The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-22
SPLIT In BIC
THREE FEARED
Harvard and Yale May Try to
Gust Princeton, Tiger
Student Says.
By HENRY L. FARRELL

United Press STAFF CorrespondentD
New York, May 22.-Princeton has
already denied that bitter inter-family
feeling is creeping up within the Big
Three"
The Tigers will not admit that there
is any i'll feeling at Old Nassau because
Yale and Harvard did not follow Prince
toms lead in cleaning up athletics.
1t is a fact, however, that Princeton is
not only peeved at the attitude assumed
by Yale and Harvard that no house.
cleaning is necessary in their athletic
circles. but Princeton believes that Yale
and Harvard gre trying to force the
Tiger out of the big Three"
In stating this as a fact there is no
! intention to doubt the denial of the
Princeton officials as to resentment or to
infer that they are not telling the truth.
The Princeton officials may not have
been aware Of the sentiment on the cam.
lpus.
Princeton men felt elated when the
! Tiger athletic council declared ineligi-
BILE Tom Mcnamara, captain of the base
ball team; Ralph Cilroy, captain-elect
Of the 1922 football team, and ten 9th.
ers. Princeton felt that Yale and Har.
ward would do likewise and chagrin fol-
lowed when the other two members Of
the big Three" declared similar moves
unnecessary.
When rumors were heard that Herman,
star catcher at Yale, had played baseball
last summer where admission was charg.
ed when it was reported that Owen and
Fits. two great Harvard football stars,
were accepting the same kind of fnan-
cial help from alumni that caused the
! disqualification of Cilroy at Princeton,
the wrath among the Tigers reached
such point that some of the alumni
were ready to make open charges against
the other two members of the triumvir-
ate.
AT the same time, a story cropped out
explaining why Eddie Casey, All-Ameri-
can star and one Of the greatest Har-
ward football players, did not play in
1920 when he had another year to go.
After the Yale.Harvard game in 1919,
one of the Princeton coaches said to
friend, THAT was Casey's last game.
He will never play again." He did not
give his reasons, but now the story is
told that Casey was getting $4,000 a
year for merely looking into the Harvard
boathouse once day and that Prince
ton and Yale found out about it.
Most of that is considered merely in
cidental, however. The chief worry Of
Princeton now is that Harvard will sue.
ceed in getting Princeton out Of the
big Three" so that the traditional old
Yale-Harvard combination can rule sport
and society.
| The feeling on the Princeton campus
is given by a senior at Princeton, whose
name obviously cannot be used. He says:
Ever since 1920 we have felt that
Harvard wanted to get us out Of the
Big Three. Only a very successful era
of athletics at Princeton since then has
prevented Harvard from succeeding.
Unless Harvard could say Your teams
are not good enough for u.s. Harvard
had to play Princeton. 1t SO happened
that Princeton was more than holding
her own in dual competition. Things
are changing now. however. If Harvard
beats Princeton in baseball this season
and wins on the football field next fall
we are sure that, unless enough pres.
sure is brought to bear, Harvard will
tell Princeton, in the parlance Of the
ring. Go out and get yourself a rep!'
princeton believes that Yale and Har.
ward. by their aloofness, should not have
given the impression that Princeton was
the only one in need of houseclean
ing in athletics. Princeton. being the
youngest member Of the Big Three. can
not demand it. because Yale and Har.
ward could take the stand that Prince
ton had publicly declared herself guilty
of playing ineligibles and that the right