Olympic Athletic Club Internal Squabble
A committee meets to resolve deep fractures within a local sports club, where disagreements over prize fighting have cast members in an unfavorable light.
An amicable compromise of the dissension in the Olympic Athletic Club has not yet been effected, although committees from the two disputing factions met yesterday and talked over the difficulties. Another meeting of the club will be held Tuesday evening. While the encouragement of prize fighting by the club is the real point at issue, it came up in such a form that many members who do not favor that sport were made to appear as doing so and thus were placed in a false light. Among these is Mr. Holloway, who declared that he had no intention or desire to father prize fighting; he never was and never will be a patron of that kind of sport.
“It came up in such a form that many members who do not favor that sport were made to appear as doing so and thus were placed in a false light.”
The internal political struggles of local athletic clubs reflect early Seattle's delicate tension between promoting 'manly' exercise and managing the public reputation of rougher sports like boxing. It mirrors modern debates over which civic activities merit institutional funding and community endorsement.
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