The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-18
TENNIS
WRESTLING
RACING
BOXING

contests between members of the con-
terence guarantee or an option of
| 90 per cent of the gate receipts shall
be given the visiting team.
Another proposition which it is be-
lieved will also come up before the
conference at this time is concerning
the admitting into the conference of
Whitworth college of Tacoma. Whit
worth, 1T is understood, is DESTROYS
of getting into the conference. Last
year she was offered admittance but
turned down the offer. For that rea-
son it is believed by many that her
chances of getting in this season are
slim. During the past two years
Whitworth has turned out some good
| athletic teams, but. they have been
good for the simple reason that she
had no eligibility rules of any kind
to live up to, and consequently could
play ringers" with impunity.
The idea of having a meeting of
the different managers of football at
the several institutions for the pur-
pose of arranging the football sched-
ule has already been adopted with
| success in basket ball and baseball
schedules. 1t is not expected that
there will be any opposition to this
| plan. The second provision of MAX
| ing uniform compensation for all foot
ball officials is believed to be a wise
| move. Last year there was difficulty
for some of the institutions to Sc
cure the best officials on account of
| the distance and expense involved.
The best officials like Cults of Seattle
demanded the best money and conse-
quently many games were compelled
| to be refereed and umpired by lesser
officials because the institutions could
| not afford to pay the best prices. For
| instance, in the Oregon Agricultural
college game last fall, Whitman was
| forced to pay Cults, the umpire, $50
and expenses to and from Seattle, and
while in the city. for his services.
! Cults is undoubtedly an excellent Of
| fetal and the Missionaries wanted
| him for the Thanksgiving game, but
Cults raised his price to SIS, and ex-
| penseS for the one contest, and the
| Missionaries could not afford it. In
! the Idaho Whitman game. Cults was
| desired for umpire, but Idaho could
not afford to bring him from Seattle.
| The matter in regard to the play
| ing of freshmen by o. A. G.. is an in
| teresting one. The present rule re-
quireS that no athlete can compete
in an intercollegiate contest who has
not passed in Is Carnegie units of
academic work. The requirement at
| 0. A. c. has been only II because of
the low entrance requirements at that
| institution. Oregon Agricultural col
lege will endeavor to have the ruling
| changed regarding requirements gov
erning athletes VINO represent the var
! iouS institutions in inter- collegiate
contests. The stand taken by o. A.
C. is due largely to the energy of Ply
steal Director E. d. Angel, who has
requested President Garrett of the
Oregon institution to write the heads
of the conference institutions con-
corning the matter and who has been
agtating the proposition ever since
the rules were first made.
At the time of the last meeting of
| conference delegates in Seattle a year
ago, the colleges agreed that no ath-
! lete would be allowed to represent an
institution without IL Carnegie cred
it's of academic work, Angel declared
that he had no right to sign such an
agreement, although he fixed his name
to the document finally with the I'M
Outstanding that he would take up the
matter with o. A. G. officials. Dur
| ing the past football season some
question was raised as to the eligi-
bility of the O. A. c. players but the
matter was dropped before it had
come to a head because there was no
way of ascertaining whether the col
lege was complying with the agree
ment or not.
The last provision is for a more
equal apportionment of receipts in
football. The plan of straight guar
antee or an option on the gate re-
ceipts amounting to so per cent seems
to be fair. and it is likely that this
measure will pass. This will be a
great Improvement. For instance in
the Whitman Washington football
game last year Whitman was offered
only a guarantee of $500 for the game.
Out of that sum Manager Hawley of
the Missionaries had to take his team
of 20 men to Seattle and care for
them in that city for two days. A
bunch of 20 football men who are in
raining is no light expense on the
hands of a manager In that game
Whitman received $500, while the
Washington management took in
$780, not counting the money re-
ceived from the season tickets sold
to students of the university. When
t is remembered that there were
nearly 1000 students at the game, the
total receipts of Washington were far
over anything that Whitman received.