The Rivalry That Gripped the Pacific Northwest
Seattle and Portland prepare for a high-stakes football clash at Madison Park to determine the regional championship.
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The town is beginning to buzz with excitement over the approaching great football contest of next Saturday at Madison Park, when the Seattle Athletic Club and the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of Portland, meet in their second game of the season. Portland won last Saturday's game on her own ground by the narrowest of margins, and the Seattle team's admirers feel confident that it will turn the tables in the second contest. Unusual interest is attached to the result of the match, for on it depends the championship of the Pacific Northwest, which is determined by a triangular fight between Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma. The blue diamond 'rooters' have gone into training for the event, and the execution that they will do promises to eclipse anything in that line ever seen at Madison Park. There will be no lack of fog-horns, whistles, and Chinese gongs, to say nothing of thousands of yards of blue and white ribbon.
“There will be no lack of fog-horns, whistles, and Chinese gongs, to say nothing of thousands of yards of blue and white ribbon.”
Long before the Seahawks, the regional sports rivalry was centered on amateur athletic clubs. Madison Park, once the hub of Seattle's social and recreational life, has transformed from a fairground-like destination into a quiet, prestigious residential neighborhood.
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