Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 24

\ “rules should be ;. cut attending clas: 7 cept technically ; 2 SPORTS. Facts Regarding Eligibility Rules of Southern Con- ference as Debated in Atlanta Meeting Set Forth by Maryland Representative. BY H. C. N view of the publicity given alleged remarks of the writer, represent- l ing the view of the University o Southern Intercollegiate Confere the misinterpretation placed upon those remarks by an article in an Atlanta newspapers and_later sent out through a press association ap- parently by that paper, justice to th tions mentioned, particularly Georg facts, exactly as they were presented Jefore doing that. however, the writer desires to state that he did not charge any institution With pla ing “ringers,” did not once during the whole meeting that any school was using ineligible players, and, moreover, did not maKe any ch was so interpreted representatives of the four- b ure members | statement w by the of the organization. Fucts of the Case. Facts of the case are these: In the Saturday morning s the conference a rule was passed for- bidding any member of the conference competing with any institution ‘in} conference territory not a member of on of the conference if that institution would not agree to live up to the eligibility rules of the conference. This ruling struck the University of Maryiand har it had mor big games scheduled with members cutside the conference than any other ns, and also placed the of Maryland in position it would L to force eorgetown and Johns Fopkins to adopt eligibility rules of 1he conference if it desired to sched- ule games with any of these school In hm tulked with Catholic Univer next rall and =elf to both ames for ad 4180 expressed him- ach Exendine and As- sistant Coach O'Connor of George- | town as favering close relationship al institutions and made to the Georgetown coaches the direct statement that “It seems to me that it is time we get together as an mual game between Georgetown ind Maryland should be one of the Dest in this section and advantageous for both school The writer knew at the time that rgia Tech igned with the ¥y and dickering with rgetown games next fall. Lt year it w agreed at the con- ference meeting in February that the new rules should not be put into ef- fect this fall and that they should be delayed until January 1, 1822, in order to the contracts then in effect to run out after which the wonference enfor Made Situation Embarrassing. | In other words. there was, a situa- tion in whi £ ch’ w ranging for games without cons ation for that rule of the conference, Lut with other schools, including the University of Maryland. planning to enforee it. It presented situation of embarrassments for Jand, standing, as it does, @ confer- ence member in a_section surrounded by schools it has been mesting which are not conference membe: Mary- iand did not desire to be placed in the position of saying to Georgetown, George Washington and atholic Tniversity, “We cannot play you un- Jess you adopt conference rules” and 4t the same time have another mem- ber of the conference arranging for games With one or more of the same institutions without adhering to the same principle. The situatic was all th nior uncertain for t writer | T se he hud been named a ir- man of the committec to determine which institutions in_the section should be placed in a group to which this stutement should be made if | games were to be scheduled. At best, the writer felt that it would noi be the easiest thing in the worlil to say to one of his friends charge of athiletics at Georgetown, tholic U'niversity or George Wash- i ton, We shall not play you un-| ‘6u_do so and so, and it was to g clearer understanding of the wituation that I Just What Was “Gentlemen, we hav a rule which will have effect and which is of far more import thun perhaps most of ald. just passed | far-reaching seri- us | ize. Furthermore, the University of Maryland is affected by it more than any other institution. and I am rising now to ask in all seriousness if thesconference intends to enforce | it to the letten As chairman of the committee on colleges 1 am likely myself to be placed in rather an em- | uniess we 2all anding of what bharrassing have a clear we intend to “Last year position unde io it was my understanding