The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-03-22
LETTER SUPPORTS
DR.. GRANTS CASE
Shows No Instructions to
Threaten Georgetown.
THE BUSY Mr.. SULLIVAN
He Takes Another Dig at the Wash
ington Institution by Calling it
an Athletic Club.

The letter from James E. Sullivan. Sec
rotary Of the Amateur At letic Union,
TO Theodore E Strauss. secr v.ary-treas-
urer OF the South Atlantic Association.
Of the A. A. u. to which Dr. William
Grant referred yesterday in his denial
In The Times that he threatened to
withhold the sanction for the George
town indoor meet IL he did not get evil
dence against the amateur status of
Arthur Duffey. has come to hand
DR. Grant warmly asserted that he had
no instructions to threaten any such
bulldozing tactics as withholding the
sanction. and the letter bears out the
assertion. 1t is plainly stated by Mr.. Sui
Ivan that the s. A. A. officials are to do
all IN their power to obtain the desired
evidence, but there is no intimation of
what course they are to pursue in case
the Georgetown authorities proved OBJ
durate.
Busy Mr.. Sullivan.
The hysterical Mr.. Sullivan. who Joy
ously climbed into the limelight when
the chance for notoriety was offered by
the publication of Duffey's remarkable
article on the methods of globe trotting
athletes. takes an unnecessary fling at
Georgetown in this letter by stating that
TO all intents and purposes Georgetown
is an athletic club and was an athletic
club when they held an open meeting
and had an athlete representing them in
open games"
Mr.. Sullivan is one of the most ex-
cessively busy persons who ever gave
out interviews tending to bring their
names before the public in the opening
paragraphs of double-Ieaded stories
His activities in this line are some
times more marked by precipitancv
than common sense. as witness his
startling reversal when he first encour
aged Duffey to make a clean breast
Of the dark and devious ways of star
athletes. and then, when Dufey had
compiled, hoped upon the pedestal of
his own self-sanctity. denounced Duffey
In the most scathing terms whenever he
could get a reporter to listen, and then
without waiting to see what action the
A A L: would take, or what remained
10 be said by Durey, erased the records
of the Georgetown athlete from the
books.
Anxious for Proof.
That Mr.. Sullivan got in bad" by
his peculiar policy in the Durfay case
was pointed out in these columns at
the time. and was admitted on all
sides. Since then he has been extreme
~ anxious to place himself IN a better
light. and has spared no effort TO obtain
proofs which would support his precipi-
tate assertions. Hence the request that
the S. A. A. officials get all the in
formation possible from Georgetown.
STILL no matter how much Mr.. Sui
Ivan might want to know the ms and
outs Of Duffey's career at the Blue and
Gray institution, he would hardly lave
had the nerve to suggest to Llen OF the
caiiber Of DR.. Grant and the other s.
a. A. leaders that they! try to bully
the college authorities into complying
by threatening TO queer the meet on
which so much time and money had
already been spent, and the letter does
not show that he did.
The letter is as follows:
That Important Letter.
New York, February %, 1906.
'TMr. Theo. E. Strauss.
-'1213 Linden Avenue, Baltimore Md.
"Dear Strauss:
"Will you kindly have your registra-
ton committee under the direction OF
1t an official proceeding. procure for US
information in relation to the competi
tons of Arthur Duffey in your district.
Read page IS of the Handbook, article
II. sections and S. 1 would recommend
that DIR. Grant visit Georgetown Uni
Versity and ask them to show to him
their books and athletic expenses; ask
them to furnish TO him a list of the
expenses paid to Arthur Duffey from
their records. when he competed in the
different sections of the country. and
also find out what other expenses they
contributed towards his trip abroad; al
so endeavor to find out what moneys
he paid to Georgetown for his tuition.
This last item may be a hard thing TO
get. / would recommend that your pres
ident, DR.. Grant, and yourself hold a
conference Immediate action must be
taken. Go to Georgetown at once, and
II they refuse TO answer these questions
we want to put them on record. / would
call their attention to article S. page s..
To all intents and purposes Georgetown
IS an athletic club. and was an athletic
club when they held an open meeting
and had an athlete representing them
in open games. Tell DIR. Grant to make
the investigation in Geor <etown as
thorough as he can and go 20 the limit
We want to find out what moneys they
paid to Arthur Duffey and what he did
with II. Yours truly.
JAMES E SULLIVAN"