The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-11-16
WAGER $4,000 VENATCHEE
CAN DEFEAT SPOKANE
Jack Lils and A. v Huff Have the Cash Ready to Put
Up on Home Lads-Don't Like Contemptuous Lang
uage Used by Spokane Paper-Coach sievers Writes
Caustic Letter to Times Throwing Down Gauntlet

The action OF the high school
authorities in refusing to play re-
turn game with Wenatchee met
with the approval of gridiron fans,
upon the grounds that local bCys
had nothing to gain and Wenatchee
everything. Upon the dope of COM
parative scores it looks as If the
apple pickers' had been overtouted
by town boosters. They won from
Queen Anne on fluke and a fun
BILE, and the best they could do with
Spokane was tie. Aberdeen, the
claimants of the state championship,
beat Lincoln high of Seattle, Il to
0, and Lincoln beat Queen Anne 20
10 Saturday. Before Wenatchee
ran up against the little class in
scores of so to @ against Water
vile. Oroville and Huntsville every
Saturday 1t begins to look now as
if they were not the all-conquering
heroes we have been led to believe
they were.
|. This is the kind of dope the Spo-
~kane newspapers have been furnish
ing for the past few days. 1t has
aroused the dander of the Wenatchea
fans and they are willing to back
up their patriotism with cold cash.
Although Coach Sievers is positive
ly opposed to betting and believes
il endangers the future of football,
the bantering, contemptuous talk of
several newspapers of the state has
proved more thon some of the loyal
fans can endure without giving
some tangible expression TO their
loyalty.
Scores of business men in this
city are confident now more than
ever before that the local high school
team can whip any other such team
in the state of Washington or in the
entire Northwest. These men are
anxious 10 back IN their opinions
with gold placed in the hands of a
stakeholder.
1t is simply exasperating to sit
and helplessly read such twaddle as
the above clipping after having
seen the game last Friday when
players fought under such odds as
were imposed by the muddy field.
Sievers Shows Fight.
Wenatchee's coach, George w.
Sicvers. has expressed the local
feeling in some measure by the fol-
lowing letter which appeared in the
Seattle Times last night:
Il am troubling you | suppose by
continuing to write about our foot
hall team. but | am going to say a
few more things which ] believe
ought to be considered.
In the first place We played Spo-
kane last Saturday on a field that
was so muddy that the players were
coated completely with gumbO mud.
They were unable to hang on to the
ball and the ball had TO be scraped
Off after every down. The arms,
body and legs of the players were
rlastered with this mud till the ref
cree could not pick out one side from
the other and the cold snow mixed
with it benumbed their hands till it
was utterly impossible to do any,
thing at all as far as consistently adj
vancing the ball was concerned.
1t was not a test Of football but
a football farce. Besides trying to
gain through the line the players
had to fight the mud, snow and fun
bling. Spokane did not try TO be
very aggressive, but kept punting
and keeping lis away from the goal.
Four times we were within their 90
yard line. Twice field goals missed
by a narrow margin. On the other
hand. Spokane was never within our
25-yard line but once and that time
on a recovered punt. They were not
IN it. They only made their yardage
-FOUR times in the entire game. We
had the ball nearly all the game and
in their territory seven-eighths of
the time Coach Kennedy of Spo-