that the rules should not be put into| effect until January 1, 1922, in order| that existing foot 'ball contracts might be fulfilled without embarrass. ment to anybody. I understand, how- ever, that Georgia Tech is scheduling 2 game \with Georgetown without such stipulation and I would like to know whether or not Georgla Tech intends to abide by that rule or not,! as Georgetown and other institutions in Washington are our next-door ghbors and we cannot afford to abida by it in our relationships with | those institutions if other members o the conference do not. either can we compete, | might furt . with Georgetow George shing Catholic University and Johns HopKins if we are compelled | o abide [ this confe the stringent rules nce and those teams play under their present regulations. « matter of fact, I believe that the first year rule will he a good thing for all these schoois. as I believe it will benefit my own institution. T might say to you that now in tain p fessional courses (the law schools) of- fered at Georgetown and George Wash- ington it is possible for a man to reg ister in school and play foot ball with- and therefore not in the university, ex-, and | know person- aliy that tais has been the case at times. In this respect, ‘ieorgetown and George Washington are not different from the being 2 student . BYRD. oi Maryland, at the meeting of the nce, at Atlanta, Ga., last week, and e writer himself and to the institu- etown University, dictate that the at the meeting, be set forth NN STATE GRID TEAM 15 RATED BEST IN EAST i Tenn State’s eleven has been rated t in the east by the foot ball expert of the New York Times, who Cornell second and Navy and ard on a par in third place. He s the teams in groups, George- being ranked with Dartmouth sharing with the Green Mis town lin eroup ten, iwhat would ‘be thirteenth place. rankings follow I. Penn State. Cornell. tre and Yale. igton and Jefferson. sburgh. Princeton Army. vracuse. Dartmouth and Georgetown. Lehigh. RBucknell, Muhlenberg and Penn- 10, own, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Holy O . New Hampshire, Rutgers and Williams. 14. Fordham, Springfleld, Swarth- and West Virginia. 15, Amberst, Boston College, Colum- bia, New York University, Wesleyan. forced, would absolutely prevent at any time such a condition. Regarding Navy's Status, At this point another member of the conference asked the writer to take up the question of games with the Navy in this way: “Axk them what we are going to do about the N: Proceeding, the writer said: “The Navy is in our immediate sec- tion and 1 understand that Tech also has a game schedule® with that in- stitution. What are we going to do about that and how are we going to regard games with it? I know and you know that the Navy makes efforts to get z\md foot 1 players to enter there the colleges are and the ! Nav not have rules of eligi-| Dility such as are to be enforced by this conferenc Another member of the conference then arose and said that Alabama Tolytechnic Institute had en of- fercd a game with the Army and the conference should consider the Army in the same class with the Navy. It was finally_decided, in reference to these institutions, that they ould be considered on a different basis from | colleges and universitics, us govern- | ment organizations operating under special regulations and thut they | should not be expected to adopt col- | legiate regulations. The foncerence dect at that point that contract entered into by any member of the conference prior to January 1 should he valid, no matter what its provisions. hese actions cleared up the situa- tion for all concerned until during the afternoon session, when a news- | paper representative walked into the meeting, handed the wrier a copy of an afternoon paper containing a big scarehead story about the writer charging that Georgetown had used ringers, with this remark: You sce what this paper has done for vou, don’t ¥ou? When did you say these things. anyway? This newspaper man was in the conference meeting during the entire morning session. Conference Refutes Story. The writer then brought the story to the attention of the conference, it was the unanmious opinion that fucts were misrepresented, and committee was appointed to draw up a resolution to that effect. This resolution, signed by