The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-31
TACOMA FALL SPORTS
Entries for the Many Events
Close Tuesday Night.
SEATTLE HAS TWENTY ENTRIES.


Tacoma. Ang. sn-Speclal-Tne annual
fail meeting OF the Tacoma Athletic Cggb
81 BE he'd az the club GROUNDS IN the
north end OF the city next Saturday after
noon at o'clock. A list 81 twelve events.
including four bicycle races. mas oeen ar
ranged ~ 1hs TRACK COMMITTEES o. The atm
ietle elu1 Entries viii close Tuesday night
at 10 O'clock TIE Iisr OF events Is as fol-
iowS. la ana 2oo-ysrd dasaes. quarter
nile. half mile and mile run. r2n4llng
broad jump. pole vault, and quarter. half.
enc and two mile bicycle races. All TIE
events are scratch
Secretary Arthur e Grafton % the Ia
coma Athletic Cl0o. has been notified that
tbs Seattle Y. ~ c. A. vii have twenty
sent IA as yet.
The T. A. c. Ia. the reputation Of
awarding the finest medals OF any club IN
TIE Northwest and those "a be given the
visitors Saturday VIII De as handsome as
any In the past They are gold for FIRST
and silver Tor second, were made in New
York ard arrived TO-DAY. All are hand
some models OF the jewelers. art
The battle for points viii lie between the
r. A. C. and the Seattle Y. NJ. c. A. the
Seattle Athletic Club not having any en-
tries. In the I00-yard dash Tacoma VIII
have entered the invincibse Eddie Dick
son. A. @. Browne and James Barrager.
Roth Browne and Barrager are promis-
Jag sprlnsers. Against GGacken1ush Ia the
anarter-mile there viii be Tom Martin, or
the T. A. c; Busheli. OF Seattle. and Da-
vid Snattuck. OF Port Townsend. Bushell
Is expected TO enter In the half-naiie as
we'll Quackenbnsh Is entered In the quar-
ter, bali and mile events Tacoma VIII
have three good men in the pole vault and
TIE running broad jump. These will be
II. r. Hill. Jack Kennedy and h. r. Gould.
ia the former, and A q. Browne. r. ;.
Jacobsen and Gould In the latter event.
James Jones, Walter Demorest. Gilbert
Holt and William Schlarb viii enter in the
bicycle races.
Competitors In the meet will be restrict
ed only 10 members Of any regularly or
ganized club or college. provided of course
they are amateurs. The programme viii
begin sharp at O'Clock and will be nn-
ished by SIS. There will be no delays.
President c. r. Curtiss, OF the +. n. A.
has ordered a new ballot taken on the
location Of the fail championship games
Ii viii be remembered tnat by ballot or
tho members OF the board of managers or
the p " A., taken through the mails,
Portland was given the championship
games Of the r.. n. A by a vote OF TO =
This wastAe vote as announced ny Secfe-
tgry Willett. OF Portland. The vote was
thereafter challenged by William Ii. Lew
Is. OF the Seattle Y. NJ. c. A, on the
ground that four clubs that had been adj
mitted to membership in the association
had been permitted no voice in the selec-
ton of the place for holding the champion
ship. 1t appeared on investigation that
Secretary Willett had ruled that the four
clubs mentioned could have no vote In the
matter under the regulations, as they
had iust been admitted 10 representation
on the board President Curtiss thought
otherwise however, and he has directed
Secretary Willett to forthwith take new
vote allowing the four clubs To partlcl-
pate. These are: Seattle Y. Nj. {. A, Bal
lard A. c., Portland university and Port
land A. G.
Secretary winetts arbitrary ruling in
the matter has caused much adverse COM
ment here. The wonder Is that Portland
should set up any claims at all for the
championship meet In view of the disas-
trous result, financially, OF the contest
meeting between the Oiymplcs OF san
Francisco, and NJ. A. A G, held June -.
This was a meet In which every athiete
on the Pacific coast was interested, yet
the gate receipts reached the sum total or
sl7s. while the Portland people had guar
anteed the visitors 1915. The III A. A
was in the hole just $500 on the deal and
necessarily the reasons that are used Tor
the location OF the fall meeting OF the
p N A. there are a little obscure
r NJ Hawkes. is the proud possessor OF
the SIS gold medal In the handicap bowl
ing tournament which was started last
May. The medal has been up under veri-
Gus conditions for the last year and haf.
hut was never finally won before
Hawkes. became entitled TO the permanent
possession OF the medal through winning
x twice during the progress OF the tour
narnent. HIS scratch score was III. with
a handicap OF &. making The tournament
scora Of 30 J. D. Fletcher was next with
A scratch score OF 1s2. The medal - a
very handsome one.