The morning call., 1894-03-26
DON'T SPEAK AS THEY PASS
The Coast Athletic Union Is Split
Into Factions.
COMBINE AGAINST oLYMPIANs,
Neither Club Would Enter the Others
Tournaments, and Bad Feel
ing Follows.

There Is a strong possibility that the
Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic Union will
be involved in disagreeabie tangle. or be
disrupted by internal dissensions.
The union comprises the principal ath.
letic clubs of this coast. 1t embraces the
Multinomah Club of Portland, Or, the
Acme of Oakland. the Olympic. San Fran
cisco. and Alliance of this city, and club
at Sacramento. Heretofore they entered
their best men in championship tourna-
ments. which arrangement gave the victors
the coast medals. But until recently the
Olympic athletes. boxers and wrestlers
carried off the prizes and had corner on
championships. This, so it is said. created
jealously which eventually led to hard
feelings and now shows itself in the stand
taken by the Olympic and Acme clubs.
Matters have reached such strained state
that there appears to be little hope Of re-
Cancellation.
"We don't care about those people.
saith the Olympiau. I'VE can show them
we can have a championship tournamen nj
without them"
whats the difference. anyhow" re-
torts the athlete from across the bay. "We
are no branch of the Olympic crowd, We'll
get along all right alone.
To-nigh there will be boxing tourna-
ment at the Olympic Club, but not an Oak
lander will participate. His absence is
premediiated, being nothing more than a
rebuke TO the club for a snub given Oak
land recently. The same thing occurred a
week or ten days ago when the Acme Club
gave a tournament in Oakland and no
Olympic athletes put in an appearance.
In fact, on that occasion the local clu uDmen
declined TO send entries for the tourna-
ment War is declared in an indirect way.
"Our affair tomorrow night" said an
officer of the Olympic Club last night, sis
MOI the Pacific Coast champlUnship. We
have called 1t the midwinter championship
because the Acmes had the other, which,
by the way, was no cham piOnship at all
because they had nobudy in IL but their
own members.
'It looks to a man up tree very like
that a com bine has been made against the
olympic Club. You know the Pacific
Amateur Athletic Union, composed of the
different athletic clubs. controlled the
championship events on the coast. The
Olympic Club carried off the champion
ships and that got the other clubs angry,
and it appears as il they combined to do
US up. The Acmes. believe, did not like
our victories. and said. here. these fel-
lows have had enough. 1t is time to give
us chance The opinion is they got the
|
election for championship games to be
| held in Oakland instead of San Francisco.
! The Olympic men saw through the game
and refused to make entries in the Oak
land tournament. and the result was pitt
able in the extreme for tho poor Acmes.
1.-The trouble bryan about six weeks ago,
] and now the Acmes complain bitterly that
we did not send entries to their champion.
| ship tournament. Their action Is a re-
taliation on the Olympics for not partici-
| pating in their games, which were what we
| call fZZle. There were only two boxing
and two wrestling events. with only theil
own members and no outsiders. That was
pretty hard on the Acmes, because, a:
| there was no competition, there could be
no coast championships.
"We won't have any of their men, and
we can get along without them tomorrow
All our entries are in-some 40 oi
them-which appeared In THE CALL. We
have one man from the Multnomah CIut
OF Portland, from the San Francisco clul
and one from Sacramento. The rest arr
Olympic men. Yes, we can show then
that our club is independent of them all.