The Washington herald., 1911-07-29
Cornell Tigers
Lose Joe Engle
Board of Arbitration Gives Player to ANDREWS
and Manhattan-Petworth Awarded
Suburban League Pennant.
By G. w. SWAN.

,The board OF arbitration which was ap-
pointed by the amateur commission to
adjust the difficulties which might arise
during the playing season, met last night
in the board room of the American Sc
curity and Trust Company and took
action which was important to the teams
concerned.
The Cornell Tigers will lose the services
of Joe Engle That was decided when
Manhattan produced a contract signed
April l. and Andrews one signed Decem-
ber "a, 1910. Manager Cornell failed to
have a contract and the player was de-
clared to be the property of Andrews ana
Manhattan.
Should the Capital City League de-
eide that Manager Cornell. by using
Engle, had played an ineligible man,
the Tigers may receive a severe set
back in the race for the pennant. Man
ager Cornell stated that as he had
played Engle first and he did not know
that Epgle had signed contracts with
about a dozen teams, he hardly thought
II fair for the board to give Engle to
the other teams, and said that he would
reopen the case at the next meeting
of the board.
This will be a hardship on the Cor
nell aggregation, as Joe Engle has
twirled more than a few games for the
Tigers, and the loss of these games,
should the league decided to throw
them out, would result fatally for the
Tigers.
Petworth was upheld in its contention
that it should be declared winner of the
Suburban League race. Robert S. Jones,
who has been identified with the Pet
worth club since the organization, pre-
sented the case from a Petworth stand
point, and his arguments. together with
the convincing data which he set forth,
caused the board to reach decision in
much less than five minutes. The facts
in the case were that on July ). in order
TO make the race interesting. the stand
ing would be revised, making each team
one game behind the other.
Accordingly, the four clubs started
upon a new schedule with Petworth one
game ahead of Parkview and two games
removed from Silver Spring. On last
"Wednesday Brightwood and Parkview.
realizing that they could not finish their
schedule, decided to withdraw, and Man
ager Cole made the combined motion the
two teams be dropped and that Petworth
and Silver Spring play a series of seven
games. which motion was carried, Pet
worth alone dissenting.
President Page, of the Suburban
League, spoke in favor of the action
taken by the league, but in view OF the
eNlnence presented ana all or the factS IN
the cast, the arbitration board decided
that to make Petworth play a series of
seven games was not what should be
done, and consequently sustained the
Petworth teams protest.
The board sustained the Marquette
League in the action taken on the ST.
Stephen -Tennallytown game. The trou-
BILE arose over the eligibility of Herbert
Jones, a member of the Tennallytown
team, who was protested by St. Stephens
as being ineligible.
Manager Colston, of Indian Office. was
not sustained that Player Porch. of the
Naval Medicos, was not duly registered
with the secretary of the league. The
board held that the player mentioned
was eligible to participate with Naval
Medico, and ordered that the game should
stand as played.
Manager Love, OF the Ninth team Of
the Sunday School League, asked the
board of arbitration to rule on decision
previously rendered by the Sunday
School League. Love complained about
unfair treatment at the hands of the
league umpire. The board decided that
this matter should be settled by the
league and informed Mr.. Love that IL he
considered he was unfairly treated in
withdrawing his club. he might make
further. application and the board would
be glad to discuss il.