Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-06-04
o, /. A. A. A. FIELD MEET.
Lafge Delegations From Valley Towns
Protests Filed.

Protests FILED.
THE fourth annual field meet Of the
Oregon Intercollegiate Amateur Ath'
letic Association is being held at the
state fair grounds in this city today.
There are five competing teams viz
U. OF .. of Eugene; o. A. G. Of Cor
Wallis; p. c. of NCwberg; o. S. N. s.
OF Monmouth and w. U. Of Salem.
Friday evening at the university a
meeting was held by the executive
board which consists Of: L. II. Van
Wrinkle wv. ~ president; L. Nj. Scott
10, of o secretary; D. V. Kuykendall
~. of O.); d. III. Bodine 70. A, C.);
W. M. Smith 70. S. N. 81; o. L. Cox
Up. C.); and f. e. Brown wv. ~
O6lcers for the field meet were
selected as follows:
Referee-H. e. Judge, Portland.
Inspectors-A. A. Bentley, Mon
mouth, II. F. Allen, Portland.
Judges of finisb-R. A. Suter, Mon.
mouth; L. j. LittleHeld, NewberR,
and d. Griffen, Eugene.
Judges rof walk-R. Loyeridge,
Portland, and e. M. Lance, Portland,
Time keepers-T. E. Hobson, New
berg; Ed. Crawford, Corvallis, and f,
Lucas, Monmouth.
Clerk Of course-Frank Willman,
Salem,
Assistant clerk-L. II. Steinhart,
Portland.
Judges field eyents)-F. e. Wat
kins, q, L. Luckey, Eugene.
Measurer-Bradley, Burnett, Cor
Yallis.
Scorers-Thad Sweek, Forest Grove,
and E. G.. Emmett, Corvallis,
Some protests, that were by nc
means unexpected, were made by rep.
resentative from the outside schools
whose desire is TO discountenance all
professionalism or questionable prac-
tices in connection with the annual
field meets. Members Of the board
representing the Newberg school filed
protests against Watt Shipp, r. A.
Sanders and Rt Guiss, all of the Will
annette university team. The New
berg representative received the unan-
imous support of the representatives
of the other schools excepting the one
against which the charges were filed.
In making the protests, 1t was
claimed that Shipp was under per-
manent suspension by the:L. A. W.
Gulss is charged with professionalism
and Sanders, the Chemawa boy, was
objected to on the grounds that he
was not a bona-fide student. The
protest against Sanders was this
morning dismissed, the faculty of the
local university having prepared a
statement to the effect that Sanders
recited twice each week and occasion
ally took a music lesson. The local
athletic team team became consider
ably exercised when the protest was
first made as it was confident that
Sanders would easily take first place
10 the !shot put and hammer throw
and possibly in the high jump.
In support Of the protest filed
against ShIpp, the protesting dele
gates produced letters from Supt,
Doty, of Denver, Of Division E., L.
A. W., stating that Shipp was under
permanent suspension by the league,
and with the admoniiion that any
wheelman competing with Shipr
would share like fate.
The only charge against Guiss is
that of professionalism. He runs
under protest today.
At meeting of the executive board
this morning amotion was made tc
reconsider the protest against Shlpp
The motion was granted, but no effort
was made to disprove the charges an6
the action of the board on the preced'
ing day was confirmed.
The board also removed II. e. Judge
of Portland, as referee Of today:
games, and named III. f, Allen. OF
Newberg, as his Successor, The sus
pension of Mr.. Judge was occasionec
by a published interview, in which
the gentleman expressed himself
quite plainly on the action Of the ex'
ecutive board In sustaining the pro-
test against Ship.
THE JOURNAL regrets that dele
gates from outside schools have oc'
casion to bring such charges against
the willamette University team, but
II such action is justified by the facts
il is final. 1t is to be regretted that
spirit of,professionallsm should be
allowed to enter Oregon college games
1t is especially deplorable state OF
affairs that the local university should
be charged with fostering this feature
of athletics that ultimately kills pure
athletic sports. The manner in which
Willamette university has managed
its athletics this year has ELECTED not
a little unfrvorable criticism. The
local school has not been loyally sup
ported by the general public. although
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