Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-06
Bowdoin Replies to That
Boston Attack.
Why Alumni Of Other Maine
= Colleges Threw Mud.
B0Wdoin's Athletic Record is Clean and its
Motto is "fair Play.


A little Indignation and a good deal of
amusement have been caused among
Bowdoin men by the report of the U.
of Maine alumni meeting in Boston
Saturday night which appeared in one
Of the Boston Sunday papers and was
copied into several Maine dailies Non
day morning. According to this re-
port those at the meeting in question,
mainly u. of Maine men reinforced by
Representatives of Colby ana Bates, de-
voted the evening to abuse and criti-
cism of Bowdo:n, ana all because Bow
doin declines to join their so-called
sarbitration'' board which aims 10 set
tie all disputes and regulate matters
Generally iii Maine Intercollegiate
athletics.
There is something truly touching IN
their tender solicitude for Bo"doln
athletic welfare and also something OF
q compliment in the fact that thCy
found Eowdoin a more important ana
interesting subject to discuss than the
affairs of their own Institutions. AS a
general thing when the alumni Of
college gather at an annual banquet
they devote themselves to renewing
happy associations, to cxtoillng the
achievements and traditions of their
Alma Mater and to p!edging anew their
LOYALTY to her interests. For obvious
reasons there could be very little of this
sort of thing at the Saturday night
gathering at Boston and 50 the speak
ers amused themselves by throwing
,hTI 10 c flIl o.
teristic exhibition Of their envy and
jealousy of Bowdoin. One speaker,
more frank than the others, admitted
as much when he spoke of Bowdoin's
greater prestige and higher standing
and said that the other Maine colleges
had much rather win from Bowdoin
than from any other college. The
other colleges all regard their games
with Bowdoin as the "big games OF
the year. They have followed her lead
and learned their athletic lessons of
her, and all of them combined have not
won rs many victories and champion
ships as Bowdoin has won on diamond.
gridiron, track, river and tennis court.
In the matter of athletic purity and
honesty no college stands higher than
Dowdoin Its eligibility rules are very
strict and are strictly enforced by the
Faculty. No nan coming from anoth-
err college can play on any Bowdon
team until after one years residence;
no man can represent the college more
than four years in athletics; no man
can play on the eleven who Is not reg
istercd before Oct. Is, or on the nine
or track team who is not registered
before Feb. 10; no man can represent
the college in athletics unless he is a
bona fidc student taking the required
number of courses and maintaining a
good standing in them no man can
play on the teams who is on probation
or who has failed to make up a c0ndi-
ton at the appointed time. Bowdoin' $
athletic affairs are in charge of a coun-
OF controlled by the Faculty and
graduate members. These rules are
strictly enforced and every year they
bar students from the BoWdoin teams
who would have no trouble in playing
on the teams Of any OF the other
Maine colleges. Moreover, the higher
requirements of admission to BoWdoin
every year Brighten away athletes who
are later found OH the teams of othCr
Maine colleges. Every year. also. ath-
letes who look in vain at Bowdoin for
ehat kind of assistance known as
graft" are "induced'' to so to other
Maine colleges. So anxious We're those
speakers at the Boston banquet to FIND
mote in Bowdoin's eye that they for
got the existence of numerous beams in
their own eyes.
GIN view of their attitude as disclosed
at this remarkable Boston gathering
II Is easy to understand why Bowdoin
declines to be a party to IN "arbitra-
ton" agreement which would only
mean three against one when any mat
ter came UP for settlement. There
have been leagues and agreements and
arbitration boards in the past and it
has been shown that the three other
colleges took advant9ge Of such or
ganizatlon to combine against Bow
dcin. Their joint gabfest in Boston
shows that Rowdoin's higher standing
and more frequent successes are the
Great trials of their lives and that in
their dcsrcrate envy they are trying to
stir ur M feeling and trouhle Row
do!n's ath'rtic motto sc "roi~ Wow ana
II only osks that the other Maine col
fe<ea give il as honest treatment rs IL
Gives them and m3intain an equally
clean athletic system.