The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-26
ITS RESULT.
Disarmament
OF League.
WHAT IT MEANS
For the Colleges Affected
Dartmouth's Position.

Dartmouth's Position.
Chaotic is the word that describes the
athletic status in the New England col
leges at the present time. At Harvard
and Yale the students are somewhat OPP
posed to competition in the Mott Haven
games next spring, and will probably
send no teams to represent them in New
York. The collapse Of the tri-collegiate
league, the story of which was pub
lished in The Spy lost week. and which
has since been widely copied and COM
mented upon, leaves a decidedly uncer-
tain condition of affairs at Amherst,
Williams and Dartmouth, but more
particularly at the latter college.
The practical disarmament of the tri-
league affords also much food
for reflection and speculation. Because
Amherst and Williams have Withdrawn
and propose casting lots with Wesleyan
will it of necessity follow that the in
diVidual athletic relations OF Amherst
and Williams with Dartmouth have
been severed? 1t would so appear. Am
herst and Williams pulled away from
the tri-collegiate because of the insults,
either real or imagined. that Dart
mouth men and Dartmouth teams have
heaped upon them. They did not want
Dartmouth's company in league, and
II would naturally follow that they do
not care for the Hanover team in dual
contests at either base ball or foot ball.
lhey are likely to compete against the
Weafers OF the green only in open COM
petition and at the New England Inter
collegiate Association meets in this
this city.
Dartmouth will surely have no fur
ther use for either of the Massachu-
setts colleges, The traditional close re-
lationship between the three colleges
mas been lost Dartmouth claims Am
hefst and Williams took undetermined
methods to force her out They took
pains to hold Dartmouth IN to scorn
IN the athletic world, the Hanover men
say so Dartmouth is not likely to go
looking for any more matches with
either of the colleges from the western
part OF the state. Wesleyan will prob
ably remain in good favor with Dart
mouth, although showing her Amherst
Williams sympathy by entering the new
league. There is that foot ball defeat Of
last tall that Dartmouth men must
wipe out before they can gracefully de-
dists. ''i0
II has been said that interest in ath-
letics has been on the Wane at Dart.
mouth for the past few years; that il
has been difficult to secure from the
student body the funds necessary t.
run the athletic organizations. Dart.
mouths throw down at the hands NJ
Amherst and Williams will change al
/ TINS. The proVerbial Dartmouth spiri
will come to the surface, a greater in.
terest I'D athletics will be taken there
and everything possible done tC
strengthen every athletic team Then
too, Dartmouth viii undoubtedly decide
to allow her medtcs to play on college
teams, conforming, of course, to the
collegiate rule requiring that gradu-
ates of other colleges studying for q
degree at some other institution shall
| have been matriculated for at least a
year before they are eligible to repre-
sent the college on varsity teams.
That the ''medics"-the post-gradu-
ate students-have not played on teams
sent out of Hanover in the past has
been because of the tri-colegiate
league by the rules of which the
needles" We're barred. In training the
teams with a view to the triangular
league contests, only undergraduate
men We're used, and it would be mani
testify impracticable when playing
other colleges, as, for instance, Har-
ward, Brown or Cornell, to substitute in
spots "medics' for the regular under
graduate men. Not only would team
play thus be lost for the sake of indi-
vidual eNcellence-alway disastrous
but it would tend to breed envy and
jealousy among the men temporarily
shelved
The talk up at Hanover of now form
ing a league with Cornell and Brown
will never go farther. Cornell would
never consent to tie herself up with
either Brown or Dartmouth. She is
looking for bigger game, and has made
far more rapid strides in athletics in
the past few years than either of the
others. Cornell will be affiliated with
something in the big four before she
gets in with either Brown or Dart
mouth. There is a possibility of a dual
league between Brown and Dartmouth
but the sentiment at Providence seems
somewhat opposed to it. The diSband-
ment of the league has for Dartmouth
it's advantages and disadvantages, but
the latter appear to slightly outweigh
the former.
For a red-hot basket ball game the
one at Hudson Friday evening, when
the home team defeated Marlboro II to
9, was certainly the best ever witness
ed in central Massachusetts. 1t is no
uncommon thing to hear this game
ita1T11 mt of q
contest, termed the best game, where
2 6 on the contrary they were but medi-
OGRE. The Hudson Marlboro game was
fast. but was clean. There was bad
blood between the teams, but it was
kept in check. That it did not break
out and result in an exhibition similar
to that at Marlboro last Wednesday
evening was because Harry Dadmun
who went down from Worcester to re-
fierce, will not and never would tolerate
dirty playing He kept the men tc
basket ball and not smuggling, and not
one bit of dirty work vent by without
an accompanying penalty.
BY the way, the man that does the
most work in a basket ball game Is
always the official. Whether the game
is creditable or disgraeeful contest
whether it is clean played or full OF
dirty tactics rests with him. The ole
story about giving an inch holds with
basket ball players, and as soon as they
see that the official is HHinkng at slug
cling then it begins and people get dis
gusted On the other hand basket
| ball crowd. especially in the towns, is
always rabidly partisan. 1t does moi
like to see fouls called on its own play
ers and does not hesitate to hiss the
| official in consequence. However, wher
the game is over, they see wherein the