the Grays Harbor out.
fit. Concluding a story in which thu
Wenatchee coach and players arr
called all kinds of uncomplimentarl
names, the newspaper says:
There should be but little troubN
in securing a date for the Wenatchee
game and Aberdeen should make
that team come to terms The red
rag has been Haunted long enough,
and if the Aberdeen team does not
meet the challenge and beat Sievers
and his bunch so badly that they
will never wish to cross the dark
valley again. football should be bu-
Fied for all time in Aberdeen
A great deal of speculation is be-
ing INDUCED in over in Seattle re-
garding the comparative chances OF
the remaining two contestants for
the state championship. Yesterday
the Times favored Aberdeen in the
iOilOWiuS poi oSiopA
Tom Mcdonald, physical director
of the Seattle Athletic Club AMI for
mer captain at the University Of
Washington, is in a better position
than any other man in Seattle 10
size up the Wenatchee and Aberdeen
teams. Tom was the referee of the
Aberdeen and Lincoln game and hi
was head linesman in the game be-
tween Wenatchee and Queen Anne.
He says on the showing the Aberdeen
and Wenatchee teams made in those
two games Aberdeen has the call.
Aberdeen looked TO him 10 be
stronger and better drilled team
than Wenatchee and the boys from
the Harbor play fiercer football than
those from the apple country
1t must be confessed that Aber-
deems record looks better on paper
up to this time than does Wenat-
chee's. But local fans have no fear
of the lumberjacks if the local Grip
pies are able to get in shape for the
big battle Sterling was absolutely
helpless in the Seattle game Hith.
erto he has been the bulwark OF the
team. The showing made last FRI
day bespeaks a stronger team than
Wenatchee enthusiasts thought they
had. With the star ground gamer
again in form, the next big contest
will be horse of another color.
Spokane Fears Roofing.
Spokane, Nov. Sit begins to
look as if the Wenatchee people
would witness the game Friday be-
tween their team and the Spokane
high school under the strictest in
of the rules governing
crowds on the side lines. This is the
substance of an ukase issued by
Coach Kennedy, who will insist that
the playing grounds be enclosed, and
that but five men. in accordance with
1910 rules, be allowed to follow thu
play up and down the field.
81 want the best team to win,
said Coach Kennedy. but I do No
propose to be beaten by haviu
highly excited partizan townspeopl
crowding on the field after every
play, rafting the players and the Of