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BY SS DAY
NEW HAVEN, CONN., JANUARY 21, 1897.
THE ATTEMPT TO TAX YALE.
The feeling of New Haven and of
Connecticut as) communities towards
Yale in particular and towards educa-
tional institutions of its kind in gen-
eral, as shown by the attempt to tax
this University property so heavily,
is to us the most interesting feature
of ‘the isste.” “It “will not “be “possible
to appreciate that feature until this
feeling is more thoroughly developed
in the futtre progress of the case.
Of the equities and proprieties of
such a step as tthat instituted by the
town of New Haven, there can hardly
be a division of opinion among Yale
men and the friends of education gen-
erally. And it is not profitable at
present to use adjectives or call hard
names or impute improper motives.
The issue must be met squarely on iits
merits and foreed to its logical as well
as its legal conclusion. And it is
hardly necessary to add, in this con-
nection that Yale men need not fear
that the University’s interests will not
be stoutly fought for. until the Jaw
has been construed by the court of
last appeal. Weare much mistaken if
there is not plenty of backbone in tthe
University management on this point.
However, it may be of interest to gay
that the danger, if there is any, is not
immediate. There are facts outside
of the necessary length of any such
litigation which make the final issue
more or less remote.
We shall wateh with exceeding in-
terest what the real feeling of the
citizens of New Haven and of Connec-
ticut is on this point, when they are
in possession of the facts and are
called upon to pass upon them, as it
is not improbable that they would be
under certain conditions. It is to be
very earnestly hoped that the future
will show that no incidental considera-
tions or mean judgments on small
and impertinent facts shall cloud the
vision of the people of this communi-
ty when they seriously look at Yale,
when they think of her past, when
they consider the tremendous respon-
sibilities that are upon her today, and,
perchance, try to look into a future
whose possibilities and glories no man
can tell,
AGAINST NEW YORK GAMES,
The University A. C. Recommends a
Change of Grounds.
The council of the University Ath-
letic Club of New York City, which
has had charge of the arrangements
for the annual Yale-Princeton foo ball
game, thas sent letters to the football
management of Yale and Princeton,
advising that these matches be he'd
away from New York City. Final
action was taken on this matter at a
meeting held on Wednesday evening,
January 13, at which the following
were present: C. C. Cuyler, Princeton;
Guy Richards, Columbia; George A.
Adee, Yale; O. G. Jennings, Yale;
Clark Williams, Williams College; W 1-
liam Manice, Columbia; Sanford
Barnes, Yale; H. S. Brooks, Yale; C,
F. Mathewson, Dartmouth; W. A.
Meikelham, Columbia; Tracy H. Har-
ris, Princeton; H. M. . Alexander,
Jr... Princeton; H. W.. Banks, Jr;
Williams; Allan McColloh, Columbia;
and H. W. Calhoun, Yale.
The following is the official state-
ment which has been sent to the two
universities:
At a meeting of the Council of the
University Athletic Club, held on the
18th day of January, 1897, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted: |
‘Resolved, That the report of the m¢m-
bers of the club interested in the man-
agement of the annual Yale-i’:inceton
football game be accepted and adopted
as the views of the members of this
Council, and further
‘‘Resolved, That the Secretary of the
club send a copy of the report and a copy
of these resolutions to the presidents of
the Yale and Princton Football Assoc’a-
tions and to the Athletic Committee of
the universities.’’ Very respectfully,
GUY RICHARDS,
Secretary.
To the Council of the University Ath-
letic Club:
Gentlemen—The undersigned members
of the club, who have undertaken the
management of or acted as an advisory
committee at the Yale-Princeton football
games in New York, desire to submit to
you the conclusions reached by them
after five years’ experience.
It will be remembered that in 1892 the
Council of the club; after a request from
the presidents of the Yale and Princeton
Football Associations, consented to se-
lect the most available grounds in New
York and to undertake the management
of the game, and in so doing they were
actuated with a desire to have the game
as much as possible a college contest, and
not a public exhibition, and to eradicate
professional managers from all connec-
tion with college games.
The difficulties experienced by the com-
mittee at first in the allotment of tickets
are well remembered. In later years the
details connected with the allotment of
tickets under the application system, first
inaugurated by your committee, were
transferred to the colleges and all other
details connected with the game were
undertaken by your committee.
From our experience on the committee,
and as college graduates, irrespective of
the source of our degrees, we desire to
call your attention to the difficulties en-
countered and to the evils which have
arisen which in our opinion make the
playing of the game in New York detri-
mental to college athletics and to the
best interest of the colleges and college
students.
First—Whhile the distribution of tickets
has been almost wholly confined to col-
lege students, their friends and graduates
of the colleges, the difficulty the public
experience in purchasing tickets ‘Jhas
created each year so high a premium for
any tickets that can be obtained, that a
very strong temptation is offered for
students to dispose of their tickets and
to make money out of the privilege of-
fered to them; and while this evil has
been less the past year or two, yet this
year one ticket speculator obtained at
least fifty tickets from the students of
one of the colleges, and disposed of them
at an advance of $5 to $10 per ticket.