Prof. Matthews of University of Tennessee, Dr. Lam- beth of University of Virginia, and Acting Director of Physical FEduca- tion Forest Fletcher of Washington and Lee, was adopted and presented to the Atlanta papers: “The Southern Intercollegiate Ath- letic Association notes with regret the unfortunate publicity accorded to statements alleged to have been made by Mr. H. C. Byrd of the Uni- versity of Maryland during the morn- 4 ing session of the conference Satur- day, December 3, at Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. It is resolved that the Atlanta’ Georgian is hereby notified that its statement was unauthorized, unethical and incorrect and that the srgian be requested to_give pub- to the facts that Mr. Byrd's i th did mot reflect upon the morality or_good faith of any col- lege, which he may have named dur- ing the discussion. and emphatically he did not accuse any college of | playing ‘ringers” Moreover, he did| not protest against any college in | this conference playing institutions which are not members of this or- ganization —_—_— HITCHCOCK, POLO STAR, SEEKING HOCKEY BERTH Tommy Hitchcock, the youthful star poloist, who played on the American team that defeated the British in the international polo matches in England last June, is a candidate for the Har- vard vargity hockey team. Duririg the war he was an avlator and escaped after being captured by the Germans. University of Maryland, as it operates a law school under exactiy the same condition. This is ono of the conditions | the first relieve, as such | ilations en: _— Eddie Mulligan of the Chicago White Sox_was a star soccer plaver in St. Louis before joining the big show. 5 Wise —of the Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, South- west and Suburban Districts will come to Omo- hundro’s to get a made-to-order garment at this remarkably low price of— = $38 | Men } | 0’COATS —is a remarkable value for our High Qual- ity Tailored-to-order Buy now while prices are reduced and atock offers best selection. OMOHUNDRO, 818 F ST. Suits or Overcoats. lat Boys 1 His teams have defeated Yale j?eport of Attack on Local School Unfounded : Pro Foot Ball Proves a Frost in New York ' _ NO CHARGE OF “RINGERS” ||IST 3ENGAGENENTS [EPPHANY BASKETERS | COLLEGE BEING USED WAS MADE) rjp pGiEes TOSSERS Thirteen games bave been sched- uled for Business High School's bas- ket ball team, and three more are piphany tossers, formidable con- vionship last pending. The Stenographers, in ad- vear, are to play dition To the hleh schol lewguo on: |throukh an imposing schedule this gagements, will encounter Maryland |season. The Churchnien wi und Virginla quints. They will open |{ ¢ Anrstubieny will fayiug their season two weeks from Wednes- | 110 action tomoerrow night against et o Yosemites Epiphany gyim- with a game against Gonzaga High School at Gonza The remainder of thei nasium_and are wn enter games more during the w seventeen n- ga gymuasium. schedule fol- Cho:y ! gagements with Tech, and lows: 3 | Eastern High schools & the December Baltimore City College, &t more important on £ s list Baltimore. Josepi's, at Balg. | The schedule follow Cathoiic”” University | | December . Yot Kantorns 17 Conttal: [ A. C.; 13, Independent A. at Alexandriu; 24, | C-i 16, Busiuess High Kastern High Scl ool 8. Randolph-\acon Academy, at Front mu-l Eilicott City School, at Eilic (pending) ; Catholic University freshmen, Merit A, C., at Lrookland' (peuding): 14, Western. N u-n»m 10, Py ) Tinworths St Johm'n basket bull team is to|C. B Wi Normal Nenoo play through the following schedule: Salibery kel December Yosemite 3 20, Central A Iligh School, at Central Junuary 3, Eastern K pal High, at Alexal 21, Loyola Hig High, at Baltimere; nt_st. 1, ut 25, Quiney ool . ut’ Baltimore, lowing players to report at the Adams | andria High at Alesnadria: School tomorrow ufternoon at February 1, Yrep, at ¢ o'clock for a brief d B Lo, Park, Md.: 4] at Leonardtown, | Duke, Alexander, Hurt, Lamaur, Des 8, Rock 1 Md.: 11 mond’ and Walsh. Riges has vet to Moiint St. Joseph's: 1 Baltimore (pending sert Hal Monnt St Joseph's, 17, Blue Ridge; 18, ( at Baltimore; 20, Leonard Hall Sehool; 24, Gonzaga High School, 1. Tech High School, at Boys' Y. M. 3 (pending); 3. Blue ‘Ridge,” at New Windsor, Md.; 8, Hyattaville, ut Hyattsville; 10, Gonzaga; 11, Caivert Huli. ibe defeuted, but ule next week. as a difficult sched- Three games ar: to morrowsnight in Gon the first Letween Baltimore and aga gyYmnasium, Sacred Heart Holy Nume, starting ital .