Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-12-29
DISCOUNTED ONES STIRRING
UP TROUBLE.

The Milwaukee Free Press publishes
nearly a column in yesterdays issue
| about G. G. Parlin, of Wausau, who is
president of the Interscholastic Athletic
association. 1t seems that Milwaukee
high school has not been permitted to
run things to snit its own sweet will,
neither did it have the athletes to make
any showing at the numerous events
What the school lost on merits it tried to
make up on scullduggery. Mr. Parin
would not stand for it and told
the Milwaukee as well as other
schools so in very plain Ian
guage, hence this gnashing of teeth
and desire by the Milwaukee crowd
to eat up Prof Parlin or do something
else equally as rash Before they get
through with MIR. Parln they will find
they have been calculating without
their host The following is the article
of the Milwaukee Press, referred to, viz;
when the Interscholastic Athletic as,
ISOLATION meets this afternoon Principal
G. G. Parlin of Wausau will be subjected
to severe arraignment Wisconsin
principals take decided exceptions to
many of the decisions that have been
made by Mr.. Parlin as chairman of the
board of control of the interscholastc
association, and have planned to regis
ter an emphatic protest against the
methods he has adopted with regard to
high school athletics.
What are these rules to which excep-
ton is taken?' was asked by bevy of
superintendent who were discussing the
subject last night in the lobby of the
Plankinton house.
oh, they would fill a book and it
would take Ill night to enumerate them
was the reply The truth is that the en-
tire programme followed out by the
Wausau man will be subject to severe
criticism and one of the results may be
his removal from the position which he
now holds at the head of the board.
The meeting of the Wisconsin Inter
scholastic Athletic association will be
held in Milwaukee in connection with
the state teachers association, and Prof
Parlin, as chairman of the board of con-
troll, has issued a call, asking that all
principals or their representatives at
tend. In some instances he has added
a note, signifying that there will be
something doing" at the meeting.
Prof Parliu who is at the head of the
Wausau schools, was elected to succeed
himself year ago, and will hold Office
for two more years. 1t is understood
that resolutions will be presented at the
meeting of the w. L. A. A, asking that
he be removed and new member elect
ed to fill his position on the board. just
what response this action will elicit from
the high school principals is not known,
but the breaking up of football SEIZED
ules by Prof Parlin's action last fall will
/ probably induce many to favor this reso-
luton.
Prof. Parlin has never been a popular
member of the board 1t is thought by
many that his actions in regard to the
management of high school athletic af
fairs is too arbitrary and that he las
overstepped his authority in more than
one instance.
In Milwaukee the high school students
are especially bitter toward him. Last
fall the schedules of the East and South
Division schools were broken up and
the teams remained idle because of his
action IN arranging a championship
schedule He explained his action at the
time by saying that w I. a. A. voted
year age TO have the board of control
arrange a schedule which would def
oitely determine the championship and
avoid the complications arising the year
before
While the association took this action
the high school students were greatly
incensed by the methods Of MIR. Parlin