The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-12-28
COLLEGE MEN MEET
Discuss Plan to Control Sum-
mer Baseball.
ATHLETIC CONVENTION BEGINS
Efforts 20 Enroll Big Universities in
Association FRfI-Seventy Colleges
10 BE Represented Mt Meeting To-
day - Football Rules Committee
VIII BE ChOsen-EIect New Omcers.

New York, Dec. 27.-The members Of
the executive committee Of the Intercol-
legiate Athletic Association of the United
States met this afternoon in the Murray
Hill Hotel and discussed matters 10 be
put before the general convention Of the
association tomorrow in the same place.
The persons present were Capt Palmer Z.
Pierce, y. S. A. president: DR.. Henry L.
Williams. University Of Minnesota vice
president; Prof Louis Bevier, jr., Rutgers
College, secretary; Prof Henry D. Wild,
Williams College; Prof w l. Dudley,
Vanderbilt University Prof. Clark w.
Hetherington, University Of Missouri. and
Prof c. E. ST. John, Oberlin College.
The chief matters discussed were sum
mer baseball, football and basketball.
There was a committee of which Prof.
Hetherington YVES the head. which inves-
tigated summer baseball and made an ex-
haustive report. Questions were addressed
TO sixty-one colleges on the subject, and
the net result seemed to be that summer
baseball lourishes in about all the sec
tions OF this country among college men.
men.
A recommendation will be made 10 the
convention OF the 1. c. A. a. tomorrow
that summer baseball be put under the
same control as other college sports. so
that principles of the strictest amateur
ism may apply.
After New Members.
In regard TO football there were GER
tain other developments. The associa-
ton has long been eager to enroll among
its members the colleges which compose
the older football rules committee, out
side Of the two which are now members.
That is to say. the association wanted
10 get in Harvard. Yale, Cornell Prince
ton. and the Naval Academy. The Uni
versity Of Chicago and Pennsylvania are
already members To the end that the
five colleges might become members a
letter was addressed to their authorities
suggesting that they come in. in order
that college athletics might benefit and
pointing out that any college, although
bound by the rules Of the l. c. A. A.
might file written objections to any Of its
rules and might Withdraw at any time.
1t was suggested that II the colleges
came in. so that the entire rules commit
tee Of fourteen members could be chosen
from its ranks. that the tenure of Office
Cor members of the rules committee
would be three years. The seven men,
bers chosen from the association as pre-
sented will be elected at the meeting in
1907 as follows Three TO be chosen for a
term OF three years; two for a term Of
two years, and two for term of one
not
10 be filled for a term of three years
The result of the inquiries. it was con-
fessed, were not altogether successful.
Harvard returned a refusal. dated in No
Yembcr, on the ground that matters at
the Cambridge institution were so I'M
settled that it was hard 10 say what would
happen there. Cornell returned a oiali-
fed refusal. pointing out that the con-
troll of athletics at the institution was
so curiously regulated that it would be
hard for the Ithacans to enter any agree
ment of the kind
Yale Fails to Reply.
Yale did not reply. a procedure which
Capt Pierce, ascribes to the successive
absences of Mr.. Camp and President
Hadley abroad. Princetons reply did
not arrive and there is no reason as
signed for that discourtesy. The Naval
Academy is considering becoming a men,
Der Of the association.
In view Of the fact that the eventual
success Of the I. c. A. a. depends
upon the extent TO which it spreads its
influence, it is regarded as disappointing
that the important colleges. outside OF
those already members did not respond
more favorably
In the matter of basketball. the COM
mittee proposes to recommend to the
meeting tomorrow that colleges should
confne their schedules, as far as posi-
bic, to games with teams from educa-
tional institutions.
1t IS expected that at the meeting to-
morrow there viii be representatives of
nearly seventy colleges, which is much
larger than heretofore in the history of
this association.
The members of the football rules com
mittee will be chosen tomorrow The
morning session tomorrow will take I'D
the reading Of papers. In the afternoon.
the committee on credentials Will report.
and their report VIII be read Mlisceila-
ne0uS work and the aIaoffOn cf o0aoa~e