The Washington herald., 1922-12-02
SPEECH GARBLED SAYS WHITHINGTON
SAYS SCRIBE
DID NOT GET
SPEECH FACT
lothrop Wilmington Denies He
Intimated Harvard Would
Break With Princeton.

I~AMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. L.
III Lothrop Wilmington, former
~ Harvard football captain and
member of the Graduate Advis-
ory Committee on that sport,
takes exception to the attitude of
The Harvard Alumni Bulletin and
the university authorities toward
his reported speech with regard to
Harvard Princeton football rela-
tions. At the Princeton dinner
preceding the game, Wilmington
was quoted as intimating the pos
sibility of a break in football re-
lations.
He now claims that his remarks
were garbled in newspaper reports,
and that Princeton men were salts
fled with his address as made at
their dinner the night before the'
game with Harvard. He quotes
from two letters he received to show
that this is a fact.
In a letter to the editor of the
Harvard Alumni Bulletin, WithinG
ton emphatically denies that he inti-
mated that Harvard might give up
football games with Princeton: that
he represented Harvard at any din
ner; that a Western college would
be given a place on Harvard's
schedule so that Western graduates
who had contributed to the endow-
ment fund might have something in
return for their contributions: that
President Lowell signed the triangu-
lar agreement "only because he hap
70 he in, hun ot %
moment" that Princeton men should
hold President Hibben responsible
il the Harvard Princeton men should
bring pressure TO bear upon Presi-
dent Hibben to modify or overthrow
the new athletic agreement.
GIVES HIS ALIBI.
Wilmington, explained that he had
been invited to attend the srnok r q
the Princeton New England Alumni
Association. held the night before
the Harvard Princeton game. and
that when he requested to know
what they wanted him to talk about
he was given the following subjects
% Whether Harvard thinks Prince
ton plays dirty football; ~ Why
doesn't Harvard give an II" to men
| who play in The Princeton game?
| t3) Is Harvard going to continue to
play Princeton? -.-
He further explained that. had he
known reporters were present. he
would not have talked on any of
these subjects lest there should be
some misconstruction' of his re-
| marks.
However, he added, that he did
| talk quite frankly on these ques-
| h,,t Gat in1
that he had said anything that
| might be construed to hint that
break between Harvard and Prince
ton was imminent.
Fortunately there were other
Harvard men and many, many
Princeton men present who heard
my remarks and understood them in
the spirit they were intended" wrote
\ Wilmington. 1T is only for those
others who did not hear them deliv-
| cred and consequently could not un-
derstand the newspaper reports that
| repeat them"
QUOTES TWO LETTERS.
Wilmington enclosed two letters
written TO him by the President of
the Princeton New England Alumni
Association and the Chair man of the
| OOlDdll
The letter from the former fol-
lows:
| Dear Lothrop:
/ am interested to write you
| to express my regret. which l
am sure is shared in by all
| Princeton men who heard your
| talk on Friday night, that the
newspapers could have given an
Interpretation to your remarks in
a way that l know they were
not said. We all were very in
terested in your talk and appre-
/ ciate your courtesy in coming to
our smoker very much indeed.
| 1t is certainly AN unfortunate
thing and had / thought that any
| such misinterpretation was pos
sible l certainly would have used
my best influence to have had