The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-07
DECISION ON
new CIRCUIT
IS EXPECTED
Baseball Boosters of Six Cities TO
Convene at Cedar Rapids
Tomorrow.
BY 7. L.. HUGHES.

Rock Island baseball enthusiasts
are sitting tight, waiting for de-
velopments on the question OF a
new baseball league which will
come tomorrow when representa-
tives of the six cities in line for
membership convene at Cedar Rap
ids. Definite action one way or an
other is certain to be taken at this
conference, it is believed. Rock Is
land, Marshalltown, Dubuque, Wat
erloo and Ottumwa will send rep
resentatives, and these with Cedar
Rapids will decide whether or not
a new six club league is to be a
reality.
From the first Rock Island, Cedar
Rapids, Marshalltown and Dubuque
have shown keen interest in the
proposed league and have left moth
ing undone to bring about its Or
ganization. Waterloo and Ottum-
wa have been the doubtful quanti-
ties but within recent weeks these
two cities seem to have paved the
way toward joining with the 9TH
ers and there is every reason to an
ticipate affirmation when the queS-
ton is put.
Cedar Rapids is not anticipating
a head start on the other members
in event the league materializes.
The Bunny town organization has
only four players from last year s
roster from which to draw, these
being Walter Tengen, Ike Com
mand, Skip Crouch and George
Fikerle Rock Island holds title to
Bill Cole and Charlie Connolly. In
7 fhaCa
club will also have to buid up from
the bottom.
The Moline Fans association has
disposed of Badly" Aftermath, in
fielder, who was loaned to Rock Is
land the latter part of last sea-
son, to Ludington, Mich, in ex-
change for McMenias, formerly OF
Grand Rapids and Muskegon in the
Central league McMenias is an in
fielder. In 1920 he batted PSI in
the Central league. Manager Earl
Mack is considering using him at
shortstop and giving McCue the
first call on second base.
Real Pros Now.
Press dispatches yesterday re-
!. ported Don White of Purdue uni
versity and Laurie Walquist of Il
linois, two Big Ten athletes barred
for professionalism have joined q
semi-pro basketball team of Rock
ford.
All of which would seem to indi-
cate that Messrs Walquist and
White are not sitting back weeping
. because of their disbarment from
further college competition.
The eligibility committee of Ne
= braska university after an inyesti-
cation, reports Clarence z. Swan
son and John L. Pucelik, end and
guard of the 1921 Cornhusker eIev-
On, are professionals and as such
are barred from further intercol-
legiate and student activities. The
committee says the two gridders
are condemned for their action" III
playing a game of professional foot
ball with a Sioux City team after
the close of the college schedule.
Swanson was graduated at mid-year
and Pucelik will finish his course
in the spring. Both, no doubt, are
greatly agitated because of the COM
mittee'S action.
1t will be recalled Pucelik and
Swanson played with Sioux City
against the Minneapolis Marines.
Ed Healy and Jerry Johnson of the
/ Rock Island Independents were
team mates of the Nebraska men in
that game. Pucelik and Swanson
were nationally prominent as foot
ball players last season and the
fact of their appearance with Sioux
City was an advertising feature the
enterpriSing press agent of the
J Sint1v (Njfxy oil -
| There was no secret smade of the
play and when reports of the game
were published the playing of both
was featured.
1t must have been a painstaking
investigation by the college eligibil-
in the case.
YOgel Under Fire.
Otto Vogel of Davenport, mem
Der of the University of Illinois
! baseball. football and basketball
teams, is now under newspaper
| fire for alleged professionalism
Vogel and Heflstrom, another Illini
star, are not accused of profession
alism in the sense it is interpreted
| by western conference rules but
they are said to have received
enough money for working at a soft
job last summer to pay their way
through college this year Incl
dentally they played amateur
baseball for the town of Denison,
Iowa, where the paving construc-
ton was under way. These revela-
tons are attributed to Daniel Voss.
former University of Illinois ath-
| lete, as a defense for the two play
ers. According to Voss, Vogel and
Hellstrom kept within the rules of
the conference by accepting no
money for anything but their work
as laborers. What matters it if
they returned to school in the fall
with a sock full of money!" he in
quires.
Seventeen directors of middle
western universities today make
statements through the Associated
Press on how to meet the issue of
professionalism. OF these, Dana
! Evans of Northwestern is the only
one who suggests that the colleges
cooperate with the pro association,
which already has made it plain
college athletes still in college are
ineligible to play with teams in
i the league. Several others demand
adjustment of the pro football
game without considering that this