The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
BIRMINGHAM GETS ATHLETIC TRACK
 MEET NEXT SPRING Next Meeting of Association to Be Held at University
 of Alabama
MEMBERS TAKE ACTION
 ON THE ONE YEAR RULE
Old officers Re-eIected-Tennesse and Memphis Universities Suspended for Violations of Eligibility Rules.
 As to Summer Baseball

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic association closed it's seventeenth an nual convention yesterday evening al o'clock at the chamber of Com merce, after having spent a busy das revising and amending the rules of tht association to more nearly fit the needs of each college in the league.
 The entire representative body q college educators was very mucl pleased at the harmony which pre- vailed throughout the convention an, the general opinion Is that the pres snt constitution and bylaws will son be sufficiently comprehensive of all he Requirements of the association.
 The next meeting of the s. I. 4. A. will be held at the University O. Ala bama at a time to be set by ne ex- ecutive committee which will meet in Atlanta on January 1, which meeting of the committee will also lH formu- lated for publication all thf rules of the association as revised and cor rected.
 All the officers of the associa ton were reelected for 1917 President, William L. Dudley; vicj presidents, irst district, North anf South Caro- Ina, w. M. Riggs; second district, Georgia, Alabama anf Florida, John Morris; third distdct, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, Thomas D. Boyd; fourth district. Kentucky and Tennes- sse, st George L. sioussat.
 Senior vice president, ". M. Riggs.
 Secretary and treasurer, Edward T. Holmes.
 Executive committee, W. L. Dudley, vanderbilt university; w. M Riggs, Clemson college: E. T. Holmes, Mer- cer university; Thomas D. Boyd, Louis- jana State university; St. George l.. sioussat, University of the South: John Morris. University of Georgia
 On behalf oftthe colleges of Alabama and the Y. M. c. A. of Birmingham Fred c. Stickney of the University of Alabama extended an invitation to the convention for the S. I. A. A. track meet to be held in Birmingham during next May and the invitation was accepted by the members.
 A resolution of thanks was voted. by the association'to Howard college and the Chamber of Commerce for the man, .l courtesies extended the convention. The main business of the session yes terday morning was an investigation ol the charge against Tennessee of having violated the eligibility rules. Tennesset pleaded guilty to the charge, and after lengthy discussion the following resolu liens of the executive committee wer, sustained.
 Whereas. Information has reached thi, committee that the University of Ten nessee has, inl spite of the rulings oi : the executive committee of this associs tion, and contrary to the instructions o the president of thiss association. played nen who were ineligible under articl, tx, section 10 (a) of theN constitution ant bylaws of this association, it Is
 Resolved that the president of thi. association be authorized and instructed oo ascertain if this be true, and in suci ease, to suspend the University of Ten nessee until the next meeting of the ex eeutive committed
 After Professor BrownS had plead ed guilty to the charge the convention voted that power be given the commit tee to modify the penalty asN .specifieJ by the constitution, as in their jlhlgmen seemed wise and expedient
 The University of Memphis was black listed for having played ineligible men and for not having answered to tn. charges made by the S. I. A. A. Thi.
 
 any other member of the association be fore the next meeting of the exeeutiv, committee.
 The afternoon session of the associa tion was taken up mostly with discus sfons on the modification of entranc requirements, which resulted in a regu lation to the effect that no student shal engage in intercollegiate football unles he has fulfilled the unit entrance re quirements of his institution leading t. some baccalaureate degree or has beel admitted to professional courses on al equivalent to tho unit entrance require 1 ments. It was amended, furthermore that article 'ix, section 9 (b) should rea as follows:
 "A student who has been in attendanc at any other college, whether he ha participated in an iEter-collegiate contes or not, may not play football, but mus have been in attendance at the secon college for one scholastic year befor becoming eligible.'
 The adjustment of these two points wa made after considerable doubt and argu ment and it is thought that they do no even now overcome all the difficultie arising in the qualification of student for athletics.
 In addition tothe above points, tn question of Summer baseball was ono for all settled It was proposed that tn association allow bona fde student wh has played through one scholastic yea to play baseball during the summer an. to receive remuneration for the same, ol the grounds that such remuneration wa irdisSensable in some cases to the stu dents return to college the next year The opinion of the association was yer, emphatically against this proposal. as was considered impossible to discriminat between summer baseball and profession al baseball, and the motion was ruled out after the majority of those present ha, expressed themselves as believing tha such action would be not only most con tradictory to the fundamental principle of the association. but would even endan ger the life of the organization. '@ Another broadening of the regulation of the association was in modification which will allow members of the associa ton to hold contests with members o l other associations, so long as each of tn 3 contestants conform to the regulations O their own association, after the condi lions of the other association have beel Submitted to the executive committee o fhe S. l. A. A., and approved. It wa inainly on this revision that the Centra University of Kentucky was holding bacl Fits application for membership in the as k sociation. It will also make condition \ easier for those colleges in the associa ton who have found it difficult to ar { range thier schedules according to tn former ruling.