Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-08-30
NAvYS VERSION OF
FOOTBALL SQUABBLE
Athletic Committee Issues Com
plete Statement of Transactions.
WILL PLAY GAME is BELIEF.
Department Secretaries in Washington
Take Hand, and Call Conference
for Wednesday.

GlNluR UP q part OF MS vocation
in order to be in close touch with the
controversy over the Army-Navy
football game, Lieut.. Commander
Arthur p. Fairfield, secretary-treas-
urer Of the Navy Athletic Associa-
tion, and the man VIII has full di.
rection of athletics among the mid
shipmen, returned to Annapolis this
morning.
Lieut.. Commander Fairfield would
make no statement further than to
express surprise at the action of the
army Athletic Council, in calling off
81 negotiations, and substituting
Carlisle Indians in place of Navy on
West Points schedule. He acquiesced
in the statement as issued by the ex-
ecutive committee yesterday after.
noon.
There was very little formal dis
cussion today among naval officers
over the tangle. They prefer to
await the conference arranged at the
instance of secretary % the Navy
Daniels, and Secretary of War Gar
risou, to be held in Washington on
Wednesday next at which the athletic
committees of the rival academies
will be pres ept
There is decided sentiment here,
not only in naval circles, that Wash
ington being the seat of the national
COVE rnment, is the logical place for
playing the annual football game.
Ii took Secretary Daniels and
Acting Secretary of War Brecken-
bridge very few minutes to decide
after they got in conference to take
hand in the settlement of the ques-
tion as to whether there is to be an
Army-Navy football game this fall
After a very brief conference
they announced that they would ask
the directors of the respective Acad.
emy athletic associations to come to
Washington next Wednesday to talk
over the situation.
Both Army and Navy officers in
Washington expressed the opinion
that the game would be played as
usual. 1t was pointed out that sew
eral times in past years situations
similar to the present have arisen,
and that an agreement was finally
reached.
Secretary Daniels rece ived tele-
gram from Secretary Garrison ap-
proving the proposed conference. The
contest may be staged in Washing
ton hereafter. Secretary of Navy
Daniels and Assistant Secretary of
War breckenridge are in favor of
the national capital for the scele 3f
the great gridiron contest and will
bring pressure on the athletic asso-
Citations of West Point and Annapolis
to transfer the game to Washington
in view sof the dissatisfaction with
Philadelphia
1t is Assistant Secretary Brecken-
BRIDGES idea that the seating capac-
ity ot the American League Park in
Washington can be increased by the
creation of temporary stands in or
der to accommodate the crowds that
swarm to these contests.
Holding in effect that the Athletic
Council of the Army Athletic Asso-
citation was unfair in insisting on its
demand to play the West Point-An-
napolis football game on the Polo
Grounds, New York, because of the
gre tier difficulty for the Annapolis
contingent in going to and from the
game, the executive committee of
the Navy Athletic Association yester-
day afternoon gave out a statement
in answer to that of the Army Coun-
ell, as a result of which the big SER
vice game has been cancelled and
West Point has scheduled a game with
the Carlisle Indians instead.
''The statement of the naval COM
mittee recites briefly the history of
all transactions between the commit
tees of the rival academies in con-
nection with the efforts to arrange
for this years game, and shows that
the Navy expressed a willingness to
have the battle staged at any equi-
distant point between the two acade-
mics. That the Navy has ever been
favorable to Franklin Field, Phila-
delphia. was due largely to this, and
it is further felt that the conditions
under which the distribution of tick
cts were conducted had the effect of
placing the game more under college
instead of commercial auspices.
The contingent of naval officers
here is keenly peeved over the action
of the Army Couacil. One remark
heard today was that Army quits
after three consecutive defeats. To
say that the Army's action was a
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