The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-09
COLLEGE SPORT
SHOULD HALT IN
SUMMER TIME
SUCH IS THE GENERAL OPINION
AMONG COLLEGE HEADS BUT
THE STATUS HAS THUS FAR
REMAINED PRACTICALLY IN
CHANGED.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

leading eastern colleges and uni erSt-
ties appears certain from recent state
ments Issued by those in positions OF
authority. Notwithstanding that
number of varsity team captains have
publicly stated thaeir belief that stu
dent may play baseball for money or
other inducements during Skinner va
cation and still preserve his amateur
athletic status while in college. these
Utopian days are not for the present
world of undergraduate sport.
consensus of opinion among the
hletic governing bodies; university
fl - ties and prominent amateur attn
letic authorities Shows an overwhelnl-
ing majority against the innovation
which would permit baseball player
to jump from anna eur to professional
ranks and back again according to the
calendar of his college. A recent can
vas of the institutions whose baseball
teams appear on the Amherst schedule,
undertaken by the official organ of that
institution indicates that Of eleven col
Ieges including Yale, Harvard, Prince
ION, Dartmouth, William. Wesleyan,
Columbia, Brown and Y. M. G. A col
lege but two, Tufts and. Massachusetts
Agricultural college. favor summer
baseball Three colleges. Yale, Y. M.
c. A. college and Tufts are non com
initial and have taken no definite sand
while six colleges, namely, Harvard
PriI Ceton, Dartmouth, Williams, Wes-
leyan and Columbia, have definite rules
prohibi ing summer baseball. The
Harvard authorities call attention to
the fact that Harvard has entered into
10 agreement to permit summer base
all in spite of reports 20 the con-
AIRY, based on the opinions. Of the
team captains, that Yale Harvard and
Princeton contemplated such an agree
ment.
Dean La Baron r. Briggs quotes the
Harvard rule governing the case, a.
follows:
mo studen. who has played on any
semi professional niife 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 commit
tee Any trifie or merely technical vio-
alton of this rule shall be judged on
it's meri by the committee"
Speaking of this rule, Dean Briggs
wrote, 80 far as / know, we have no
intention of changing it." He also
adds, II wonder whether you have ever
communicated with a former Amherst
player named Kane. He was an extra
ordinary pitcher in his day. played sum
mer tall, and was. l think either di.
rectly or Indirectly, the cause of
falling ou between Amherst and an
other New England college which OBJ
jected to him on the score of profess
clio a A no in, ~,
exceedir gly interesting way at a meet
ing of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association in New York His SUI jec
was summer ball; ard ne dwelt, If
RENE er rightly. on he disadvantage
and dangers of it, on the money re-
wards Of 1t, and on the desira bleness
of warning undergraduates about il in
perfectly clear language"
DR., Raycroft states that Princeton
Complete opposition describes he at
titude of the Pri ceton athletic author
tiles to both summer baseball and the
tendency OF college men to take up
profess! onal baseball after gradua ion
II is felt that, in spite of the fact that
professional baseball is a perfectly ie-
81 innate and honorable vocation men
with college traini g. even though hey
are good baseball players. should be
encouraged to engage in a more use
full occupation in life If any change Is
made in these rules it will be in he
direction of more rigid enforcement
AS the undergraduate comes to have
clearer understanding OF the various
factors involved In the summer base
ball ques ion there seems To he a grow
ing sentiment against the practice
DR. tFauver of Wesleyan university
wrote: "Our college is opposed to
college men takir part in summer
BASEBALL The reasons for wesleyan's
position are:
I'VE are opposed to summer base
ball on moral grounds. Students who
engage in summer baseball usually
have little else 10 do and hey are thus
subjected to temptations which many
cam OF resist. ] gould give you definite
illustrations of the fact not only of
wesleyan men but of men from her
colleges"
DIR Anderson in outlining the situa-
ton at Yale stated:
THE college as such has taken no
definite stand on the question OF sum-
rner baseball The athletic associa-
tdon however. is governed by the rules
of he I. A. A which Is against profess
sionalism. They made consistent eff
forts TO maintain purity In sports II
enclose clippings which will give you
some idea OF the attitude Of President
Hadley and Capt. Blossom. They show
that President Hadley is uncondition-
ally opposed and Capt. Blossom Is in
favor OF summer baseball"