Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-15
Delaware TO JOIN
TRACK Conference
Athletic Council Considered
Tentative Ba. ketball
Schedule at Meeting
Last Night
WRESTLING TABOOED
AT INDOOR MEETS

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK. Del, Nov 15.-The ath.
letic council of Delaware College, at
meeting hell last night, decid-
ed to apply for membership in the
Middle States intercollegiate Confer
enee. The suggestion to join this
conference was made by Track Coach
Keves. who pointed out that it would
probably give Delaware better
standing in track athletics to be as
ISOLATED with the class Of colleges
represented in this association.
The Middle States Conference was
organized four years ago and holds
an annual field and track meet in
May of each year on the field of one
of the members. The meet this year
will be held at Lehigh. Mr. Reyes
also pointed out that while IA or 10
colleges are members of the confer
ence. there is not more than half OF
them that have a field adequate to
hold the annual meet on and none
of them have a finer or more ade.
ouate field than Delaware. Some of
the colleges that are members Of the
conference are: New York University,
Stevens. Rutgers. Lafayette. Lehigh,
Muhlenburg, Lebanon Valley, Al
bright. Franklin and Marshall, Buck
nell, Gettysburg, Dickinson, Haver-
ford, Swarthmore and Washington
and Jefferson.
The meet will be held the latter
part OF May. Manager Beauchamp
and Coaches Keyes and McAyoy, are
now working on Delaware's track
schedule for next year There will
be two dual meets at home in addi-
ton to the Middle States Conference
meet and the annual interscholastic
meet A relay team will be sent to
the University of Pennsylvania meet
as usual and there will also be two
dual meets away from home.
Acting Manager d. Horsey present
ed the tentative basketball schedule
10 the council last night. There will
probably be about fourteen games
on the schedule. One game will be
PLAYED before the Christmas holidays
with Pratt at Brooklyn on December
I6 The first home game will be
with Philadelphia College Of Pharm-
acy on January g. There viii be
games with Moravian College. Lafay-
cite. Susquehanna. Pennsylvania
State. George Washington University
Johns Hopkins and games are pend
Ing with Drexel Franklin and Mar
shall. P. NJ. c.. Ursinus and others.
Owing to the decision to play one
game before the Christmas holidays,
basketball practice will start earlier
than was expected Coach McAvoy
will be unable to give any time to It
until football is over but the candi-
dates viii start to practice at once
under the direction of some of the
players who have been playing on
the scrubs and varsity for several
years.
AS has been stated the games as
we'll as practice will take place on
the armory floor this year and the
latter is now being put in shape for
the practice work. Coach McAyoy
will have to pick practically an en-
tirely new team and he is anxious to
see a large number of candidates
out. II is not known as yet what ma
terial there Is in the freshman class.
The football season now drawing
to a close was also discussed. While
the season has not been a great sue
cess financially yet the team for a
new one has done excellent work as a
whole. II was decided to invite mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce of
Wilmington as we'll as some of the
residents Of Newark and Elkton to
be the guests of the Council at the
game next Saturday. This is the
next to the last game of the season.
The Gallaudet College of Washing
ton will be Delaware's opponents.
This game will prove novelty to
those who attend as the Gallaudet
players are deaf and dumb. but not
withstanding this they have a fast
eleven They make all signals with
their hands in the deaf and dumb Ian
guage and generally bother their op
ponents a great deal by getting the
jump on them by swapping the ball in
play before they expect IT,
The final game of the year will be
with Mt. st. Mary's on Thanksgiving
Day and this viii be a hard game.
The Wilmington High School squad
will be invited to attend this game
as guests of the council.
The annual indoor meet between
sophomores and freshmen will be held
this year in the armory early next
month The council last night decid-
ed IN discontinue the wrestling bouts
at this meet in the future. Some
other events will be planned by
Coaches McAvoy and Keyes to take
the place of the wrestling bouts.