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Show ANOTHER PENN GRID . STAR PROFESSIONAL "" i Halfback Pcarce Admits Having Played Baseball Under Assumed Name; Tncjuiry in Order. i 1 'hi. .-a go Tribune Special. I-HIEADEM-MMA. Dec. 2. Auoih.-r black mark has bee it written acniss the BM!i gridiron pain- of 1 he University of Perms viva uia. with ; r n nouneemeni that Pard. I'earo.-, Red and Bine halfback, half-back, was barri-d from the 1 V an - Cornell game because of professionalism and not scholastic troubles. Pearce played shortstop last summer with a National league Hub and is still on their reserve list, according to his own a dmission. H e was dra fted, it. is said, from a team in the Three- league, where he dayed under iho name of Dwyer. The branding of Pearce as a prot'es-s prot'es-s io na 1 f 0 1 o w s e ' ' . s i y upon similar a. o -ensatious auainst IVm Derr, woo likewise like-wise was precni.ed from playing against Cornell. Penn gridiron circles have been thrown into a. fever vhb'h bv the charges against the two halfbacks. That an investigation investiga-tion of the affair will made was intimated in-timated when the football committee held its mout tdy meeting. Up tin til I od;i y i I wa s believed Pcarce had been kept out of th. Cornell game because of his studies. Then Coach Fol-well Fol-well admitted 1 ha L IV a roe was excluded for another reason. |