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Pennsylvania; Vice-President, W. S. 

 Hinchman, Haverford College; Secretary 

 and Treasurer, R. Houghton, Harvard. 

 The association comprises at present only 

 Harvard, Pennsylvania and Haverford, but 

 it is expected both Yale and Princeton 

 will enter teams in the competition this 

 year. A committee consisting of R. S. Hol- 

 land, Harvard; F. A. Evans, Haverford, 

 and O. Paul, Pennsylvania has been ap- 

 pointed to arrange a Canadian match with 

 the all-college II. Another committee, 

 consisting of J. P. Morris, Haverford, A. 

 W. Jones, Pennsylvania, and R. Houghton, 

 Harvard, was appointed to award last year's 

 intercollegiate prize bats. The champion- 

 ship cup for 1898 was awarded to Haver- 

 ford, and the following partially completed 

 schedule has been arranged for this season: 

 Harvard vs. Pennsylvania, May 16th, at 

 Cambridge; Harvard vs. Pennsylvania, 

 May 19th and 20th, at Philadelphia; Har- 

 vard vs. Haverford, May 26th and 27th, at 

 Cambridge. 



manner, will undoubtedly be accepted by 

 the association because of their merit, and 

 not because any 2 colleges refuse to com- 

 pete under any other terms. 



Anything that has for its object the rais- 

 ing of the standard of college athletics, no 

 matter what the branch, should be encour- 

 aged in every possible way. Sport for gen- 

 tlemen cannot be too pure. The newspapers 

 of late have been full of proposed amend- 

 ments to the constitution of the Intercolle- 

 giate Athletic Association which Harvard, 

 supported by Yale, intends introducing at 

 the annual meeting of the association. 



The first amendment is to Article 14 of 

 the constitution, and reads: " No delegate 

 shall represent a university or college at the 

 annual meeting unless he be a student in at- 

 tendance at that university; but an alum- 

 nus, ex-member or graduate may be called 

 in for advice by a two-thirds vote of the 

 association." 



The second amendment is to Article i&: 

 " A student shall be allowed to compete at 

 the intercollegiate meeting 4 times, and 

 no more. This applies to all departments, 

 medical school, law school, academic, etc. 

 If a student has represented a college in any 

 intercollegiate track meeting of any sort, 

 and has won a point, a point meaning first, 

 second or third place in any event, he shall 

 not be eligible to represent any other col- 

 lege he may thereafter attend, in the inter- 

 collegiate meeting. This amendment not 

 to be retroactive, but affecting only those 

 who enter college after the date of the 

 adoption of this amendment." 



Both of the proposed amendments are 

 very apt, and will contribute greatly to the 

 raising of the general athletic standard. 

 Any talk of Yale and Harvard withdrawing 

 from the association if their ideas are not 

 accepted, is utter nonsense. Yale and Har- 

 vard are not the only colleges in the coun- 

 try which desire purity in athletics. The 

 amendments, if proposed in the proper 



An executive committee shall consist of 

 the chairman, secretary and one other 

 member appointed by the chairman, and 

 said committee shall have the power to ar- 

 range the play-off in case of a tie, and to 

 attend to any other business. 



On a definite arrangement of the sched- 

 ule the executive committee shall decide 

 which captain in each game played shall ap- 

 point a referee. The name of referee thus 

 chosen must be submitted to the other cap- 

 tain for approval. 



The managers of the different teams shall 

 consult with the managers of the rinks in 

 reference to the expenses of each team, and 

 the guarantee necessary. A game forfeited 

 is a game lost. A meeting of this body of 

 representatives shall be held at the end of 

 the season, unless the chairman sees fit to 

 call such a meeting sooner. 



The resolutions were signed by the fol- 

 lowing: J. S. Williams, Jr. and A. M. Hen- 

 derson, Columbia; S. Stoddard and G. S. 

 Mittendorf, Yale; C. S. Hoyt, Brown, and 

 W. E. Wallace and B. D. Parish, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Yale has taken a stand with her own 

 athletes that every other college should imi- 

 tate. All track, baseball and football men 

 have been instructed not to join athletic 

 club teams where the expenses of represent- 

 atives are paid. All the Yale men who in 

 the past have played on the teams of clubs 

 suspected of paying their representatives' 

 expenses, have been brought up with a 

 sharp turn. 



As soon as a man makes a reputation in 

 college he is immediately besieged by the 

 representatives of the different clubs, all of 

 whom offer to pay the athlete's expenses if 

 he will but consent to represent the agent's 

 organization during the summer. If all the 

 universities and colleges would follow the 

 example set by Yale this growing evil 

 might be suppressed. 



A detailed statement of receipts and dis- 

 bursements on account of the Princeton '98 

 football team is given below for the reason 

 that it furnishes a fair estimate of the neces- 

 sary cost of running a first class eleven. 



The statement is as follows: 



Receipts — Games in Princeton — Lafay- 

 ette, $226.50; Cornell, $2,176.04; Virginia, 

 $294.50; Yale, $12,804.96; other games, 

 $452.65. Total, $15,954.70. Games away 

 from Princeton, $1,157; training table, 

 $527.61; sundry receipts, $11. Total, $17,- 

 650.31. 



Disbursements — Guarantees, $1,868.37; 



