The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-04

| yesterday : session would bar these
men from participating III athletics dur
! ing their last wear here which would
! work a serious handicap to them in
! athletics when they entered the higher
/ institutions.
Young furthermore asserted that it
was unreasonable to require a student
/ to pass in every branch Of learning to
/ make him eligible to represent the
/ school in athletics for the reason that
| almost every student was backward in
! some one study.
The High School delegates at yes
! rerday' 5 session cited one instance in
! which they claimed that Oahu College
| retained Il student beyond the regular
| school term which initiated against
! them in contests with the Oahu College
! athletes even unto their defeat. The
! High School men put forth no substan-
| tial proof that the eligibility rules were
| violated in that particular case and the
/ Puns denied the intimation. This ques-
! ton, however, on which the whole con
/ troVersy hinges was not threshed out
! at all Assuming that Oahu College
] does consider means to draw athletes
| into its ranks and retain them for
/ their athletic ability. the High School
! and kamehameha athletes may be jus
! titled in imposing restrictions that seem
| mainly to affect the Puns, while, on the
| contrary, Oahu College men would seem
to be unduly handicapped assuming
! that athletic ability is not a factor in
the student personnel.
Stanley Livingston presided at yes
| terdav session which was held in one
| of the class rooms at Oahu College. On
the resignation of President Arthur F.
| Griffiths of Oahu College as vice presi-
dent of the Interscholastic League the
new Punahou athletic director. D. J.
| Kicker was chosen in his stead Then
the eligibility rules We're taken up and
! the discussion soon assumed the pro-
! portions of q controversy which lasted
| about two hours.
Stanley Livingston took up several
drafts of the rules adopted last year
and after it had been determined which
was the authentic copy the new presi-
dent read over the constitution and by
laws under which the league regulates
interscholastic sports. The document
started off with a paragraph which
strongly implied that the league in
tent and purpose was to promote har-
mOnv and adjust interscholastic ath-
letics amicably between the three
schools competing together for sports
menship honors.
"No new student not enrolled three
months prior to the opening of the
spring term is eligible to participate in
interschoastic athletics.' he read The
reading of this. paragraph only aroused
casual comment as to whether the word
'new' should be stricken out or not.
It was decided that .'new' belonged
there so it was allowed to stay.
, Then came paragraph which read
''No student is eligible to represent
any one school for a period of more
than four years. There had been con
siderable talk of having the College Of
Hawaii come into the league. 50 far
as the athletes of this institution were
concerned. their coming in depended
very largely on the little word lone
in the last cited paragraph, and there
were several delegates from the college
present to stay with the word lone.
The Highs and Hams wanted cone
stricken out so that after an athlete
had played four years in the aggre
gate with any Of the school teams. he
would be ineligible to compete on any
of the school teams.
The College OF Hawaii men had doped
it out in advance that without this
word Zone their freshmen would bt
barred from participating in athletics
If the college joined the league. and the
college delegates We're there to come in
if lone - stayed, or stay out ii cone
Wa. cut out. This paragraph gave pre-
cedeuce to one that was more vital Ia
Puma hon aud WAS then taken M later