Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
GEORGETOWN FAILS
TO HOLD MEETING
Election of Athletic Association
Officers Deferred Until First
Sunday in June.

Not in number of years has there
been as much excitement as that mani
tested at a meeting of the athletic as
ISOLATION which was held yesterday al
Georgetown. About 400 students as
sembled for the purpose of electing diff
ferent officers for the athletic assoc.a-
ton for the coming year and also for the
purpose of electing assistant manager for
both track and base ball. Never has
there been a larger representation from
the downtown schools as that winch
turned out yesterday. About 29o students
from the law. dental and medical schools
turned out for the purpose of elect.nG the
men whom they believed would be OF
valuable assistance to Georgetown in run
ming its athletics next season.
The constitution at the hilltop says thai
the annual meeting in the spring VIII DC
held on the first Sunday in June. For the
past five years however. this meeting has
always been held the second Sunday In
May The reason for doing this is to
give the downtown schools opportEn-
ity to voice their sentiments i'm rtnding
the affairs which they are most inter
ested in. However. yesterday the Faculty
director of athletes announced before the
meeting had gone Very far that the con-
spect that the meeting would have TO be
held on the set date, but stated that n
the association was willing to amend
the constitution and vote to do that IT
would be agreeable to him. but that 1t
order to pull the election off it would re-
uuire a two-thirds majority of the votes.
At this point considerable nose was
made, and Capt. Harry Costello OF the
foot ball team made remarkable speech
Costello stated that the election should
he fty.tr tnfk In
June it would be the means of keeping
several members of the downtown schools
away from the elect on. as the downtown
schools close the last week of this month,
and most OF the students would be away.
Costello also stated that hard feeling
would be the result. and for all concerned
it would be advisable to hold the meeting.
Sullivan. law student. and Mcnamara
and Williams two college men, took the
same attitude. Curry. freshman. de-
Tended his class by stating that the rules
of the constitution should be abided by.
When the men from the downtown
schools found out that a vote had to be
taken on order to decide the question.
1t would be imposs BILE for them to be
there at the meeting held i'm June.
After much discussion the faculty di-
rector arose and announced that ne
would be perfectly willing to allow
the meeting to be held next Sunday, IL
the association was willing. At this
point Williams arose and stated that
vote should take place in order to de-
eide whether or not the meeting would
be held now or the first Sunday in
June. A vote was taken. and the mo-
ton was lost by only eleven votes. SO
that the bitter fight ended.
The freshmen were victorious at the
election yesterday. The fight was be-
tween the freshmen and sOphomores.
and as the freshmen were bitterly OPP
posed to the meeting OF yesterday, be-
cause they believed that with the large
number of the downtown students
away from the meeting they would be
able to win. Whether or not they will
win is at the present n much debated
question. 1t was realized that IL the
election was held yesterday the sopho-
mores would win, but now that their
hackers will be out of the city it re-
mains to be seen whether or not the
upper classmen at the college will
stick by the sophomoreS.