New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-07

charge Of aquatic sports in bygona
years. In addition TO above, II may in
terest you 10 hear that a rule which
l have been informed has been passed
by the athletic committee OF the n. Y
A. c. has been enforced with great in
consistence by the captain on occasion
of the Sportsman Show of 1913, in
Madison Square Garden. Yours, very
truly. (Signed) CHAS. RUBEL.
Jake Stumpf, chairman of the regis
tration committee, said last night that
If he or any member Of his committee
had seen the correspondence, the swim
mers would never have been suspended
He blamed the New York Athletic Club
for not acquainting him with the true
facts Of the case. He declared that the
only official notification he had re
ceived was that the men had refused
TO compete and that there was only
one course open to the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, and that was to suspend
them.
The New York Athletic Club adopted
no half way measure in the matter
Matt Halpin, chairman of the athletic
committee, called a meeting yesterday
where a set Of resolutions were drawn
up urging a withdrawal from +he Met
ropolitan Association of the Amateur
Athletic Union. The resolutions are
as follows:
Whereas: The acting captain of the
New York Athletic Club on December
%, 1914, in writing, officially requested
the management of the swimming de-
partment of the Sportsmen's Show,
held at Madison Square Garden, jan
uary TO 9, 1915, inclusive, to cancel
all entries received from New York
E Atb1a+ic Cluk mprOb hers. and
Whereas: The management OF the
swimming department of the said
Sportsmens Show notified the acting
captain of the New York Athletic Club
by letter dated December 80, 1914, that
he had, in accordance with such re-
quest, rejected all entries received by
him, from members of the New York
Athletic Club; and
Whereas: The chairman of the regis
/ tration committee of the Metropolitan
Association thereafter notified the
chairman of the committee on athletics
Of the New York Athletic Club, OH
cially, in the presence of Arthur Nc
Aleenan, sr., and representatives OF the
press, that the members of the New
York Athletic Club whose entries had
been received were suspended for de-
clining to swim at the SpOrtsmen 5
Show held at Madison Square Garden
January 2 to 9, 1915, inclusive, pur-
suant 10 the directions of the acting
captain of the New York Athletic Club;
/ and.
whereas: The chairman of the regis
tration committee Of the Metropolitan
Association thereafter arbitrarily re-
fused 10 grant a hearing to the chair
man of the committee on athletics OF
the New York Athletic Club before
suspendng the said members Of the
} New York Athletic Club. and thereafter
did suspend said members; therefore
be it
Resolved: That the committee on
athletics recommends to the board OF
governors that the New York Athletic
/ Club resign Immediately from the Met
ropolitan Association.
Matt Halpin Feels Bitter.
Matt Halpin was bitter against the
registration committee last night. lie
would make no statement which coulc
be in any way taken as official, but
/ aired his individual views on mum
/ Der Of points.
He expressed the sentiment of :
number of New York Athletic Clut
men when he said that the point whicf
! sank deepest and ranked sorest wa'
+ that the registration committee actec
ON the complaint of an individual pro
moter without giving the club chance
10 state its case.
When told that the swimmers hat
been reinstated Halpin would make ne
comment lie simply said that th.'
resolutions would have to pass through
the regular channels and be acted upoi
in a regular manner.
Otto Wahle, of the swimming com
mittee of the Amateur Athletic Union
is greatly wrought up on the matter
Ii was limited that he solicited the, en-
tries of the swimmers. He made
sweeping denial of the charge in let
ter TO Captain George j. Corbett, act
ing captain of the New York Athletl
Club.