The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
WITH The COLLEGE ATHLETES.
DOINGS IN THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
TeIrlng Ycst Believes There Is Something
In Talk Of Michigan Deserving TO East-
crD AnffiRtiOns -Itarvard-PennsyINan
Break and Results Fencing Outlook.

brrnA anu RESULTS fenctnx DutIOOh.
Fielding II. Yost, the football director
at the University of Michigan. was in New
York just after the recent football game
between Pennsylvania and the Wolv crimes,
and he said at that time that he believed
that there was more than talk in the prop
osition that Michigan was TO quit the
Big Nine aud ally itself as far as possible
with Eastern colleges. Outside of consider
able academic discussion there was no
official ground for the talking that has been
lone about the rumo red shift, that is, be-
fore Yost expressed himself in the matter.
Now. however. it books very much as II con-
sultgtion had been had between the athletic
directors at Michigan pointing toward a
withdrawal from the alliance hat has
bound up b Western colleges.
Yost said that the feeling at Michigan
was hat something would have to he lone
70 insure a fair deal to Michigan athletes.
The Ann ArEor folks felt that they had
just cause OF &C mplaint at the treatment
that they a received in past years and
that their only recourse was 10 go else
where. Apparently the Michigan idea is
TO tie up pretty closely TO Pennsylvania
in sport. The football game was the first
Of the meetings. Following that there
will he baseball and tract athletic games.
There have been offers of track meets from
Ann Arbor before this, but they have been
rejected by Pennsylvania for one reason
or another. Now, boweve r, the two institu-
tons are drawing closer together because
in "a way they are being gradually cut OF
from relations with other colleges.
That is 10 say. it is pointed u that
Pennsylvania has lost its football games
with Harvard, Yale and Princeton. and now
de- ends upon Cornell for the big match OF
the ~year-that is. outsideo of the Carlisle con-
test. When Michigan comes along and helps
out the Quaker schedule that is a big saving
step. But next year Pennsylvania will
AVE to go to Ann Arbor for a game. and
then the home schedule is going to be very
barren. Michigan would make n worthy
rival Of the Red and BLU in all athletic
sports. and the Quakers, if ever the Cornell
game is cut of. will at least have a big con-
test left and the promise OF active rivalry
in several branches Of sport from a competi-
tor worth while. 1t has been said at one
time or another hat Cornell and Harvard
are drawing cheer together and that in lime
the athletic relations in sports other than
rowing will be ~ lidified. When that day
comes Cornell, Eerforce. will quit Pennsyl-
vania.
Michigan will have en- Eastern baseball
trip this season. and will. no doubt, meet
many of the best colleges in this section.
That will help the weaTers of the Maize and
Blue Gu their way - become thoroughly
Identified with athletics in this Tart If the
country. IL will be. in a way. a return
for the trip taken by Amherst through the
AiGaIe west last seasJn.
One thing that is to he done shortly at
the University Of Michigan IL TO install a
new athletic board of control. The COM
paint has been this football season, for
Instance, That the present board lis not in
sympathy with athletic sports. The cutting
Oh of the tram uR table and limiting the
seasons games to 80 few that the eleven
was unabie to develop properly Is a thing
that has been a grievance in the minds Of
the student BODY.
Apparently the student desire at Michi-
gan counts Tor more than at Columbia, for
Instance, because the wishes with regard
10 the board of control have been heark-
ened 10. IL IL conceded that a team, no
matter what the amateur standards, can
not he developed without a training table
and without a proper series of preliminary
matches. A. tar as can be learned that Is
what made tine M4chIgan eleven tins year
what Nost described II, The worst team
! ever a
ii ejust a question in the minds Of some
college men whether the little Disagree
ment at Philadelphia over the matter Of
Interpretation OF the football rules IL not
going To sour the relations between Michi-
gan and pennsylvania right at the start.
Inc Michigan eleven played a certain vital
point according to the rule book, tine Quak-
ers according to h they knew or believed
that the rules committee intended. The
proposition was put up To Michigan either
b play under the rule as the Quakers did
or else go back to Ann Arbor. They agreed
TO Weld 70 pennsylvania and played under
the Interpretation. As NOst SAID afterward:
we had only the rules; we did not know
what the rules cumIwlttee Intended, except
by what was set forth in the book"
While on the subject of Pennsylvania
il is luterrlJ ng to note The very latest
unpieasaLt lpss bttWeen the Quakers and
Harvard. 4 wac that Pennsyl-
wanna had decided rather than meet har-
ward in DaSxetDiil T. forfeit the NO games
IN Ilt Ia eINDtANE id'@ SNlNAhiV hi Which,
the Pennsylvania live are supposed To
meet the Crimson. lf this is to go further
and to apply - tnc other minor sports the
various intercollegiate associations in
swimming, gymnastics. wrestling and the
ike will have n dreadful time. Their
schedule will be torn - pieces by the mill
tart Quakers,
One cannot help but admire the consist
emily vindittive policy Of the University
of Pennsylvania athletic authorities. when
is not W tlout justification. They can not
he blamed for refusing TO meet Harvard
in any sport alter the treatment that they
received in the matt ar of football last fall.
Prof. Edgar +. SmItn. who is chairman of
the univers.ty committee on athletics,
believes that he has good right to resent
on the part Of the university the slight
which was put on the university when
i'm replying TO a request for n football game
with Harvard, Prof. White Of Harvard used
a postal card with a curt form OF refusal
on IL.
This controversy was pretty well ex-
plotted last spring, and at the time the writer
was assured by IA Harvard graduate in a
position To know that il was not IA postal
card. but the customary card Of refusal
enclosed in an envelope. That since has
been proved 70 Dc untrue. and there can be
absolutely no question but that Prof. White
either sent or caused to De sent the postal