Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-22
Missouri Meet
Fails to Decide
Mooted Matter
Summer Base Ball Problem Put Over
Until June-Ball Club to
Disband.

LINCOLN, April Especial 1.-THE rep
resentatives OF the Missouri Valley confer
ence schools, who assembled In Kansas
City yesterday to discuss foot ball and the
reasons for It's continuation as college
sport, failed to take action on the summer
base ball proposition and the status quo
OF the situation remains the same so far as
Nebraska base ball for this spring Is con-
oerned. Nebraska's athletic board will not
certify to the amateur standing of its ball
players and the games for the remainder OF
the season will have to be cancelled. This
action will practically mean that the Corn
husker nine will be disbanded for 1910.
When the Nebraska representatives went
to the Kansas City meeting they were un-
der instructions to bring up the summer
ball question and have the conference rep
resentatives decide whether college men
who participate in base ball during the
summer months with semi-professional
teams should be allowed to represent uni
versity and college teams in the spring.
The Nebraska delegates presented this
proposition for consideration, but the meet
ing had taken up so much time In dis
cusslng foot ball reform that It did not
set to a place where it could give final
and definite attention to the ball question,
which was permitted to go over to the
June meeting of the regular conference for
a final vote. According to DR.. Clapp, who
represented the Cornhuskers, the sentiment
Of the men at Kansas City favored re-
scinding the present anu-summer base ball
rule, and either drafting a new one or per-
mitting men to play summer ball"
DR.. Clapp announced today that a meet
ing of the Nebraska athletic board will be
held tomorrow to decide whether the Corn
husker ball team shall disband or try to
arrange a schedule Of games with western
teams. The sentiment among some Of the
faculty members shows that those men will
try to have the Cornhusler team arrange
a new schedule Offers have been received
from several western teams saying they
would be willing to play Nebraska.
The press dispatches from Kansas City
did not carry all the news that was given
out by the conference delegates yesterday.
The gathering took action on several i'm
portant matters that were not given out
for publication. The hammer throw in the
track meets of the Missouri Valley con-
ference was abolished. The argument
against the hammer throw was, that many
people are killed each year over the country
by the careless handling of this weight
The conference appointed committee to
draw up new foot ball rules and report on
their work next January. This committee
will be composed OF a representative from
each OF the seven schools composing the
Missouri Valley conference. This commit
tee was appointed after a motion to abolish
foot ball in this section had failed. The
men who are opposed to foot ball are set
on having it regulated so there will be no
chance Of severe injury. Through this com
mittee they will be in a position to make
rules for the local schools in case the new
rules of the national foot ball committee
do not reform the game next fall.
The representatives yesterday talked OF
limiting the number OF games in ali the
branches OF sports to a very low number,
even lower than the minimum now in force