The Washington times., 1907-12-31
WOULD PUT
YALE TEAM
UNDER BAN
DR.. Wiber Takes Drastic
Action in Basketball
Case.

AS a result Of the basketball game in
which Yale beat George Washington
University 10 TO IS last night in Wash
ington, James +. Sullivan and the ANA
teur Athletic Union will have a chance
10 show exactly what control they have
over amateur athletics when the COM
petitors happen to be college teams
Before the game last night DR.. d. T..
Wiber, chairman OF the registration
committee of the South Atlantic Asso-
citation OF the Amateur Athletic Union,
notified Manager Biddle, Of the George
washington University team, that
Reyes, Of that team, had been declared
a professional by the Amateur Athletic
Union for taking part in lie games OF
the professional Basketball league in
Washington last season. DR.. Wiber ad-
vised Biddle not to play Reyes, but the
college manager declared the Amateur
Athletic Union disqualification could not
be enforced in a game between two COL
leges and I'm which no outsiders took
part. DR.. Wiber took an entirely differ
ent view, and warned Biddle that he
would disdualify every man on the
George washington University quint.
Yale Was Notified.
Word was also sent to the Yale man
agement that Reyes was a professional
and should not be allowed TO play, but
after a long wrangle, Coach Lush de-
cided 20 have him take part rather than
cause the game to be called off. Subse-
ouentlv. DIR. Wiber discovered that
Craeucr was also one OF the men who
had Deen expelled from the Amateur
Athletic Union because Of his connec-
.tion with the professional league, when
simply made the case stronger, although
the discussion before the game cehleIeu
around Reyes.
DIR. Wfber this morning announced
that he had suspended the entire
George Washington team from compeu-
tion in any Amateur Athletic Union
event and had wired a summary OF
the case to James +. Sullivan. president
Of the union, asking him what ne was
going to do about suspending the ale
team and fOrbidding all teams 10 play
81. Or. Wiber was very eInph4uc III
his declaration that the Amateur Ath-
leuc Union officials should punish =
the utmost all those who took part IN
the game last night, and said that II
this We're not done he would resign
his position in the Amateur Athlete
Union. Said he.
Most Flagrant Case.
This was a most Gagrant case
without any extenuating circumstances
and II the Amateur Athletic Union can
not enforce it's suspensions for profes
sIonaIsm and after fun warning. theI
T Em going to resign and get out, fol
the Amateur Athletic Union suspen
sions would be meaningless.
7 knew Reyes had been declared {
professional, and warned Manager Bid
die not to play him, but Biddle wa'
quite cOcky about 81 and told me tht
Amateur Athletic Union had nothing
whatever to do with participants in
strictly intercollegiate contest TheI
! sent word 10 the Yale people tha
George Washington University wa
using professionals, but Yale decide'
TO play anyhow.
Where Does A. A. U. Stand?
Now I am going 10 find out wher
the Amateur Athletic Union stands.
have suspended every man on tn
George washington University qulnt 70
playing with a professional and vii
not allow them to enter any Amateu
Athletic Union games. Also, hav
wired James r. Sullivan, president o
the Amateur Athletic Union. stating tn
facts. and asking what he intends L
60 about disqUaufying the Yale play
ers and any Amateur Athletic Uniol
team they may meet in the future.
This IS not a case Of technical Vio
latiOn OF rules or a disagreement viii
the intercollegiate Association on arti
cles of agreement. but il is a question
OF whether or not the Amateur Athleti
Union is to be mocked in its great eN
cuse for eXistence-the suppression o
professionalism. If the colleges, whicl
are firmly allied with the Amateu
Athletic Union, can use or play agains
men. who have been declared profes
sionals by the Amateur Athletic Union
then the alliance Is not worth tho pape
10 is written on"