Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-31
HESITATES
At AGREEMENT
CLAREM0NT AUTHORITIES ARE
SUSPICIOUS OF NEW CODE
Little Probability Of that College En-
terlng the intercollegiate Meet.
Coach Holm,s'
Plans

The failure of the athletic manage
ment of Pomona college to ratify the
agreement entered into between repre- !
sentatives Of the University Of South
ern California, Occidental and st. Vim
cents colleges, would appear to indi-
cate that the hoped for resumption of
athletic relations between the Clare
mont institution and U. S. G. VIII
not occur this season. Efforts to as
certain the feeling of Pomona upon
guidance of amateur athletics in South
ern California have proven abortlve,
but the continued silence of the Clare
monters has naturally been inferred
and interpreted as disapprobation and
suspicion of the new code. Certainly
nothing has occurred to presage Po-
mona coming into the fold and abiding
by the recently drafted regulations.
This is the more surprising when 1t IS
recalled that the existing agreement
between Occidental and Pomona vir-
tually embodles the spirit of the inter-
collegiate rules and it's intentions are
practically similar and tend toward
the same result--the purifying of anna
teur athletics.
cidentaI-Pomona Agreement
And so there seems to be little pos
sibility of Pomona participating in
the intercollegiate championship field
day, scheduled to be held March %.
The Occidental-Pom agreement
was the precedent upon which the three
Los Angeles institutions drafted the
new regulations with the understand
ing that Pomona would approve of any
thing but some startling innovation
old rival, U. s. G. But the eligibility
clause, at which Pomona is believed to
hesitate, will doubtless circumscribe
the athletic activity of the University
of Southern California to a greater ex-
tent than it can possibly affect the
aspirations of Pomona. But the Clare
mont authorities regard the document
with a suspicion bearing upon alarm,
and consequently the peace" overtures
have so far not met with success.
IntersohoIastic League Planned
In answer to the requests of several
Los Angeles county high schools, Har-
vey Holmes, the athletic director of
U. S. c., has accepted the duties of ar
ranging for and managing a high
school championship meet to be he'd
on the university oval about April 90
The date has been set so that there
will be no conflict with Walter Hem
pePs invitation to meet at Claremont.
Holmes hopes to make the prepara-
tory school championship field day on
the U. S. c. grounds an annual feature
of Southern California athletics and his
efforts seem destined to success. Those
who favor the idea of holding the
argue that the central and convenient
location of the city, easily reached from
all points of Southern California, and
the excellence, of the new U. S. C.
oval, are the factors that point to Los
Angeles as the natural scene of the
championship contest.
Prof. Holmes has addressed the fol-
lowing circular letter to the athletic
managers of the preparatory schools
eligible for entry in the proposed meet:
LOS ANGELES, Cal,
January 25 1905.
My Dear Sir:
Some of the local and northern high
schools have requested that a track
championship meet be given in Los An
geles and that arrange to have the
meet on the new cinder path at the I'm
iversity of Southern California.
They state as their reasons that it
is too far to go to Claremont, that last
year they received no share of receipts
and had to pay their own expenses-and
entrance fees, that Los Angeles is more
centrally and conveniently located, that
the University of Southern California S
new cinder path will accommodate ten
men abreast and is moreover the best
on the coast, and that the meet at
Claremont is scarcely an invitation
meet and cannot be a championship
meet because the high schools have no
voice whatever In its arrangement and
are simply invited to attend. / might