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Show " RUPTURE OF ATH- LETICJELATIONS Is Net Unlikely Between the Two State Institutions, According to Reports Thero Is a prospect 'lhat nVuptu'o of athletic relations between tho Aggies Ag-gies and tho U. of U,,juiay ogpur In the Immediate future, as the' result of a demand mado upon tho University Univer-sity baskotball manager by Manager Lewis of tho Aggie hoop team. This demand or perhaps It would bo more pleasing to say request, was that tho U. guarantee tho Aggies $50 when they play in Salt Lake and tho Aggies Ag-gies In turn offered to guarantee a similar amount when tho U. comes here to play baskotball. Coach Teot-zel Teot-zel stood back of his manager in this equest and nssumed that it wou d bo granted ns that Is the usual usu-al courso of procedure In football and track meets. Somehow tho mat-tor mat-tor fell Into the hands of Dr. J. F Merrill of tho University Athletic Countll and ho nt onco Injected tho sentimental Issuo of tho college athletic ath-letic authorities being unablo to trust tho Unlvorslty athletic folk. That hus not ho'ped the matter at all. Ilehlnd tho request of tho Aggies Is this: A few years ago tho Aggies hired tho U. Y C. gym, having none of tholr own nt that tlmo and mado nil other arrangements to meet tho I'tnh U, basketball team In a league gnmo. A crowd of 800 nssembled and waited for a long tlmo for tho appearance of tho U. team and then camo Uio announcement that It could not conm because "Happy" Holm-Btead Holm-Btead was 111 and thoy did not care to play without him. Then tho ton-nis ton-nis team of tho U. failed to appear at another tlmo nnd finally tho baseball base-ball team got hung up In automobiles automo-biles somewhere botween horo nnd Salt Lake and wero thrco hours late In getting hero so that no game occurred oc-curred that tlmo to tho great disgust of the local public. Having these failures In mind, tho college mado Its request as a matter of business as It has lost considerable money and much favor with tho loeal public pub-lic ns a result of tho U. failures to be present when thoy agreed to be. Tho Athletic Council of the College will consider tho matter, and If tho members of that body tako a stand with tho Coach, U. will llkoly do business bus-iness on a business bnsts or not at all as far as tho Collego is concerned. concern-ed. There aro n good many pcoplo hero who follow athletics, Who will welcome wel-come tho day when tho Agglos decldo to break away from tho Colorado Conforonco altogether. Tho adoption adop-tion of tho now basketball rules has served to nccentunto this feeling. |