Show Western Conference Girds for Finish j Fight on Big i Meeting Called to Discuss Relations With fl Central Association By Charles CHICAGO March 5 h P Battle lines Ines were being drawn in the Western West ern em conference today for a fight to the finish with wills the North Central Association As As- of Colleges and Secondary Schools over the Issue of athletic con control trot in the Big Ten The Tho Issue flamed to a breaking point yesterday when Walter Dill Scott president of Northwestern university uni university issued a call for the presidents dents of all the Big Bis Ten universities together with directors of athletics and faculty representatives to meet in Chicago within two weeks to consider con con- sider the Western conference relation rela rela- tion to the North Central In regard repard to athletic control This committee will number thirty one including Major John L. L Griffith commissioner of Or athletics in the tue Big Ten The North Central association nn an organization in which practically every college and university between the tho Alleghenies anti and Rocky moun mountains is a member was organized to bring about uniformity in scholastic standards that affected transfer transfer- of credits of students migrating from 2 one school to another Recently however the North o assumed other powers eft which was a ruling that te should not sponsor any tic track meets or basketball t I meats ments Because of tills this Amos AIO jR Stagg was forced to give up Interscholastic tournament conducted by th ae aeThen of Chicago Then this tho North Central v Investigation of live five a Big universities Chicago Ohio Scott of learning of the visit of A the pa I of the NorTh Centra sedation called the meeting Whether the Interference of o North Central in the Big Tc Ten will cause a rupture between the m S organizations which might result K the Big Big- Ten withdrawal from North Central group cannot be b until the for o f thirty one meets Major Griffith pointed o out to that the North Central In attempting to supersede Ih th of the Western Its Internal athletic problems Inconsistent |