Running PPC applications on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Hi,
I just tried running a PPC file on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but it obviously didn't work.
I am just receiving this error message:
"-bash: ./Unreal Tournament OS X: cannot execute binary file"
That's what file says: "Unreal Tournament OS X: header for PowerPC PEF executable"
In either way I would have excepted Rosetta to step in... what could be wrong?
Best regards,
Mihai

Works for me.
% scp mypowerpcmac:/bin/ls .
% ./ls -l ./ls
-r-xr-xr-x 1 me me 32460 Feb 3 15:44 ./ls
% file ./ls
./ls: Mach-O executable ppc
% uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 3 23:08:29 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~3/RELEASE_I386
Did you install Rosetta? It is an optional install in Snow Leopard.
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