Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-05

InSS and It was decldeu to Wrlte 10 authorities on athletics and the an swers received resulted ill the award ing of the cup. Chairman Nicl1erson wrote the following letter:
 Mir George J. Fisher, M. D., 1e4 East 18th St, New York City. Dear MT Fisher: have been r1n-
 ming a Tug of War league here for
 the last month and during one of the contests a little dispute arose between two teams and I will state the facts
 as clearly as possible as l would ike your opinion of same, as I would like bol teams to be sure to get square
 deal in the matter. Now on these nights when we had the contests we had a large audience in the gallery
 each night and on this night we had an extra. large crowd
 The two teams took their positions
 on the boards to pull. We had one
 man for budge and one for timekeeper The tinekeeper announced every hald
 minute also stated where the rope
 was, in whose favor, until the min
 these two teams. the St Mary's so- ciety and the Third Co, started to
 pull, the rope see-sawed back and
 forth until the 1-2 minute period was reached when the Third Co. gained 3
 inches. Then the crowd in the gallery started to cheer and at the same time the timer announced 2 1-2 minutes
 3 inches for Third Co. The anchor
 for Third Go. mistook the timer to say minutes instead of inches and
 he supposed that the time was up got up from his position on the board
 and walked away. Then the dispute
 arose, the tiIneloeeper did not state when the minute period was Up and
 nobody knows where the rope was at the 3 minute period.
 Well, the judge and the two cap tains went into the office to settle the
 matter. The Third Co. team wanted
 to pull it over and the St. Mary'S cap tain would not pull over, claiming they
 had won it when the Third Co. team
 Jeff the board. The judge was in favor
 of both teams pulling 1t over, but as the St. MaTy's team would not pull
 again the judge awarded the contest to the St. Mary's team on the ground that the other teams anchor left the
 as chairman of the tug of war com mittee, a protest from the Third Co.,, protesting the matter on the grounds that the timer never announced when time was up or where the rope was.
 On receiving this protest I had the secretary call a. meeting at once of the committee, which consisted of the six
 captains of the teams. to take action cn the protest at once. which they did, and voted to in favor of having
 the teams pull over I am writing to you to get your opinion on the mat ter as this contest decides the win ner of the cup as neither team has lost outside of this protested contest.
 Thanking you for any advice you
 might give on the matter. remain, Yours sincerely, c, II. MCPHERSON, Physical Director. Tn response to his writing he re- ceived the following two letters: My Dear Friend Nickerson:
 I have your letter in which you pre- sent the dispute over the tug of war contest.
 There is, in my judgment, only one thing to be done in this case and that is to have the teams compete again. It is clear that the test was rot completed. To award the contest to any one team would be giving the team something which they did not earn legitimately. If the teams re fuse to compete again to decide the contest fairly. it should be declared
 no contest and no one should receive {