The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOINGS IN TIE FIELD OF SP0RT
IN EAST AND WEST.
Hitrie Fuss in intercollegiate Lawn Tennis
Michigan Again Plans 10 Gu away
From wesI-lale's Crew Captain
ON international Rowns Problems.

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From wesI-Hale's Crew CAPTAIN
! on international Rowing PROBLEMS
The Inuercollegiate Lawn Tennis Asso-
citation is the lates, organization to put IN
force the rule barring from varsity COM
p.ution freshmen ana graduate students
The rules bearing on these points were
passed at the recent meeting in Phladel-
phia after a certain amount of unpleasant
feeling. Robert lie Roy OF Columbia
who won the championship in 1904. was
the only man entered from Columbia
He is a graduate of the accidents Depart
ment and at present a student IN the law
school. LIE Roy's competition in the cham
pionships has been more or less irregular,
mostly because he has suffered from a lame
shoulder.
When lie Roy arrived in Philadelphia he
was protested by Yale on the ground hat
he had competed for four years IN the cham
pionships and therefore was ineligible.
Le Roy played under protest and won the
championship again. When the delegates
held a meeting after the championships
they discovered a peculiar state OF analrs
and that was that there was nothing In the
rules of the association which said anything
about a four year limit. This put a stop
70 the talk about the lie Roy case. The
delegates then proceeded TO vote on the
question OF ma the rules regarding
freshmen and graduates.
The colleges represented and the delegates
were: Fisher, Ha~verlord, Linen, Williams;
La Roy, Columbia; Wells, Yale; Morse,
Harvard; Richardson, Princeton; Register.
Pennsylvania, and Bremen. Cornell. Inc
vote was split. 5 TO 3, Columbia, haveno ord
and williams, which have no college ule
ike that. voting against the Introduction OF
A. into the intercollegiate association. On
the other band, such a rule is in existence
ut the other five colleges. and II nAturally
vasonlvfair to them that the college organi-
nation rule should not rperate against
them. especially as so much OF their material
IN drawn from the two contingents men,
toned.
There was not a little i'll feeling over the
protest of lie Roy and some more friction
ever the introduction OF the new rule. 1t
"a 70 be presumed that the troubled waters
will clear in time.
IL was said last year in this column briefly
snat there was a bare possibility that Mlcnr-
ran would cut loose from the Western
Conference Intercolleg gate Association and
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that time this was nothing more than a
rumor, but 10 the statement comes from
Ann Arbor that this is likely to become an
actual fact. The chief cause OF dissatisi ac-
tion with Western affiliations is the way
In which Michigan's contracted game oil
football with Chicago was broken OH TINS
fall. The Chicago persons declared that
the conf ference rules did not permit OF the
game being held. Further than that the
manner in which Michigan has suffered IN
certain recent conference track and field
championship meetings a aggrieved the
Wolverines.
from the West comes this statement,
which is regarded as authoritative or nearly
no: Sentiment among students at Ann
Arbor. alumni and some Of the athletic
officials, is strongly in favor OF cutting loose
from the big nine and seeking other oonnec-
lions, " ing up with Cornell and Pennsyl-
vania and possibly one or two other schools
In the East. Yost, Baird and Fitzpatrick,
while declining to make public statements,
are known to favor such a move, Tor they
believe that the Maize and Blue can produce
athletes capable of holding their own with
the best any Of the Eastern colleges can
produce.
sMichigan's chief cause of dissatisfaction
n the way Chicago cancelled its contract
with the Wolverines for a football game at
Ann Arbor this fall under the assertion
that the new conference rules do not permit
enough games to take on 40 hard "A battle.
After that the Midway school hooked up
with Minnesota for game at Marshall Field
and Michigan, of course, vas forced to
eurn elsewhere for big games. Pennsyl-
wanna accommodated the Wolverines, Just
m the Red and Blue accommodated Stage
hack In 1883 when the other members of the
big nine turned him down.
Alumni of Michigan are doing all in
sheir power to bring about a change from
ehe Western to the Eastern intercollegiate.
Thev would like to see the Ann ArbOr ath-
aetes compete with any of the big schools
OF the East-Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Pennsylvania or Cornell. Yale, Harvard
and Princeton, it is argued, are probably
GOO far from Ann Arbor TO make an agree
ment with them possible. and consequently
che general idea is for Michigan to organize
With Cornell and Pennsylvania for the two
hie games of the season, getting their pre-
liminary practioe with the little colleges of
Michigan and the neighboring States"
That is the talk about football. and the
mme %line'is followed in the matter Of track
athletics. II Michigan withdrew the con-
ference would have TO be reformed. because
The detection would leave it in a weaker
state. The Michigan athletes have been
strong in almost all sports, especially in
football, track athletics and baseball. There
a no rowing at Ann Harbor because water
facilities, while not without the reach of
the institution. are not exactly favorable
20 the introduction Of the sport
Michigan has had frequent competitions
with colleges in the East. There have been
many football games between Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan and Cornell and Miohi-
xan. The Cornell baseball players. too. have
met Michigan mines. as have some Of the
New England colleges. Amherst took a
trio West last season. In track athletics.
while the meetings have not been 90 fire.
ouent, there have been many crack relay
teams from Michigan at the Pennsylvania
relay carnival and there are few persons
who saw Kellogg trim Franchot at Philadel-
phia In the final relay OF the four mile cham
pionship four or IN eyears ago who are likely
20 forget that there are good track men
thana The Michigan team competed IN