The Washington times., 1914-01-28
Executive Action Follows
WrangIe Between Coaches
of TarheeI Athletics.
Follows
By THOMAS KIRBY.


The Georgetown Virginia athletic
breach, in its various ramifications, has
extended to such limits that it now
includes an executive action by the
governor OF North Carolina calling for
resumption of relations between .wo
of that States institutions.
When the rupture between George
town and Virginia came, one Of the evil
dences of lack of appreciation of the
proper spirit. on the part OF Georgetown
came through the publication OF a corrc-
Spondence of John L. Hegarty t. the
University Of North Carolina, in which
IL said that Hegarty, who is a former
Georgetown captain. could readily i'm
port material for the Improvement OF
the Carolina teams
Hegarty, i'm rebuttal, said that he had
received assurances from certain Tar
Heel authorities that they stood ready
to offer inducements to athletes. Later
Hegarty accepted position as coach at
the North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College, which is TO longer
related in athletics with the State Uni
versity.
Now comes Governor Craig OF North
Carolina in a proposition 10 the trustees
of the two State institutions with a
proposition that il their athletics are on
the proper plane. they should play: il
the ethics of sport are not lived up TO-
all athletics in the respective colleges
should be abolished. This presents a
rather unique situation, and one that
will be watched by Doth sides. who
have Contended that neither of the
Carolina institutions have lived I'D to
the proper eligibility requirements
In connection with the controversy be
tween Georgetown and Virginia comes
the following to the Richmond Times
Dispatch from Chapel Hin, the seat
of the University of North Carolina:
The Cartmeli-Hegarty miN-uD shifts
its focus of attack from that OF a per-
sonal bout between two professional
coaches TO the issue whether or not the
colleges involved in the tangle are
cOuntenancing professional athletics
The fight now directly centerS its force
on the colleges that admit of a mixture
OF professionalism with amateur ath-
letics.
Nat Cartmen maintains that Jack
HeEarty divertS the original charge
which Ec lodged against him that he
was encouraging professional athletics
in suggesting las IIegarty Clainsl that
he bring football men southwark by
quoting two letters from 4 carolina
summer law student 20 an Agricultural
and Mechanical athlete.
"Cartmell claims that the injection
OF these letters into the controversy TX
altogether JcS-ue lh' ppih'. ip' lte I't =
son that he was not aware Of the cor
respondence between the two students,
at that time being in England.
'"r0 vary the issue is 10 avoid the
challenge extended Hegarty that lie pro-
,Iuc,. the letters to substantla,c the or
iginaI charges brought by the Agricul-
tIIraI and Mechanical coach That Cart
nell suggested that experienced football
men would be Furnished Jobs and schOl-
arships at the university.
Acknowledging that he wrote the
two letters quoted in SUNDAY $ Times
Dispatch. the 1915 member Of Carolina $
Iar class referred to makes known
excerpts from the reply that he re
ceIyed from the Agricultural and Me-
chanical athlete.
,ihIete who played on Otn the base
!aII and football teams, in rejecting
the invitation from IN" Caroline law
.tudcnt gave as his specific reason that
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