The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-04
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decided to resume control of football, base
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Jurisdiction over football or baseball, and
an amateur team could play with or
against professional team without heirg
Is another good move In the right direction
for pure amateur sport
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The two north alleys at the Seattle Ath-
who cherish tender memory for the game
Of tsnp.ns. Several games have been
rolled, but present Indications are that the
game will not achieve the popularity 1t has
The s. a, c. tenpin. record for single
game is e2o Mr.. Holt being the proud
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encountered at the start comes from the
fact that cooked hat bowling. m which
only three pins are used. Is , firmly IN
west devotees. OF this class Of sport, and
It win be hard TO divide the interest.
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Mort Atkinson is the latest addition to
the ranks of the trap shooters. Although
the game is new to him he shoots We'll up
success is due in a great measure to the
excellent practice he has had in the field
anthony Green. one of the best known
Seattle Recently he received from
James Jeffries. the champion pugilist OF
the world, large photograph. 1t is the
latest the champion has had taken, and
at the bottom OF II he dedicates 1t to his
old friend and adviser. Green has known
Jsffries from the tine he first saw a
in sporting matters.
Generally speaking. Seattle duck hunt
ers are having poor luck. Even with
the hard storms Of the past two weeks
few good bags have been made. 1t APP
pears as if a cold snap was wanted to
drive. the birds into the sloughs and
marshes.
three trips to Redmond. but only on one
occasion did he get flight, and then
the birds came his way for only twenty
minutes. The last time he, vas there
making over the country high up IN the
air.
1t is getting so now that II duck
anywhere between sumas and Seattle he
will be the object Of a ton of lead dis
tributed along the entire route.
suuak slough. but. with one exception.
are very wild and much scarcer than
one would expect, considering the high
country recently.
Louis Hopkins and. Mr.. Crawford re-
turned to Seattle few days ago from
Stauwood fats. They Killed about 50
ducks. and could have got more If they
had been anxious to make a record. The
wind drove the birds into the pot holes
In the neigf1borhood where they We're
shooting They are the only lucky ones
known.
The basketball game in this city be-
tween the Y. NJ. G, A.. champions and the
James Bay Athletic Association team of
Victoria was the fastest ever seen in this
city. The visitors outgeneraled the local
boys after they became accustomed to
breath away from them.
EXPERIENCES in lacrosse has much to do
with the success of the James Bay team
They passed the ball much better than
Seattle. in fact. showed tricks that are
worth studying. and were always In the
right place. Their costumes. are. better
adapted to fast play than Mt those worn -
Portable. They wear a light baseball
costume. with padded knees. to save
bruises. from fails.
defeat, IA to 8. keep them from trying
again, and in the near future, too.
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The Tacoma Y: NJ. c.. A. has dropped
out Of the PACIFIC Northwest basketball
and Portland Y. NJ G. A. teams to fight
It out alone. Seattle will play in Port
land December % and rs. Portland VIII
play in Seattle January and 2.
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Leo wyandearo, who works in brew
cry at Olympia. claims to have had a
strange experience with a cougar one
night while riding home on bicycle. In
the darkness he could sac the animal s
eyes CLEAN, and expected every moment
that II would spring upon him. Having
not even pocket knife to defend himself
only way of Guiding the animal lay in
flight. He sent his wheel spinning, but
not, as one would suppose, away from, but
toward the dangerous animal.
HE was rapidly overtakirig his run
ming mate" says the Washington Stand
ard, when the animal jumped to one
side with an angry growl., which brighten,
ed the bicyclist so terribly that he did
not look around until he reached home
and fell from his wheel exhausted"
This is supposed to be the frs, case on
record where a hero ESCAPED death by
literally rushing into Its jaws.
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Joseph schirmer, a well known young
man OF this city. has received a tele-
the death OF his brother in that place
from injuries received In football game
on Thanksgiving.
a Shagil county paper prints an UNI
accountable attack on the Seattle Rod
and Gun Club, 1t says that since the
club obtained the exclusive right of shoot
ing on certain land on whitney island
someone has put up sign as follows:
Dogs and hogs not allowed. This an
plies to the Seattle Rod and Gun Club. II
AS the gun club in question has no pre-
serve at Whitney, or. in fact anywhere
it is difficult to figure out the animus in
the attack. PORTUS BAXTER
WILL BE GOOD CONTEST.