Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-10
HARD BLOW HITS
VALLEY BASE BALL
Eligibility Committee of Conference
Refuses to Let Summer Ball
Bars Down.
CoLLEGIANs TO KEEP CLEAN
Only Permitted to Play on Their
Home" Teams.
NEBRASKA STUDENTS GRIEvED
Means No Team for Them This Sea-
son, as They Hoped.
DR.. CLAPP DELAYS REPORT
Director blamed for Delay in Re-
port, which Gives Athletic
BOARD No Chance 10 Make
FiEht his spring.
,oLLEGIANs TO KEEP CLEAN
Only Permitted to Play on Their
Home" Teams.
NEBRASKA STUDENTS GRIEvED
Means No Team for Them This Sea-
son, as They Hoped.
DR.. CLAPp DELAYS REPORT

LINCOLN. Neb.. March ie.-(Speelal.l--
The report OF the eligibility committee Of
the Missouri Valley conference which has
been anxiously awaited for several weeks
because OF the bearing II has TO collegiate
base ball In the Missouri Valley schools
has at last been completed after an al
most inexplainable delay OF several weeks
and was filed late Friday with the sec
rotary of the conference. Prof. r. G.
ciapp OF Nebraska.
As has been expected. the report Is
nearly a body blow to the hundreds OF
undergraduate students who had hoped
that is1a would see the reinstatement OF
college base ball in the universities OF the
valley. Coach Ewald stlehm. after
casual examination Of the report ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction mildly. say
ing that while Il might again place base
ball for one season. II would do nothing
toward curing the eligibility troubles o.
the players in another year
Report Of Committee.
The report Of the committee Is as fol-
lows:
Sec. b-lA-shall be modified 10 read ~
student shall BE- Ineligible to represent his
college In athletic contests as repre-
sentative In athletic contests. who en-
cages in such contests as representa-
live OF any athletic organization not con-
nected with his college except that ne
may engage In occasional games as
member OF his home team
@-To strike out all the clause, sum
Tsss !, <. declared the sentiment
OF this conferences.
fAl-That most Of the technical vio-
iations OF the amateur rule committee IN
the past. for good reasons may De over
looked, and the offending parties rem
stated.
B)-In order tina, this plan may be put
In practice II was further agreed that
each conference athlete Ia order that "
may become eligible for further intel
collegiate participation shall sign a state
ment OF his athletic experiences. up 70
date, on a uniform conference blank
fC)-That Il II understood that par
ticipation on base ball teams under the
ruling OF the national commission. or on
so-called outlaw teams. or teams OF =
similar professional nature shall pre-
clude reinstatement under this plan
fff-That II Is the sense Of TINS eun-
ference that continuance OF interoheklats
athletics II contingent on close aanei-
euce 10 the amateur principle. Further,
that the success OF the plan TO place atm
letics upon a more wholesome plane Nsh
h has been In the past. depends upon the
cooperation OF the students win TUE
faculties. With this end IN view each IN
stitution Is asked TO take immeola,e s,epa
10 acquslnt it's students OF this new prol-
Get. tNote)--It Is suggested that STU
dent COMMITTEES be elected BY the stu
dents 10 confer with the faculty commit
TEE on matters OF eligibility.
The report then goes on TO state the
method OF reinstatement and closes with
the following paragraph on penalties for
violations:
That N II Is found at amy time that
a student has misrepresented his siSnea
statement or who has subsequently, oesh
found guilty OF participating In athletic
contests contrary 10 the spirit or the
amateur rule as interpreted by the MIS-
souri valley conference. ho shall therehy
become ineligible and subject TO the us
cipline committee Of his INSTITUTION
Three Draft Rules.
Tn. report was drafted by A w. Boyer.
4 I. Griffith and II. II. Everhardt The
objections can be easily seen In perussi
AZ thu report. TIA definition Of home
tsams'' and occasional games Ia sure
10 breed trouble At the outsst. while
the penalty fails to accomplish the pur-
pose IN tnak u beto " 1nh@1 sk~A W.
ion of the rula
The report 10 Just what partisans OF
the summer base ball rule wanted and
what those opposing Il we're fighting. Il
comes out flat-footedly In favor Of the
conservative element In the conference,
who would abolish collegiate sports At
any cost rather than have IL tainted
with so-calied professionalism
Considerable feeling has been expressed
at Nebraska during the last few weeks
over the delay IN the report 1t was
feared that the delay was purppsely re-
sultinx from the attempts TO prevent the
reinstatement Of base ball for the COM
Ing season
DR.. Clapp is Blamed.
Those most interested In the game az
Nebraska have made things most ex-
cesedingiy lively during the last week FOR
DR.. Clapp, who. II was stated. was work
ing against the reinstatement OF base
bali at tina Cornhusker institution.
When the cornhusker athletic board
was asked TO take up the matter Of sum
mer base ball, Il was pointed out that
the board must wait upon DR.. Clapp's
report from the eligibility committee OF
the Missouri Valley conferences Several
members OF the board called upon him.
asking that It be hurried along. but moth
ing resulted from the attempts and tho
matter dragged along. Now the board
must postpone action until after tho
spring vacation or late In March. or else
call q special session during the early
part Of next week. The regular March
meeting Of the board does not come until
the third Monday. and 1t Is very likely
that the matter will be allowed to rest
until then. stiehm says he Is for col
legiate base ball. and the alI-year coach
has the backing Of the entire undergrad
nate borr