Evening star., 1920-12-12
aft Ne,o Base Ball Pact Southern Colleges War Professionalism
NEW CONFERENCE FIRM 4
AGAINST SUMMER BALL
Proposed Each Member List Five Grid GameS
in Organization Maryland Offered Contests
by Georgia Tech and Alabama for 1921.
BY II. G. BYRD.

ll.-Completc reorganization of tifer
every state institution in the south ,
of athletic relationship and policies
nths. At meeting today of repre.i
in the southern states, all the states.
of the Mississippi river, temporary
le name of the southern conference
ct in Atlanta the last Saturday in,
'ganization based in general on tiIei
conference. IVA
| The new organization plans to con- :
j tinue under its present name. Before
considering somewhat the effect ths'
new body will have on athletics in,
the. south and other sections an idea.
OF the extent Of the organization andr
the influence 1T should WELD may beA
gathered by consideration of then
strength and number of institutions
represented. ---
| Institutions Which Act.
! University Of Maryland, University
Of Virginia, University of North Caro-
lima, University of South Carolina,
University of Georgia. Georgia Tech.
university OF Alabama, Alabama Poly
technic slnsitute, Mississippi Agricul-
turai and Mechanical College, Louis
lana State University, Tulane Uniyer-
sity. University of Tennessee and Uni!
lversty of Kentucky were the insti- J
tutions which got together to effect
the new body. and it was suggested
that an invitation be extended to the
North Carolina State College to be-
come member.
Representatives Of the schools men-f
toned unanimously agreed to effect.
, the organization. with three naine
principles as basis. These involve
thes adoptioR of the one-year resi-
dence rule for all students. which in-t
cludes the freshman rule and the So,
called migratory rule. the amateur"
rule, which will exclude from COM
petition all men who have accepted
| money for any form of athletics. and.
an agreement for each university tos
schedule five OF it's foot ball games
each year with other members Of thee
conference.
Summer base ball is the main OBJ
ject OF attack here in the meetinga
Of the Southern intercollegiate Athan
letic Association, composed of nearly
/ all colleges in the south, but the
small institutions are SO far in nu- d
Emerical superiority in the organiza-n
! tion that they were not able to get .
through a ruling which would black Q
list those that participate in the sport
for cash considerations during their va,
cation. Conditions down here are about
as bad as could be in that respect"
There will hardly be a big university
or big college nine in the south thisn
simply. because the 8. I. A. A. had a..
rule allowing summer balL 81
. Schools Are Proselytins. u
The one-year-residence rule Is CON-
ing but Of the fact that souherns
foot ball is developing SO rapidly
that charges that several institutions
are proselyting and going out and :,
feeling that the law must be adopt
ed out of epirit of self-protectionG n
| il nothing else. Coach Alexander of
Georgia Tech told the writer shortly,
got to adopt the one-year-residence-
i rule out of self protection. So many 4
rumors and counter:rumprs eeneernFH
hing our athletics are being eirculated,.
that no other course is open to ussd
tno matter what the other schools do. '-,s
1 Would Protect Themselves.
The same is true of summer base-,T
ball Another reason for the. adop- /.
l tion Of summer base ball rule and thep
Z, one-year residence rule is that more.
and more southern universities are q
getting on the schedules Of big north
ern schools and not entirely without
! result In obtaining victories. This
being the case: southern universities are
| anxious to play the games under just
| as stringent eligibility codes as hold.
1 in the big northern institutions. lny
the case OF southern victories in, !,
| such -intersectional contests southern
:! schools are not anxious for suchG
comebacks as. "OA WELL. those fellows
play frst-year men," and while it Is
realized that there will be a certain
1 measure of deceit on the part of balLI
players in trying to dodge the sum-
mer ball rule by playing in OBSCURE
| or distant leagues under assumedd
| names sor by holding fictitious posi-it
| tion,, just as is the case with many
1 Il ssxaf
felt that by the rule teams can be q
made 80 per cent efficient, which wilf'
be much better than playing under d
| q program which allows open profess"
| sionalism. In one league in Geotglan
college players were paid last summer,y
as high az $500 per month, more than
some American Leaguers received, nra;
The decision to come to an -agree=
jment to schedule at least five garne4sl
with conference teams will not anectl
| have q decided bearing on the sched- III
| ules of the University of kentuckyiII
| and University of Maryland, UNIVERSITY III
| ties of so-called border states. Both NJ
( these have their schedules fairlyli
| evenly divided between northern and
southern schools and with f1ve-li
| game provision will be compelled to I'LL
| center almost their entire activitiesjH
! in the south against southern schools
May Ask Four-Game Limit. III
When the final meeting for perma-tIl
,-nent organization is held probablyiM
fboth kentucky and Maryland, andttl
possibly Virginia and TeHnessee. With
make fight for a pfW4ision for al
minimum of four sconfE4nce gamesN
fore each institution wit4each schoolN
at liberty tot schedule EE1many moreN
than four as: it desiresEm III
Notsmuch doubt existkthat ratherW
tfar-reAching rule conckEGng the at
titude: OF conference W4ms towardN
schools. which do not E64e the oneW
year residence rule wilE3e very defiN
mite, with the exceptim of one DRILL
two preliminary contesEM III
From the sentimeHH expressedM
for each institution wiEE4each schoolIn
the southern schools S$M ready andll
willing to go the limiE#4n their at-M
tempts to put their afhietics on aW
plane absolutely aboveEnl suspicion,
and all seem to recogt44e that theM
one-year-residence rule%4hd amateurlI
rule will do more to ac14mplish thisIU
than any other factorM The newIN
conference will comp34ely over-ll
shadow the Southern MSercollegiatelu
Athletic Association, IA nearly alllN
the main active intere1M of the bigW
institutions will centeEMn it, leav-W
ing the main interests|3 the smalllM
colleges to center in TINS. /. A. A.. III
Incidentally. it might44 mentioned.n
that the meeting here 36 been pro-W
ductive of touches" wH4 will resultlIl
in some new games nef11year, in alllW
probability The Univkz4ity of Vir-M
ginia is trying hard VA inc up thelh
University Of TennessdE3o take theW