The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-03-06
BAsKErEERs' TOURNAMENT.
Nezperce High School Sends Strong
Delegation to Lewiston Meet.
Play Cottonwood Tonight.


ct ball meet at Lewiston, is ON tn
gromnd ready for action. The frs
squad of our delegation was takel
down yesterday by Coach Terry in hi.
car, this included Harold Cook, Ton
Moekler, Chas. Flatt, Harold Staple
ton, Frank Morse, Albert Huffman
and Othel Eckersley. The second con.
tingent went down this morning with
James Sutherlin in his car--Van En-
erson and Sanford Martin
The contest takes place in the Nor
NAL gym and starts tonight Nezperce
has drawn for her first victims the
strong Cottonwood team Their game
viii be called at s clock tonight.
For this game the Nezperce lineup
viii be, Cook, senter; Stapleton and
Flatt, guards; Huffman and Eckers-
ley, forwards.
Tom Mockler, one of our star play
ers, was somewhat disabled by an in
jury to his knee in practice here Tues
day, and though he is with the team
and efforts are being made to remedy
the injury it is questionable whether
he will be in condition for play during
the tournament Morse, another one
of our stars, is temporarily on the
shelf with bad toe.
information received by Coach Ter
ry, just before leaving for the tourna-
ment, places the Nezperce team in
third place on percentage of games
won and lost during the season. This
information comes from the state
board, which has found Types, the
Lewiston center, disqualified under
the high school regulations for basket
ball By using Types, Lewiston twice
defeated Nezperce, and both of these
games were protested. Giving Nez
perez the decision on these protests,
makes her record seven games won
and two lost. It appears that the
point on which Nezperce gains this {
decision is contained in Article 4, sec
ton 10, Bylaws of the State High &
School Association, which reads:
eff student changes school sys- I
TENS without change of residence on
the part of his parents or guardian,
such student is ineligible for school 4
athletics for a period of one year. I
1t is pointed out that Typal~ par
snts continue to reside in Lapwai, and !;
hat he clearly left the accredited j
'chool there to take up athletics in i
he Lewiston High School. The letter 4
rom the state board on this subject 4
ent to Coach Terry follows: $
Caldwell, idaho, n
March 8, 1924. b
,upt. Joel Jenifer, lie,
lewiston, Idaho. w
Dear Sir: lT
You have doubtless received from q,
dr. Cherry copy of the telegram N
ent him in regard to the case of Phil q
p Types. If you have not received 81
/ it is the same in substance as the
ne sent you some time ago. be- fl
eve that under the articles of our
onstitution Types is technically eli ii
ible as far as scholarship is concern pe
d. The fact that he would have been to
Iigible under this rule had he re-
lained in school and continued to do U
assing work to the end of the first co
smester is granted; so the whole case Ct
based on why the boy quit school, su
have before me large volume of of
gidence covering this phase of the
ase, but still believe that there is ga
reasonable doubt in the boys favor. an
But on the other hand 7 do not see Sc
ow it is possible for the boy to be AL
igible under Article 4, section 10. be
ave affidavits sworn to before a no st,
lry public to the effect that the ou
,y' parents have not changed their to
ace of residence since the boy was sit
attendance at the Lapwai High st
,hool. Also that the boy has never
id any other person appointed as his he
gal guardian. This in connection DO
it'll the fact that Lapwai maintains tia
! accredited high school makes the coi
" clearly ineligible; that is for the GU
riod of one year. ba
believe that Section 10 is one of
e most important articles of our
Institution. We have found that it 3
rict enforcement in this district has grs
ne more than anything else to do Fo
ray with the tramp athlete 1t cor
against this practice that all of our MI
les are aimed. We do not wish to Oh
prive any honest student of the An
ivilege of participating in athletics in
d if we enforce this rule and the GOV
US know that 1t will be enforced Ma
an we have eliminated the tempta- Chi
N to change to larger school for stu
iletic reasons. will
Most sincerely, pull
Ray III. Berry for J. J. Roe.
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