The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-27
MALE STUDENTS BARRED.
CANNOT WITNESS THE CONTESTS OF
FEMALE ATHLETES.
rntversity-Coeas OPganiniag .
dandball Team for the Coming

Hope springs eternal In the human
preasa sings the poet. but the male STU
dents or the University Of washington
think Otherwise. They have lost ali nope
OF ever being admitted 10 the goods basket
oaH games. and now when the season Tor
,ne sport has again begun, are :nanifesuns
AkAfs INTEREST In the cncs momSnto1S ausS-
ZION. Ihey say now that they doni wan:
N. anyway. the goods reply sour grapes
Inc men OF the faculty. with the exception
OF the president, are also barred. Tney
make no audible complaint.
1reas interest Is shown among the cc%ds
IN the composition OF the coming team and
some very pretty gym Suits are being or
defeo- The college girl II every biz a wo-
man and likes to be lastly dressed even
' ~nsn IN desperate struggle With an OPP
those horrid men" So reasonable excuse
can be found for this absence say some.
everyone to be the acme OF modesty
IL ID only matter OF time therefore.
until all the students and members Of the
faculty are admitted without distinction 10
race, sex or color. Whenever the prepara-
tory boys are spoken to or the subject they
prophe ticaily whistle ''There'il came =
time some day" but the other Classes sadly
say Never"
Make Up OF the Team.
Very few OF last years basket bali team
have returned to the university. but there
In no lack OF good material 1t Is consid-
cred that between twenty-five and thirty
and win play las, winter, there were
I'VE teams at the college from which the
nrst team was picked The plan produced
excellent results. and will probably De used
during the coming season.
Among the experienced players who will
practice for the hrst team this winter are
blanche Miracle. Ann Mitchell. Winnie
low; Charia Blodgett. Blanche winsor and
Emily Sumner The captain OF the team
has not Yet been chosen The coed athletes
0Gn MI tv1tn
game within week or tive. a few having
already done so.
Resides basket ball the coedS association
includes track athletics and handban The
university has reason 20 be proud Of the
work done by Its female athletes on the
track. The most eminent OF them in this
line 10 Miss Biodgett. who has never We.
suffered defea, either In the long distance
runs or the dasheS.
The annual handhall tournament will be
held next spring in the university armory.
Ing the winter No basketball games have
as yet been arranged with other associa-
lions but the university will shortly issue
z eha ashi.,, 10 the women OF the James
Elensbur1 normal school There Is a pos
sihih'y Of match being played with the
Everett high school. which has the only
team that ever defeated the goods In bask-
et-han
story OF the OrGanixa ton.
The present officers OF the women's ath-
letic association OF the University Of Wash
fngton are: President. Blanche Miracle:
vice president. Emily Summers: secretary
Jessie Barlow. and treasurer. Louise
Inland. The association will reorganize
next week. but will not elect new officers
until the spring.
The association was formed In October
1890. shortly after the college was moved
out to the new buildings at Latona Before
this The institution lacked the most com
mon facilities for training, having neither
a gymnasium nor a rupning track Of its
own. All branches Of athletics had a boom
At the college after It's removal and the
goods Hooked 10 the gymnasium classes in
great numbers The result was the forma-
ton Of their athletic association bask-
et-ball team with Mabel Ward as captain
games, becoming the champions OF the
state. Al the contest with Eliensburg nor
NAL school. the male students were ad-
mittad for the first and last time
Ent!l the spring Of this year the asso-
citation had 10 content Itself with local
meets and handbail tournaments as no
other female team had Durage enough to
play them Last spring the Everett high
school. under the brilliant leadership OF
them. This game WAS the Majuha hill OF
the goods basketball team: for the first
time they met hitter defeat The next
game was with the Victoria team and end
ed In a glorious victory for the university
The team this year will endeavor 10
maintain frs proud position in athletics. ana
viii play 10 win.
II II difficult 10 find out the exact status
OF athletics among the fair sex OF the
frst-class teams maintained by them dur
ing the coming winter