New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-22
SANW|LLE'S CASE HEARD
Committee Ponders Long, Then
WithhoIdS Its Verdict.
ATHLETIC WAR MAY RESULT
Much Depends on Ruling OF In
tercollegiate Athletic Swim
ming Association.

The executive committee Of the Inter
collegiate Swmmn. Association met al
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house. al
No GA West 18th street. last night. and
at midnight was still discussing the status
Of l.. +. Sanville. the University Of Penn
sylvania swimmer who has been declared
professional by the Middle Atlantic AS
ISOLATION Of the Amateur Athletic Union.
At few minutes before Il O'CLOCK
Goudins X. Wight. Of Princeton. presi-
dent OF the league. announced mat the
committee had been unable Ia make 4
decision and would nave nothing To make
public. He would give no intimaton d.
70 what the association had decided even
tentatively and returned to the meeting
after dismissing every newspaper man in
sight.
Each of the colleges in the league was
represented by two delegates. as follows:
Princeton. Goulding Wight and Eben J'
c. Cross Yale. f. G. Wilson and Manage
Hanler: Columbia. W. NJ. Campbell ana
ID. p. Dickey: College of the city OF New
York, F.. Fielding and the Undergraduate
manager: PENNSYLVANIA. John Gist ana j.
c. Jameson.
sanviIle at the moment is ineligible
and q professional according TO the ~.
A. /. ruling. although the eligibility COM
mittee of the faculty of the University
Of PENNSYLVANIA declared him eligipie
after investigating the charges mat ne
had taught swimming and received COM
pcnsation therefor last summer ~ WAS
to decide whether Sanville should ne per-
mitted to swim. in the league meets mat
last nights conference was called. de-
clsion in the affirmative would mean An
open break with the 4. \. l.
A letter Just received from a man prom
inent in athletics at the University Oh
Pennsylvania seems to place the matter
In a different light This correspondent
says in part:
president Wight of the intercollegiate
Swimming Associ2 ton has been criticised
for calling a meeting TO thrash out san
yille's case instead of looking for redress
from the national body, but the criticism
is totally unwarrantcd. He investigated
before taking any steps, and found that
the Pennsylvania faculty proceeded very
carefully ere IT pronounced on the cligi-
DilitN OF SanNlilc. mere Nd' ho "'''''f'
10 disregard or oppose the Amateur ATM
lctic Union. On the contrary. both the
accused and the chairman Of inc regis
tration committee were asked 10 he pres
ent at the trial held TO look into IN"
charge of professionalism, and II was
ONLY after both mon had been heard that
the college faculty gave its verdict OK
or.r.tirg sanNillc comDlptely.
The claim. therefore, that the union
was sighted IS hardly justified. and Presi-
dent Wight. under the circumstances.
could not but act in accordance with the
INTERCOLLEGIATE rules. which state that n
college must accept the verdict OF the
faculty of any other college ancnt the
eligibility OF its students FOR athletic
sports
AS to tho strength of the evidence
against Sanville. tho writer can testify
personally 10 its being totally hcarsay
and conjecture, absolutely lacking In
proof For the rest II will be realized
that. knowing what notoricty would ~"
given to tho case tho Pennsylvania gen
tlcmen could hardly have pronounced 50
forcefully on Sanville's innocence unless
they felt quito sure OF their ground.