East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-08
COLLEGE BOYS
DISQUALIFIED
FIVE COLLEGES DISCOVER
PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES
Baseball Players the Offenders-Col-
lcges TO Stick by Rule Adpoted at
Walla Walla last Fail.

lcScS 10 otlCh ny huic Aupotcu at
Walla Walla last Fall.
How many colleges in the north
west will stand by the rules they
pledged in conference at Walla Walla
last fall?
How many faculties will disbar Of
Tending athletes from competition in
games after college opens this month
Within the next three weeks it will
be known whether or not the north
west colleges intend living up to the
conference rules adopted at Walla
Walla last fall. Should all prove 10y
al to their pledge it will mean that
valuable athletes from at least five
Of the six colleges must be disbarred
from further competition on the
grounds of professionalism.
SO far as is known locally there
are offenders from Whitman. Idaho.
Washington state, Oregon Agricultur-
al and Oregon university Whitman,
the originator of the conference idea,
has already declared that three of her
crack athletes, including the captain
of her football team, must go. This
will be a hard blow to the mission
aries and one from which the team
may not recover.
Oregon COllegians Offend
The frankness of Whitman should
be extolled. II would be justice to
the northern colleges to try and COW
er up the delinquencies of the Ore
gon institutions. Both the state uni
versity and o. A. c.. have athletes
who have played summer professional
baseball.
Curtis Coleman, the fast varsity
end, disregarded the rules this sum-
mer and played baseball with the Sa-
lem team of the Tri-City league, a
semi professional organization.
Whether or not he received any con-
sderation is not the question. He
played among professionals and that
is tantamount to professionalizing
himself, according to the A. A. L. Il
Oregon permits Coleman to play on
the football squad this fall or the
baseball nine next spring it will be
direct violation of the conference
rules.
Perhaps more than one spectator
at the Tri-City league games wonder
ed at the identity of a spectacular |
catcher going under the name of
Ripple. He was none other than the |
clever Otto Moore, crack backstop OF
the Oregon Agricultural college base
ball team. Moore played with St
Johns.
He did not wait until the college
season had closed but came to Port
land every Sunday to play with his
semi-pro teammates His work with
the Ages was largely responsible for
bringing the college chapionship to
that place.
Whitman's disqualified athletes are
Walter Brubaker, the heady quarter
back and captain of the football
who played summer baseball,
and Stanley and Vincent Borleske,
brothers. who were members OF semi
baseball teams in the in
land empire during the summer
Washington state colleges Offend
ers are Vaughn Jones and Frank
Brown, two excellent baseball play
ers. Idaho's man who violated the
amateur rules is Captain McGee of
last seasons baseball team. These
are the ones known to the confer
ence authorities.
Whether or not the University Of
can present a clean slate
IS not yet established If such Is the
case it will be quite feather in the
zap of the evergreen college. In the
past Washington's athletes have not
been wholly above reproach and the
'eports from Seattle this year will be
watched with considerable interest.
500 Reward, 500.