The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-21
OLYMPIC ICE
TEAM CAUSES
RESURRECTION
Skating, Hockey and La Crosse
Teams Foment Disruption
on Committee
By ALAN ]. GOULD
(Associated Press Sports Editor

New York, Jan. 21.-(R-Just |
when it seemed that peace and har-
mony had been restored to Olympic |
ranks something Of spirit Of in
surrection has broken out.
The new Olympic year, after
starting off with burial-of.the-
Ratchet ceremony by sports gov.
erning organizations, already has
developed three separate and dis |
tinct controversies over team selec-
ton.
The disputes have arisen over
choice Of the speed skating, hockey
and Ia crosse teams. This team
selection subject always has been
packed with dynamite, because of
the conflicting interests involved,
but it appears to be prompting
more open debate than usual.
Will Weld Big Stick
II necessary Major General
Douglas Macarthur, president OF
the American Olympic committee, |
is prepared to WELD the big stick
to settle matters. In fact the gen.
eral already has taken an active
hand in two or three subjects Of
controversy. He has, in effect, re-
buked William S. Haddock, of Pitts
burgh, chairman of the Olympic
hockey committee, for failure to
hold tryouts for an Olympic hockey
team and, instead. selecting the
Augsburg college team, Of Minnea-
polls, for the trip. Although he
did not act alone in this matter, Ma
jor General Macarthur made the
final decision against approving the
Augsburg teams selection, taking
Haddock to task at the same time.
In Ia crosse, where two groups
are at loggerheads over the method
Of selecting the Olympic team, the
general has stepped in with the
suggestion that an all-star team
be pitted against the intercollegiate
champions to determine which is
better equipped to wear the Ameri-
can shield at Amsterdam.
Olympic officials may not con-
slider the value Of his military ex.
perience in selecting Major Gener-
al Macarthur to. succeed the late
Bill" Prout, but his continuance
Of campaign tactics appears likely
to come in handy.
Grid Code Contemplated
The national football rules COM
mittee, yielding another point to
the opinion of college coaches, will
meet earlier than usual this year
to give more time for the dissemin-
alton of another change in the
gridiron code for 1923.
It is understood that the COM
mittee will get together in New
York early in February, a month
ahead Of the usual schedule, to can
vass the effects Of the radical
changes made in the rules last year
and consider the coaches recon-
mendations to 60 back to the 1926
rules on the muffed punt and later
al pass.
Qualification of the entire book Of
rules is to be undertaken this year
but this herculean task will not be
completed before 1929.
There seems no way to keep box
ers from eating their way into
heavier classes these days.
| Mickey Walker, in q compare
lively short time, ate his way from
the welterweight to the middle
weight championship. Now Pete
Latzo, who took the weller title
from. Walker less than two years
ago, has done even better. With
hardly even . stopover in the mid.
dleweight division, Pete has bios.
somed forth 1t 172 pounds and an.
nounced himself q contender fol
light heavyweight honors.
Most Of the featherweight cham.
pions in recent years have grown SC
rapidly that they were forced to re:
linquish the title without even de.
Tending it.