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Hn E&buees on tbe Htbletic Situation T he Olixer Theatre
F. C. ZEHRUNG, and O. T. CRAWFORD Mgn. P-one 354. Cor. P and J3th
Hammond Lamont of the New York Evening Post on "The Desir- ;
ability of Maintaining the Uncompromising Amateur
Standard in Athletics."
"The root of troublo with athletics
is that wo act as if a college, Instead
of being an institution of higher learn
ing, were an athletic club with Inci
dental opportunities for study. The
press and its readers too often assume
that athletics are the be-all and the
end-all; that the destiny of Harvard
and Yale depends on its record In foot
ball; that the progress of education and
religion in Rhode Island is wrapped
up in the- Brown hockey team. Who's
who In America.? When Professor
luannat falls ill, neighbors say, 'Man
oat? Mannat? Oh, yes, he teaches
Greek or mathematics; writes maga
zine articles and books. Too bad he's
down.' But when Smith, the fullback
who kicked a goal from the field, turns
hiB ankle, the news Is telegraphed
throughout the country, pictures dis
playing the distinguished sufferer adorn
our newspapers, and bulletins from the
sick room plunge fifty university clubs
Into gloom. Presidents Faunce, Har
ris, Elliot and Hadley might resign to
morrow, and with unruffled front we
should remark cheerfully, 'Plenty
more where- they came from.' But
Cutts, the Harvard tackle, is disquali
fied, and we are prostrated by the
shock, and lament as If President
Roosevelt had been assassinated.
"In such a diseased state of public
opinion, all of us, young, and old, are
seized by this delerium of athleticum.
Yet if we could shake off the hallucin
ation, we should realize that any or
every college could disband its nine
tnis spring without any great damage
to its true efficiency- in an ideal uni
versity, of which we may conceive by
a wild flight of fancy, games would be
reduced to the level of a recreation,
that helps to develop sound bodies, and
the students of our imagination would
no more hire men to take this exercise
for them than to eat for them. As a
matter of course, they would play in
opposition to other colleges In the spirit
of amateurs rather than of profession
als; that is, they would make their
contests the mere amusement of scho
lars. It is on this theory, which under
present unhappy conditions is Incom
prehensible, so fantastic, that all regu
lations against professionalism are
drawn. To keep college sport In prop
er tone and subordination we must bar
men who make a business of what, for
students at least, must be simply di
version. Whatever the difficulty in iso
lated instances, athletic boards of all
colleges, including Brown, admit that
there must be a strict rule or none.
Your professional or semi-professional
may often bo a capital fellow, but
teams open to professionals will Inevit
ably become professional In tone. Gen
uine amateurs, the fit representatives
of a college, will never have a fair
chance to get on; they will be crowd
ed out by men who are used to playing
for a business, and who Will dominate
by either force or skill; they will be
crowded out by men who are nominally
paid for summer ball, but really for
college ball. In a college mich a semi
professional team is a glaring incon
gruity. "One of Iho objections raised every
where against the amateur rule Is
that It unjustly debars students who
earn an honorable livelihood by sum
mer baseball. Perhaps the rule Is a
hardship to a very few, who would like
to be professionals in the summer and
amateurs in winter, but their careers
are not blasted by Its cruel insistence
on amateurism. Membership in a uni
versity team Is not necessary to sir -cess
In this world or salvation in the
next. If the welfare of athletics as a
whole demands exclusion of profession
als, thoy aro not more oppressed than
scores of good men who fail to 'make'
tho team, and who, for its welfare, are
also kept off; they are less to be pitied
than thousands who have never had
tho least chance to get on. The pro
fessional has the pleasure of playing In
summer he can obtain enough exer
cise on scrub and practice nines. For
tho sake of the larger Interests of th"
college he stays off the team, but he
still has tho night to life, liberty and
tho pursuit of happiness.
"The chief objection is that the rulo
cannot be enforced and breeds hypoerl
cy. But tlie rule is as easy to enforce as
that against cheating in examinations
or theme writing. Because a few stu
dents get drunk and yet pretend that
they do not, a faculty would not en
courage honesty by declaring drunken
ness one of the cardinal virtues and
establishing a college grog shop. If
tho present rule be defective we might
specifically amend it by shutting out
players on hotel nines and nines that
take gate receipts or sell programs. In
case such players are not paid, the col
lege athlete can afford to remain off tho
team; in case they are paid, he may
choose between being a professional or
in amateur. Were all colleges to pull
steadily together for a few years ami
mako clear to graduates and under
gradutes the necessity of maintaining
strict amateurism, of preventing the
athletic tail from wagging the Intel-,,
let tual and mdral dog, both the serious
work and tire pastimes of our Ameri
can youth would be inoro wholesome.
"But, whatever happens, of this you
may rest assured: A general reaction
will set In against the excesses of ath
letics the reckless expenditure of
money, time and energy on them. This
folly can not run on forever, reason
will have Its turn again. We are foeling
the reaction already, for just In so far
as Harvard, Yale, Brown or any other
college Is letting body triumph over
mind, In so far It directs Its appeal
to the noisy, the thoughtless, the sport-
I ing element of the community, just in
so far it Is killing the confidence of the
sober, reflecting, solid men, who may
not shout on the bleachers Saturday
afternoon, but who hue it their alma
mater with their fortunes and their
characters and who are the Ideal pro
duct of a university."
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