Evening star., 1932-02-28
DELAYS SELECTION
OF COMMISSIONER
Expense of Post Is Held Too
Great NoW-MaryIand Five
0verconfident.
BY III, c, BYRD,
A TLANTA, Ga, February 27.

closely knit and compact athletic
organizations in the world. 1t has
had troubles, it is true, but seems
to have come through them with
colors flying, and with firm in
tention to meet with courage anc
the full resources of its broad in
f1uence any problems the future
may hold.
After very stormy annual meeting
last December the conference got to-
gether here this week end in utmost
harmony on a fair way to solve most
of its difficulties and to eliminate Its
most glaring problem-that OF ill-feel-
ing and suspicion between three or
four outstanding members.
Here at this special session Two or
three highly controversial subjects
were disposed of without even the
slightest evidence Of anything more
than a harmonious effort to do what
is best for the good of the whole body.
Even the three or four schools that
have been at loggerheads fell in line
with that policy and played the game
with a team work that would have
done the souls of their foot ball coaches
q lot Of good.
TTTHE matter of creating the position
i of commissioner for the conference
was disposed of by laying the
Recommendations of the committee on
the table until the annual meeting.
1t was felt that with the present finan-
cial situation what it is, the conference
afford tn create Qddl-
tional expenditure which would have
TO be covered by assessments on the
member universities and colleges, OF
$4,000 to $4,000 per year to what it
now costs to operate the conference
machinery.
The financial situation in some of
these far Southern States Is deplor-
able. In Mississippi for instance, the
members Of the faculty Of the State
University have not been paid their
salaries since January, 1881, and in
other places salaries are back two or
three months. In the face OF that
kind of thing, and in view OF the cur
tailment of all expenditures Tor
athletics, many coaches have been laid
off, and with others being due to look
for new Jobs after this year in a general
curtailment of activities and organiza-
tions. it was felt that the conference
could not afford to fly off in the op-
posite direction.
The conference, however, instructed
and empowered the Executive Commit
tee to work out some plan for determln-
ing how well member institutions OF the
conference are living up to the regula-
tions with special reference to scholas-
tic requirements and scholarships.
The committee worked until late
l. .;rl.& x@I fndn nvnlVR
plan to obtain all the information 1t
desires. and will hold q special meeting
later this Spring.
One thing the Executive Committee
intends to do is to furnish members of
the conference with information ABOUT
one another. In other words, conditions
as they are found to exist in one 1nstl-
tuition will be furnished to all other in
stitutions, so that there will no longer
be a situation where one school mas
wrong ideas about what another Is do
ing.
A a result of one of the actions the
"A conference took at this session the
foot ball officials will be better OF
next Fall. as the rule for payment OF
fees was modified so that, instead OF
having only one mandatory fee OF $50
per game. any university is at liberty
to pay S75 if it SO desires and THINKS
it's game justifies it. Incidentally,
meeting of all foot ball coaches IN the
conference is to be held here tomorrow
to agree on officials for next Fall
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND played
" the worst basket ball against Flor
ida in its only game in the confer
ence tournament that any Old Line
o11int has played in five years. 1t could
not have done worse had 1t trleo. Inc
players did not cut, they seemed rooteu
to the same spot on the floor, their pass
ing was far from good, they missed
enough shots in the firSt nan 70 nave nay
won two games and their general attl-
tude was that they were out there TO
take that game as they pleased, ana
after that would show somebody how 10
play the game.
The only bad part is that in such
O. tournament once whipped, team
is out and gets no more chances:
MARYLAND, beaten by Florida last nlgnI
with ease, could play Florida hve con-
secutive games and win at least Iour
of them, and probably all hve. FIoI.
ida went through the most Oh the NE.
half as II it did not have the least
idea that it had a chance. In the
last few minutes it went in front. ana,
in the language of the basket oaIi
court "Went crazy" with scoring.
Berger was the only Maryland player
anywhere near up to his form, ana
had he STAYED in the game he would
have beaten Florida just about single
handed. AS it was, he kept Maryland
in the game and with half the secono
half gone the Old Liners were s Ioui
points to the good with "tiaG aalouIICeu o,a :,
to a one-man offense and one-man
parU0r Upnt mn OI
the game in the middle of the second
half on four personal fouls. Up 70
that time he had been the team ana
from then on Maryland was Just tEat
much worse than it had been Delore'
The Old Liners just got caught on
one of those nights IN which notnng
for them was right and they suf1ereo
the consequences. The cnances are are
that had they all thought peioTe Ine
game as they thought and felt after
ward it would have been on1erehI
story. but that is part Of the game az
the athletic world plays 1t and 1t PROP
ABLY will be a good lesson, because
after all, those Maryland players are
a group of fine young chaps VINO Koh"
how to learn and to profit thereby.
MARYLAND is trying to effect ar
Nl rangements to bring two OF
three Of the best Far-Southerr
basket ball teams to College Park nex'
winter Vanderbilt, Georgia and Flor
ida have been approached and maybS
two of them will make the journey il
two other games can be arranged fol
them to help pay expenses OF the Ions
trips.
CONTRARY to what had been ex'
pected the attendance at the basket
bali tournament is running better
than it did last year. The first day:
crowds were much larger. There seem!
TO be very little money in this section
and conditions are pretty much wha
they seem TO be elsewhere, not mucf
work and very little cash to spend. /
must be as a very shrewd friend OF th'
writer in Washington. who began bowl
ing alley operations en- a large scale