\xhu!n will e Gonzaga High School team will en- tertain the Hyattsville High basket- ers tonight in Gonzaga gymnasium. The Marylanders decisively defeated the ;‘lnrk. ville High School team last week. FROSH QUINT AT C. U. PLANS ACTIVE SEASON i mateh .\lu)slu\ and Lang- don will be opponents Panther basketers Want game teams in the 120-135-pound Telephone challenges to Mana, Unkau, Lincoln 3983-W. St hool nul's M. E. South of the Sunday | League wants engagements interested should write B. O. S strect, or telephone North ! I Woolp, 62 mes dunnx the r mainder or month Faith Freshmen basketers at Catholie|Athletic Club: 10, Aloysius Club, at University intend to be quite active|! 15, : Athletic Club: National this winter. has been |21, Kinncar €1 ard, The squad drilling for more than a week under (&t Hyattsvill Merit Athletic the direction of Red Gleason, who[Club: 31, ional Guard, at Alex- captained the Maroon and Black|andria. More engagements are de- varsity quint last season, and will be- [ 8ired by the Manhattans. For dates write C. T. Hutchinson, 1505 Rosedale gin its competitive campaign a week from Saturds street northenst. Thirty candidates are out for the s team. Larkin, a center from Ansonia, Fuw. AthletlenCinb iz unyigus (o R et T mineonia; | arrange games with teams in the §5- Welsii, W. Va., High School, appear to |bound class, Telephone - challenges be the best of the cubs. San Pedro [0 lincoln 600, and Hagen of the freshman foot ball _—— squad also are performing well at practice, and Cox, Ford and Healy give promise of becoming especially capable basketers. Leon R. Meaney, assistant manager of the varsity quint, has charge of the freshmen schedule, and is ar- HOPKINS PLANS STADIUM TO SEAT 28,500 PEOPLE BALTIMORE 5. —Propo- sals to build a horseshoe stadium at Homewood Ficld, Johus Hopkins Uni- ranging a number of engagemen et Nineteen ‘have boen booked wo far.| Vertity; with u sealing capeity of ALl of the local high and prep schools | 4290¢ Zho00 Bursons. I e W0 ob, will be played and George Washing- | 448 @18 Mot 6 f0e LA, fnde ton University freshmen are to be|,ow it mbout ©a00. The proposal is met. The schedule follows: to use the two present stands s the December 17, Gallaudet Reserves; | cnds of a stadium whieh would cost 20, Kanawha Preps. about §150.000. 1t would be financed January 11, Business High School. | through the club, the alumni and the at Business (pending); 14. Army and Navy Preps, at Army and Navy Preps; 18, Episcopal High School (pending): 21, George Washington Freshmen, at Coliseum. February 1, Western High Schoo Gonzaga High School, at Gonzags Eastern High School (pending) Business High School; 11, > Plebes, at Annapolis: 15, Gonzaga High School: 18, George Washington Freshmen; 18, Tech High School; 20, Central High School: 22, Staunton Military Academy, at Staunton, Va (pending); 25. Army and Navy Preps. March 1, Gallaudet Reserve. Kendall, Green; 3, Tech High C. A. university. B T LN Direct_C. Burnett, 2:01%. ius sold to British racing interests. been FISHER WILL BE BACK | AT HARVARD NEXT FALL AMBRIDGE, M December 5.— Robert T. Fishe s agreed to be! head coach of the Harvard foot ball| team again next fall. It will be his fourth season in charge. Up to this vear Fisher has had a clean slate at Cambridge. but loat| this season to Centre and Princeton. for three successive years, but have not been so fortunate against Princeton, tying two games and this seagpn sub- mitting to a 10 to 2 defeat. A victory over Princeton fs prob- ably Fisher's main idea in staying on the job, as the team he captained in college was also beaten in the jungle. “‘Z’.&“" have about the same coaching st D. C. TEAM EASILY BEATS CUMBERLAND AT SOCCER Cumberland’s soccer team may cut quite & swath In its own neighbor- hood, but vesterday in its first ap- pearance here it failed to do much damage. The champions of the West- ern Maryland League, credited with sixteen ‘consecutive victories, were well drubbed, 6 goals to 1, by the sturdy eleven of the Washington Soc- cer Club. The city team played carefully in the first half for a 2-to-0 count, but in the second half became more aggres- | sive and all but smothered the visitors | with a crushing attack. —_— Wins Georgia Grid Title. NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 5.