The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-23
Petitions Circulated for Rein
statement Of Man Who Put
Hatchetites on Map.
OTHER SPORT GOSSIP
Baltimore Orioles to Try Out Pitcher
Thormahlen. Released by Grif
Last Spring.
By WILLIAM PEET.

By WILLIAM PEET.
When the undergraduates OF college
get together for a common cause, sign
a petition and ask for reasonable de-
mands the undergraduates invariably win
out. providing their demands are not ex-
orbitant.
do Your Christmas Shopping Early
was a notice posted on various bulletin
boards at Penn State College last Decern-
Der, and following this came petition
signed by three-fourths Of the under
~radnstes for an extra day or SO to be
added 20 the annual mid winter holidays.
The faculty held meeting. considered
TIE petition. and IN less time than II
mixes to tell, gave the boys what they
WAITED
isis Is only one instance. Small COL
legss throughout the country have petit
tioneA the faculty for certain concessions
and have won their points.
Last Saturday Prof. Leslie C. Meme
mar, the only live Wire at George
Washington. announced that he had re-
signed from the institution. or to be
exact. that re- had rendered his resigna-
tion and Il had been accepted
Prof srcNerlar during tho past two
years had been unusually active in at
tempting a. put George Washington on
the athletic Rap. Through his own eff
forts the old eootball debt had been
wiped out, a baHket-ball team had been
placed IN the feii and indoor meets re-
established
During the lat six months Prof. Ne
Nemar had obtained pledges from enough
students 10 insure the resumption OF
football this falt
On top OF this when his work has only
started, he throws ~ the sponge. claim
ing that the conservative faculty charged
him with exceeding his authority anc
that promotion for Prof. McNemar Il
smbitious) wonlds never come with ths
present regime
The undergr sliuaies Il George Wash
ington to a man went FOOTBALL. basket
ball and track They have pledged
their support to s,iph athletic endeayor
Petitions are aow being circulated AM
signed by all hands 10 have Prof. Nc
Nemar reinStstee In other words thu
students wat the faculty to reconside
its previous aelion IN accepting Prof
McNemars resisnatisn.
During The Last I'VE years Georg'
Washington hos been deprived of tn
greatest colleges sport ever invented
namely football
The conse-vs tive faculty pointed on
to all wlo attempted to revive the spor
that th{re was an old debt hanging owe
the inseitutlsa- This debt was con
tracted during the 1910 football season
wipe out this debt before you tall
about playsug foot6fll again. was tn
word passed cut from that conservative
faculty
together ard wiped out the debt, Their
faf~ M EoH
football would soon be restored. Ono
more the conservative faculty demandet
that THE Ffrds ats must pledge both mora
and financial support II football was I,
be plsysa
Pledges from undergraduates guaran
teeinE tie amount necessary to run
football team next fall were forthcomin,
through the untiring efforts of Prot
llcrysTnfr and his friends. and everything
looked rosy, until the public was In
| formed that Prof. McNemar in doing hi
part t5wards restoring football had ex
ceeder ~, authority. and feeling tina
he would not be supported by the faculty
simply tossed up the sponge.
George Washington students openly de
clare that President Stockton does no
want football. The undergraduates ar
sore because Prof. McNemar saw tn
handgriting on the wall and resigns
his post
There is nobody, II Is claimed, VIII
ran step into Prof. McNemar's shoe
and Ill the bill, that's why the boy
want him back.
After a lapse Of many years footbal
vas restored at Columbia University
New York, despite the opposition o
/ esident Butler. The students demand
ed this sport and they finally got wha
they wanted.
1t will be Interesting to see wha
effect, II any. the student petitions t
President Stockton VIII have for tn
| reinstatement of Prof. McNemar.
Just at present the rumors which hav
been floating around are to the effec
that the conservative faculty at Georg
Washington does not want football.
What will the answer be?
Jack Dunn. manager of the Balti
more Orioles. has signed up for
trial Herbie Thormahlen, the BIZ
southpaw twirler Griffith took t
/ Charlottesville with him last spring
Thormahlen showed the Old Fox
good motion, and fair curve, blu
| no smoke. and Herbie was released /,
II the youngster has been able t
acquire speed to his assortment O
Il pchocto hc may bc aoiO " hccp III
head above water In the Internstiona
League
| Superstitious fans in Cincinnati ar
said to be pulling for the Reds t
lose their opening game this season
Sounds strange, doesn't it? One wouf
think that the Cincy bugs would wan
Herzog's men to win every game the
possibly caA but they figure that tn
i Reds will be better of in the end 1
they take a walloping for a starter
Here's why, according to Bill Phelor
of the Cincinnati Times-Star:
Year after year the Reds have ha
the Cubs for their opponents on open
ing day, the Reds have belted the lin
ing out of the Chicago team; the Red
got away to a brilliant start, held
percentage of 1000 for a few minute
land then-and then? Then the Red
have looped the loop or thrown
back somersault. alighting soiidl
upon their left ear. Since it seem
to be the invariable rule that the Red
when they win the opening gam,
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