New-York tribune., 1918-03-03

? The old programme Of events i,
vogue before the war viii be contested.
but IN the line of exhibitions there
wlll be such demonstrations" as
throwing the javclin and the discus.
"ail-scallng and hand grenade throw
ing President Robert I. Blair. of
Yale, or rather Captain Blair. for the
senior officer of the outgoing admins
'fatlon Is now in the cavairy preparing
Tor the front, presided, and .hc went
'hrough the proposals in Il quick. bust
ness-lke style. He wore his full army
khaki at the conclave and established
record, for it was the first time in
the history of the organization that A
united States army officer presided at
meeting Of the /. {. A. A. A. A
Inc climax of the convention was
reached when the time came 10 decide
on the fate of the track and field meet
ne motion from David O. L. Peter
SON. OF Lafayette, seconded by Julian
T. Bolton, OF Harvard that the cham
pionship be held without change of
programme, and at Franklin FjcId.
Philadelphia, was put to the deleratcs
amid trying stiffness. When Captain
BLAIR put the motion there was long.
drawn-out aye
proposition from PENNSYLVANIA
Inc proposition came from penne,,I.
vanla to abolish the hammer and ,.o
place 1t with the javelin and - aa,t
n
lade throwing. Captain Blair cxnIainea
ia. .i.aI tne recomme endation of the execu-
Iise committee was that these events
oe offered by Pennsylvania in tho linz
Oh exhibitions, or "demonstrations >,
ana as he put IT, Penn nav be ablc
TO get few big Swedes to show the
young students and other spectators
my 10 nurl tne ancient lance"
Murdock L.. kendrick, a former rresi.
dent of the association fron, paff,,s''i
Vanla, came with all his oratorical ma
chlnery olled up 20 attack the contlnu
ance of the hammer as an event dan
gerous in the extreme. but whom HI.
atVen,ion was drawn to the fact that if,
vas one OF the standard events of thn
Otymplc Games he sackened off and
dld not utter a title against tho III
torIc exercise.
1t was reported A. the meeting HAT
lawson Robertson, the Penn. trainer
"as the man to stir up the agitation
against the hammer. The University
! ship.
The California University delegate
introduced an untimely resolution as
10 the ellglbility Of California and Le-
I lana Stanford universities should they
chance not to send teams to the track
and field championships THIS year,
Gustavus T. Kirby. chairman Of the
adVisory board. explained that Article
III of the constitution covered the
point thoroughly and that the resou-
tlon was out Of order anyway He
further explained that even should
California not send a team this year
she would still be eligible in 1919.
This did not satisfy the California
man. who wanted to have the feeling
of the meeting. But Kirby did not
wish any dangerous precedents estab-
lished in the convention. So he poured
another broadside into the man from
the Golden Gate, and he took to the
trenches in retreat by Withdrawing the
resolution.
Another ticklish point was precip-
tated into the convention when the
Hayerford delegate asked about the
fine of $25 imposed on colleges which
failed to hold any sort of track or
field meet during the year It appears
that several of the members Of the
association did nothing toward helping
active competition last year
Class Meet Sufficient
Romeyn Berry, of the advisory board.
came to the rescue Of the Haverfor6
delegate by explaining that even 4
class meet was sufficient to cover the
fine-imposing section of Article III
Both Kirby and Kendrick spoke at
length to the effect that if the |. c. A.
A. A. A. failed to hold the track and
field meet itself it could not be SO
inconsistent as to blame It's members
for not living up 10 the rules Other
colleges were questioned as to how they
Jared with their smaller meets Of the
year and as they were not so very
sure that they lived up to The require
ments they were told to send IN writ
ten reports to the secretary
The fifteen institutions which sent
representatives were Brown, Califor
MIA. Columbia, Cornell Fordharl. Har-
ward, Haverford. Johns Hopkins, La
fayette. NJ. I. T.. New York University,
Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale and
Swarthmore The election of officers
and six members of the executive
board passed off without hitch. there
being no two nominations for any one
office. The result was as follows:
vce-pres dents. Peansey Head. Swarth
more. and David O. Z. Peterson. La
fayette; secretary. Hubert &. Larson.
Columbia; treasurer, Eldred Halsey,
New York University; executive COM
mittee, Robert F. Blair. Yale: Roland
c. Fenner, Pennsylvania; Eugene A.
Lainrorh, Cornell; Lucius N. Butts,
Princeton; Carlton H. Talcott, NJ. /. T.;
Edwin Sears, Dartmouth.
Immediately after its election the
new executive committee held a meet
ing and appointed Gustavus T. Kirby,
Columbia. as referee Of the track and
field championship on Franklin Field
Roland c. Fenner, Of Pennsylvania. was
appointed manager OF the meet.
a question which caused some dis
Cussion il tie middle o. ,he couclave
was whether or not twas advisable to
ho,d al intereolleg iate track and field
champ oIshiu Tor freshmen. Romeyn
Berry spoNe Tor he parent body. ard
did not think that such q meet WAS
possible. as some OF the colleges NAV
happen to have good freshmen and
others none at all The matter was
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