Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-23
SCHOOL ATHLETICS.
The County South Association
Changes Constitution.
Webster High Admitted to Membership
and Teachers to Be Members of
Executive Committee.

Delegates from the schools represent
ed in the Worcester County South Ath-
letic Association met the principals of
the schools in one of the parlors of the
Bay State House, Saturday afternoon,
and for two hours talked over matters
pertaining to the association.
Of late, feeling has been growing
among the principals, and to some ex-
tent among the students themselves,
that the affairs of the association were
not being conducted upon a sufficiently
business-like basis. The boys have at
tempted TO run the association without
the advice of any maturer minds Like
all boys they are liable to make mis-
takes and it has been these errors that
made it seem more practicable for the
teachers to have a representation in the
executive committee
AT Saturday afternoons conference. the
constitution Of the association. formed
when the organization was first started
several years ago, was discarded entire
ly. The association has entirely out
grown the existing rules and regulations
and in place Of the old constitution a
new one was drafted This has not been
next meeting of the committee.
The principal change is that the prin-
cipals Of the school claiming a member
ship in the association are to be mem
bers ex-officio of the executive commit
tee. They viii attend the association 8
meetings and by their counsels attempt
to assist the boys in their legislation. 1t
is not the school-masters' intention to
take active management Of affairs out
s-tr,, ,lr-
advise.
In the future there will be no more
| discussion as to who are and who are
not eligible to compete in the annual
championship meetings One of the
articles in the constitution requires that
every athlete participating for any
school shall have been a member of that
school for a period of at least five
months prior to the date of the meeting.
He must belong to one of the under
graduate classes and be of approved
standing in his studies.
Although these rules are intended to
apply directly to track athletics, they
will be made to cover foot ball and base
ball as we'll The association will not
undertake at present to have champion
ship games in either of these two pas
times, but when the schools meet each
other either in base ball or foot ball
tue TulcS. as dipBlCtls Will iDlu III ioiCt
In foot ball the months rule will not
apply as 1t would debar every member
of the freshman class from entering.
Instead. members of the foot ball team
must be certified TO by the principal of
the school, as taking prescribed course
of study and not merely attending
school for the sake of foot ball.
The delegates at Saturdays meeting
had experienced a change of sentiment
over that Of a week ago, when at their
meeting they voted to refuse the appli-
catior of the Webster high school for
admission into the association Evil
IDENTIFY some subtle influence had been at
work among them for without dissent
ing vote, Webster was admitted and
hereafter her lads will be allowed TO
contest for the championship. while the
Whistler lassies can look on and applaud.
The secret against the opposition to
Webster has been that 1t was feared bv
the Brookfeld and Spencer delegates
that the admission OF Webster would
mean that the place for holding the an
nual championships would be changed
from Spencer to Southbridge, a clause
in the constitution requiring that the