The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-27
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The entire student body at Whitman
| college is in a ferment Of excitement
over the letter written by Coach
knight of the University of Washing
| ton accusing Wiley Lasater of dirty
| play in the game at Seattle on Satur-
day last The sentiment of everyone
| is that such work cannot be tolerated.
Further investigation seems to show,
| however. that there was no foul play
/ ing on the part of Lasater, but that IN
| order to gain notoriety for h1msef
after the game he made some such
| boasts as appear in Knights lett(.
Lasater fatty denies playing foul BAN
at all. He says that he hit Speidell
i only once and then in perfectly leg
! itimate manner with his shoulder. He
declares the charges about stealing
the ball are equally unreasonable be-
cause the officials could easily have
noticed that and called him down.
| The members of the team agree to
| these statements unanimously. Lasa-
ter also says that a few chance re-
] marks made by him at the reception
were twisted and garbled by Knight
in his published letter and that
Knight was guilty of breach of con-
| fidence, because when he talked with
him at the reception he agreed that
everything should be confidential. He
claims that Knight said: Il won't
tell anybody; it won't get any further
out" The members of the team, how
ever seem to agree that Lasater con-
ducted himself in a very foolish man
ner and made substantially all the
statements ascribed to him. They
say that Lasater did not play a fierce
game at all, but seemed to be afraid.
i Brainard, who was field captain,
would not say much on the matter,
but when asked if Lasater played
dirty ball replied: 81 did not see him
play much ball of any kind The
members of the team are without ex-
ception very Indignant at Lasater. and
many of them declare they will never
go with him on another trip. They
are pretty sore over his bringing such
a disgrace on the college simply to
make what they call grandstand play
for himself. The charges about kick
ing a player in the head are denomi-
mated by the boys as rot
| President Penroses Statement.
i President Penrose on being shown
the letter of Coach knight and after
Investigating the matter, made the fol-
lowing statement:
1o i~rI
are very serious. Whitman college
never has stood for that kind of ath-
letics and both students and faculty
heartily repudiate that kind of play
In regard to the statements | would
say that if they are true they show
Lasater to play on this or any other
team. They would show a brutality
utterly unworthy of college athletics
and a spirit which the faculty and stu
dents Of Whitman college would not
allow to go UNPUBLISHED. If on the
other hand as seems to be the opinion
of the members of the team and of
Professor Allen, manager and coach
the claims Of Lasater to have played
foul ball were only the loud-mouthed
efforts to gain notoriety on the part
Of one who had conspicuously shown
his incapacity and cowardice during
the game, they mark the boaster as
an ass who does not deserve to rep
recent Whitman in any capacity and
who ought to be disqualified on that
account. In either case a very serious
| injury has been done the college
which cannot be allowed to 60 un-
noticed"