Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-03-22
STATE BASKETBALL
TITLE At STAKE
New Castles Position Stated by
School Superintendent
Snavely.

special Correspondents Every Evening
New Castle. March 22.-Public opin-
Ion In this city Is with the public
school authorities In their refusal to
permit the basketball team to partici-
pate In tho State championship games
At Dover last saturday. according to
Henry II. Snavely. superintendent OF
schools. II is generally recognized
that the arrangements made by the
officers OF the Delaware 1nterscholas-
tic Athletic Association were unjust
To the local boys. he said. Superin-
tendent snsvely has issued the FOL
lowing statement:
"Our proposal TO the executive COM
mlttce was that each OF the three con-
tenders play the other two, ono game
at homo and one game on the other
teams floor. and. II necessary a third
game on n neutral floor. This proposal
was turned down by the committee.
which ruled that the three teams
should play two games between thom
on one day at Dover. However. on
Thursday. March 16, We had not yet
received an official communication
governing these games. although they
were TO be played two days later. On
that day we were confronted with an
other example OF the inefiiciency Of
this committee. In one mail we re-
ceived communication saying that
New Castle and Dover were to play
In the afternoon OF Saturday, March
is, and that the winner OF that game
was 10 play Laurel In the evening. In
tho next mail we received letter
saying that. to Offset Dovers ad-
vantage In playing at homo. Dover
would play New Castle and then
laurel Remember that these con-
nicting letters were received about
three hours apart. SO muddled were
the officers OF the ID. l. A. A. that they
apparently were unfamiliar with their
own regulations. Furthermore, ex-
penscs We're TO be allowed for only
ak men. In spite OF the fact that the
team might have 10 play two games.
In this connection I want To say that
the committee argued that a series OF
games would be too expensive TO the
state Association and that series
would not give tho association enough
money to cover It's expenses In con-
Quoting county field meets, etc. Ac-
cording to our plan, visiting teams
were 10 pay their own expenses while
home teams were 10 pocket all the re-
ceipts, giving 20 the ID. !. A. A. a
reasonable percentage. This plan
would have made it~possible for visit
ing squads 20 include moro than six
men. and. since between four and
six games would have had 10 be play.
ed. would have increased the revenues
OF the -. !. A. a. No matter how our
opponents argue, Dover had the ad-
vantage OF playing at home, while The
other teams were placed at n disad-
vantage by the unfair regulations O,
the committee. We freely recognize
that Dover has a great team. and We
can take defeats manfully from SUI
perior teams. However. we prefer &c
take defeats on the basketball floor IN
fairly conducted contests. not IN COM
mittee meetings. Our original propo-
sition s,ill holds. We VII play Do
Yer at Dover and at New Castle, and
. third game on neutral foor, j,
necessary. Having obtained the cham
pionship on a technicality. II the Do.
yer team and school authorities nr,
sood sports, they Will meet US as sug
Kcsted"