The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-01

! venture 10 say thst no. ora nan 10,
thousand on the Atlantic coast intaresssd
as ne may re In the sport OF gentlemen.
haS any conception OF the r-otsanueeS q
t"s Nnole structure through the Middle
ana Tar West. Men are bought ard sold
IKE eatiie 70 play this autumn on strict
amateur college elevsnz. Neu oner
ana sell themselves for an Afternoon for
from twenty-five 20 two hurarea ara affv
ucii4rs, and apparently there Is something
- a scale or prices Just as there Is for
hofs ana COWS r grain. A Est OF a
LEN cases here ana there through the
coHntry SHOWS a state OF affairs as dis
sFaeeiui 10 the honor OF gentlemen as Il
- destructive 20 the heaIrh-ven 10 sha
ht@-ot amateur sport in our country, and
u - high time that a direct statement
o. hscts, a list Of names ard prices paid.
should nc presented 20 all men. especially
20 those VINO are devoted 70 sport. WHO
know In an indefinite way that there are
instances here and there OF Indirect pay
inent for services. but who have absolute
~ no Idea Of the extent 70 which clean
sport has been undermined.
How Is II In the Universities % Miehi-
gan, or Chicago. Minnesota. Illinois.
northwestern. etc. Al Minnesota the
eleven looked weak this season. Forth
with the manager turned 10 Parkyn. a
man practising law In Chicago. and closed
an agreement by which he was 10. and
did. receive $500 for moving 10 me uniyer-
sity and playing on the football team
All under the guise OF delivering lectures.
wnlch. except in a few cases. were never
delivered. The manager then went after
Hoagland. the ex-Princeton man. who
was playing with the Chicago Athletic
Association eleven. Several kilograms
were received by Hoagland, zach one more
urgent. and nmerfnQ Ia-rz - 80 -
would only come and play against Chi
ago n finally the promised paymen
Tor this one game reached $3.50.
Turn To the Michigan team. which has
been perhaps as bad as any this year.
They have played Hall, the old Prince
ton player. although he was disqualified
from entering the Western intercollegiate
athletic meeting last spring as being a
professional. MADDEN. their end rush
last year. was offered half a dozen differ
ent Inducements to return. Hooper, for
merly their guard, who is now. or rather
was In the summer practising law in
Butte. Mont, has been bought and
brought back 10 Michigan, and is nomjn-
ally studying there now. Still. again,
stevenson. for four years a player on the
&. A. a team, was offered, in a cable car
on October s. by Roger Sherman. Mich
igan's manager. 500 to finish the season
with the Michigan team. This was while
s7AtffArtis VIII the rest OF the T. y. a.
team, was on mis- way to play Rush Med
ical college. / do not even have to look
these matters up, they are I'm the papers.
A short time ago the University of Mich
igan Daily said that II some good full
back did not turn UP. Brown of c. A. A.
would have TO be secured" The Beloit
Round Table says:
"Atr. Hollister. In a rather unfair way.
considering the lateness or the day. in
formed the board OF control thai he had
been induced by the athletes OF the Uni
Versity Of Michigan 10 complete his law
course az that institution, bu4 that his
brother. Charles HOLSTER. would accept
the position at Beloit If offered him on
the same terms"
Hollister. IL should be understood. Is
Beloit's athletic trainer. Chicago univer-
sity has been worse than ever this year.
and considering the fact that Stagg IS
the director of athletics there, this is, 10
say the least, surprising. Allen, captain
of this amateur eleven, is a paid In
structor In a branch OF the gymnasium
work, and has often coached for a salary.
Ewing coached Northwestern last season.
and his case was so notorious hat he was
disqualified from the pole vault. Nichols.
and even Stagg himself, paid athletic
trainers or instructors, have competed in
different ga-mes-amateur games. Temem-
ber-where prizes were o Look at
the Ease of Northwestern. Van DooZer.
the captain. belonged to a life-saving
crew. Suddenly the government forbade
members OF crews playing on football
teams. Van DooZer resigned the cap
taincy OF the team. as the crew business
paid his living. Then the team weakened.
and forthwith Van DOozer suddenly re-
signed the Hfe-saving crew and became
captain Of the Northwestern eleven again.
for the reason, as found out later, that
he urng faIE fhsF ha rhnrsI1 sl~u1 sseafhfun
by the change" Hudelson came 70 North
western and played on the team. receiving
in recompense tuition, room rent. and
board free. Thomas or c. 4. y. went to
Northwestern. and though he had never
been 20 any college az all. he Joined the
school Of oratory there. never went near
tho school. hut played on the team. And
so on and so on. until the history grows
tiresome and monotonous and sickening.
When 7 consider the condition of affairs
this moment over the whole country IN
football alone. I am compelled TO acknovl-
edge that IL IL a criticism or the severest
kind on the morality Of the young men Of
America. and when the readers of this
department see these paragraphs
and see how tnadequately such
"A wretched state of affairs can
be treated IN a single page NJ
the Weekly. that this is but a drop IN
the hogshead Of what IS going on. he viii
not only be astounded hut shocked 10
think that his own countrymen have so
little sense OF honor and justice and com
monplace everyday integrity that they
cannot even play their games without
cheating in secret or with hrazen-faced
openness. It IL a calamity. and the prac-
tice is 90 widespread that u seems almost
incurahle. one way there is. however,
through which the whole practice can he
corrected. and that Is ny a general union
OF all athletic men. writer's. takers, and
thinkers. making a public crusade against
the professional in amateur sport. The
most direct way is for all these college
faculties to act promptly 10 root out the
evil their very Indifference has permitted