The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-22
LEACH MAKES STATEMENT.
Gives Correspondence Showing Ar
rangement With Coach QuigIey.

To the Editor of the State Journal.
Since st. Mary's college has officially
and publicly placed the blame for tht
cancelling of the football game to have
been played between Washburn and st
Marys, November II, at my door, 1 take
the liberty to publish Mr.. Quigley's let
tiers concerning the game, that the
public may judge where the blame
should be placed. Two letters dated
April and April Is agree on the terms
OF the contract excepting the date anc
the matter of CaldwelFs playing is not
mentioned in either of them. These
terms presented to the WaShburr
board of athletic control as 1 present
the terms for all contracts before the
contracts are drawn UP. The board Yo-
ted their assent to those terms. Twice
of my own accord did I offer to draw
up a contract but delayed because Mr.
Quigley and myself could not agree
definitely upon a date. TO prove this |
offer Mr.. Quigley's letter mailed at
Concordia, August 2, which says: In
the event that we cannot meet NoVem-
Der II, when can we play? 1 am not
sure as to whether we can change or
not, but if it is possible at all 1 shall
be very glad to do So" Signed, E. c.
Quigley.
The date remained an open question
until last September, and accounts for
the failure to draw up a contract. The
statement that MIR. Quigley ever re-
quested me to draw up a contract is
absolutely false. The only request he
ever made for a statement of any kind
came November 5. and 1 will publish
1t presently. October IL this letter
came TO hand:
Hello Frank: Can you come to ST.
Marys some time this week? Come on
the evening plug at my expense. Let
me know when to expect you; Sincere
~, QUIGLEY''
October Is, as my transportation slip
shows, I went to ST. Marys and met
Mr.. Quigley in Armstrong; drug store.
of
hearing of everybody, Mr.. Quigley ask
ed me if he had ever said anything to
me about leaving Caldwell out of the
game with St. Mary's, and 1 assured
him that he had never before mentioned
it He said a number of his boys We're
from the south and that he had told
the priests that we had agreed to leave
Caldwell out of the game. I told him
then that that misrepresentation would
lead to trouble. He begged that be-
cause of the friendship that had al
ways existed between us, that because
of the great effort he had made to put
the two schools on friendly relations,
that because of the crippled condition
of his team, only six of the regular
team being able to work, it would be an
easy game for us and that therefore
we should find some excuse to leave
Caldwell out of the game. asked him
if they would cancel the game If Cald-
we'll was not taken out and ne said
they would not. 1 then told Mr.. Quig-
ley that if mis- team was so badly Grip
pied, if DR.. Outland was willing would
favor saving Caldwell for the harder
games to follow; but that if St. Mary's
ever requested that he be taken out or
ever stated that he would be taken out,
it would remove all possibility of leav-
ing out of the game Mr.. Qufgley sta
ted that nothing of the mattee would
ever come from him. st. Mary's forth
with announced that we had contracted
to leave Caldwell out of the game,
which relieved me of all obligation OF
81 H. TNa11 loft inf
The trumpet up witness they con-
fess to have had at this conference is
too much of a Joke to need mention
This witness says we met previous TO
October Is, and it was October 1S-
The conference was confidential and
in hearing of no one. The witness
purports to have heard US say that We
would play the same team against st.
Marys that we would send to Missouri,
At that time by agreement the Mis-
souri, game was practically cancelled.
This witness proves his own statement
false when he says something was
said about playing Rice who was abso=
lutely disbarred against playing in the
Missouri game. So much for this
absolute proof of the purported
agreement to leave Caldwell out of
Following is the letter written No
vember 4, 1904, which explains itself:
Mr.. Frank Leach, Topeka. KAN
Dear Sir: Kindly send me some kind
which we were discussing
You need not state what it is about,
as that can be understood then 1t can
never be used against school as a.
precedent made by you
The College of Emporia very kindly
acquiesced to my request and didn't
even bring their negro along with
them.
1 received the list from MT Wood
and sent mine.
Kindly let me hear from you con-
corning this. A big crowd will be
down with US. but my boys are all
crippled, only six of the regulars fit to
work. Very Respectfully,
E. c. QUIGLEY.
If Mr.. Quigley considered that 1 had
made any agreement not to play Cald- |
we'll, such as his school has so posi- |
lively proven why did he not say so
in this letter just eight days before the |
game, instead of asking me to make |
some kind of a statement concerning
the matter which we were discussing"
what ii is about if he considered that
1 had made any such agreement.
Only one more letter and this from
c. Noonan, faculty director
of athletics, to show whether or not
st. Marys is sincere in her slanderous
charges so persistently published con-
corning myself |
In closing his letter of November 10. |
two days before the game, Mr.. Noonan
says: LAS to the question of Rice we !
wish to observe the conference rules, 1
but if our consent is all that you need
to allow him to play. you have it. We
are willing to let him play in this
game
Now if st. Marys has this agreement
they have so positively proven" they
have why does Mr.. Noonan consent
to violate that contract to violate the