New Britain herald., 1928-01-21
ANOTHER WAR IN
 OLYMPIC RANKS
Have Arisen Over
 Choice of Various Teams

t scClHeu llldt peace anu udFIuOuy had been restored to Olympic ranks, something of Q spirit of insurrection has broken out.
 The new Olympic year, after start ing off with a burial-of-the-hatch ceremony by sports governing organ izations already has developed three separate and distinct controversies lover team selection.
 The disputes have arisen over the choice of the speed skating, hockey land lacrosse teams. This team selec- |tion subject always has been packed
 with dynamite. because of the con- ilictipg interests involved. but it ap-
 pears to be prompting more open debate than usual. Y necessary Major General Doug las McArthur, president of the Amer. ican Olympic committee, is prepared to wield the big stick to settle mat
 ters In fact the general already
 has taken an active hand in two of the three subjects of controversy. He has. in effect. rebuked William S. Haddock of Pittsburgh, chairman of the Olympic hockey committee. for failing 10 hold tryouts for an Olym- pic hockey team and, instead select- ing the Augsburg college team, of Minneapolis. for the trip. Although
 he did not act alone in this matter, Major General Macarthur made the
 final decision against approving the Augusourg teams selection. taking Haddock to task at the same time. In lacrosse. where two groups are at loggerheads over the method of selecting the Olympic team, the gen. eral has stepped in with the sugges- ltion that an all-star team be pit,ed against the intercollegiate champions 10 determine which is better equip ped to wear the American shield at Amsterdam.
 Olympic officials may not have considered the value of his military experience in selecting Major Gen. eral MacArthur 10 succeed the late "Bilr' Prout but his knowledge of campaign tactics appears likely to come in handy.
 The national football rules com- mittec, yielding another point to the opinion of college coaches. will meet earlier than usual this year to give more time for the dissemination of any changes made in the gridiron code for 1928.
 It is understood that the commit tee will get together in New York carly in February, a month ahead of 'the usual schedule, to canvass the effects Of the radical changes made in the rules last year and consider the coaches recommendation to go back to the 19.6 rules on the muffed punt and lateral pass.
 The chairman of the committee,
 Edward K. Hall. Is committed 10 q program of no changes He believes the game has crystallized in its prea- ent form, so far as rules are con- cerned. and that 1t should be allow ed to develop without further legis-
 lation. But the coaches. wiht a stronger representation than ever before, will be on hand to debate this point, at any rate.
 Qualification of the entire book of rules is to be undertaken this year but this herculean task will not be complcted before 1929.
 There seems no way to keep box CTS from eating their way into heav- fer classes these days.
 Mickey Walker. in comparative ly short time. ate his way from the welterweight to the middleweight championship. Now Pete Iatzo. who took the welter title from Walker less than two years ago, has done even better With hardly even a stop-over in the middleweight die vision. Pete has blossomcd forth at l72 pounds and announced himself a contender for light heavyweight honors.
 Lew Tender, a great lightweight five years ago, has outgrown even thc welterweight class.
 Most of the featherweight cham. pions in recent years have grown so