Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-23
FOOTBALL CRITICS CONDEMN
YALE ATHLETIC ASSN
For Barring Lecore and Others from
intercollegiate Contests.

For Barring LeGore and Others from
+ intercollegiate Contests.
Most OF the football critics through
out the country condemn the Yale
University Athletic association for its
action in Barring i've varsity athletes
from intercollegiate composition in
athletics. After survey Of the Sit
uation Fair Play OF the New York
Evening Post has the following to say: 4
Thus a silly and ill-advised restric-
ton upon university baseball players |
takes toll of a group OF promising. |
clean, intelligent boys. who, faced |
with prospects of a pleasant sojourn /
one of the wealthy cottagers. saw no
reason why they should not spend the
summer in the manner outlined As
result, they are cut down In the
they gone to the resort to play ball
in the capacity of walters. with their
hands held open behind them for tips. I
they would not then have been tech
meal professionals they would have
\ been unspotted amateurs. and would
now be eligible to represent Yale.
! What poppycocki There are a hun
/ dred ways of evading It. and II Is con-
| stantly being evaded in hundred
ways; its chief use is in teaching boys
the arts of regeneration and deceit
1t is high time that our university
/ athletic authorities began to study
their summer baseball rules with some
/ of the manliness and courage and
general spirit of the FIVE Yale player
| who offended in ignorance. and when
| enlightened brought word of their
guilt (sic) to the proper authorities
And why were they ignorant? II the
Yale authorities were as deeply con-
| cerned in the dissemination of the va
rious phases and shadings of the sum-
mer ball rules as they are in uphold
ing them, it is quite likely the present
/ situation would not have been brought
about. That the players were ig-
norant may not be questioned: for
certainly their attitude in the matter
warrants no other conclusion.
/ ]. P. Sinnott Of the New York Eve
ming Mail says:
In the history Of amateur athletics
! in this country there has never been
a more asinine ruling than that which
costs Yale university the athletic SER
vices OF Harry LeGore, Arthur NJ.
Milburn, William Easton, Spencer A.
Pumpelly and Robert G. Rhett, Jr. All
FIVE are debarred' from participation
in Yale athletics through the techni-
cal. violation of a summer baseball
rule they knew nothing of and which
they ceased to violate the moment they
were informed of its existence. It is
necessary to quote only one sentence
from the statement issued and signed
by Robert y. Corwin, chairman. and
George Parmly Day, treasurer.
1T seems only fair. however. to the
players for the association to publicly
express the regret that because of
carelessness of its officer and COM
mittee these men have inadvertently
violated the rule mentioned"
Through the carelessness of its Of
ficers and committee these men have
inadvertently'-do you get that
Through the carelessness of the ath-
letic body that now debars them from
competition five Of the greatest ath-
letes in the university violated. mad
| vertently, n rule to abolish the faint
by the erring committee.
4 AmateuriSm in this country is and
has been for years more or less Of q
joke. Rulings like this make II a farce
indeed.
None of these Yale men played ball
for money None of them need to.
Harry LeGore. at least, can get a big
league salary any time he wants TO
turn professional. The Quoque Field
club merely plays ball for the amuse-
ment of the residents of that section
/ of Long Island. Its players are never
paid. For years varsity men from all
the colleges have played around
Quoque during the summer months.
The Yale Athletic association Is
making itself ridiculous. II LeGore
Milburn Pumpelly. Rhett AMI Easton
are debarred from further intcrootirai-
ate competition IL Ssili be he most
>
name of maudlin anaUeurisrn.
The Providence Journal prints the
, following:
, The barring OF five crack athletes
from teams by the Yale athie.c au-
thorities as q punishment for violating
the law relating to playing summer
baseball, calls attention again to the
fact that no matter how earnestly the
opponents Of simon pure athletics la
; Dor to rid baseball from the taints
= ~
possibleto to achieve the desired re-
: suits.
{ Yale and Harvard in particular are
/ sticklers for keeping their athletes IN
. the straight and narrow path of pure
athletics, but the announcement thai
r the former has been forced to declare
r ineligible five members of the 1911
4 baseball team for fracturing the much
discussed and much abused law show.
how gigantic is the task.
e 1t has been pointed out several times
e in these columns that the system II
\ vogue at Brown is the only proper
G one. The authorities on the hill crap,
e pied with the simon pure problem
= many years before arriving at harp,
q solution. Now they allow the student.
/ to play summer baseball to thei
hearts content, the only provision be
v ing that they play with no clubs tina
i operate under the banner of organized
e baseball or with team in the Fed
- eral league.
= Brown does not force her students
r to resort to subterfuge in order 4
S win a place on teams athletes repre-
senting the hill teams have nothing q
= be ashamed of when they take tn,
= field. The college world knows wher
Z they stand and they rub elbows II
d intercollegiate battles with many play
s ers who were with them on teams o
4 played against them during the sum
: mer season.
n COLUMBIA OPENS FOOTBALL
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