Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
TO REVISE OXFORD
ATHLETIC RULING
Resolution Barring Rhodes
Scholars ArOuses Storm of
Adverse Criticism.
COLLEGE SPORT ACTIVITIES

The recent Oxford University rul-
Ing, which restricts the competition
Of the Rhodes scholars for the
British University, is to be remod-
eled. The authorities have aroused q
storm of criticism. and the majority
of the Oxford University students
consider them "grandmotherly," and
at the same time Childish"
1t is generally felt in English ath-
letic circles that If the object was
merely to protect the English school
athlete from unequal competition, it
could have been attained by the i'm
position of an age limit all around. 1t
Is frankly admitted that the resolu-
ton was passed simply because the
Rhodes scholars swept the boards at
this years Oxford freshmen's sport,
and 1t is considered as a reflection on
English athletic ability.
The advisability of adopting a
standard sensible age limit has re-
ceived considerable support, and the
plan favored is that no competitor
shall exceed the age of twenty in the
freshmen's sports, while the age limit
IN university sports is placed at
twenty-four.
A long schedule of games for the
Naval Academy baseball nine was
announced yesterday All the games,
including that with the Army, will be
played on the Annapolis grounds. An
effort is being made to bring one or
more of the professional league teams
to Annapolis during March. The
schedule of games follows: March 81,
Maryland Agricultural College; 20,
Swarthmore; %, University of Penn
sylvania; April 1, Lafayette; 4, Am
herst; 8, Penn State College; 8. Holy
Cross; IL, Lehigh; Is, Johns Hopkins;
IS, University of West Virginia; %,
Harvard; 20, University of Georgia;
20, University of North Carolina; May
3. Dickinson; s, Georgetown; 8, Cath
ole University; 10, Maryland Athletic
Club; Is, Notre Dame University; 20,
st Johns College; 20, Georgetown; ~.
Mount st. Joseph; 30, United States
Military Academy.
Seven championship games were
announced yesterday between
Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and Yale,
in the intercollegiate hockey compe-
tit;on, although there is no regular
all dates being arranged between the
two contestants.
The college basketball situation
with the A. A. u. is being repeated
ali over again. Yale was suspended
las: year after playing the unregis-
tered Crescent Club, of Brooklyn, and
relations between the Ellis and the
amateur body promised to be rup--
tured until the matter was adjusted
amicably. New York University is at
present under the A. A. u. ban, as
the Violet five was suspended auto
natically by playing st. Lawrence
University, which had been in the
amateur body's bad graces for some
time for engaging in a contest with
an unregistered team. At the an
nual meeting of the A. A. u. 1t was
recommended that the body make
no attempt in the future to control
basketball Situations similar to the
present and that of last year prob
recommendation.
Franz Marceau. the fastest distance
runner at Dartmouth College, Is in
the hospital at Hanover suffering
from an injury to both his eyes,
caused by an explosion in the Dart
mouth laboratory a few days ago.
DR.. Frank H. O'Connor, widely
known twenty years ago as baseball
pitcher on the University of Vermont
team, died suddenly of heart disease
yesterday at Brattleboro, VT.
The Wesleyan Athletic Council has
announced that Danny Hutchinson,
the University of Pennsylvania star
quarterback, who coached the team
last fall, will not be re-engaged next
season. There was disappointment
at Wesleyan regarding the two clos
ing games of the season with Will
Jams and Trinity. The team had
made a good showing early In the
season, but slumped in the two last
games.
Pennsylvania will attempt to make
a. splurge in the collegiate lacrosse
circles. A number of candidates re-
ported for the initial practise yester-
day, among whom were several
former Brooklyn High School players.