The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-29
WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOTNGS ~ THE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
Aecent Changes In Eligibility ltIIes at the
Carlisle ndInn SrhOO Break HBe-
tween Georgetown and dicOrge MaslN-
lngtOn-ActNItIPs In Minor sports.

AWEfW AsfVESGNbWW NlN Y 81 NaNha~
RESPONSIBILITIES In Minor sports.
There il a sort Of slying that suicide is
lAconfession. which may be applied in less
offensive Significance to the recent action
Of the athletic authorities at the Carlisle
Indian School. They have agreed. follow
ing the lengthy aud free discussion of their
athletic methods. 10 limit competition TO the
four year period and ~ bar from their teamP
0 the men who prepaid employees, AZ servants,
in the school,. However much Of an effect
previous asseverations by the Indian
school managers may have had in creating
and strengthening on impression that sport
in the school was run III orthodox lines.
this subsequent announcement goes far 10
remove the impressiIst
A critic, in fact several critics NJ the
schools sys; em in a 2le'ics. made certain
, accusations a while ago about the character
of the athletes there and were met promptly
with the reply that what they had 20 sly
was in every detail untrue and that they
wsre saying what they did because 1T
prejudice only. What they charged WAS
denied in every way and form, with long
explanation middle! thereto. However. fol-
lowing that long statement for the general
public came one that apparently was adj
uTNhstu Nllkt-IN - NallfftB dH'l fH''tNloiiN
those colleges which the Carlisle indian
teams meet, This second statement ron
tanned the announcement of the formation
of a sort of eligibility code for the institu-
ton.
A natural question is. " there was
nothing wrong at he school and every
opponent Of the indians was onten to
take them AZ their own standard. why was
il necessary to change the rules. under
fire, as il were? The colleges which have
been meeting the Indian athletes recognize
their great ability in sport and also recog-
nize that they have certain advantages
because of a different sort Of supervision
OF studies and outside activities exercised
over the students. They have been willing
70 take them hi herto with all their linn
i~tations, wi;hou. making any complaint
about it. In view of tina fLct.it is strange
that the Indian school QuthnThies should
nave felt It necessary TO change. the
more so that The charges of'the men who
first brought them up this season are base
less and founded on prejudice" l, is rather
a confession Of weakness of s;and tn make
any change az an by he very nature Of
things Carlisle never can hr like an insiitu-
ton of collegiate rank 80 wha, ~ the Use
of trying 40 become Une?
There was one hing said in the course
Of the recent arTyumen, hal, did appear
on its face rather foolish. Il was declared
by some folks tn. The money that was
taken in for footbaii'at the school was split
among the memha = OF he team, or rather
that some OF them, got n good share III the
seasons ;akings. Any one who ever has
been down az the Indian school aud who
has seen the athletic fields. The gymnasium
and the various IMPROVEMENTS made by
means Of the money, rough: in chiefly by
football. would see he follyio The remark.
For another thing. par. Of .he money il
devoted 20 helping on. the' Government
appropriation for he rarely educational
purposes Of The school. There is small
question thai undcr MAJ or Mercer and the
other persons in charge Of Ne school the
money is wisely applied. I'll er,i s no possi-
biEty of such corruption, as lis indicated
by part Of the charges.
H. is we'll worth noting 'that'in spite of
all discussion, which in the main las
PROCEEDED from CHI. ago. the institutions,
which have met ;hs ludiS = in sport nave
been very slow TO make ANY comment n.
all about the status Of their rivals. Penn
~sylvania, syracuse. Michigan. Harvard
and the others have nothing 90 say about
these charges in the way 0f blaming tue
indians for laNity. and ia fac; Whatever is
said tends 10 support ths'osher side of The
matter. ST..
Subsequent to- the footSaiN game'lctvcen
Georgetown and George Washington uni
versities or Georgatown Field their was n
break in relations between tLcfe'ir Stitltioua,
There never has been the bes OF good
feeling between them, and what had more
TO do with the severance of relations prob
ably than anything else was me o. wing
by the G. ". 4. men 10 Georgetown Field
Of a gns couched in offensive terms about
the rivals on whose field ths,aame wnsEeing
played. The Georgetown athletic, nnn-
ayers waited for an apology. but none was
forthcoming. and then actlon was taken
calling on all competitions in sport with
the G. W. u. teams. a
For tGe university the ,Georgetorn COT
lege journal in its latest number rev Jews
the case for both sides. The case is inter
estingly presented, in part as follows: eft
may not he amiss TO present. in order To
meet them. the apparent ~reasonstwhy we
should continue to play G.. W. BeGnase
we need the gate receiptsafor the'fnnds of
the athletic association? Well. the purse
Of the athletic association il never ~ Pile
thoric as 10 make Gs sit up q UNDERSTANDING
how TO invest II, Xerit never.CPn be 40 empty
that we should submit to discartesy. or
expose the visiting public TO an exhibition
OF i'll manners. bad language,and pugiiism.
-ShOuld we play Them because the WASH
ington public wants the game? The Wash
ington public we highly respect. but we
fancy that it Will not die Of ennui over the
absence of this game. The fact il that the
receipts for the Thanksgiving day game
were fully S2.OOO less than for the Virginia
Georgetown gamsiOn a Saturday two weeks
before, in spite Of the factVthat the former
game received the largest amount Of free
advertising that any game'in this city has
received for a long time. IL ia true, that
most OF this advertising was unsavOry:
but that Ia another story. IL is at least
apparent that the Washington public man.
aged to spend Thanksgiving without crowd
ing in multitudes 70 Georgetown Field TO see
US play George Washington.
should we play them because they are
DESTROYS Of laying us? Doubtless when all
IL said we may presume thar they lean 10