Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-12
Il, Goo, After Professionals ID
Colleges Who Pose as Some
thing Else
AM USES STRONG LANGUAGE.
c.,,e, that College Athletics Are
Tso,ycombcd With TaI'ehood' that
The Amateur is a Fraud

.. "a H. r. Faunce OF brown
',. mas written an expose OF cole
ua',' ,n,,,esr athletics for the World $
lsa obIch. to say the least Is aston
N|% "a the general public. There arc
i'D't ,,,s,oly connected with athleuc'
Sc" nun D,nntry but know that this as
10 W. ,,. M amateurIsm by the MAJOR.
tlupS,,s oss high ON the college list OF
w ,J oridlron. or rowing teams Us
oi'u .,', moro than amusing They are
e4l DD nearly every ono Of them Nv
nss rhay have been shown up IN
ls columns 90 many ways syn ,hSy
il2. me honest professional VINO Nuon
h.W, Nd. DIVA resources ana eltJl ~ Iu'
az vH W.s oD "A higher plano thaH tHN
tNT.tblatf-the professional 4
l's' oGa have always helleN.1 ttidt
fW t.ss'ar1l athlete was worth my
On. INA mean real amateurs lot VI
llrs Ia one man ] dcsplse u Us uu' W''o
lG vG,k fol- nothing mus keeping ol"t
wv, and OF position Inc amateur
iDgolss s O huge farce tnV to,,r
,SiItts Is o sIliy tool lnu Wy "i'I Dos,
.itIstlcs Is huge lfduu' 0age l,o-
n e''E suucr. IN showing up these hypo-
c'iISS' .,. living IN a. time when college
r. bOpeyc0mbed with false
t'n'i ana when the professions ol anna
IVY. sre uqlalIy hypocrisy No col'
,Wt"'ro ever meets another today WIN
Ie.5f oItb In the others ollslbluly'
Nv. 1re'ert baseball contest the cap
,",f one team said to friend OF
lg' n, mo Won see our aggregation oul
i.o7 Hardly one Of them Us enlllleu 10
ray under the rules, ,...,,. Y,ot ,hs
l9tr6ry college player knows Uial 'u,
,rr6,Ing team u.s. dlsquduuel, DIV. n'
y7l Give evidence, for the reason
t0t Mt,i3t,uts of glass houses do not
.a' st6nes When the evidence how
lmr" tscon,es public and notorious then
W. Hoursh' OF trumpets the ouehd-
oavcr Is dropped. and having relul-
fhslr regulations tor athletic Nf-
. VA teams gO ON until more evidence
l..omts public ....,nai hmm,
,htE would sc0m 10 take advantage Oh
cIr5nont by subteriuge has been re-
,let by Mo 0stentatous Hingiug Of a
l.a no ibe Corbous of public opinion
trbo damaging results ut an TINS I'D
,.lIse me- need not De pointed oul'
S6u6e men trained In such devices can-
rt la eyueCtcd in after years TO snow
gr,t constituencies OF conscience IN tho
nnsfclal or political arena,
"Ugr thoroughly instructed IN the all
d, ,y18irF rules they do not Ike VIII
,- ,as'ly m later life De- found IN the
,.rus III municipal reform or civic VIZ
ms II we allow them TO remain lh
,.b conditions, Cun $50 ask that lhey
l..Sne the moral leaders VI their gem
"mt the eject ON our secondary
sboos ID stil more 20 bee deprecated,
he letters that pass between coiese
,hleUc managers and secondary school
lus could be- published the would
sarle the country Here is "a hpeclineu'
re Of thousands, written 90 the manager
la baseball team by boy who was
'Bs"T S'T YUd said, Come immedl-
rN Now / cannot come unless we
I'D agreed on the terms j tclegraphed no
in Wednesday. that is all expenses dur
rf year board room, tuition, books, etc.
md yW besides. 10 would be only extra
expense for me 90 60 TO see YOU unless
y6a can comply with these terms be-
alse could not stay under any olher
Conditions
80. II those terms are satisfactory to
you. inst make out a statement signed by
lllfstIt ana some IutNutl vi tlN lhluNe
Or some reliable business man In town,
f.atng all the conditions and terms.
On also willing 70 sign an agreement l
rave seen forms OF college agreement for
baseball this year and II is so stated that
nothing could be- brought up against the
school even u the agreement should be
exposed on course, / must have some
thing TO show, that ! may know just
where / am. II YOU wish to do this |
vii. come at once az soon as / receive
hc agreement Very truly yours,
"Nen trained In such methods through
OH the years ot schools and college life
may become future leaders. but they will
D. leaders DO the art Of oyading taxes
manipulating courts aud Outwitting the
ag ]f he land Yet this kind of CORES
poldcnce Is now carried on throughout
doe country.
An athletic boy frequently writes TO
hli a dozen colleges and selects the
hghest academic bidder Every college
president receives letters stating what IN
oucements have been offered elsewhere
and demanding M thinly yelled phras0l-
ogy whlher be is prepared to outbId his