The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-09
SUMNER BASEBALL"
BY COLLEGE MEN
Those in Authority in Most of the East
ern Colleges Inclined to Oppose Plan
to Permit the Students to
Play for Money.

New York, March 9.--That the status
OF the collegian who plays summer
baseball" will remain unchanged at the
leading eastern colleges and universities
appears certain from recent statements
issued by those in positions of author
lity. Notwithstanding that number OF
varsity team captains have publicly
stated their belief that student may
play baseball for money or other induce
ments during summer vacation and still
preserve his amateur athletic status
while in college, these Utopian days are
not for the present world of undergrad
uate sport.
A consensus of opinion among the
athletic governing bodies; university
faculties and prominent amateur ath-
letic authorities shows an overwhelming
majority against the innovation which
would permit baseball player to jump
| from amateur TO professional ranks and
back again according to the calendar of
his college. A recent canvass of the in
stitutions whose baseball teams appear
on the Amherst schedule, undertaken by
the official organ of that institution, in
dicates that OF II colleges including
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth,
William, Wesleyan, Columbia. Brown,
and y. NJ. G. A. college, but two, Tufts
and Massachusetts, Agricultural college,
favor summer baseball. Three colleges,
Yale, y. NJ. c. A. college, and Tufts
are non-committal and have taken no
definite stand, while six colleges. namely
Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, VIII
liams. Wesleyan and Columbia, have
definite rules prohibiting summer base.
ball. The Harvard authorities call at.
tention TO the fact that Harvard has
entered into no agreement TO permit
summer baseball, in spite OF reports to
the contrary, based on the opinions OF
the team captains, that Yale, Harvard
and Princeton contemplated such an
agreement.
Dean La Baron R. Briggs quotes the
Harvard rule governing the case, as fol-
lows:
No student who has played ON any
semi professional nine or in any such
so-called summer baseball nine, shall
represent the university in any public
athletic contest until he has received
special permission from the committee.
Any trife or merely technical violation
its by the committee
Speaking Of this rule, Dean Briggs
wrote, so far as know, we have no
intention OF changing it," He also adds,
II wonder whether you have ever cam
munieated with a former Amherst play
err named Kane. He was an extraordi-
nary pitcher in his day, played summer
ball, and was, | think, either directly
or indirectly, the cause of falling out
between Amherst and another New Eng.
land college which objected to him on
the score of professionalism A year ago
he spoke in an exceedingly interesting
way at meeting Of the National Col
legiate Athletic association in New York
His subject was summer BALI; and he
dwelt, il ] remember rightly, on the
disadvantages and dangers of it, on the
money rewards of it, and on the de-
sireableness of warning undergraduates
about it in perfectly clear language"
DIR. Rayeroft states that at Princeton
Complete opposition describes the atti-
tude of the Princeton athletic authori-
ties to both summer baseball and the
tendency of collegemen to take up pro-
fessional baseball after graduation. 1t
is felt that, in spite of the fact that
professional baseball is a perfectly le
gitimate and honorable vocation, men
with college training, even though they
are good baseball players, should be en-
couraged to engage in a more useful oc
cupation in life. If any change is made |
in these rules, it will be in the direction |
of more rigid enforcement. As the
comes to have a clearer I
understanding of the various factors in
volved in the summer baseball question |
there seems to be a growing sentiment |
against the practice"
DIR. Fauver of Wesleyan university |
wrote: "0ur college is opposed to col |
legemen taking part in summer base
BALL" The reasons for Wesleyan's posi-
tion are;
Eve are opposed to summer baseball
on moral grounds. Students who en-
gage in summer baseball usually have |
little else to do and they are thus sub
jected to temptations which many can
not resist. ! eauld give you definite
of the fact not only of Wes-
leyan men but of men from other col
leges."
DIR. Anderson, in outlining the situa-
tion at Yale. stated:
"The college as such has taken no
definite stand on the question of sum
mer baseball. The athletic association,
however, is governed by the rules of
the /. A. A., which is against profess
sionalism. They made consistent efforts
TO maintain purity in sports. In enclose
clippings which will give you some idea
of the attitude of President Hadley and
Captain Blossom. They show that Pres
ident Hadley is Internationally opposed
and Captain Blossom is in favor of sum-
mer baseball
The stadium fever is spreading west
ward. The University Of Michigan IS
2 hnnt To stnn In, line Nd erect