— Morgan Prvmra(ory School won the | Dixie Prep foot ball championship by | dtl:at;ng Georgia Military College, o 7. Close Daily at 6 P. M. Wonder What Merts Will Say Today. at Boys' ! be played to-! BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, December 5.—Professional foot ball is enough of a nov- elty in New York and v N FLAVOR NEEDED WILL PLAY 18 GAMES TO INSURE GRID INTEREST tenders for the elty basket ball cham- Gotham Critic Believes Educational Authorities Have Nothing to Fear From Commercializing of Game in Eastern Section of Country. CEMBER 5, 1921 SPORTS. 1922 ARMY-NAVY CLASH MAY GO TO QUAKER CITY CITY GRID TITLE GAME vania is planning to enlarge rebuild Franklin Fleld, »o t will seat more than 60.000 persons, the contest ni- played Mohawks of Southeast Washington | and Southern of Southwest will en-| deavor to decide which is the better eleven next Sunday at Unfon Park. Scheduled to play yesterday for the city independent foot ball champion- ship, the teams were at Union Park, {but a snow-covered gridiron forced {& postponement for one week. The | Southerns will hold one scrimmage practice within & day or so, for they | only limitation heing that it Dot he north of New York or south hin. The shorter trip to Philadeiphia is favored by the Academy people, : are anxious to be in top form when ! championship Ly beating Terminal nity to make attendance at a game be- | they encounter the champion Indians. ym&m C mlf.‘ :3 to 0. g.\luxmum. 8 hinga 4 Poor weather conditions also pre- | touchdown, Quigley's goal kick and tween two merecenary outfits something of an experience, ‘\scantl‘enmd the professional game between | o tackl. 5 ,4 \mr,-m‘" Behisé the ‘mur thousand availed themselves of the opportunity to see Jim Thorpe'’s | the Rochester, Jeffersons and | Terminal g ave the winners th the Senators at Amtrl an League oints. Warwick Midgets ran rough Lluclmd Tigers and Charlie Brickley’s New York Giants in action at the Park, but the locals insisted u;nonjf)..,.; SVer thetotenway MidEete: s Not a few college men sat in the stands, and | taking tie field and were awarded | ning, 30 to Polo Grounds on Saturday. Sler | bi {.In | granted Glants played foot ball of a sort thal ion. making that this statement it the Tigers and did not compare in vigor and tafnly not in proficien played by the leading j elevens, just us the fact is appreciat i the y with gamel Institutiona s in clubs where they gather one picked up a variety of opinion con- A | cerning the game. One opinion which, indeed, was so strong as to amount | to a verdict, is that professional foot ball in the east, at least,\where col- ‘l\gm(c tradition is firmly rooted, will never flourish, will never assume [The « Riggn Athletle Club desires the rol.u:ru]mruon, to cause worry to educational authorities, who, naturally | ‘L Lough, are not at all flattered when the name of their institution is |¢<}Hal cked opposite the name of a member of a professional gridiron com- ! that Thorpe's and Brickley's uum! {did not reflect the merits of profes-| sional foot ball as it is played citles of Ohio, play Is none t In wny eve most of those Grounds on | with them w { the college flavor colleginte rivalry. impressive at that. carried Saturds { When all is suid | public is not deeply versed in the finer points of gridiron juay. And as aj game it lacks in many Wi that lity, of popular uppeal which akes base ball 50 enj to watch whether one ix particul; {in the teams or not A | Two or three seasaus ago the writer {observed the professional T ball | situation in the west and found that {it depended for such success at it enjoyed—it was not to be compared | to the popularity of the conference contests—upon betting. And if the bl £ busis. he New York Glants Jnocked-together aggrega ball players (HwLnld im ve wh The Clev team had pret perfecte brand of interference taught the Ca Indians by Glenn Warner Guyon ran with the ball as were n of fo nothin lisle hix vouth. A3 tor Jim Thorpe, : never fon_in this eity. the ugain pretty him gridiron fume. ft and short-winded. of consular outline. 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