The Washington times., 1902-02-16
Big and Little Colleges
Seem to Have Trouble.
GEORGETOWN End VIRGINIA
Standing of Teams in Various
Local Leagues.
CAROLS SURPRISED
SaenScrbund Increased Its Per Cent.
Y. Vi. c. 4. Candidates for Relay
Race-Corcorans' Inter-City Games.
Coming Infantry Contests.

Never before in the history of amateur
athletics in club and intercollegiate cir
cles has there been SO much dissension,
SO much wrangling, and SO much re-
elimination as now. 1t all reminds one of
the word volleys'' of the professional
fighters. vino seek this method OF secur-
ing a lot of good advertising for nothing.
Unfortunately. the leaders IN this wordy
battle and dust-throwing are the big col
leges and clubs in their respective sec
lions. The public is sickened with it
and tired of this continued infantile per-
Torrance.
1t is unsportsmanlike to say the least
and for the sake of good sport, please do
drop it, and drop it hard and quick.
Harvard and Yale.
First comes the controversy between
Harvard and Yale. as to the length and
conditions of a new agreement for hold
ing future athletic relations.
Now comes the later and more serious
charge by Yale that Harvard has a number
OF professionals on its teams, and the
still later countercharge by Harvard that
charges that Herman, Campbell, and Ris-
tine, of Harvard, are ineligible to play
With amateurs, and Harvard is positive
in its statement that AL. Sharpe. of 1900
team; Speaker. of last springs team. and
Weymouth. Hart, and DeSaulles of last
falls football team, are net college anna
tours.
Where will this squabble end? Next
comes tine hitch in the Yale and Pennsy
matter.
Troubles in Smaller Colleges. Too.
These big affairs have started talk in
some quarters as if the universities
named were chief offenders in inter-col-
leSiate athletics, in the matter of play
ing men who are not strictly amateurs.
Dartmouth also has come in for some
criticism because she has got rid of Var
ney, the captain, and Uniac, the second
baseman on the varsity nine. Really. the
criticism should be directed toward the I
smaller colleges which haze not We. gone
through with their spring cleaning. The
critics should rather ask: What will I
Williams do with Hefernan?" What 4
VIII Amherst do with Captain Dunlevy ?"
II the standard of amateur athletics is TO
be kept right up to the mark. there is n /
tremendous wedding out to be done in a
44NAhbcA VI ilit lItSu-NdltT colleges ana
universities. The real question is whether
those institutions will live up to the
standards set by Harvard and Yale.
Georgetown and virginia.
Next in Importance and the one we
hereabouts are the most interested in is
the controversy between Virginia and
Georgetown. Virginia makes certain
statements and charges and has not taken
the least trouble TO prove them, and this
IS the serious part of it,
These matters should be taken M at /
49, ~ the Intercollegiate Athletic As
sociation ana if it has not the necessary
machinery TO do it with. then il should be
Alpplied with it at once.
Charges Should Be Proven.
This thing of making charges rejecting
upon the individual as well as upon the
institution he represents. is a much more
serious matter than it looks to be upon
its face. II is made considerably more
serious Dy the failure of the parties to !
snbstantiate the charges often aippantly
made.
Georgetown Athletics Clean.
Although Georgetown has had some Sc
'ioGs charges presented against her anna
ieaur standing in past years not once was
an attempt made to prove them.
The college authorities state that in
the interest of amateurism they viii well
come at all times not rumors bur Droofs
OF professionalism concerning any OF their
men. They believe that GEORGETOWN is
today without exception. the cIeanest
college in athletics and they say it Is
unfortunate that il should be made to
suffer the filings of 4 team or college
which was beaten to a standstill last fan
when ii had counted on a dead sure vic
tory.
Men, Time. and Place Named.
In recent interview published in The
Times the party named the Virginia men
and gave time and place where they rem
aered professional services but Virginia J
has not seen fit to request further in
formation on the subject
In commenting upon her CHARGE Vir /
sinia recently printed a statement TO the
eject that after the charges were msde |
by virginia. Georgetown made no reply !
hereto"
Upon the plaintin is the burden OF proof
is what We are taught. 1t is not uo 10
Georgetown 10 come out and acknowledge q
Ter guilt, If she is guilty; it is for Vir- {
,inia 10 prove her charges Just as the man ,
speaking for Georgetown named the men &,
and dates and places involving Virginia
men e
Eligibility Code Necessary.
Now more than ever is an eligibility =
ode necessary, il the intercolle giate as q
ISOLATION will not take up the more bust ,
less-like method OF having a board TO
which such charges caA be referred. The j
after would be decidedly the better
method. Let the board have fuIl au- h
hority to take testimony, TO thoroughly
lift the matter with authority to impose l
he necessary penalty In the various de- a
,rees Of guilt and whol man has been .
ound guilty have him - ced on a black '
ist or II the college having him on its II
oils persist in keeping him. then Put that q
ollege Under he ban. keeping it from any Il
thletic intercourse with any other col "
eye in the association. How much bet II
er such a measure Of looking uD a mans a
T a teams status would be than to say u
e is under a professional cloud. or that "
{ encouraged professionalism and leave a
he world to guess The rest. II
Association shcaId Protect. .,
There is q great difference between o.
harging a man with professionalism and =
rowing that charge, and it is too serious =,
matter 10 make a charge unless you are NJ
sady and willing 10 back It with the nee CT
ssary proof. For this reason it is all
lie more necessary for the Intercollegiate &c
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