Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-08
AGAIN DISCUSSED.
Yale,s- Athletic Muddle Is Getting Deeper, but 1t May be Cleared UP

Yale's- Athletic Muddle is Getting Deeper, but 1t May be Cleared Up | at To.Nighrs Meeting.
 Notice has been sent to all the depart ments of Yale university that another uni versity baseball meeting Is to be held to- night in Alumni hall at o'clock. The ob- jeot of the meeting Is the same for which the meeting was held just one week ago l and at which time 1t was thought that the | proposed new rule, restricting those | students who wished to try for places on the baseball and Mott Haven teams and the crew to the undergraduate departments of the university, was given an overwhelm- ing defeat. It was thought that this vote would decide the case for at least one year but 1t seems otherwise. Last week it was voted down, 502 to 40. Now those who are engineering the present scheme claim that the vote did not represent rightly the spirit of the university, and they think that by getting out the 2,0O0 students their side of the question will be sustained most effectively. This plea seems to the l other side very weak. They urge that if the vote had gone the other way nothing l would have been said as to it's legality. The students in the law school who were | instrumental in defeating the proposed change are very much exercised over the | new move of the captains and managers | of the athletic teams, and tonight they | will give them battle. At meeting of the classes yesterday D. W. Parsons '93, presi dent of the Kent club, was appointed by the students to present their eide of the question at the meeting tonight, and his friends say that he will do it in a most l able manner. One of the most popular men in the law school last night gave the law school side of the matter, as follows: l "Of course, you know if this rule goes into effect it will deprive us of playing on any of the athletic teams, and thereby | we are prevented from trying for some of the highest honors to be had in the university. To keep 500 students 1 from these events is great inj justice. We all favor some measure that will tend to purify college athletics, but we believe that 1t csn be done without passing such a stringent rule. If this rule is passed to- | night 1t will be the first movement toward building wall between the college proper and the other departments, and in doing this comes the first split in Yale as a uni versity. When President Dwight made l his opening address to the law school stu dents last fall he said that he wanted the students to enter with their whole heart and spirit into university life and to con- slider themselves members of what he be- lieved to be the greatest university in the world.
 If this rule goes through, and next sum- mer when the Yale college team is playing ball or the men aIe rowing at New Lon don, can we enthuse and gay that those are our boys2 It is @ gross wrong to us, and If 1t is passed Yale will regret it.
 It was aaid on the campus last night that the captains and managers are almost sure of carrying their point, as they have been working all the secret societies in the college, and the latter will help them
 wonderfully.
 The law school men further assert that this new rule is bound to be disastrous to the baseball interests this year if passed and that if it is, the following ball nine will undoubtedly represent Yale university, as the other team can only call itself the college team: Bowers and Carter, pitchers
 Kedzie, catcher; O'Neil, first base; Farrell, second base; Norton, short stop; Parsons, third base; Graves, Reddington, and several
 other fine players to pick from to make uI
 the outfeld. Said 8 law man. Everyone oi
 theee men are old players and they viii
 form the strongest team that Yale has had
 in years. As Harvard has said that she vii
 not follow in Yale's footsteps in this
 matter, the new ball nine will easily ar range a series of games with the crimson
 and also with the University of Pennsyl
 vanis, Cornell and many of the Nstions
 league teams. It will be the representa- tive team of Yale, being made up as it i'
 from the whole university, and yet, not
 withstanding all of the glory and honol
 that the law school men would get 1T starting this team, they are trying to keel } the rule down for the benefit of the uni versity life at Yale. The graduate stu
 dents think that by far they have the bes
 end of the whole argument