Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-08
A.A.U. OFFICIALS
TO CLEAN HOUSE
ACADEMIC LEAGUE TO iNVES-
TIGATE CHARGES
COMPLAINTS MADE ATHLETES
!. VIOLATE. AMATEUR RULES
Several Secondary School Students
Said to Have Lost Standing by
Participation in Sports with
Professionals

The officials of the Southern Califor-
mia branch of the A. A. U. have peguh
their annual spring house cleaning.
Managers of the high school athletic
teams OF Long Beach, Los Angeles ana
Hollywood and the Los Angeles Poly
technic high school are busy cleaning
their states, and it is predicted many
sweeping changes in the personnel OF
local teams will result.
Defects in amateur standing are
charged in the entry of athletes VINO
have passed the age limit of Il years
others have lost their amateur stand
ing and still others are ineligible on
account of failing to reach the pre-
scribed standards of scholarship.
Many of these complaints will be
aired at the next meeting of the Acad-
emic league, acknowledged as the con-
servator of amateur athletic affairs
in the high schools of the county.
The case of X. II. Enslow and j.
Adams of Long Beach high school will
be among those who will be considered
by the league. 1t is charged that Ems
low and Adams have lost their anna
teur standing by playing baseball with
the Long Beach White Sox. The
charge is made by the Hollywood high
school. Reickerhauser of Polytechnic
may be protested by the Los Angeles
high school on the ground he is more
than II years old Young of the Long
Beach high school also may be put on
the grill for alleged playing with pro-
fessionals.
The plot thickens in the controversy
between A. A. U. officials and the attn
letic directors of st. Vincents on the
question of reinstating Sam Lafferty,
who recently was barred from the
league on account of alleged partici-
patton in professional games. Father
Martin of st. Vincent's has interested
himself in Lafferty's behalf, contend
ing the athletes offense was not such
as to justify his permanent disbar-
ment.
Polytechnic will make a determined
effort to retain Reickerhauser, as he
holds the Southern California inter-
scholastic record for the hammer throw
and will be invaluable to Polys track
squad when the spring games are con-
tested.
The renewed activity of the South
ern California branch of the A. A. U.
is the result of a shaking up at. head
quarters in San Francisco, in which
the association has committed itself
to a more rigid enforcement of the
rules governing amateur standing.
Many complaints have reached the
Bay city Office from various parts of
the state, especially in regard to bas-
have determined to start the spring
baseball and track season with a
tighter hold on the reins.
They have met with the cooperation
of the athletic boards of secondary
schools and directors of other athletic
bodies An unsuccessful effort was
recently made to enlist the A. A. u
in the fight which is being made
against Greek letter societies in sec
ondary schools, but so far no action
has been taken by that body on the
question. Southern California schools
are singularly free from class and So
ciety politics, and the various student
bodies, as we'll as members of the va
rious preparatory school faculties
throughout the state, are agreed 1t
would be unwise for the association to
concern itself with this phase OF stu
dent activity.
It has been charged frequently
among the schools competing with the
Los Angeles high school that nearly
every member of the athletic teams OF
this institution is ineligible on account
of failure to conform to the required
standards of scholarships. This was
denied vigorously yesterday by mem
Der of the faculty.
1--WE challenge the closest examina-
ton of the records of our men," said
Capt Harrigan. 1.-THE faculty has kept
athletics in the school under the clos
est supervision, and l am prepared 10
state positively we have not man IN
the track, basketball or baseball
squads whose standing can be ques-
toned on these grounds
The registration committee of the
Southern California branch of the A.
A. U. will confer with President {. B.
Raitt for the purpose of determining
a course of procedure with regard to
Investigating scrutinizingly the various
athletes in high schools with a view
to placing athletics on sound basis.