The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-04
AFTER THE GREAT GAME.
Seattle Considers Tie Equivalent to .
Victory-Who Holds Championship:

Seattle Considers Tie Equivalent to .
Victory-Who Holds Championship:
Mondays great football game is still the
most popular topic of conversation, and
every Seattle man is rejoicing over the
result, which is generally considered as
victory for the home team. Portland had
nothing to win and everything to lose.
She held from last season the title of
champion OF the Pacific Northwest This
season she had won all her games. Her
easy victories of year ago over Tacoma
led to the belief that there would be no
greater trouble in conquest this time.
Her team, organized three years ago, had
iorded it over everything in this region.
1t came here confident of victory. Its
hackers were laying odds that it would
win. Under SUCH conditions a draw was
equivalent to defeat. The Multnomah
players walked on the field, not exactly
with swagger. but with an air that be-
spoke how certain they felt of winning.
They left the field quietly and quickly,
most OF them with ill-concealed looks of
chagrin and amazement. Even an even
ing's pleasant entertainment as the guests
OF the Seattle Athletic Club could not
drive away entirely the look of surprise
yesterday mornings train for Portland
there was still a trace of it.
The jubiapce Of the Seattle team and
its followers is almost as great as if the
result had been 3 victory. Two weeks
before the game 1t was uncertain that
team could be got together to line up
against Portland. Local pride decided
that it should be organized and 1t was
Enr oil ha
doors. on account of the rough weather.
Then came a week of outdoor work that,
while it was done under splendid coaches
and was very beneficial, still left the men
insutficiently trained and without enough
drill in team work. Under these condi-
tions the showing made was wonderful.
Except III PLAYING before strange crowd,
the Portiands had everything in their
favor. They had played together and
knew what to expect of eacn other. They
had been carefully drilled in team work
Six OF them, who are either instructors or
students at Bishop SCOTS academy have
had abundant opportunity for getting
themselves in shape, a towering advantage
which cOllegians have by reason of the
abundance of time at their disposal. Those
OF the Portland team who are not at
before the Seattle team had been organ
ICED. Under a comparison Of the circum-
stances Seattle has every reason to be
eiated.
The tie game between Portland and
Seattle leaves this seasons championship
of the Pacific Northwest in a very peculiar
situation. Capt. Sturdevant. OF the Ia
coma team, who came over to see Mon
}afs saI
ton of the problem as between the three
teams. Seattle and Tacoma. each having
won a game from the other. were each en-
titled to a percentage of 500 IN games won.
Portland had won no game at ali, although
having lost none, and was not entitled to
any percentage at ali. This would tie
Seattle and Tacoma for championship
honors. While this is a very clever state
ment of the case, 1t is hardly in accordance
with the respective merits of the three
teams. Seattle lost her first game to
Tacoma by putting a team in the
field which had several green players
in its makeup and which had little or no
| practice. BY Capt Sturievant's own ad-
| mission Tacoma could not now gather a
team that could hope to cope successfully
with either Seattle or Portland The last
two have shown that they are we'll matched
| and another game would be necessary to
| determine supremacy. That this will be
| played is extremely doubtful. although
| there is talk of return match on Wash
| ngton's birthday. The obstacles are the
rainy weather, the poor facilities for out
! door practice by both teams and the
| length OF time to intervene. during which
| 1t viii ne a great enactment OF the PLAYERS.
| most of whom can Ill spare time from
| their business. 10 keep IN practice If the
| game is not To take place IT looks as if the
| championship must remain In abeyance
| until another season.