Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-04
BLOOMINGTON is
GIVEN TOURNEY
Annual Basketball Games of the
"Little 10" Are Awarded at
Peoria Meeting.
BY Arnold Torsell.
Especial to the Argus)


ball tournament of the Illinois In
| tercollegiate Athletic association,
better known as the Little 10 con-
ference, will be held at Blooming
ton March 8, and 8, with the Y.
/ Nj. c. A. of that city as host, &C
Cording to a decision of representa-
tiVes of the various schools in an
Lual meeting here yesterday
The tourney will be played on the
/ same plan as last year, that is, in
/ reality, two tournaments; a divis-
ional series between the stronger
/ teams of the circuit, and a minor
divisional series between the
schools producing the weaker
I teams.
. Illinois Wesleyan at Bloomington
and Milliken university at Decatur
were other bidders for the tourna-
ment
! Resumption of intercollegiate ath-
letics upon a normal peace pro-
gram basis was strongly advocated
by the convention. Not only was
it decided to stage the basketball
contest, but plans for a track and
baseball meet were also tentatively
discussed. Naming of dates and
cities where the matches will be
staged was deferred until the meet
ing in March.
Election of officers resulted in
the appointment of the following:
President-C. p. Lantz, Illinois
Normal, Charleston.
Vice presidential E Brannan,
Milliken, Decatur.
ecretary-Harrison Russell, IL
linOis Wesleyan, Bloomington.
Treasurer. l.. Muhl, Illinois
Wesleyan, Bloomington.
Eligibility for participation in
athletics convoked a spirited and
interesting discussion in which the
students army training corps idea
was subjected not only to criticism
but to condemnation. In fact, SEN
ttment was such that it was almost
a unanimous decision that the past
Semesters records have no effect
upon an athletes eligibility.
Il was further decided that any
student who has been in the ser
vice, either in the regular army or
navy, or in an S. A. T. c. unit shall
be eligible for immediate paItici-
patton, provided, however, that his
grades of the spring semester of
1918 measure with the required
standards. The old iron clad rule
of forcing a student to refrain from
athletics for four and one-half
months after changing schools was
also waived because of existing
conditions.
Since football was played accord
ing to government regulations and
not according to the rules of the I.
|. A A, and since a majority of the
schools played only partial sched-
ules, it was voted not to award a
football championship.
Encouragement of greater inter
est in intermural contests at Little
10 schools was strongly supported
by the conference. Various of the
representative reported on the
success of the plan attempted last
year, and all spoke with enthusi-
asm for even greater efforts along
inter-class lines.
Placing athletics for the girls on
an intercollegiate basis as the hoys
was introduced for discussion but
no action was taken.
Matter of placing the respective
schools in either major or minor
division for the basketball tourney
was delegated to the tournament
committee
Representatives at the meeting
were, Arnold Torsell. Augustana;
]. S. Bike and Harry Olson. Brad /
lev Polytechnic; G. H. Pritcher, Eu-
reka; Fred Null and Harrison Rus
sell, Illinois Wesleyan; Charles +
Lautz, Illinois Normal; Professor /
Coles and r. E. Rrannan. Milliken;
Professor Ames and Coach Harmon, /
Illinois college; Stokes, Mckend- /
rec: Father Kelley, st. Viator; E. !,
L. Peterson, Carthage.