Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

The annual convention of the delegates from the different colleges in the Intercollegiate Athletic Association was held in New York on Saturday, at the Astor House. The following are the delegates of the 13 colleges which were represented: Harvard, E. C. Moen, and J. P. Lee, '91, J. H. Hunt, '92; College of the City of New York, J. J. K. Hackett, Thornton Earle and J. N. Emley; Columbia, J. M. Hewitt, Victor Mapes and E. H. Miller; Yale, H. Cheney, H. L. Williams and W. W. Parker; Amherst, Edwin S. Child, Charles O. Wells; Stevens, C. Smith; Lafayette, D. C. Babbitt and H. W. Snodgress; Princeton, W. H. Bradford and C. Wentworth; Cornell, E. C. Barley, H. II Sanger and E. A. Carolan; Lehigh, F. R. Coats; St. Johns, C. Ludlow Livingston, F. J. Keating and James P. McNally; New York University, C. A. Bill. C. E. Crawford and W. H. Salter; Swarthmore, John W. Hillchinson.

The meeting was called to order by F. R. Coats of Lehigh, vice-president of the Association, and the election of officers for the following year was immediately begun. The ballot resulted in the following choice: President, Victor Mapes, Columbia (by acclamation); vice-president, F. R. Coates. Lehigh; secretary, J. J. Hacket, College of the City of New York; treasurer, E. A. Carolan, Cornell; executive committee, J. N. Emley, C. C. N. Y., Edward C. Bahey, Cornell, ? Cheney, Yale, and E. C. Moen, Harvard.

Reports were then read and those of the retiring treasurer showed the total receipts of the past year to be $3,748.94; balance on hand, $2,705,75. This amount was derived from the spring games a year ago. A motion was made that $2,000 of the amount be placed with a trust company. This was lost. A motion was then carried that the money be distributed among the colleges, but only those colleges which sent competitors to the games a year ago to receive a share. An amendment by Mr. Lee that the division be on a basis of the number of men entered by the colleges in the games was lost. It was also moved and carried that no college should receive a share until its back dues were paid.

The petition of the New York University for admission to the Intercollegiate Association, which a year ago was denied, was again considered and favorably acted upon.

Motions were made in order concerning changes in the events at the spring games. The question of introducing the 56 pound weight into the programme of games was brought up, and a motion to that effect was lost. A call of the roll showed that the 56 pound weight was not included in the games of any of the colleges.

J. P. Lee then moved to drop the tug-of-war from the programme. He read a letter from an old tug-of-war man, setting forth the ill effects of that form of contest. Mr. Hewitt of Columbia defended the tug-of-war, and held that it was no more dangerous than foot ball, rowing and many other sports. The discussion grew quite warm, and at its close the motion was lost.

The next proposition was for the introduction of a two-mile safety bicycle race. This was lost after a long discussion.

Then a motion that the two-mile bicycle race on the programme of events include safety as well as ordinary wheels, was hotly argued and then lost. So it appears that all the proposed changes in the programme of events were defeated.

A motion to aypropriate $50 to purchase flags for Harvard, the champion college, was adopted.

The convention was on the point of adjourning when Wendell Baker took the floor and proceeded to call attention to the fact that a great many intercollegiate records were unreliable and misleading, and should be corrected with as little delay as possible.

A motion was then introduced by Mr. Bradford of Princeton that the association accept Carey's alleged record of 9 4-5 sec. for the hundred yards. An animated discussion followed in which J. P. Lee showed that since there were no official timers there the record could not be accepted without breaking the Association's rules. After some testimony from Burr McIntosh of the I. A. A. A. A. to the inefficiency of the men who timed Carey when he claimed to have made his fast time, the motion was voted upon and lost.

After referring the question of records in accordance with Wendell Baker's suggestion to the executive committee for report at the next annual convention, the meeting adjourned.