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...stage in friendliness and cooperation between the University and Yale in matters of intercollegiate athletics was reached yesterday with the consummation of an agreement between W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and George H. Nettleton, chairman of the Board of Control of the Yale Athletic Association...
...muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until they resolve to split the business. Their lawyer-proposes a poker game, the partners play and brother Johns loses to brother Nettleton. By the contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler for one year, paying the sum of one hundred dollars for every act of unsubordination. The bill runs high. Johns is subjected to every indignity, including a meeting with his flancee in his houseman's garb, until he arouses his master's suspicion...
John Hazard and Frank Crumit, who play the Nettleton Johns outfit, are surprisingly natural in their actions except for too much winking at the audience Mile. Sanderson was on hand occasionally with her perennial charm and a good voice. She was called back four or five times for the song in which she hinted that she was a lady. Polly and Dick, the office-hands, were nice youngsters who insisted on missing the last note of every song. Coddles, the coo-coo maid stumbled around in mad gyrations and burlesque ballets until Ye Wilbur threatened to collapse on its foundations...
...Nettleton, Chairman of the Beard of Athletic Control, said, "Yale will regret deeply any interruption of those athletic relations that have been enjoyed under the triple agreement. Relations with Princeton and Harvard have always been cordial in New Havent, no change has been considered, and I see no reason why this unfortunate rupture should alter our situation...
...three universities were represented at the conference by Professor George H. Nettleton, chairman of the board of control of the Yale Athletic Association, Wiham J. Bingham, director of athletics at Harvard, and Charles W. Kennedy, chairman of the faculty committee on athletics at Princeton...