The Washington herald., 1908-02-17
FLOOR Is KEPT CLEAR
Federal Officials Upset All
PrecedentS at Meet.
GUY HAsKINs OUT OF PENN
Quaker Faculty VIII Refuse To Re
open Case OF Champion Who Is
Under the Ban for Poor work I'm
Ills Studies - Three More Indoor
Meets for Local Athletes.


Meets for Local Athletes
Despite the fact that no records were
broken. the fifth annual Federal games
at Convention Hall, Saturday evening,
will go down in local athletic history as
one Of the most successful indoor meets
ever held here.
Ten years ago Georgetown inaugurated
indoor field and track sports in this city.
and although one or more meets have
been held each year. it remained for the
Federal officials to solve the question of
keeping the floor clear and guaranteeing
the spectators an unobstructed view of
the different events. Although George
town has always had good intentions in
this regard. more than half OF the Blue
and Gray meets in the past decade have
suffered from the overcrowding Of the in
field, and in this regard George Washing
tons initial set Of indoor games was one
of the worst ever held
W G. Stuart and W c. Thatcher de-
serve Unstnted praise for their endeavors
Saturday. and il is hoped that the man
/ ayers of games in the future Will benefit
by the example set by the Federal games
Of 1908.
! The disqualification of Guy Haslns, the
| foremost middle-distance runner in Amer
l lea, by the Pennsylvania faculty, practl-
cally kills the Quakers' chances Of win
ming the intercollegiate championship. but
/ judging by the reports from Philadelphia
the authorities were perfectly justified in
taking the radical action The following
are the facts in the case. according 10 the
Philadelphia Record:
"Haskins had already taken a post-grad-
uate course in dentistry and was doing
special work for Dean Kirk this year
He only had eight hours week which
/ he. was obliged 10 attend. but so careless
/ has he been that outs have mounted up
/ against him till now his reinstatement
/ seems impossible. Dean Kirk warned
Haskins repeatedly about his absence. but
no attention was paid. Finally he ordered
/ Haskins' name stricken from the roll
Wednesday evening the faculty commit
/ tee, on athletics met in DR.. Smiths office
/ to approve the list Of track candidates
submitted by Manager Cochran DR.. Kirk
/ told the committee that HaskinS was no
longer a student in his department The
/ committee. therefore. returned the list APP
proved. but with Haskins' name stricken
out. An effort was made to keep the mat
! ter quiet while HaSkins tried % square
! himself but when all these had failed
/ the matter leaked out Haskins was re-
/ fused permission 70 represent Pennsylva-
MIA in the Federal games in Washington
and told that il he competed AT all it
/ must be representing some club or as an
independent
DR. Edgar F. Smith. in speaking OF Has
kins' disqualification. said: Yes. this is
absolutely final II isn't as If he had con-
ditions and might become eligible by pass
| ing them of. He simply is not a student
and cannot become one. He has not only
failed 10 attend his hours and conse-
quently been dropped. but he has failed
/ TO pay his tuition as well so that he
never has been a student IN good standing
since the last day that fees could be paid.
1 namel, December l. He would not have
] beer allowed 10 compete this winter AT
ali lad the matter been brought 20 our
attention sooner
/ Dean Kirk. in explaining his action
said. L have done all 7 can for Haskins
/ / warned him repeatedly and ne promised
: 10 make up his work, but never did So.
/ He is out Of the department and cannot
get back
/ Guy Haskins. a native Of New Zealand
/ is the greatest middle-distauce runner
! that ever represented an American col
/ lege When he first entered Pennsvlva-
I MIA, ir 1909. he went in for swimming.
/ and lad never worn Il spiked shoe in his
] q foil
Ming. and, under the tutelage of DR.. J. X
Shell, developed rapidly. In 1906 he won
/ the one-mile race al the intercollegiate
4 championships Last year he captured
! the one-mile event again. setting 4 new
/ intercollegiate record Of 40 3-5 for the
/ distance. Then. when Penn and Michigan
were neck and neck for first place. he
went I'm and cinched the meet for the
/ Red and Blue by capturing the half mile
/ IN l9'- This feat was characterized bv
: President Sullivan, Of the A. A. L. as
/ the greatest performance of the year
/ ia amateur athletics
Last fall he returned for a second post
: grauate year, and. despite a sprained
ankle, captured first place In the inter
collegiate cross-coUntry race at Princeton.
/ He was looked upon as a sure winner OF
one and probably two events next June.
! Mike Murphy is all broken uo over his
/ loss. This leaves PENIS trainer with ONLY
( two intercollegiate champions from the
/ four he produced at last springs meet.
/ There is no one in college equal 20 the
/ task Of taking Haskins' place even fairly
well. and his carelessness in attending
hours will cost Penn their intercollegiate
/ track title"
The remaining meets Of the indoor sea
/ son in which Washington athletes viii
/ figure prominently are the Fifth Regi-
ment 8 INES at Baltimore next Saturday.
4 the 6UhnS Hopkins meet the following
week and the Georgetown tourney at
/ Convention Hall March l. Next Satur-
days games at Baltimore will be held in
/ the big Fifth Regiment Armory, and, as
/ the track is the best in this section. il is
/ expected that nearly all OF the local men
/ who competed in the Federal games will
/ be on hand TO try for the Fifth Regiment
/ prizes.
J Wesleyan had no trouble in winning
/ from Columbia and Georgetown in the re-
I lay race at Madison SQUARE Garden Sat
urday night. but the Blue and Gray four
gave Columbia a hard battle for second
/ place
+ Gill; Of Tome Institute, who won the
three dashes at the Federal games. should
I develop into a star of the first n1aenit1,de