Evening star., 1915-12-07
NEW COLLEGE RULES
MAY HELP ATHLETES
Princeton, Yale and Harvard Likely
to Sanction Restricted Sum.
mer Base Ball.

NEW YORK, December As a re-
suit of the joint meeting here last week
between the eligibility committees Of
Harvard, Yale and Princeton universi-
ties. there is strong probability that
the five Yale athletes who were de-
clared ineligible to compete in sports
several weeks ago because they played
summer base ball will be reinstated.
This joint committee had no authority
to take any action on this matter, but
the Yale members talked over the case
of the athletes with Harvard and
Princeton committeeman, and all were
inclined to recommend the restoration
of the debarred athletes to good stand
ing.
The provisional rules drawn up by
the joint committee were taken to the
three institutions to be submitted to
Of the universities. AS soon as these
boards pass upon them, which will be
within a few weeks. Yale will take
action ON the question of reinstating
her athletes. The Yale committee will
make this ruling with the approval of
the committees of the other two insti-
tutions.
May Be Reinstated.
The men who may be reinstated are
Harry Legore, who has played foot ball
and base ball on the varsity teams;
Capt Arthur Milburn of the base ball
nine. Spencer Pumpelly, Bill Easton and
Robert Rhett. all candidates for the
base ball team. They violated the anna
teur rules by playing base ball last
summer for their board at a summer
colony on Long Island. They did this
base ball coaches. who assured them
that in playing they violated none of
the rules governing Yale's eligibility
code. Since that time the coach has
wrong, and has taken the entire blame
of the affair upon his own shoulders.
He insists that the Yale athletes did
not violate the spirit of amateurism.
The facts of the case were laid be-
fore the joint committee last Saturday
by Prof Robert N. Corwin of the Yale
committee, and at the end Of the meet
ing the fifteen members were agreed
that hereafter each university should
be governed by set of rules which
would not permit a repetition of the
Legore case.
Must Get Permit.
1t is believed the new code will per-
init college players to play ball during
the summer. but before doing so they
must place their cases before the ath-
letic authorities. The college authori-
ties will be the sole judges as to what
will constitute playing for expenses"
Playing for money with a recognized
professional team will not be sane
toned. But it is believed the new code
will open the way for college players to
play ball on teams at summer resorts,
where they receive their board and in
that way find an excellent chance to
improve their game. College base ball
players. as a rule. play ball somewhere
during college recess.
This broader view of the amateur
question seems to meet the approval of
many former college players with
whom it was discussed yesterday. The
question has been regarded in many
colleges with disdafn and alarm. 1t is
now believed that before the next COL
lege base ball season the matter will be
adjusted to the satisfaction of all the
eastern colleges. Under these new con-
ditions. college players will no longer
have to resort to the practice of play
ing under cover or under assumed
names in order to keep up their base
ball activity during the summer vaca-
ton.