Minor Jayvees Face Economy Axe; Grid Rules Body Throws in Towel

Saddled with a depressing $60,000 deficit for the operations of 1947-8, William J. Bingham '16, director of the H.A.A., announced yesterday that all minor sport Jayvee teams will probably be abandoned next year. In addition, all plans for expansion in 1948 will rest on the shelf until the athletic budget is balanced.

Jayvee teams in football, baseball, basketball, and crew are included in the budget for next year while those in soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and tennis will be eliminated. Proposed second string squads in other sports are also omitted from the tentative plans which Bingham submitted this week for the approval of the Corporation.

No Boston Successor

At the same time Bingham had no comment on a possible successor to Chief Boston, who resigned his position of Jayvee football coach last week. "Art Valpey has complete charge of his staff, and he has as yet given me no recommendation."

Warren "Moe" Berg, coach of Freshman basketball and baseball, will leave Cambridge on July 1 when his present contract expires, but his replacement has not yet been chosen. A former Varsity hurler, Berg has been on the Crimson coaching staff for three years.

Commenting on economy plans Bingham said, "We still have not reached pre-war income, while travel and replacement costs are way up." The Jayvee teams are the logical sphere for economy, he said, because schedules for them are difficult to arrange since Yale has drastically curtailed its secondary team setup. "We are retaining them in the sports where Yale games can be arranged."

Question Simply "Financial"

"If I can see any way to put the Jayvees back into the scheme," Bingham added, "I shall. The question is simply a financial one. We are still suffering from the suspension of athletics during the war; the football schedule still is not back to a pre-war level."

Abolition of the Jayvee hockey team was a special case because ice is not available in Boston for the skaters next winter. "I'm not even certain we can secure ice for the Varsity," Bingham added.