East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-11-04
THE DALLES ELEVEN
OVERC0MES LEAD AND
WALLOPS BUCKS 26-14
Better Sustained Fighting Vim
and Breaks of Game Give
Visiting Gang Victory.

! More beef and experience, II better
sustained fighting morale for the
whole game, and a gift or two from
that lady called luck helped the strong
| team from The Dalles to crowd Coach
Homer Taylor's Buckaroos over into
the column with smaller figures yes
| terday afternoon when the two elev-
ems battled for an hour on Round Up
! field The score was &c to ~.
Pendlcton was defeated, but the
local aggregation did not 30 down
, without fighting, and II the truth
were told local fans are proud Of The
showing Tayl6r's still rough machine
made against the hard fighting gang
from down the Columbia. The dope
was that the Buckaroos would have
to take licking yesterday II was in
III cards but they gave the visitors 4
run for their money, and they proved
to themselves and the fans that they
can fight.
They stlll have at least two broad
elementary things to learn. One Is to
| improve team work so that men
work as one unit The other thing il
to keep fighting when the tables are
turned with the same vim and spirit
that they can fight when they are on
the offensive. Several times yester-
day the local gang held for downs on
their own goal line when yardage
would have been a touchdown for the
opposition, but they could not stand
the pace for the whole game, and
particularly in the fourth quarter tho"
were demorallzed and The Dalles was
master of the situation.
Stonebraker and Heyden in the
backfield, Harrah and Molstrom in the
line were wording hard most of the
time for Pcndleton. Stonebraker got
away in the first quarter for a 75-yard
run that was the most spectacular
play Of the entire contest. Pendleton
suffered by reason of several imper.
feet passes by Manning at center. The
player is not quite II years old, how
ever, and he gives promise of making
up In the future for what his bungles
cost his mates yesterday. II. Van
orman. Esping and Captain Bolton for
the visitors were stars and were mixing
Iall Of the time
The Dalles was over confident, and
they didn't know they were in n foot
ball game until after Pendleton had
scored a pair Of touchdowns. The
visitors won the toss. and chose TO de-
fend the west goal. The ball was in
scrimmagc on the visitors 25-yard
line. Gillette recovered a punt from
The Dalles. and the Buckaroos plung-
ed through The Dalles' line for yard
age and had a touchdown and goal
within five minutes Of play. Tn-
Dalles kicked off for the second try.
Pcndleton had to kick. The visitors
worked up TO Pendleton's two yard
line where they were held for downs.
Pendlcton punted the oval to safety.
Shortly afterwards. The Dalles kicked
out Of bounds. when Pendleton re-
covered the bah on her own 22-yard
line Il required about eight seconds for
la young man named Stonebraker 20
gallop 75 yards for the second touch
down. Goal was kicked from place
mcnt. Score 1f 20 0. Pendleton.
when the first quarter ended Pen
dlcton was again threatening to score.
but they lost the ball on The Dalles'
13-yard line. The only score made
during this period was touchdown
by The Dalles. II came after the ball
had see-sawed back and forth over
the field several times The visitors
had vision of carrying the ball over
the line. but Taylor's gang stiffened,