Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-02
.BOWDOIN'S REASONS
For Withdrawal from Inter-
collegiate League.
Features Of This Years BugIe-- Com
mencement Speakers.
Bowdoin Leads Vermont by One Point in Dual
Tennis Tournament.

brunswick, Me, June l.-(SpPclaI).-
The trouble in the Maine Intercollegiate
Base Ban League has ended in the
| withdrawal of Bowdoin. This action
was taken by Manager Whitney just
before the BoWdoin- Bates game on
! Memorial day. What led up to it is as
| follows: Just before the second Bow
| doin-U of NJ. game Manager Downing
| of u. of NJ, protested Pennell, Bow
| doin's first baseIran on the ground that
| he had played more than four years on
| a Maine team The Bowdoin manage
| ment Immediately withdrew Pennell
| from the team and played and won the
/ game With an inexperienced man on
| first base. Soon after this Manager
Whitney Of Bowdoin, having found out
| that PulSifer OF Bates, was playing his
| fifth year on that colleges team pro
tested him on the same grounds that
! the manager Of ~. Of NJ. used against
! Pencil. There was no doubt that
| Pulsifer had played on Bates in several
| games tone Of them a league one)
while he was IN his senior year at
| Nichols Latin school, and hence, ac-
|
had been given the four years rule by
the managers Of Colby, Bates, and
| Maine, he was Ineligible for the Bates
| team. But when the protest against
! Pusifer was considered Colby finding
out that under the same rule Newen-
! ham would be forced out next year, re-
| fused to admit it and voted to allow
| Pulsifer TO play. Nor was this all
/ Manager Bassett of Bates, forthwith
| protested Greenaw Of Bowdoin on eX-
| actly the same grounds that Bowdoin
! had objected to Pulsifer. namely that
| having played some games on Boston
! University four years ago. he was out
! laWed from the Maine League. This
/ protest Bates. Colby and Maine all
| favored, thus cornering Bowdoin.
When the views became known here
! at Brunswick. an enthusiastic mass
meeting was held at which commit
| tee of three was appointed to meet
| Bates and see if matters could not be
| arranged so that both Greenlaw and
| Pusifer could be declared from play
! ing: and this committee agreed to
! leave the protest Of Pulsifer to board
of three lawyers. Bates refused to
take any such action whatever. There
upon Manager Whitney called a meet
| ing of the league managers and re-
| viewed the case again protesting Pull
| sfer. and stating that he had the sane
| lion Of the Bowdon student body to
withdraw from the league if this plan
of submitting Pulsifer's protest to an
| impartial board was not accepted
on the morning Of Memorial day the
| management Of Bates. Colby and
| Maine refused BoWdoinS offer ana
| thereupOn BoWdon withdrew from the
| league. 1t is to be noted that Bowdoin
would give up Greenlaw, but she in
sisted that Pulsifer likewise would
have To go. Bowdoin's withdrawal
does not effect the scheduled games
with the other Maine colleges in the
| least: they will De played as exhibit
| ton games. If one of the other col
| leses wins enough games to secure the
penant, she is welcome to it. But the
| title to championship is not very sure
unless Bowdoin is vanquished.
| Although the base ball controversy
| has occupied most of the attention of
| the students the Bugle which appear
ed, last Friday. has called forth much
| comment. This is the annual of the
| junior class. 1t is a creditable piece of
| work for 1900: and the editor-in- chief
| James Z. Weber deserves much cred
| it. The art editor is Malcolm Cameron
| Sylvester and his drawings are origi-
| nal and spirited. This years Bugle
/ does not contain many new features:
| perhaps the most important of these is
| the publication or the coming OUT Of
! two interfraternites Phi Kappa Alpha
| and the Crown and Coffin. 1t has been
known in college some time that such
organizations existed but what they
We're has for a long while been
secret. The object of such societies is
to promote more Intercourse among the
various fraternities and no member is
initiated until sophomore year, in this,
differing from the regular fraternities.
which take in freshmen and pledge sub
freshmen.
Another leading feature of this years
BuSle IS the prominence given to thu.
club; of the college. These include the
Politics cub, current History Club Gov
eminent club Classical club ana Phlos-
Ophy Club. They are carried on under
the direction Of z member Of the faculty
which cannot be entered into in the class
room. The Bugle Of 1900 is dedicated to
Professor William Addison Houghton of
the Latin department The editorial board
which deserves individually and COL
lectiNely much credit, consists Of James
Plaisted Weber. Bath. editor in-chief;
Albro Leonard Burnel Woodsfords. as
sstant editor-n-chef Percy Andrews
Babb, North Bridgton business manager:
Malcolm Cameron Sylvester North
Bridgton, art editor; associate editors.
Joseph Pitman Bell. Lawrence Mass
Islay Francis Mccormick, Boothbav Har-
Dor; Philip Lowell Pottle, Lewiston: Cliff
ford Sawyer Bragdon, Cumberland Mills.
ana Henry A. Shorey, Jr., Bridgton.
The team that will represent Rowdofn
at the Intercollegiate Track Meet. Satur
day. June 8, will consist of the victorious
Worcester team: +. r. Godfrey. captain.
the shot: w. B. Clarke the pole vault:
r. s Edwards and f. s Hadlock fur
hurdles: r. II. Bodwell and c. l.. Young.
the hammer and discus throws: ID. n
Snow, the quarter: J. A. Kurdish, the
half-mile: f. Hayes, the high i1mp: B. /
NJ Clough A. l.. Small. a. j. Hamlin,
the bicycle races; ana II. II. Cloudman,
III. j. Hunt. the dashes, with G. q. Wheel |
er IN the mile This makes 4 strong team
which will be reinforced by the following
men: Gregson. Cowan, Hill +. Merrill, !
Babb. II. Snkinson. ]. d. Sinkins5n.
Became. Sylvester. Hamilton. c. r. Walk
er Sparks and Laferrere. Although
Bowdoin has heretofore had an easy thing (,
in this track meet, it is not expected that
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