Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
OFFICIALS RULE
AGAINST POLY
SCHOOL LOSES BY DECISION
OF COMMITTEE
DIR, BEACH TELLS OF STANDING
START CONTROVERSY
Chairman Barker Declares That Los
Angeles High Should Be Awarded
Honors in Recent Relay
Contest

Polytechnic high school has lost the
protest sent to the Los Angeles high
school by the decision of the academic
committee which met yesterday at the
Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. Two protests
were filed, one by the hilltop school
and the other by the Washington street
institution, the former protesting the
relay race and the latter the 10O-yard
DASH
Out of nine members of the league
only three representatives were pres
ent, the fourth representative at the
meeting being Kinter Hamilton of
Harvard military academy, who is a
member as a delegate at large and has
no vote regarding athletic protests
In behalf of the Los Angeles high
school Coach Ralph Noble stated that
he has never in all of his Southern
California coaching of the various high
schools and colleges heard of stand
ing start, which went into operation III
the meet held on April 10 at the L. S.
c. grounds, and, Furthermore, that
there were no rules in the A. A. y.
athletic books that stated that stand
ing start should be made and an
nounced by the starter, as was done at
this date Noble said that none of the
officials nor Captain Philip Harrlgan
was notified of such action by the COM
mittee in charge of the meet.
Standing start Unusual
DR.. Beach of the Los Angeles high
school, speaking for his institution, said
that in his past career in coaching
eastern athletic teams he never heard
of a standing start as was used IN the
All-Southern California meet
On behalf OF the academic league
officials Coach Kinter Hamilton of
Harvard military school stated that the
standing start was in vogue for the
past two years. Dean Cromwell said
that at a meeting of Hamilton, Reyn-
olds, Himrod and himself previous to
the meet they decided to have the
standing start, and when Coach Noble
asked Hamilton where this rule OF
a standing start originated, Hamilton
replied "Oh, we have been using TINS
system in academic meets for the past
two years." Prof. Reynolds and Crom-
well also said, in answer to question
asked by Noble, that they used 1t III
their athletic meets.
Coach skinner sat back lin his chair
and looked on, and when asked by
Chairman Barker what his opinion OF
the relay race was said:
"In my opinion the Los Angeles high
school should be awarded the relay
race"
After several minutes of discussion
the committee decided to take the re-
Law race under adVisement until later
in the day.
Protest Over the Dash
The next matter to come before the
hoard was the protest by Poly over the
1OO-yard DASH Coach Noble admitted
that notwithstanding that The Herald
pictures proved beyond doubt that
George Throop was second in the meet
he did not think it was fair to take
n- M
high school team. The meeting room
was then cleared, and after half an
hour of discussion Chairman Barker
made the following statement:
1.-THE committee felt that the decision
was made by the officials in accord
ance with the facts. As such it was
beyond the power of the committee to
take further action
Those present at the meeting were
L. M. Barker of Orange, Kinter Hamil-
ton, delegate at large Harry Lee Howe
of the Suburban league, and vernon
Brydolf of the Citrus league. Los An
geles high school was not represented
owing to the fact that Representative
Silent was absent, and Notwithstanding
the fact that Philip Harrigan was ap-
pointed by the Los Angeles faculty to
fill the place made vacant by Silent,
Harrigan not having been deputized by
Chairman Barker, was not permitted a
vote in the affairs of the league. The
new representative will have to send
his name to the managers.
At the same meeting several matters
pertaining to the Academic league were
discussed. Several minor bills were or
dered paid, and it was decided to try
and enlarge the membership from nine
to eighteen schools next year. The of
ficials of this year decided not to elect
new officers until next fall The meet!
ing was adjourned until the second
week in Sentember