Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-19

Speaking Of this rule. Dean Briggs
wrote: so far as know, we have no
intention of changing It." He also
adds: Il wonder whether you have ev-
er communicated with former Amherst
player named Kane. He was an ex-
traordinary pitcher in his day. played
summer ball. and was, think. either
directly or indirectly, the cause OF a
falling out between Amherst and an
other New England college which OBJ
jected to him on the score of profess
sionalism. year ago he spoke in an
exceedingly interesting way at q meet
ing Of the National Collegiate Athiet-
ic Association in New York. His sub
ject was summer BALI, and he dwelt.
If I remember rightly, on the disad-
vantages and dangers of it, on the
money rewards of it, and on the desir-
ableness of warning undergraduates
about II in perfectly clear language"
DR.. Raycroft states that at Prince
ton Complete opposition describes the
attitude of the Princeton athletic au-
thorities to both summer baseball and
the tendency of collegennen to take up
professional baseball after graduation.
1t Is felt that, in spite of the fact that
professional baseball is a perfectly le-
Ultimate and honorable vocation, men
with college training. even though they
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 the
direction of more rigid enforcement.
| AS the undergraduate comes to have
/ a clearer understanding of the various
factors involved in the summer base
/ ball question there seems to be a
] growing sentiment against the prac-
/ tice.'
! Dr. Fauver of Wesleyan University
| wrote: Our college is opposed to col
legemen taking part in summer base
/ BALL. The reasons for Wesleyans po-
sition are:
I'VE 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 cam
not resist. 1 could give you definite IL
Illustrations of the fact not only of
Wesleyan men but of men from other
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-
mer baseball. The athletic Association,
however. is governed by the rules of
the |. A. A. which is against profess
| sionalism. They made consistent eff
forts to maintain purify in sports.
enclose clippings which will give you
i some idea ef the attitude of President
| Hadley and Captain Blossom. They
show that President Hadley is I'M
conditionally opposed and Captain
| Blossom is in favor of summer base
ball.
The stadium fever is spreading west
ward. The University of Michigan Is
about to step in line and erect a Sec
ton OF a reinforced concrete structure
| along the lines of those new buildings
at Lehigh and Cornell. This new foot
ball amphitheatre was made practical
| ly certain at a meeting of the board in
control of athletics, when that body
expressed itself favorable to the ten
tative sketches and plans prepared,
which had been previously examined
and accepted by the Board of Regents.
The regents, at their session. recon-
mendeG that the athletic board adopt
the plans.
AS prepared, the plans for the con-
crete stand call for the erection of
structure which will eventually form
a component part of a stadium. models
ed after that of Harvard University
at Cambridge. The stand will be de-
signed to accommodate $4,000 persons.
and it is estimated that the cost will
be between 900 and $50, 900. Accord
ing to the action taken by the athletic
board, the whole of the work will be
done under the immediate supervision
of the athletic association.
The first track and field meet pro-
pheey of the new year comes from the
Pacific Coast where trainer Walter
Christie of the University of California
squad. predicts that the Stanford Uni
versity team will defeat the Berkeley
athletics by a score of about 81 to So
points. Christie figures out Stanford
will win majority of its points in the
track events. Some leeway must be
given the forecast since the trainer in
predicting the defeat of his team nat
urally had an object in view.
The long continued agitation for a
new and modern gymnasium at Har-
ward appears to have accomplished the
desired effect. President Lowell re-
Gently gave his official sanction to the
movement and graduate COMMITTEES
had been appointed to begin a cam
paign among the graduates for the
necessary funds. Undergraduate COM
mittees have been at work for over a
year obtaining pledges and collecting
| subscriptions from the students. The
} graduate committee will probably in
clude those of the alumni who have
: been actively interested in Harvard
athletics.
General plans for the building Itself
have been drawn up, which will be
used except for a few notifications.
They call for a swimming tank. an
!, artificial ice rink and indoor tennis,
squash and handball courts. The prob
able location of the new building will
be along the Charles River near Sol
diers Field and the lighthouses. The
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