The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-11
WILL THEY INsTIGATE AN INVESTIGATION AS TO THE VIOLATION OF SUMMER BASE BALL RULE?
By CHARLES N. GREER

pr. W. l.. Dudley of Vanderbilt unlNer- sity will leave today to attend the annual meeting of the Southern Intereol- legiate Athletic association. of which he Is president. to be held at New Orleans Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Repre- sentatives of practically every college of any importance below the Mason-Dixon line will be on hand
 In addition to the election of officers, the trial of the University of Mississippi for caneelltng a game with Mississippi A. and NJ. and the deciding of place for the 1913 track and field championship meet will also be brought up. pr. Dudley will certainly be reelected president of the organization, since he has been it's ruling figure for many years.
 officers of the organization are. Presi- dent William l.. Dudley: vice presidents, First district which comprises North and South Carolina, Walter NJ Riggs: Second district. Georgia, Alabama and Florida, John Morris. Third district Louisiana and Texas, B. M Walker; Fourth district, Kentucky and Tennessee. Brown Ayres.
 The executive committee consists of pr. N. l.. Dudley. Vanderbilt; w. NJ. Riggs, Clemson. E. IT. Holmes, Mercer. B. M. Walker, Mississippi \. and NJ; Brown Ayres, University of Tennessee. John Morris. University of Georgia; pr. D. O. McGooney, secretary of the faculty com mittee on athletics will represent Tulane university.
 1t is certainly to be hoped that the s. l. A. A. officials in their meeting will at +,1 f1, ent conditions of southern collegiate ath- letics and find out whether or not their pet summer baseball rule is being en- forced to any considerable extent.
 If some enterprsng delegate should of- fer to start an Investigation it's u 10 to shot that the pious athletic fathers would be so completely astounded by the audacity that they would endeavor to find some rule whereby the delegate would be ineligible to "compete' during the meet ings And these fathers have good reas- ons for wanting to ward off these in vestigations It would bring to light situation that would make some of the blind adherents of the association quake for some time to come. Moreover, if by some miraculous chance they should inst- gate a careful investigation, and after ward inform the public that they found their farelal baseball ruling to be meet ing with enforcement 1t will hardly be in print before these august members will be cited to some inside situations that will make them wish that they had pursued their old policy of shutting their eyes to real conditions.
 It is certainly d pity that an organiza- ton which has done as much for athletics as has the s. I. A. A should stubbornly refuse to remedy this summer bas II ruling which is undermining the veiy strength of the association'
 However, such conditions cannot last long. Already the students of the va rous colleges are beginning to ehafe un- der the injustice embodied in this summer baseball rule, and are beginning to take steps toward remedyng il. Leading this movement the publications of the Uni- Yersity of Alabama and Louisiana State university are Investigating the present situation and writing 10 the editors of their fellow publications to aid them in their. work. When the students them selves get behind the movement and awaken fully to the real situation, 1t will no longer be considered crime 10 play baseball in the summer