Tacoma Tigers Dominate Local Rivalry on the Diamond
The local baseball club easily dismantled a visiting squad in a lopsided contest at the Eleventh street grounds.
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A second drubbing was administered to the Seattle bunch yesterday on the Eleventh street grounds. Jimmy St. Vrain was the Tiger responsible for the bad medicine given to Parke Wilson's tribe yesterday, and C. Hall was the Siwash that bore the brunt of the battle. Wilson's antiquated players scarcely made an interesting contest, and the Tigers had the game tucked away after the first inning. The final score resulted in a decisive victory for Tacoma.
“Wilson's antiquated players scarcely made an interesting contest, and the Tigers had the game tucked away after the first inning.”
Early 20th-century sports journalism often relied on 'tribe' and 'Siwash'—a derogatory Chinook Jargon term—as casual, dehumanizing descriptors for rival teams, reflecting the era's casual racism. Today, such language is recognized as a profound disrespect toward the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
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