Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-03-17
Presentation At ST. JOHNS
PICTURES OF SEVEN LEAD
ERS IN ATHLETICS.
Lieut. E. B.Iglehart Gives Them to
Inspire Purity In Athletics
Presented at
Chapel.

hart, '94, has had in mind for some
time was carried out this morning.
At chapel exercises a frame, with
pictures of seven of the leaders of ath-
letics and advocates of purity in ath
letics was presented to the students
of ST. Johns College.
Lieutenant Iglehart gave the frame
and the presentation address was made
by Mr.. Ridgely p. Melvin. '99, of this
city. Mr.. Melvin. in the course OF
his address, praised Mr.. Stewart Bond,
who, although not an alumnus OF the
college, has taken such an interest in
the baseball team and free of charge
has coached it for two years. He also
said that Professor Cissel was imbued
with the true athletic spirit.
There is an inscription under each
picture. telling of the achievements
of the man it represents. AS a kind
of introduction the following is in
scribed at the top: MEN, who, by a
steady adherence to what they believe
to be right, have succeeded in raising
the standard of purity in college ath-
Ietics in America to a point far be-
yond what it has ever been before.
These men, with others, represent an
element in sport that stands for clean
methods. These methods, adhered to,
will build up the character. mind
and body and will raise the standard
Of American citizenship.
Following is a list Of the men
whose photographs adorn the frame,
together with a part of the inscrip-
tions underneath Captain Whitney
Mr.. Whitney has persistently advo-
Gated pure. methods for many years.
His fearlessness in graphing with ath-
letic dishonesty no matter when found,
has made him an eminent power for
good. He was the first critic of prom
lnence to single out st. John S as being
unique in the South for its athletic
purity"
Horatio Stevens White" Professor
of German at Harvard University,
distinguished educator and author.
While at Cornell he was a leader in
pure athletics. One of the stewards
managing the intercollegiate races at
Poughkeepsie played four years on
the Harvard baseball team, and was
captain in his junior and senior
years.
Walter Camp Father of American
football known the length and breadth
of this land for his sterling qualities;
the famous--.Yale spirit is due as
much TO him as to any other son OF
Old Eli. :"
James W. CAIN President of
Washington College; former vice-presi-
dent of st. Johns; came to st. Johns
in 1886; played on the football team
while the playing of professors was
allowed To him more than to any
other single man, does ST. John S owe
her present standard of athletic pur-
ity. -
James A. Leroy" Mr.. Leroy, with
A. l.. O. Atkinson and Professor Pet
tengill, has made sport at Michigan
what it is. Michigan's supremacy in
the West has often been wondered at.
The reason is not hard to see-it is
because she has led in correct meth.
ods. Mr.. Leroy figured prominently
as an athlete while at Michigan and
was engaged in the work of reform. "
Cornelius When asked to
name the Princeton man who has most
distinguished himself by his advocacy
OF all that is pure and aboveboard in
athletics, President Woodward Wilson
referred the questioner to several gen.
tlemen who named Mr.. Cuyler. He is
the head of banking house in New
York city, but this has never kept
him from doing his duty TO his alma
mater He has been elected by the
students to place on the Graduate
Advisory Committee since its founda-
tion in 1885.
William A. Lambreth-" Physical
Director and Professor of Hygiene and
Materia Medica at the University. of
Virginia. DR.. Lamberth is the most
distinguished advocate of pure sport
that this grand institution has ever
produced. He has actually changed
the whole face of sport at this univer-
ty and throughout Virginia. That
there are still subjects for correction
he realizes and his characteristic
energy will pursue and finally destroy
all impure methods wherever he finds
them III vogue.
In one corner was the following !:
Presented to the students of st.
Johns College, February, 1905, by
Edmund Berkeley Iglehart, United
States Army, Glass of 1894, st. Johns
College. These photographs were
given TO the donor of this frame by
the gentlemen they depict, they hav-
ing full knowledge of the use to
which they we're to be put
This frame is given as q kind OF in
centive to the students to work always
with the end of purity in view. The
photographs are not of graduates OF
the college, but of men who have at
tanned the greatest reputation in the
advocacy OF athletic purity. 1t should
prove a benefit to the students.