The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
'Gulls Count
Only Score
In lst Heat
Second Stroight
Cross-Stote Loop
Title for Sondberg
BY Ed MEAGHER

Everetts sesgulls defeated
Stadium. to O. yesterday in the
bowl. hut the Gulls left the field
with their fingers still crossed
and their hearts in their mouths.
Not once did Stadium manage
to push the ball beyond midfield
but, strangely, everybody-includ-
ing a pretty desperate Everett
team-thought they would.
The Tigers, soundly out
playing the visitors during
the last half. were a formid-
able force. every threatening
like an active volcano that's
always smoking but never
quite erupting.
The Gulls had their own wav
in the first half They pushed
over touchdown in the opening
| periOd-the touchdown that gave
them victory over their Tacoma
rivals and, with il. the Cross
State league crown for the second
straight year.
And then came the last half
Champs they are and champs
they deserve to be, but Everetts
Gulls were pretty thoroughly out
played during the last half of
Mondays Armistice Day battle.
Stadium didn't even come
close to scoring. and, looking
back, it's hard to realize that
fact. The Stadium line In
those last two quarters simply
made monkeys out of the
Gulls. They outcharged them,
drove them back, punched
them full of holes.
But the Tigers kept mussing up
their own offensives. Each time.
at least three, the Bengal backs
would be skipping along in high
gear, making appreciate head
way when, blooey! they'd tumble,
or one of their passes would be-
intercepted.
GULLS WERE ALERT
Everett was alert. Every sec
ond. They were adept at pounc-
ing on Stadium fumbles and sneak
ing passes intended for Stadium
arms alone. And their slertness
paid off handsomely, swapping the
traps on Stadium that had been
set by the Tigers themselves.
Stadium's attack was sad.
that's true. It's defense. how
ever, was magnificently RAF--
ish. The Tigers fumbled, al
ways in their own territory,
but they never allowed the
Gulls to take advantage of.
those hobbies. Except for.
that one successful drive at
the close of the opening quar-
ter, Everett couldn't do much
with the Stadium line when
short gains would have meant
scores.
Everett's touchdown drive span-
ned 40 yards and Juggling the bail
most of those yards was a fast,
shifty, hard driving youngster
named Larry Hatch. who also was
an exceedingly able passer and
punter - prep school triple
threaten if there ever was one.
HATCH GOES OVER
1t was Hatch who took the hall
on the Tiger 40-yard stripe. reeled
off IA yards TO the 26 and put has
club in scoring position. Fullback
Trask dove through the line TO
the II and then Hatch spun like
crazed revolving door to the IA I
yard marker. Trask again and !
then Hatch twice more. The ball 4
was on the. four-yard stripe. when
Hatch swept around his own left
end to score standing up.
Gordon Anderson's try for
the extra point from place
ment was blocked.
With Hatch here. there and
everywhere, but always in tbs
Tigers hair, Everett managed ia !
reach the Tiger 10-yard line late.
in the second period, but their at
tack begged al that point and An 4
derscns attempt for a field goal
was off line. Il
TIGERS COMPLETE PASS 2
The second half was all Sta.
dunn, even if the Tigers never
came any closer TO scoring than
midfield. In the fourth period tn.
Bengsls took the ball on their own
20-yard line. Leigh Moody shot =
l5-yard pass to Don Lee for q
first down. and. with Moody ane
Jack Wilson taking turns hacking .
the ball the Tigers MADE another
first down on their own 47-yard
line.
Here. consistently in char 4
acter, a Tiger pass was inter- n
eepted and that ended the last Il
Stadium threat. 4
Heap the honors on Stadium,
hnemen - Ends Chuck Hampton
and Jerry Wilhelmsen. Tackles
Paw Eouar -