The age-herald., 1901-05-13
SPECIAL LETTER
 FROM NASHVILLE
Comment Concerning Current
 Events In the Capitol.
TUSCAL OOSA -VANDERBILT T
Vanderbilt Gets the Worst of It--May, or Drennen-lron Magnates-Mat- ters of Interest to Confeder-
 ate Veterans-other ltems.

Nashville, May 12.-(Special )-There has been three-cornered fight on here lately between the University of Tusca- loosa, Alabama, the Vanderbilt Univer- sity baseballists and the Nashville American. The encounter has been of a personal nature as well as through the press. Vanderbilt bucked up against the Alabama team and got the worst of the deal and then tried the American with still worse results.
 The baseball team of the university at Tuscaloosa came here to play Wander bile series of games. The visitors were ouartered in West Side Row. a number of houses on the Vanderbilt campus oc- cupied by students of Vanderbilt. They were necessarily scattered in this way, and became dissatisfied because of that fact. and the further fact that the eat ing was not of the best. The students in tho Row, about 200 in number. run joint mess hall, and the visitors were put in with the whole crowd. They stood it for awhile and left, going to the Tulane Hotel. where they stayed until the games were finished. This was only minor trouble and would not have amounted to a great deal had not other matters arisen to make the feeling more bitter.
 J. W. West a former student of the Alabama University, but for four months past student in the pharmaceutical de- partment of Vanderbilt, donned the col ors of the Alabama school and rooted loud and long for his old friends. This aroused the wrath of the Vanderbilt boys and they made rush for West after the game with the intention of putting him under the pump. The Alabama boys came to the rescue of West, and, after a per sonal encounter, which threatened to be- come serious, thwarted the Vanderbilt boys. West has since been called on by the members of his class to explain why he donned the colors of rival college when he was student at Vanderbilt, and notified that he would stand condemned by his class unless the eXplenation was satisfactory. He met the class the last of the week and told them he had been a student at the Alabama University for four years, was at the head of the ath- letic affairs of the school and was per- sonally acquainted with all but two of the visiting team, and that he had been at Vanderbilt only four months. The ex- planation was accepted.
 In writing up the account of the first days game, in which the West affair first came up, the sporting editor of the American mentioned the West affair in cidentally, not caring to make the mat ter prominent because it was somewhat disgraceful for the home boys. He took occasion, however, i'll writing the article, to criticize the playing. of the home team.
 Some of the Vanderbilt enthusiasts took exception to the whole article and telephoned warning into the American office athat 1t would be very unhealthy for the sporting editor if he came back to the second game. The sporting editor was nevertheless on hand. He got some terrible and disgraceful roasting through megaphones and otherwise, but stood his ground through the game.
 The Vanderbilt boys were quieted and have kept close at home since, reading the awful and terrible roasting they got in the American of the next morning. It was headed "Leniency No Longer a Virtue and roasted them thoroughly and justly through two columns.