The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-30
SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Ene professional hieveis riders who are
70 take part ii the Lzsor day races at the
4. II G. a p4rk VII arrive 81 TIRE city
tsday from TacOn12 ard remain here until
they go e Vse.ex-a- 4 Is n5x AZ assured
fact thzs ZseSisr. the Coast king. Saarsek,
the Pacific Northwest wnsrlwEnS and
Freeman. the rival e 10th fer big honors,
VIII meet here Labor Cay. Following are
the entries.
Professsorzl-osto zsexler. California;
Allan Jones California. EAdle . Allan.
Spokane Bert ElSora California; Hardy
Downing. California; Danny Whitman. Cali
f0rHsss George Sharick. TaCsEa: Jack
ShaFtcks Tacoma Bsz Eesner, Tacoma:
James Jones. Tacoma Howard Freeman.
Portland: joan Slave. Portland A A
Johnson. Seattle. George Crawford. Seat
tie J. a Vaughn. California
Amateur z Wing. California: Percy
Mott. California; Lorenzo Dow. California:
J. Frank Cotter, Tzcona: Frank COMBS,
Seattle; Watt snspp, Salem. Or.
In reference 70 the question asked of
Fred r. Merrill as 10 his connection with
the California Associated Cycling Clnbs
end the movement In the Northwest, he
replied a. follows.
Yes. I started this c. A. e. c. move
rnsnt In the Northwest for several reasons.
First. 4 became very evident 10 me tsat
the Pacific coast was much better able 10
take care OF Itself thar The Eastern states
were 70 take care 81 IL. There is 10 earth
~ reason why tile wheelEnan OF the Pacific
coast should send several thousand dollars
per year 20 De expended BY the Eastern
officials on Eastern good roads ard other
things. wsiie not dollar vas returned to
the Pacific coast fer cur good roads. And
the laws made by the people OF Philadei-
phsa and Boston will not apply 20 the Pa
cine coast Then again, the riders Of the
Coast are tired CT submitting 20 the high
handed methods and rulings Of tire League
officials IN the East. besides that, the
league Is not progressive and are sun
sticking 70 their old-fashionsd IDEAS
adopted several years ago.
The c. A. G. c. racing rules and regu-
iations are simply an Improvement on
those Of the L. a. ". and are made 10
govern thu Pacific coast in its up-t0-dAte
ideas. The G.. A g. e. IS not q Sunday
racing or Sabbsth-breakirg organization.
but simply gives local option 70 different
clubs and cities. ard permits them TO give
a race meet on any day or evening which
would be most profitable 70 them. thereby
Permitting each locality 10 make a sue
cess o, their meets where heretofore they
have invariably been total failures.
The California Associated Cycling
Clubs Is not a new association bat was
formed several years ago III san Fran
q
and league officials % San Francisco be-
came aware q ;hs fact that they were
being Imposed upon by the Eastern league
officials. and altar appealing 70 them and
falling 70 get justice organized them
selves into a body N opposition 10 the
J.. A. w. and the fight was taken Up by
the c. A. C. c.. little dreaming at the time
that the entire Pacific coast would be so
easy 20 win over 70 their cause.
NE < 4 ~. -
west started a few weeks ago IN Portland
b. Henry Goodman. Of the racing board
OF the l.. A. W. suspend.ng me- and i'm
netiately afterwards suspending other
professional and amateur riders ard bnsi-
ness men who never did. could or would
belong 70 the l. A. w. on account OF Mr.
Gcodnam's movements a. became an easy
matter TO enlist members IN the C. A. c. c.
over one hundred Multnomah and Oregon
Road Club men IN Portland Joined within
two weeks. ard even the l.. a. W. officials
were all in sympathy with Us. excepting
the member Of the racing board. We gave
tSo-Gsys meet IN Portland under the
new organization which was an unauali-
fed success. Tacoma fen In Mne with A
iwo-days meet which was again a success.
Spokane and other Eastern Washington
and Eastern Oregon towns have fallen IN
Line and are anxious &C give a meet IN
the near future. while the Victoria club
has already advertised a meet on Sep
tember and have given US an assurances
That they would puli out Of the Canadian
Wheelmen's Association ard j0.n our Pa
cisc coast movement: and II GOES without
say1ng that tae LABOR day meet Septem-
Der IN this CITY viii be gigantic success.
sna the fEht Is ours We have started ont
- wia the Pacific coast over. and we have
proven 20 the skeptics that w could % T.
end q; the same time give the best race
meets ever given on this Coast
"A the next meeting of the board OF a.
reetors 81 no G. A g. G. Il Is an assured
fact that IRE rAn7e Of the &. A c. G. viii
be changed to more appropriate one.
such as the Pacinc Coast League %
Rheelmen. or Western wheelaen's
League. Though wonderful th,ugs have
been accomplished. iris orsauixstlon IS
SIN In tts Infancy. ard hls things may be
hooked for f~on * befors the season OF
iSsS closes
The juniors of TIE = ~ c. a. are -four
sshln< "a boys having been enrolled. The
hsys viii be al back fer hard work about
the time the schools open. They srioyed
a pleasant cutting a. Brighten Beach the
past week
Al Thomas wh0 viii represent The az
seefat.on this year n track athletes ard
football IS a brother Of Sam Thomas. che
METROPOLITAN champion ~ the peie vault.
with a rsecra q Il fseg =. inches.
There il a chance that the p y A.
championships WI &c GALES OF this far
as re Tacorna Afhlrtic C3ab and Muitno-
r,ah Athlete Club have lost some % thair
basf athletes Among theD are Dickson
sns Gould - ths Tacoma Athlete Cluh.
MrrEan heGleaB Coyne ana Bgrae.t ara
among thcS1 fhst are gong 10 Stanford.
The above ciaNs Waut it caiie3 OF - they
think there woula rot be en0agh sntriss.
Pref y = Green wiii start ere failowtHE
rlases aa September ) Graded class Issd-
ers' corps, intermediate ctsss. business
yrsn ladies' class fucsnrs' class 5cn3c-s'
leaders sqecfsl c12ss. TIE Tork WI ha