The Washington herald., 1913-02-01
AL0YSIUS QUITS
LOCAL League
Blue and White Basketball
Team Withdraws from
Capital Association.
RULES ARE NOT UPHELD
Hobo" Yoho Signs with the Terre
Haute Club-Manager Griffith
Marathon Judge.
BY c. w. SWAN.


the pennant in the Washington City
Basketball League. as the Aloysius Club
quint withdrew from the circuit last
night at a meeting held at the Y. NJ.
IC. A
On January IS the Aloysius FIVE played
the Georgetown Collegians at George
| town. being defeated by a II to u score
The Collegians played two men who had
not been registered with Secretary
Shurtleff, and the game should have
been given to the Aloysius aggregation.
| The protest was filed the next morning.
and, according to the league rules, these
men should have been thrown out and
the game awarded to the Aloysius Club.
! The standing of the two leading teams
was, Regulars won nine and lost one;
Aloysius won nine and lost two. Alloy
sius had one more game to play with the
Regulars, two with the Collegians. two
with Epiphany. two with the Bull Moose
and two with the National Guard quint
| The loss of this game to the Collegians
practically showed the Aloysius quint out
Of the race. and rather than allow the
game to be awarded to the ColIegians,
Manager Hurley withdrew his five from
| the league.
1T was simply a case OF the old
strong-arm game" said Manager Hurley
| last night. THE game should have been
awarded 10 US. there Is no getting away
! from that, and Secretary Shurtlef will
tell you the same thing. The constitution
of the league says that a player must
he registered fifteen days before he is
eligible to play. and had the league upJ
held its constitution the Aloysius Club
would still be member"
capt. BeauIac OF the Blue and White
five, is also hot after the league. and
Prof. Joyce in particular
Prof. Joyce Is taking this stand In
the matter simply to get the Aloysius
club out Of the race. We have beaten
the Y. NJ. c. 4. team, and as we are onto
their style Of play. can do II again. Prof.
joyce. II he had the interest of the
league at heart would have stood by the
constitution and not tried to break up
the circuit but as ii is the Aioystus
club will not be a member of the league
again" said Capt Beaulac.
Had Prof. Joyce asked me TO allow
him to play man who was not regis
tered 7 would have agreed at once, but ]
do not think he had the right to play
man not eligible without saying some
thing to some official of the AOysius
club. The league should have stood by
the constitution, but as II Is the Aloysius
club was simply forced out of the league.
We have been going along at a rather
fast clip Of late, and l, for one. think
We would have defeated the Regulars
when the game was scheduled. but il is
all over now-the Aloysius club will not
remain in the league. There is a good
reason for our club quitting, and it is not
the loss Of the pennant, either CON-
tinued the Blue and White captain.
II seems a pity that the local basket
ball organization should have all this
trouble about the constitution. II the
league wants a constitution. all right:
but the league should uphold he rules
and not break them to suit the indi-
vidual members Of the league.
Prof Joyce played two men who were
not eligible and the game should have
been given TO the Aloysius club. The
best way out of the trouble was to do
this, and uphold the constitution, but
the league decides that the constitution
is not needed. and rules otherwise.
What's the good of having a constitu-
ton?
Irwin loho, the star receiver of the
Naval Medical bail club, of the Marquette
League. yesterday signed a contract with
the Terre Haute club, of the Central
League. Hobo" as he Is better known,
is one of the most promising young
catchers in this neck OF the woods, and
will have little trouble making good with
the Indiana aggregation.
Yoho is not only a good catcher, but
he is also a pitcher of no mean ability.
Last season he played several games
with the Medicos after the close of the
Marquette League season against some
of the stongest semi-pro teams OF Mary
land and Virginia, and he had little
trouble hitting the best of pitchers. His
many friends predict a brilliant career
for him in the professional ranks.
Manager Griffith, of the Washington
ball club. will set as one of the Judges at
the Memorial Clubs ten-mile Marathon
February & The orflcials will be: Judges
William Peet and Louis Dougher. Field
Judge, Dr. Hudson. Starter, John q.
Stecker. Timers. Capt. Edwards, Prof.
Beckett, and Harry Shurtlefr.
Coach Foley, of the Memorials, has the
following to say regarding the A. A. u:
THE Memorial Athletic Club intends
to dispute very strongly the right of the
s. A. A. A. u. to suspend its members
who will participate in its ten-mile run
to be held on February s. They state
they would like to know by what ways
and means the registration committee can
honestly suspend athletes who will take
part in an event where amateurism is
being observed in the strictest sense.
I'm fact, the Memorial A. c. asks the
registration committee IL these boys VINO
compete are violating any rules of anna
teur athletics or honest American sports
manship. II so. the club would like to
know it. To suspend these boys they
will have to violate some rule of anna
teurism, as some charge will have to be
preferred against them, and II the reg
istration committee advocates amateur
athletics without blenish, it is a mys-
terry to many why il does not start an
initiative reform in its own affairs and
do away with some of the red tape and
rulings which are nothing short of an
archism.
The Memorial Athletic club and many
other Washington organizations have
long tired Of the high-handed manner
and the blundering. annoying. binding,
misty ways that the South Atlantic off,
cials have Of ruling in this section, and
they fully intend to free themselves of
any ties that may bind them to an ir-
responsible body, which has been unable
to deal out Justice in an honest, upright
manner to organizations which put both
time and money into affairs that do
much to add to the interest of athletes
in the South Atlantic Association