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10 stories matching pastim
- Baseball at Pastime Park
Everett and Snohomish join forces to form a new league team with a permanent home.
- The Football Defense: A 19th-Century Debate on Brutality
Readers spar in the pages of the Post-Intelligencer over whether American college football is a ‘scientific’ athletic endeavor or a barbaric ‘prized-fight’ masquerading as sport.
- The Poker Club That Wrote ‘No Gambling’ Into Its Own Rulebook
Seattle detectives raid a Third and Cherry social club and find a members-only poker game hiding behind a constitution that strictly forbade gambling.
- The Prize Fight Shuffle in Tacoma
After Collins forfeited his match, 'Spider' Kelly of San Francisco stepped in to face Morrissey in a high-stakes Tacoma bout.
- The Rowdy Frontier in Icicle
A correspondent reports on the daily chaos and 'gun plays' defining the rough-and-tumble life in the settlement near Wenatchee.
- Baseball Fever Hits Snohomish
A local baseball game between Snohomish and Port Gamble draws a massive crowd, proving the sport's rising popularity in the region.
- The Union Club's Roulette Wheel
A judge rules that a seized roulette wheel isn't necessarily a gambling tool, sparking a debate over the city's power to destroy property.
- Seattle Burned the Devil's Playthings in the City Furnace
The Colored Pastime Club's cards and tables went up in smoke, reviving memories of the Budweiser raid, Sheriff Cochran's cleanup, and the 1885 Chinese riots.
- The Price of a Gambling Habit
A young express agent faces financial ruin after losing his employer's money at Seattle's faro tables.
- A Walla Walla Pastor Defends the Prison's Sunday 'Boxing Bouts'
Rector W. Law writes to defend Warden Coblenz and the penitentiary's Sunday programs, insisting the glove contests that scandalized critics were gentler than a schoolyard game.