The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-28

from some club. entering as college
team only is the intercollegiate and dual
college meets The Eastern clubs do NOT
want the - assges 10 efJrrsrs.ts az ee.gt4vs
teams, aud naturally as the college yaer,
being y0iiDs ard having far more time
and opDoTtu sity TO train than a s.aesrasx
man, would sweep all before them. and
low much more applicable would the
same reason be here. where the clubs
have % Dope ~ very largely upon the col
isges FOR IL cir athletes Take the ex-
ample OF tie Tacoma Athletic Club
which has such a splendid list OF atn-
letes. Ind VI at sort Of team would she
nave II Whit mar college and Puget Sound
university 1sre 10 enter Tfln Csoufd
Gregg. Dicks IN. Pearson and others from
their respect re colleges? Portland uni
yerslty Ioine,I the T. y A. bat all their
athletes havf competed under the coloYs
Of Muitnomsh b. What besleft did ,hev
derive from joining the p " A and
last March they were dropped from tins
Hist Of nernb srs Of the p y A. which
move vas va rraly seconded by the repre-
sentative OF MuItnomah. though ne ap-
proved Of tn University OF Washington
entering the e. n A
Now as to the University Of Washing
ton case. lid not wish 10 see them be-
come members Of the =. ~ A for many
reasons, and I'm frank 10 say tina: was
afraid OF she m. The university has
sel~ndid tract team and VIII be imprev-
ing e ali the time. as their facilities for
training. etc. increase. What chance
will the Clubs have OF winning against
such forrai iaDle team. when they do
enter as a team? Only the Tacoma Ath-
ietic Club. AMI for the reason that they
use the Whit worth and Puget Sound
university met To compete against them.
Would II not be better To divide such
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chances more eyen2 The athletes them
selves would cot be deprived of an OPP
portnnity 10 csmpete, and I'm fact would
get more Of them. as when al the last
meet of the Tacoma Athletic Club the
college has q .acation and is closed the
men could compete under the clubs and
not be deprived OF chance. as they gre
AT present, fo-' lack of an organization
and the team being disbanded during va
cations. Stani ,rd and Berkeley both be-
long TO the a. l. l.. II is true but / have
never heard O., them entering A A L.
games as coleg;e teams though | may be
mistaken: but do know that several Of
their men have entered in games not from
the colleges hlit from the clubs 20 which
they belong. These are few of my OBJ
j~ciiona TO the colleges competing as co.,
leges. II would be trespassing on your
space and tins To mention more. IL in
deed / have net done so already. Yours
truly. DUNCAN q. INVERARITY.
Another week has passed and our coun-
~ commissioners have done nothing In the
matter Of appointing a game warden.
From "A most r siable source ] have been
Informed tina. meadow larks. robins and
young grouse 20 being killed daily in the
immediate vic nifty Of the university
grounds. The hunting ard killing of the
first two nance song birds is shameful at
Iy4fF
scarcely able g hy. or the killing or
weunsiing Of ths parent birds az this time
of the season. Is an outrage. For the muir
dering Of the od bird now means the al
most certain destruction of the helpless
brood Please. A-r. Commissioners. see to IL
az once. and n sure the members Of the
Seattle Rod ansl Gun Club will lend their
hearty cooperation 10 the man you APP
point. Yours II sly.
W. f. MkEE.
President SEATTLE Rod and Gun club.
When Coifeit of Pennsylvania. beat
Champion weftis in the % yard dash at
the intercollegiate championship games in
the East. every tnau. who took an interest
in such matters commenced TO inquire as
to the cause. Gould IL be that Wafers had
gone back" or that faster man had
appeared Thee, was nothing TO indicate
that the champ on was suffering from an
injury. Some liant is thrown on this inter
esting case by the following brief para
graph. which appeared In the New York
Evening sun last week
Bernard Wears Is slowly recovering
from the uIury 10 hts leg. which resulted
I'm his defeat bs tolfelt In the 2-n-yard
daah NJ the intercollegiate champ lonships,
hut hiss physical condition Is not yet good
enough 10 allow him 60 compete In athletic
contests
The Defenders. OF Seattle. defeated the
South Seattle team yesterday by a score
OF Is 10 T. Tile features OF the game
were the battery work and heavy bat
ting OF the Defenders.
Following ara the scores made June -
at the River iatt, range hy representatives
from Company 81, y. Il w: