The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-10

W08 8AN0H m 1aA A&AH6b ap (4atASb CG- ell Bauer. and who was registered in the University catalogue for last year as Charles Gscil Bauer. 'speeiar stu asns frem Vim Parish. taking course professional athlete, named Charles ora Buser. living in Indianapolis. Ind. snd according to his own statement, Vanguard. who paid him handsomely for his services He Is 30 years of age. and works regularly. when not .en- gaged on football teams in his fath- Street in Indianapolis. (see the de- tailed statement of facts, which were submitted to the L. s. U. authorities man under an assumed name L. s. U. g, section s. which reads: No student eiatton under an assumed name By paying thls man to play l.. & U vlo- lated the g.. I. A. 4. rules. article g. section 2 which reads: No player or shall be paid or receive, directly or in- directly. any money or financial con- cession. or emolument as past or pres sideration or Inducement to play in or enter any athletic contest. whether the sala remuneration be received from or paid 6y or at the instance of any or: dlvIdual whatsoever By importing this man Coach Vanguard violated the s; T. A. rules. article 13. section g.. which reads: Any coach who in any way aids or abets In any violation of tn ese laws shall be debarred from coaching any team in the. association, coach after his. disbarment, or allow be. ssuspended from ths association.' last vear o, tha wno piayea again member of it, was brought down from Pennsylvania last fall by Coach Vanguard. He played on the team or the Susqnehanna University in lSO6. and accordingly. was ineligible | 70 play last year (the year immediate | ly following) with L. s. U. (See s. I. A. A. rules, article Q, section !. which resdsi recdsd ,A,,s A student who has been con- has participated in an intercollegiate contest shall not participate in an in- tercollegiate contest of any institution In .nis association until he has been | a student there for one college year.D seip played with L. s. U. nevertheless I by misrepresentation. express or im- piled. and should be held to have be- come thereby permanently ineligible as bona fde contestant under the S. l. A. A. rules. According to the L.. 5. U. catalogue, Mir. Seip came all the way from Pennsylvania to enroll as a student in a general science course at
 
 many educational facilities offered by institutions in Pennsylvania, is in it. self . circumstance requiring explana- tion tit'H on some ether theory than the Rouge course. (See the detailed stato- ment as to Mir. Seip given to the L. 5. tI. conference committee and printed in another column.)
 8. We have strong reason to be- lieve that there are now two men on the L. s. U. football team whose cor rect names are Lesher Cor Lecher) and Phillips. who were imported or fnduc- versity, at Selinsgrove. Pa, by Coach Winguard. One of them (Lesher) played on the Susquehanna team in 1906. and one or both probably played in 1907. If these men are playing under assumed names, L. s. U. is vio- lating the s. I. A. A. rules, Art. TX. section 2, quoted above If they have Rogue school, or imported by Coach Vanguard, he has violated the s. I. 4. A. rules, Art. XIII. section 3. As the T. 8 u catalogue for the present ses- possible to check the residences and courses of these men. But if L. S. U. would give Tulane the detailed iu- formation asked. the suspicious in
 "A The Smith brothers who played on the L. S. U. team in 1905-O6 were imported from Michigan and hired to They thereby became permanently in- eligible under the s. I. A. A. rules (Art. Tx. sections 1. 9 and 8, but they are members of the team this year.
 To Prefer No Charges.
 ''The detailed statement of the nature of Tulane's evidence has been fur nished to the L. S U. conference com mittee and to the press This must tf rIAaR tn h1a and fair minded man that r. s. U. has In the past evaded and dishonored, and Is now evading and dishonoring. the s; !. A. A rules, ,Its, Tulane has; how how charges before the s. I. "A, A. Tulane Is not a member of that body, and the methods of its administration dfscour- sge rather than an p5omSte inqslsy ne in tas the L. s. U. authorities agree to con ditions which will enable us to de- termine and detect the eligibility of their their players s we do not care to % meet not object to decided defeat at the hands of Louisianians or men playing on a bona fide Louisiana college team. but we positively decline to bring our students into contact with hired men, professional athletes imported from Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania, men upwards of thirty years of age, who may have been engaged in pro-
 
 years past. We can see no satisfac- tion in any honest or patriotic Louisi- nanian in a champion Louisiana col lege team the strength and prowess of which is supplied chiefly by men who are not bona fide students. but imported from every state but Louisi-
 ana. A game between such a team and Tulane would not be game be- tween two Louisiana institutions. No citizen of the state would term 1t such.
 Our evidence is in. We sling no mud; we respond to the challenge and state the facts. We have been called upon to explain why we would not meet L. s. U. under straight s: I, A. A. rules. We have explained VIII the public consider the morality of an at titude which Is unwilling to give in detail the facts of the eligibility ofs players. Let the public judge the jus tice of our suspicious and the reason ableness of our position"
 Regarding che Bauer-Buser incident the committee said:
 ''Though rumors as to the eltgtbili- ty of a number of the men on the L. S. U. team were in the air for number of weeks this fall the Tulane Athletic Association hesitated 10 undertake any systematic investiga- ton, the facts in this class of cases being peculiarly difficult to arrive at owing to the evasive measures com tis received about October ', 1905, the following letter from the man who was last year captain of the L. s. U. football team, 1t was felt that some" thing should be done:
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