East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-02-15
WAR CHALLENGE
FROM WALLA WALLA
MEN WOULD
PLAY BASKET BALL
Gauntlet Thrown Down by Audacious
Garden City Tossers of "IIas Been"
Fame.

Listen to the roar of Walla Walla
thunder issuing from the camp of the
| Ancient Legion and then judge for
| yourself why it is that certain and
sundry of the athletic specimen Of
the local Commercial association have
assumed militant bearing and have
the spark of battle cleaning in their
eye. Here it Isl
Mr.. j. E. Montgomery,
Pendleton, oregon.
Dear Sir and Fellow Servant:
You are hereby notified, challeng-
ed, defied and warned, that we, the
basketball squad of the Walla Walla
Y. NJ. C. A. composed of ancient and
honorable? men are so darned anXi-
Gus to play you all game or three of
the "only game" that we will either
come to your town first or you can
come here first and we will go there
the next week, the third game, If
through the iniquity of the referee,
that should be necessary, to be play
ed on neutral grounds, either Milton
or Chicago.
We to pay your expenses here and
you to pay ours there. Teams to
consist of 6 men, the home team to
furnish a doctor and undertaken.
We prefer to play here on Wednes-
day or Friday night. but could prob
ably arrange for any other. In fact
is any of these terms are not agre-
able to you, just change them to suit
yourselves, all We want is a game
with a Pendleton businessmen's team,
/ and we will attend to the rest of 1t.
OF course its rather a hard propo-
sition to ask a good looking bunch
to run up against certain defeat, but
we will let you down easy when the
time comes and try not to rub it in
about the superiority of our big red
apples.
So. therefore, II you will set the day
on which you will prefer to take a
good licking.
BY the way, I started out wrong,
! we are not the team of the Y NJ. c..
, A. only the Businessmen's Glass
( team. the Y. team is not in our class
at all. Disrespectfully,
NJ. A. JONES.
Mr.. F.. ID. Applegate Physical Di-
rector of the Y. NJ. C. A. Is a mem
Der of our class. but of course is a
classier player, but If you have no
one of his class, it will be perfectly
agreeable for us not to play him, in
other words, We want 10 beat bunch
of our own classy class.
1t has: not yet been decided in what
manner this bold def will be met.
| ts IA % ~
Commercial gym are like old war
chargers with the smell of battle
smoke once again in their nostrils.
Each and every one is possessed of a
keen desire to administer the humili-
alton tonic to the vaingiorious boast
ers from over the line.
John Montgomery chafes under the
restraint his business puts upon him
and like the king of the jungle
beasts, shakes his shaggy head and
rends the heavens with an ominous
roar
George Hartman, imbued with the
Roundup spirit, can be seen almost
any evening in the gymnasium cavort-
ing about like an outlaw cayuse and
his only answer to the challenge is.
Let 'er Buck"
Pohnnie Lambrth. the bantam of
the squad, has his gaming blood up
and at any reference to the impudent
letter, his moustach bristles and his
whole being quivers with the lust of
combat.
Even Charlie Marsh, rotund of
form and mild of spirit. has adopted
the bearing of professional gladi-
ator while Clark Nelson, as may be
imagined, is more belllgerent than
ever and can be heard recounting to
admiring friends the time in the year
'03 when he threw q basket while
standing on his head.
A consultation will be held tonight
and 1t Is probable that the Garden
lCity gauntlet will be picked up.