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Another slap was given to the perpetrators of the ill-timed questionnaire on the truth of statements made by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer, and the CRIMSON on the question of football versus academic prestige, by T. A. D. Jones, head coach of the Yale eleven. Coach Jones, who received one of the few postcards that escaped suppression, refused to vote. He did not indicate his belief in McGeehan's declaration that Harvard was ready to swap two presidents and three department heads for a good backfield; and he did not show agreement with the CRIMSON's statement that...
...recent mysterious questionnaire which purported to submit to a plebiscite of graduates and undergraduates two statements--one by the CRIMSON and one by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer--has succeeded well in doing well what the anonymous joker who sent it evidently sought to do. It has thrown a cloud of misinterpretation and misunderstanding around a perfectly sane and frank statement by the CRIMSON of the proper relations that should exist between athletics and the College. One graduate Mr. J. M. Hallowell '88, who has been so misled, writes indignantly as follows...
Said W. O. McGeehan, the best of all sports writers: "It took place very unostentatiously. There were few correspondents. There seemed to be some doubt as to whether this sort of thing came under the head of sports. There was no advance ballyhoo. There were no gate receipts...
More entertaining than the fight were the comments of W. O. McGeehan, sporting editor of The New York Herald, on events of the preceding eve- ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country...
Said W. O. McGeehan, able sporting editor of The New York Herald: "In spite of the fact that he has shown himself to be just a mediocre boxer, Siki will continue to get matches because of his eccentricities. The more sedate colored boxers naturally are indignant over this, and there are probably about a dozen of them who can best Siki in any kind of a bout. It is a bit unjust, if one comes to think it over, but the crowds will go to see Siki whenever he fights simply because his habits are decidedly irregular and eccentric...