Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-20
LIMIT LEAGUE TO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Constitution Adopted by Four
Bodies That Will Compose
City Athletic Organization.
BAR ST. BENEDICT'S PREP

All hopes for a secondary school
league we're blighted yesterday after
noon when at a meeting OF the newly
formed Newark High Schools Ath-
letic Association the majority Of the
four schools voted to limit the COM
petitions of the league to the public
high schools of the city. The repre-
sentatives of the schools were appar-
emily loath to come out directly and
settle the question, whether or not
the other secondary schools of the
city were to be admitted. The prin-
cipal matter of business on the after
Moons order was the adoption of the
constitution which had undergone an
extensive revision since Randall War
den presented 1t at the initial meeting
several weeks ago. Barringer and
East Side advocated the insertion of
the word public In article one of
the constitution. This insertion made
the instrument exclude ST. Benedict's
and Newark Academy, as 1t confined
the competition to the public high
schools of the city. Central High
School and South Side were In favor
of the non-appearance of the word
public"
"A dioo6t CCAAChI Wdo wv
dent in the vote on the arti-
Gle on membership, Barringer and
East Side again voted to con-
fine the membership in the body to
the public schools, with South Side
and Central disagreeing. Randall
Warden, the physical director of the
public schools. had the deciding vote
on both questions and supported Bar
ringer and East Side.
At this juncture, William Wiener,
principal of Central, addressed the as
ISOLATION and stated that he regretted
the fact that the league had not
adopted a liberal policy in Its forma-
ton and included all of the secondary
schools of the city. This brought
forth q protest from Wayland 70.
Stearns, principal of Barringer. Mr..
Stearns asserted that he did not OPP
pose the admittance of the other Sec
ondary schools of the city, IL the meet
ings thus far had not had as an OBJ
ject the promotion of athletics In the
public high schools of Newark. "If
Saint Benedicts and Newark Academy
are to be admitted" said Mr.. Stearns
in part, '1et us drop all of the work
that we have done and go about the
matter in the right way. If the league
Is to be an association of the secon-
Diary schools of the city, let us invite
the representatives of those schools
here and begin the fashioning of such
q body from the ground up. All OF
the work we have done to date has
been toward the organization,of an as
ISOLATION for the promotion OF an Or
ganization for the promotion of ath-
letics in the public high schools"
Coach Horace Butterworth, of the
East Side High School, said that Prin-
cipal Pickwick, of the Down Neck
School, had instructed him to with
draw from the organization II the
other schools of the city were to be
admitted into the association. The
East Side coach further stated tEat
his school had taken part in the ar
rangements thus far only because 1t
did not want to be the only public
High School in the city not in the
league.
The reason given for the East Sid
ers opposition to the liberal plan was
that finances at that school could not
support it's athletes in any league
but rather than be the only High
School inactive in the public High
School organization, it had entered
the work of organizing despite the
inadequacy of its facilities. Mr.. War
denis deciding vote came into action
again. and it was decided to continue
as q public High School body. st.
Benedict's application for membership
was passed upon later, 1t being decid-
ed to communicate with Father Cor
nelius of the High street institution
and inform him of the fact that the
league had been organized for the
benefit of athletics in the public high
schools rather than the government
and the award of city championships.
All the representatives wished to be
recorded as having acted impersonahy
with the objects of the association as
they interpreted them In view. South
Side withheld its vote on tie st. Ben
edict matter.
The designation Of the track and
field championship events came in for
extensive discussion. 1t was finally de-
cided to leave the question to the dis
erection of committee of four physi-
cal instructors of the high schools,
Other important decisions of the aft
ernoon were that no part time stu
dent shall be eligible to represent lbs
school in athletics and that no boy
shall represent his school after his
attendance shall have amounted to
four and one-half years" The age
limit of an athlete was placed at