New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
HARVARD GETS BIG MEET
Intercollegiate Plum Lost by
Syracuse After Hot Fight.
QUESTION ONE OF TRACKS
Freshman Eligibility Clause Is
Turned Down After Debate IN
&c. A. A. A. A. Meeting.

There vas warm fight at the annuai
meeting OF the intercollegiate Associ"u''"
OF Amateur Athletes Of America, which "@S
held IN the Waldorf Yesterday AFTERNOON
over the selection Of a place for the games
that will be held on May 26 and q heN''
After a bitter contest the assoclauon' Wy
vote of 10 20 5, turned down the teh.a''Ne
agreement that had been made WIN oSi'
cuse last year and decided 10 give u'e
meeting 10 Harvard. II VIII tnereiolo O'
held in the Stadium. Despite teso'u''o'
of the 1910 convention, the eSecutNe ooi'-
,,,,tea made n recommendation that t'e
games be held IN Cambridge although ~
T Kirby. OF Columbia. chairman oil tne
advisory committee OF the association mace
q special report favoring the holding OF 'ne
games at Syracuse. Mr. kirby went ~
syracuse last week to investigate the syria
o,,so track and decided that II would be
satisfactory.
II. Cock. formerly graduate manage
OF athletics at Syracuse, chainponeu
cause of the upstate college. Through T. :.
FLOYD Harvard made il clear tha' " oI'
ro, want the meet IL there was any w
deuce OF double dealing, ana retuSeu "
when the question was put o"fr|i'' '"'Ni'I-
gan. Princeton. Vale, Pennsylvap's' raw
ford. Amherst Bowdoin. Brown anu 'Ha'
sachusetts institute Of TechnoiosF 49,
for Cambridge. while Columbia, Ne" ioiA
University. Rutgers. Colgate ond the Co'-
lege Of the City of New YORK vo'eo ior
Syracuse. ct, 20
The faht began when Leslie Soule' o.
Vale. chairman Of the executive cofh''iC,'."
renorted 10 the convention thar u "ds ~"
., iniou of the committee that the H'ee'
ought 10 bc held in Cambridge ana '""'
although the last committee mao ieeV'n
rnended that the meet go 10 syracuse tni0
srrine II had apparently not gone into ti's
ouestion as thoroughly and inVestlgaIeu
,ha rsspac,ice merits of the two nelds as
tho nresent committee had. In regard 10
What appeared 10 sou'e 10 he oreac" "
good faith. he said that almost dn
c.I si,ua,ion arose IN i@D5, when The eSec"-
tive committee al one meetns
hold the games at Cambridge snu t'
switched and let Pennsylvania nave I"eii''
ehe chief objection 10 the syracuse 80
cotIe pointed out, was not the tacC '.Fi'
the ton surface had not oeeh lalu' Wv
rather that the quarter-mile wouIo na'e "
ha r,,r around two turns, and mat tHe ~
fat and 80 yard hurdle races "oulo n"'S
| 20 he begun and finished in tunnel oeyor'o
the sight~of the spectators
| soule had no sooner taken his seaI th'i.
Mr. cook jumped TO his feet ard reques'eN
the president 10 have Mr.. Kirby read the
report which ne had made on the tracA
folIowing his visit TO Syracuse last Weeh'
The chairman of the advisory committees
conplied with the request, and read tne
ranort which he had made 10 the executive
committee. He passed over the matter 'oi
| ron dressing as he had been assured oy
CbanceIlor Day that the material for the
eurfacing had already been contracted for'
and that il would be delivered in plenty
of time for work to be finished long peiore
the date set for the games
In regard TO the quarter mile ne saw
that il would be impossible 70 nave the
race run with only one turn, put ne sdio
that the track was much better than 'he
old Berkeley oval track, where the ln'eI
collegiates were held dozen years pach'
as the turns were not nearly as aprup'
and that the track was much wider. Inc
difficulty with the 220-yard straighta"as
was exactly as the Syracuse management
had explained il 10 the association year
ago. lie said that he thought the suuder
change from the daylight into the tuhner
might have some effect on the runners
but he had been assured by one OF th'
Syracuse professors who had WORKED ou
the position Of the sun for the day OF
which the meet would be held that at tn
time set for the races the tunnels would d
flooded with sunlight. In The event OF IN
day being cloudy. the Syracuse manage
} ment hac promised 10 illuminate the tun
nels artiticially, so that the runners woul'
. not be hindered.
As for dressing rooms and other Incl
dentals. Mr. Kirby pointed out that tn
; facilities at Syracuse were better and NOR
conveniently situated than those at Cam
bridge, and he concluded by saying that
, in his Judgment, Syracuse would provid
the association with a track that would b.
satisfactory. and that he advised the hold
. ing of the 1911 games in the upstate city.
, After that the discussion became general
: Mr.. Cook maintained that although tn
association was not bound TO the resolution
that il passed year ago, nevertheless
0 Syracuse stood ready and willing TO as
, sumo the responsibilities OF the meet, a
IL had expected TO do since the subject wa
first presented at the annual meeting Il
1853. He relied on the "all but" promis
. that the association had made. and h
felt that 1t should be lived up TO. al
though he added that II the delegate
: thought otherwise ne would be sportsma
I enough to make no protest.
= John r. Fitzpatrick, of Yale, took IN
s floor for Cambridge, and argued that tn
association would run the risk OF an un
satisfactory track If II accepted the invi
. tation of Syracuse. Thornton Gerrish, tn
Harvard member of the advisory commit
tee, declared that the resolution passe
: last year was not binding. and said he be
> lieved that as long as the Harvard trac
had been tried and was apparently desire
- by several members of the association tn
meet should be held there. Mr. Kirb
: wound up the argument by urging the dele
! gates not to do anything that might r.
y feet on the association. Then the vote wa
: taken that ended the squabble and CAV
D the meet 10 the Harvard Stadium.
The meeting had not been without bitter
ness before the Syracuse question aros,
l. for the delegates had had lively discus
% sion of the proposed freshman eligibiit
3 clause that had been recommended fo
adoption by the executive committee. NJ
Kirby arose in opposition 10 the measUr
when II was first brought before the NEE
! ing, and carried his point. lie deved Int
| the history of the association, and Shove
| that the present rules. which required
| man who had represented another collee
| or one who had competed in an open NEE
| within a year of his entering college
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