San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
Reported Tennis Body In
vestigated Tilden and
His Movies.
COLLEGES STIRRED UP
Honor System" Sugges-
ton for Athletics Wide
ly Discussed.
BY WALTER CAMP.

Copyright, 1928. by Mabel Herbert Harper
New York, Feb. IL Eligibility"
and amateur status" seem to be fill
ing the air these days. The latest is
the reported investigation into the
status of the greatest tennis player in
the world today, William L. Tilden,
which the United States Lawn Tennis
Association, through George L. Adee,
chairman of the amateur rule COM
mittec, denies. 1t IS fact, however,
that u warning was made public by
the committee last December, speciti-
cally directed to the subject of posing
for moving pictures in case a remun-
Grafton of any sort were given the
player. The committee pointed out
ut that time that remuneration of any
sort for this posing would bar player
under the existing amateur rule.
Meantime, we also have the various
reactions TO the report of Dean Briggs
of Harvard:
Dean Briggs says: Il look for the
time when Harvard, Yale md Prince
ton shall say to one another, i need
know nothing more about the legiti-
macy of your players than is implied
by your willingness that they should
represent you
Utopia Far Distant.
So does everyone. If the three uni
versities could carry on their athletic
relations without any agreement and
keep free from innuendoes and ground
less suspicious the committee would
cease functioning tomorrow. Such a
Utopia, alas, appears far distant.
"Since, therefore, the present ar
rangement rests ultimately on individ.
ual honor, and, since u controlling
committee is desirable as n tangible
pledge of good faith, why destroy
what has been built? Open and cor
dial sportsmanship, in the modern gen
Grafton at least, is amply assured by
the status quo"
Upon the announcement of Dear
Briggs statement relative TO the Har
ward Yale Princeton agreement, tn,
Harvard Crimson telegraphed the fol
lowing editorial TO the Yale News:
Ever since its publication last Sep
TENDER the presidents agreement be
tween Harvard, Yale and Princeton
has faced a ring of hostile fire. TIL
shots themselves have lot been de
structive, but, coming apparently from
nowhere, they have been successful
once or twice in causing mutual sus
picion on the campus.
BlameS Sport Writers.
ain a good many cases these bidder
attacks can be traced to the profes
sional sporting writer's and they arr
largely responsible for the wrong inter
pretations of Dean Briggs recent re
port. The result, the product of ex
aggeration and Misrepresentation, will
furnish sporting writers wit. GOSSIP
for a fortnight, but it is not likely t.
accomplish anything else. The or!
of Wolf! Wolff has been raised to-
often. The relations between Har
ward, Yale and Princeton are to-
firmly established to lead anyone o
them to jump at newspaper alarms.
The Yale News the following da!
printed an editorial as follows:
"Flurries of excitement have at
tended the suggestion of athletics OF
the honor system, made by Deaf
Briggs of Harvard.
' why should IN athlete in maxim,
financial affidavit be expected t
perjure himself any more than stu
dent signing pledge to an exami
nation?"
The Pennsylvania Gazette says:
TO the conclusion and hope ex
pressed by the Harvard dean that tn
time will soon come when college
will accept unquestionably the eligi
bility of all students 10 be played b!
their rivals. we express a hearty amen
Never Questioned Rival.
ale expresses one of the funda
mental principles on which the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has Away
tried to determine the eligibility of it
own students. 1t explains also VIII.
we have never once questioned tn
eligibility of a rival player. From tn,
earliest days that has been one of th,
tenets of our athletic faith. and tn,
records neither of the athletic asso
citation nor Of the athletic council
show a single instance in which W,
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