The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03


decent pass defense will take
them.
J. It has been stated what teams will
occupy the three top spots, so what
happens to the other five squads.
They will cause some great football
games while they are killing each
other off in the fight for last place.
In fact a retake on a statement
made last week will again be made
don't miss any more of the league
games than you can help this sea-
son.
Proving the above statement Pas
co and Wapato went to work on
each other last Friday night under
the lights at Pasco and the result
from the fans point of view was
some real football. In spite of the
fact that both teams smelled to high
heaven, the game was about as
thrilling as should be seen with a
weak blood distributor. This proves
the belief that two bad teams lash
ing it out can be mistaken for two
top-flight clubs.
With the help of Felix Perrau1t,
who in his time was one of the top
line men of the conference, watch
| ing the lines of both teams in &C
ton and this column keeping the
| eye on the backfields for spectacu-
lar stuff, the more outstanding
points of the PaSco-Wapato game
were spotted.
The biggest cinch of the year is
that if either of these two squads
hope to rate with Gle Elum or. the
Toppenish Wildcats they had best
go to work on lI.eir ineS-Cle Elum
isn't that weak. Frankly either of
the two top shot teams would find
tne Pasco and Wapato lines moth
| ing more of an obsticle than para
chute trooper in a dog fight with a
pursuit ship. Where both Top-Hj
and Gle Elum are going to have
trouble is in stopping those passing
attacks sponsored by both the weak
er teams. If Toppnish expects tG
stop the Wapato passing offense
they have lot of practice ahead
Wapato has a much better passing
attack than was turned loose on the
Wildcats by the Warriors of Gle
Elum. Altho Pasco has nothing ir
the air except a couple of bad ru-
mors, they might even succeed
should they take to the air.
Here is the tip of the season anc
other valley clubs should give Top.
Hi a great big thank you for I'm.
covering it. Gle Elum has the RICH
side of it's line in no position tt
stop a fast-moving back with a
least a hint of interference clear
ing his way. It took the Cats three
quarters to catch on to this, TIT
reason being that the right side o.
the Warrior line is plenty big. Ono.
they did get nerve enough to try {
running play around that side, Per
rault went 20 yards and Johansol
followed through with another BIZ
gain on the next play. -
At ProSSer this week the Mus
tangs snapped out of it and he'll
the powerful KenneWick Lions +
only one touchdown and that is no
doing bad. 1t should be said, how
lever, that the Mustangs had NOR
than their share of the breaks, bu
then that is half this game OF foot
ball. KenneWick was penalized S
much that the net gain made b
that club was nothing and even a
/ That the Lions are gaining grount
Prosser on the other hand seems
have snapped out of it and in spit
of the lack of power, the old Schot
spirit made up the difference.
While on the subject of spirit,
should be noted that for communit
support behind high school ba
club in any sport, Prosser Is year
ahead of the rest of the valley, ba
none. In ProSser an athlete Ia
little trouble staying in training
the town people help him by kickin
him off, the street at 10. Would tina
my home town had some OF tn
same stuff. u.s.
Sunnyside came through an
made a close game out of what wa
expected to be walkaWay for e.
lensburg. In spite of the fact tina
the Bulldogs were much smaller tina
the >1rizzlys, the fact that Sunny
side lacked the speed OF the wind
city club maue 1t a sure thing to
Enensburg. HoWVer, when the ma
scores came in and the score fc
that game was only SO, it was
surprise.
One of two things was proved b
this game as was proved by othe
games last week. Maybe tn
strength of the conference as
whole is being under estimated o
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