The Washington times., 1908-11-04
Real Reason for George
towns Action Is Surely
a Poser.
STUDENT LEADERS
HOLD WHIP HAND
Athletic Board Stanchly Ignores
Wide Demand for Game
With Hatchetites.
By ]. R. HILDEBRAED.

Why won't Georgetown play George
Washington?
That is the question the Hatcheutes
are asking, and that is the question That
is troubling all Washington sportdom.
Don't ngure over it TOO long. others
have thought they had the answer. But
the longer you think, the harder II
erows. Il is the most elusive, snppery.
eVasIve, and IantaliZIng problem OF the
minute, and as a sheer IuZZler, mas
Inem all beat 10 a fragile
And Washington sport followers ale
going to keep right on asking that
question unul that game Is clIhcuvu %
Georgetown tells why not.
Every member OF The George Wash
lugLOn aJnletlC council, including ths
faculty representatives., when seen TINS
morning, confirmed thc declaration
that the HaJchelIJes stand ready 10
make any OVeTJures that Georgetown
may see 1T 70 demand.
Without a Prop.
This declaration leaves the Hin Top
contingent in badly battered boat 1t
skaters their last prop.
II is little hard 10 see just why 1t
should appear so strange to one writes
that Manager Baer should take 1t
upOn himself TO try To open nesOIia-
tlOns after Georgetown mad caused
them TO be severed
II may be unusual but his action Ger
tainly mas . refreshing twans IN the
midst of the clubbing. II is merely an
other example OF the sportsm;aushlp
GEORGE Washington has shown through
out the miX-up. and il adds one more
star TO the HaJchetites crown for game
ness.
Battle of TechnicalitieS-
But granting that it was technically a
breach Of inter scholastic etiquette IL
reIent for the sake Of a duty both
schools owe to the sporting public
since Georgetown had declared annette
relations severed, We would like 10
again call attention TO the fact that
George Washington is not officially cog
infant OF any step its rival may have
taken toward breaking of these rela-
tions
Georgetown did not even do it's sister
varsity the courtesy to notify the fac
ulty or any member of the athletic
board that il would in the future refuse
10 meet its teams. Therefore, from a
technical standpoint alone, II was the
most logical move imaginable that the
George Washington management should
hold out its annual offer 10 the George
town management for the game that is
the cTowning event Of the local football
season.
Players want came.
II has also been repeatedly stated in
these columns that as far as the writer
knows every member Of the Georgetown
team wants 10 play the downtown uni
versity. The student body. the alumni
Georgetown supporters join hands in
advocating a renewal Of relations. al
that stands between a patching Jp OF
the difficulty Is a board OF student man
ayers and one faculty adviser who rare
lE takes enough interest IN athletics %
attend the meetings of the council He
is strong il announcing Georgetown s
stand on this question, though his vote
counts as but one ana has no more force
In reaching final decision than that or
any student member of the committee.
II IS the same star chamber method
OF leaving athletic affairs Of a uni
veTsiJy standing in the very front rank
among institutions OF its kind TO a
handful of youths who, no matter how
conscientious, are necessarily ineXpe-
rienced since they hold office but one
year. that has time and time again
called forth the severest criticism for
the conduct Of athletic meets. football
games and arrangements for other ath-
letc events.
It is not fair to place Georgetown
athletic affairs involving the prestige
Of the university in the hands OF an
unrepresentative bocy OF student man
ayers.
In Bad" With Public.
No. Georgetown has not lost its nerve,
but that is the question the people on
the streets and in the street cars are
asking.
This Is not the first time that under
graduates have unjustly fastened this
stigma on the college.
The most striking instance was the
most peculiar attitude OF the school to-
ward debate. The history OF this
branch OF competition furnished an in
teresting sidelight on some Of the re~e
and remarkable hit or miss style of this
student management.
For years Georgetown won the annual
talkfest event with the downtown
school In 1904 Georgetown only cap.
tured the decision by a to 1 vote and
in 1901 the Hilltop team was defeated by
the unanimous decision of the judges
All efforts n 1906 on the part OF the
Hatchetites to arrange a meeting on the
rUstrum were futile. Georgetown, in a
desUltory correspondence. stated that its
team was not allowed to debate against
any university as whole, but was com
PEELED 90 cOnfine its bookings 10 law
school clubs. The next week, however,
the school sent a team to Boston 20
meet the University school and, accord
ing to the dean OF that school, II Wa'
the collegiate debaIers, not the law
school team, that Georgetown defeated
Situation Last Year.
The correspondence on the subject OF
debate last year which was abruptly
called off after tine athletic breach is
interesting in 50 much as IL shows the
slim preteXt on which Georgetown can
cells its obligations and the inconsistency
of the course as mapped out by these
student managers.
Following are some extracts from let
t6rs written BY I. y. Cutie, secretary Of
the Georgetown committee on inter-cOI
legiate debates for 1907, importunine
George Washington TO meet his team
From letter dated September 6: Il
have been recently iupOrtuned BY several
Of our students for Information con-
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