The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-13
Sports pasfipes

1.-THE Seattle Athletic clab viii withdraw
fts protest asking me American
- Cooked Hat Ba.I.ag Association to
throw out the games ocwas,z GF me
Oregon Road fgUhs alleys 81 Portland De
tween the O. r. c. ass6 this g. A. g This
action removes the only point that staod
between the o. X. G. and the championship.
Taking the cIuDs thai aaEe participated sn
the tournament, ard comparing tsseEn sEsle-
IL from a technical standpoint. saege = no
question bat that the o. f. 6. LAB proved
Itself the strongest aggregation.
There ts considerable 10 be said, however,
about me way in which the u. X. G. OBJ
fasned is team. IL reports are trues the
spirit that Ia al the bottom Of the associa-
fioa las sseer violated. even II no tecnnseal
objections can be raised. There are n-a-
x7erGua howling alleys In Portland. ! nave
been- told that there are over thirty In a..
The story II in circulation that the q. H.
C. exerted ssseIf 10 get q team composed
OF the very best men in Portland, and that
Wiysie these men may have been members
OF the club when the tournament commence
ed they were members more ssSscaaasy
with d view 10 participate In the ioIrraa-
nent than because they entoyea club HE.
II ii liz true that tire q. r. e gathered
together star howIers, it dragged Into a5H'-
lng flse method that has in the past caused
SO much trouble In football. II is no nsors
than natural that = club desires 10 win.
but hi bowling great care should De taken
in the methods employed. IL ~ a game that
partakes of a social nature to more or
iasg extent. and the founders OF IL Ia this
gart Of the country viii DC deeply atgfies-
cd f Ii loses fits status. Dir. Mallory, on
Portland, or. az ne Is called among howl
crs, Father Mallory. has iabafed unfe-
uyssingly 10 keep bowling at nigh stan
dard, AT the same time trying 10 Keep an
keen but friendly rivalry between Gibbs l
am sure he viii condemn any action when
tends To throw bowling into the category of
sports where the emily OBJECT Is to via.
s->4-
yTTHI.E the Seattle Athletic Club Is
wv willing that the championship sHai
xo to the O. II. e.. n IL determines that
the association shall take action In the mat
ter OF rs petition to have the O. X. Z.
expelled from membership takes this
stand reluctantly, huE al the same time
with q feeling that such course Il nee
exsar; in order To preserve self-respeet. in
the course of its petition asking that the
O. r. C. be expelled It says;
ssrhe a. A. e. believes that as long as
the O. X. e.. remains member OF the assa-
citation, such UngenticmaDfy conduct, re-
3errinx to the scene at the q. IL. Z. alleys
about week ago. will continue. The ..
n. G. no longer desires or - VIKING W
associate with or bowl among the members
of the Road cIup and II that club re-
mains a member Of the association. the
s. A. G. will Withdraw.
The petition says that in the course Of an
nua! tournaments the y. a. e. team has
been Subjected 10 dscourteous and derislse
remarks while al the o. r. G. alleys. Is
also alleges that members OF the @. X. G.
have becn guilty or conduct unhecomsng
gentlemen while present Ut the games as
spectators. thai neither officer nor mern-
Der Of the club has checked such remarks
or conduct more than temporarily. II at
all and that such remarks and conduct.
both nj the contest Of January. 1883, and
March 4. 1859. continued from beginning To
the end OF the match. practically without,
cessation.
From year to year. according to the petit
1foas. the conduct AZ the q. r. c. IL hecom-
inw more reprchensib.e and offensive. until