The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-16
BIG SHAKE-UP At
BADGER UNIVERSITY
WisCOnsin's Star Athletes Dis.
missed From School on AC.
count of Misconduct.


Special to The GLOBE.
MADISON. Wis. April 15.-Five of the
best athletes of the various teams of the
University of wisconsin have been lost
and it will be impossible to replace them
with men as good. These are Schneider
Gaffin, Mather. Savage and Remp. The
loss of these athletes is due to faculty
action, to failures in studies, to pressure
of work other than athletics and to rash
ness in summer baseball and in indul-
gences in student hilarity in Madison
places of refreshmenC and amusement.
Earl w. Schneider, the crack football
player, baseball player; track team and
gymnaStic team member has refused to
train because of the way in which his
brOther-in-law Charles Mccarthy was
frozen out of the position of assistant
coach of the football team E. B. Coch-
ems now has the place. and Crew Coach
Andrew M. O'Dea is blamed for the trou-
bic in the football training department
which resulted in Head Coach Curtis de-
string change of assistants Schneider
is planning to go to the Harvard uni
Fefsity medical school, but has not fully
determined. He was out of athletics for
a year on account of playing professional
baseball and coaching for money, but was
reinstated.
G. H. Gaffin, last year captain Of the
Wisconsin crew and one of the best oars
men at Madison, refuses to train this
spring, giving as his reasons that he has
too much other work as a student and as
general secretary of the University Young
Mems Christian association. to give time
for the hard work OF training. 1t is un-
derstOOd that a powerful reason for his
quitting athletics is the discovery that
some features of athletic training are in
compatible with his practices and pro-
fessfOn in the work Of the Christian as
ISOLATION
Howard P. Savage, Of. Chicago. one Of
the pest baseball and football players
ever produced at Lewis institute, who
was assured of first base on the varsity
baseball team and also a back field posi-
ton on the football eleven left the uni
VerSIty and returned to his home in Chi
cagO. This followed Immediately upon a
brief interview between Savage and Prof
c. S. Slichter. faculty supervisor of ath-
Ietics. Sltchter had heard that charges
Of professionalism were being prepared
by other schools against Savage and
called the player in to prove an aIibi
played last summer on the HoughtOn
(Mich.) team Of the Copper league" and
he was Immediately dismissed Prof
SIfchter exclaiming: That's all want
this properly to mean that he was under
the Sl1chter ban. became discouraged and
went home to Chicago. He was back In
his studies, but might have made them
up.
Richard Remp. the other lost star. Is
still in Madison. but is on the rack as
the result Of a fight between a number
OF students and the management of a
DOWNTOWN dance by the Electrical Line
mems union. His face was badly cut and
beaten. Identifying him. and he has re-
FUSED to divulge the names Of his COM
panlonS He can scarcely hope to con-
tllue IN good standing. n The loss Of these
athletes. the best 1T Madison. RemD be
ing the assured center of the fOOtbal Il
team has had a discOuraging effect among
the students.