Second—The most available athletic
ground in or near New York is Mianhat-
tan Field, but the construction and ar-
rangement of the stands make even that
undesirable for football games.
For instance, the fact that less than
one-half of the seats are covered is a
cause of dissatisfaction among those who
are unsuccessful in obtaining the choice
Seats, and the uncovered stands are sit-
uated so far from the playing field that
seats upon the latter stands are most un-
satisfactory.
Third—Our experience ‘proves to us that
the management of the game in New
York cannot be satisfactorily undertaken
and carried on by the student managers
alone. ‘We recall the accident that hap-
pened in Brooklyn in the breaking down
of the stand, and we are conscious that
the greatest care must each year be
taken to inspect carefully the stands and
and entrances to the grounds. Numer-
ous other difficulties arise each year in’
the management of the game in New
York, which only persons with experience
can meet, and in our opinion, college
sports should be managed by the under-
graduates, and the contests should take
place where it is possible for the stu-
dents to take entire charge.
Fourth—In addition to the facts we
have mentioned, we are firmly convinced
that the playing of the annual football
game in New York is injurious to the
good name of the colleges.
The game is apparently considered a
public spectacle, and it seems to be con-
sidered by many in New York no longer
a contest among college students, but as
&@ public exhibition, offered to obtain
large gate receipts, which is injurious to
the best interest of true amateur sport.
We are all too well acquainted with ob-
jections that have been raised against
the large sums of money received from
the sale of tickets to football games in
this city, and they need not be enume-
rated.
The excitement that is created in this
city over the game leads the morning
papers to publish sensational articles in
regard to thappenings attributed to stu-
dents at places of amusement the even-
ing after the game. r own experi-
ence convinces us that the accounts are
greatly exaggerated, and but few college
Students take part in the proceedinge
reported, but the fact of the necessity
that extra police be placed on duty in the
Streets and in places of amusement on
the evening after the annual football
Same between Yale and Princeton is a
sufficient cause for persons interested in
our colleges and higher education to urge
the giving up of the annual game in New
York, and to urge the colleges to hold
their athletic contests on college grounds
and not elsewhere.
_ in submitting the report we would sug-
gest that if the Council of the club agree
with us they communicate our views to
the football associations and the ath-
letic committees of the several colleges
interested. Very respectfully,
Julian W. Curtiss, Yale ’79; Tracy H.
Harris, Princeton, ’86; H. S. Van Duzer,
Harvard ’75; O. G. Jennings, Yale ’87: C,
Ledyard Blair, Princeton ’°90; Guy Rich-
ards, Columbia ’87; Charles F. Mathew-
son, Dartmouth ’82; W. W.  Skiddy,
Yale ’65.
New York, Dec. 5, 1896.
‘The following appeared in a recent
editorial in the Yale News and shows
tow the action of the University
Athletic club is taken at Yale:
“It would seem almost certain that
the true object of college athletics
would better be subserved by condi-
tions under which with each of the
contesting collezges as the alternate
guest of the other or both as the
guest of some third institution, that
friendly rivalry and esprit de corps
would be fostered ‘between institu-
ticns, as it is impossible that it could
be when both are battling in a pub-
lic arena for the popular applause.
The removal of the game from New
York would enable the management
cf it to be placed more in under-
graduate hands, the present elabor-
ate preparations would be simplified
the evil of ticket speculating would
ke checked and the whole affair would
be reduced to its proper perspective
in relation to college life.
“The committee of the New York
Athletic club has been in charge of
the arrangements of the Yale-Prince-
ton foot ball games for the past five
years and during ‘that time have
made many valuable suggestions in
the interests of college athletics, but
we are inclined to think that the most
important and valuable of all is em-
bodied in their recent report.”
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Mrs. Baldwin’s Death.
Mrs Charles Sears Baldwin, wife of
Dr. Baldwin, instructor in Rhetoric,
died at the City Hospital early last
Thursday morning. She had been ill
for about ten weeks with typhoid
fever, from which she was expected to
recover. A form of heart trouble,
however, set in and ultimately caused
her death. Mrs. Baldwin was the
daughter of the late Col. Richard B.
Irwin, U. S. A. She was twenty-six
years old and was’ graduated from
Barnard Colleze, Columbia University.
She was married in September, 1894.
and leaves a son, born last July. She
was the niece of Miss Agnes Irwin,
Dean of Radcliffe College, Harvard.
Her maiden name was Miss Agnes
Irwin.
The funeral services of Mrs. Bald-
win took place in Christ’s church at
3:80 o’clock on Saturday afternoon.
The officiating clergymen were Rev.
Mr. Morgan, rector of the church,
Rev. Father Prescott. and Rev. Mr.
Yardley of New Haven, and the Rev.
John Page of Lebanon, Pa. The pall
bearers were college men whom Mrs.
Baldwin had known. They were W.
H. Owen, Jr., ’97, Gouverneur Morris,
Jr., 98, J. McLaughlin, ’?98, M. T. Ben-
nett, °98, E. C. Streeter, 98, and Man-
deville Mullally, ’98. Large numbers
of Mrs. Baldwin’s friends both from
among the Faculty and undergradu-
ates attended the services. The inter-
ment took place in Grove street ceme-
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