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teur. May there be no step backward! Multnomah has done so much good for the youth of Portland, has done so much to promote the cause of amateur- ism, and has so much at stake, in fact its own existence as an amateur athletic club, that it cannot afford to nullify its work by countenancing or encouraging anything which smacks of profession- alism. I put the matter thus plainly, not because I want to condemn, but be-

entitled to the championship of Wash- ington and Idaho. In Oregon three teams tied for first honors. The Uni- versity of Oregon played scoreless games with Oregon Agricultural Col- lege and Albany College. These last two teams did not meet on the gridiron, although each professed a strong de- sire to do so. To an outsider, the diffi- culties in the way of their meeting seem trivial, and he is almost forced to the

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cause I want to see Multnomah pro- mote its own best interests, something which it can do only by living up to both the letter and the spirit of the principles upon which the club is founded.

To the disappointment of many, the inter-collegiate championship of the Northwest for 1902 was not definitely settled. The University of Washington won from Whitman College, Washing- ton Agricultural College, and the Uni- versity of Idaho, and is consequently

conclusion that *'one was afraid and the other was glad of it." Undoubtedly, if they had expended as much energy in trying to agree as each did in ex- pounding in the newspapers its superi ority over the other, together with the whys and wherefores of its contention, they would have arranged a game. Hence there was no inter-collegiate champion of Oregon to pit against the champion of Washington, and thus de- cide the problem of supremacy ; and hence the college championship of the