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Show fC? Boys Out to Avenge Single Setback by West "C" team gridders will trot out tonight to play a West High team which turned the tables on the highly touted Cubs in the season's first encounter, and may be capable of doing it again. Coach Nate Long's outf it is I pointing for vengeance in their second duel with the cross-town midgets. Shifts during practice sessions have been marked with crys of "beat West high school." Every member of the team is working for a win from the local "dark horses." Whether or not this battle cry can be made a reality by the bear-ers bear-ers of the blue and white depends a great deal on the success of the forward wall, which has proved itself definitely superior to either East or West's line. Loss of Jack Lowder has hit the team, but substitutes sub-stitutes have fitted well into his end position. Frank Davidson, Russ Mears, Charles Higgins, Joe Pass, Glenn McGee, and Captain Jerry Collins provide a tentative line to meet the kickoff. The backfield has been functioning function-ing well, with all-city Stan Claw-son Claw-son in the lineup. Glen Earl, Bill Northrup, and Dick North have been making plays click in practice prac-tice sessions in a way which may have thrown a scare in West's direction. di-rection. Capable substitutes have been found in diminutive Cal Hathen-brook Hathen-brook and junior Bob Story. Comparative scores do not enter into the picture of the game tonight. to-night. South soundly trounced East in their first duel, but lost to a West squad 6-0, while the Leopards Leo-pards really made hay against the West siders, winning a decisive victory. South's chances for a football championship may have been shot with last Friday's "A" game, but the way the "C" team fought their way to a 13 to 7 victory over East Wednesday on the Leopards' field, one would have thought that the football season had just opened. The first few minutes of play were fairly dull until Clawson's right arm pitched the pigskin into the arms of Bill Northrup twenty yards down the field. Clawson then went off-tackle for another twenty yards to East's 24. Glen Earl added his twenty yards on the next play to move the ball to the four yard line. Clawson hit center for the score and Higgins' educated educat-ed toe added the extra point. Probably the most spectacular play of the game came in the second sec-ond quarter when Glen Earl reached reach-ed behind him to pull in Clawson's pass and fight 25 yards to a first and ten for South on the Leopards 40 yard marker. From here the Cubs started another drive when Earl got away for another 35 yards, but East took over the ball on downs on their own one-yard line. The next play Glade dropped drop-ped back to punt out of danger, but South's hard-driving Charles Higgins pushed through to block the kick where Grant Kelly fell on it for the Cub's second tally. The conversion was blocked. In the final quarter East took the offensive and Lyman Kearns got off to several long gains, and finally the score. |