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737 stories matching game
- The Baseball Game the Gamblers Paid Stanford to Lose
A Tacoma betting ring recruited Stanford’s manager, pitcher, catcher and fielder to throw a game for $500. Captain Sheehan refused $100 — and then played like a demon to win it anyway.
- John Wiley's Whiskers Steal a 25–15 Ballgame
A comedian's two-base hit, a 1,000-person crowd, and a disastrous first inning turned a grudge match between the Jacobites and Philistines into Seattle's strangest sporting spectacle of 1894.
- Prisoners to Raise Game Birds for Benton County
In a state-run program at the Walla Walla penitentiary, inmates are building a game farm to repopulate Chinese pheasants across Washington.
- Fifteen Hundred Fans and One Silk Pennant: Port Gamble Takes the Sound Championship
A steamer of rooters, gold coin at the gate and a decisive game at Madison Street Park — Port Gamble beat Port Blakeley 15 to 5 for the Puget Sound pennant, and flew it from the steamer's jackstaff.
- The Fruit Eaters’ Perfect Game: How Wenatchee’s Amateurs Shut Out Seattle’s Prospects
In a stunning display of local pride, the Wenatchee Fruit Eaters defeated the heavily favored Seattle Electrics with only one earned run, showcasing a team that managers claimed could beat any amateur squad in the state.
- Outweighed Eighteen Pounds a Man, Whitman Nearly Stunned Pullman
A 75-yard touchdown run by Elmo Reser kept the Missionaries in it until the final fifteen seconds, when the Aggies' sheer weight finally told, 18 to 6.
- A Two-Dollar Chip, a Drawn Revolver, and a Death in the Hotel Barroom
A gambler named Page goes on trial for shooting Harry Fraser dead in the barroom of Seattle's Northern Hotel — a killing that began over the change from a $20 bill.
- A $10 Bill, a Loaded Dice Game, and a Fatal Shot at the Hotel Northern
Paul K. Page's preliminary hearing lays out how a friendly dice game in a Seattle saloon turned deadly when a disputed ten-dollar bill ended in murder — and how the state's star witness had secrets of his own.
- The Doctor and the Gambler's Ledger
A courtroom dispute between two men over unpaid poker debts descends into an itemized accounting of every game played in 1892.
- Seattle’s First Basketball Craze Was a Bruising, Nine-Man Battle
In 1899, the Y.M.C.A. and Seattle Athletic Club prepared for a rough indoor championship match at the Armory—played with nine men a side and almost no mercy.
- Seattle's Church Basketball Rivalry Was Already a 500-Person Spectacle in 1895
St. Mark's Episcopal beat First Baptist 4–2 at the YMCA gym, in a game so physical that a few spectators objected.
- Seattle Wins the Pennant While Tacoma's Players Chase Unpaid Wages
Portland folds, Seattle is awarded the 1891 league championship—but in Tacoma and Spokane, ballplayers are waiting for salaries and threatening to sue.
- Police Crack Down on Local Gambling Den
After ignoring illegal banking games for some time, the city police force raids a gambling operation and arrests the dealers.
- Seattle's Nonpareils Outplay Tacoma in a Thrilling Baseball Match
The junior champions of the Northwest dominated Tacoma with professional teamwork and acrobatic fielding, thrilling a crowd at Madison Street ball park.
- 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 Underdog Coulee City Nine Steals Two Games
Missing five regular players, the local baseball team overcomes a losing streak with a new battery and sheer determination.
- Chief Butterfield's Night Raids on Two Gaming Houses
After weeks of public defiance, Seattle’s police chief launched a series of high-stakes raids on the city's most prominent gaming houses, leading to dramatic foot-booted entries and stacks of confiscated faro layouts.
- The Faro Bank the Police Didn't See
A rival paper says Seattle's gambling is cleaned up; the Post-Intelligencer names the saloon, the four rooms and the men running a protected faro game.
- Sunday Baseball in Everett
A weekend series at Robbins' Park between the local Moose and the Monroe team ends in a split, featuring some questionable officiating and some 'cheap' fence-jumping fans.
- Game Wardens Reject State Penitentiary Farm Plan
County officials clash with state leadership, fearing a new game farm would function merely as a political job site.
- The White Sox Dominate the Nespelem Indians
Seventy-two baseball fans from Coulee City made the sixty-mile trek to Nespelem, braving limited food options to witness a lopsided victory.
- White Bluffs Dominates Hanford on the Court
In a fierce display of local rivalry, White Bluffs squads swept three basketball games against Hanford, fueled by stellar defensive and offensive performances.
- Blood on the Diamond: A Baseball Riot Stabs Two Men in Rockford
When a local baseball game between Tekoa and Rockford turned violent, knives, bats, and bricks flew. Two men were stabbed, several beaten insensible, and the town was left reeling from a brawl that started on the field and ended with arrests.
- The High Stakes 'Sing-Gamble' of the Cedar River
For over 130 hours, tribes from the Black, Cedar, and Puyallup rivers engaged in an ancient, rhythmic gambling ritual near Renton, staking their entire winter's livelihood on the outcome.
- The Great 'Ten-Cent' Grandstand Skirmish
Seattle baseball management deploys canvas walls to block fans watching games for free from outside Madison Street Park.
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- The Dice Game Heist
Two con-men swindle a logger out of his savings using a loaded dice game in a downtown Seattle saloon.
- A Wife’s Revenge Against a Craps-Playing Husband
An angry spouse leads a constable to raid a gambling den to recover stolen household money.
- The Town and the Team
Oroville celebrates a victory on the diamond, even if the play was a bit 'scaley.'
- The Crap Game Hidden Behind a Punching Bag
Police raid a basement gambling den run by Pop Daly that attempted to masquerade as an athletic gym.
- The Rules of the Game: How Seattle's First Lawyers Codified the Fight for Land
When the Washington Territorial legislature overhauled the rules of civil procedure, they essentially wrote the blueprint for how Seattle’s developers and land speculators would battle over the city’s footprint for decades to come.
- The Breakfast Table Umpire
A fed-up boarder decides he's had enough of the baseball-obsessed chatter at his table.
- City Hall Card Game Ends in Firing
Public works linemen are caught playing cards on the clock in a city hall office, prompting a crackdown on workplace loitering.
- The Secret Game Under the Sidewalk
A reporter uncovers a network of hidden gambling dens and 'wire-puller' locks operating with total impunity under the city's reform administration.