The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-27
MANUAL LABOR IS
BAD FOR STUDENTS
Struggling Young Men Should Be
Porch Climbers or Clever
Pickpockets.
BY O'Loughlln.

ACIApOSASuS.
BY o'Loughlln.
Jordan's "expose'' of Minnesota's football and
athletic methods has been given full publicity
and if the same disregard Of facts has held
good in the other universities as obtains in the
of Minnesota the young man has Dr0ken
into Journalism with jimmy and dark
lantern.
His charges are cowardly in that they libel
the University of Minnesota before the whole
country and only one side of the story is
printed, other than locally, the stigma must
stick with many readers who will never see or
know of the falsity Of his Indictment. If Col
1ers Weekly stands for the fairness of which
Mr.. Hapgood speaks from week to week and
would take the trouble to look up the defense
we'll the prosecution there would be
another series of articles, not under the mis-
leading caption Of Buying Football Victories "
but on 1.-The Gentle Art of InsinuatOn.'
The Minnesota article starts off with the
charge that Minnesota has abandoned all ath-
letcs but football The young man was so
intent upon his scandal hunt that he overlooked
the two or three track and field meets held on
Eorthrop field last spring, the dual meet with
Northwestern, the participa ton Of Minnesota
track team in the conference meeet at Chicago
in June. the cross-country runners now In train
ing, the winter gymnasium classes under DR..
Cooke and the annual athletic show and exhi-
piton. He overlooks Minnesotas champion
basketball team and the baseball, abandoned
last spring thru the late season, but now
ander reorganization. These things would indl-
pate the careless reporter plain attempt
10 make a telling point by unfair means
DR.. Williams Case.
Dr. Williams needs defense by his friends.
He can. and will, speak for himself. His
standing In Minneapolis as sportsman and
as professional too we'll known to
require any vindicaton from such an assault
Colonel F. M. Joyce and Isaac Kaufman have
answered Jordan's charges in The Journal
of yesterday. Then comes the charge that
Minnesota players are given jobs Irsfeld
and Harmon are pointed out as enjoying
snaps' with the Northwestern Telephone COM
pany Harmon is no longer in the university
or the city. While here he earned every penny
he received. His first work was at firing a
boiler in a downtown store at night at 81 so
Per night, shovelling coal and wheeling ashes
OF course this highly reprehensible, but
1t made point for Jordan. Harmon was an
s,hIue, a.hlete and preforce firing boiler soliciting
subscribers for telephone service and wheeling
ashes at night was disgraceful Hannah should
have robbed banks at night and not soiled his
amateur standing by labor with his hands.
Irsfeld's Labors
Irsheld has been solicitor for the telephone
company for years and after 1908, when it was
thought he was thru with football. he remained
with the telephone company, and when he re-
gains his strength after his recent Illness he
will go back to the same work Both Irsfield
and Harmon were what is commonly called "poor
y, Toys, working their way thru the university.
their hands and wearing out shoe leather at
legitimate labor. This was evidently shame
less proceeding.
Those Walters.
Ed Rogers and "Bobby" Marshall are scorched
p for waiting upon tables at clubs This was an
other shameless praceeding. They might have
become pickpockets and reached jail where labor
would not have been necessary. But they did
not. They worked and won the sting of thp
Jordan lash.
"Hunky' Davis was expert stenographer,
holding his position with the state fish and game
commission before he appeared on Northrop field
sam Fullerton, the chief Of the commission
did not know Davis playing football until
late In the fall of the first year, when 'Hunky'
asked day off to accompany the team out Of
town On subsequent years Davies took no va
cation, winter summer same two hours a day
during the football season.
Workers in Mills
Ittner and Case are accused Of the crime of
nisht 's ishe =oPe @eSe OF Is
FOR which he receives the usual stipend. rttner
never saw the mills save from the steel-arch
bridge. Dan Smith is accused Of working too
He Is guilty. He packed furniture in the base
ment of the Moore & SERVER store last year and
worked on farm the past summer. Dan Smith
should be arrested and sent to Saltwater fol
long term for doing any manual labor. He is
big enough and strong enought to be holdur
man, yet disgraces his alma mater by working
for a living.
The "Beloit charge" to the effect that Ear
Luce and Irsfeld bet ''cinch" score is de
MED vigorously by both men. 'It is a malicious
1ie,' was Earl Luce's terse statement made tt
the writer today. The Brush case, threshed ou
in the western papers in detail is handled as Tho
1t had been discreditable to the university whe,
in fact Minnesota threw Brush bodily into thu
conference. Dean Jones asking investigation
without protest having been filed. The decs
ion was upon It's merits and Jordan's point fall
dat
Criticism of Faculty.
ty of he ,,ujp &c bn1d
contempt as winking at football ''abuses whel
Irsfeld, Harmon, Hunter, Case and Kicker, eacl
star In his position on the team, were hell
up from play for season at least by the fac
ulty. This evidently does not cut any fgur
with Jordan. President Northrop broad, fair
minded man. is pointed out as something Of
freak because he is friend of football. Jorda
does not do Minnesota's president the justic
to say that he has ever been friend of ath
man of President Northrops standing by Jor
dan is too mirth-provoking to be considered a
all seriously.
''Sunny' Thorpe and Burdick are pointed on
as cases Of professionalism Thorpe worke
IN the courthouse and was paid "by the piece
for his work. When he did not work he got
pay. Frank Force IS quoted saying tha
he raised the wind nd for Th9rpe but denies
unsolicited save thru news inquiry of q new
paper making desperate effort to get hold {
a football story not already printed by tn
other papers Of the city.
A Mass Of Insinuation.
The story is a mass of insinuation. TT
charges hidden in a heap of verbiage, an
not direct charge is made or proof produced
1t goes broadcast and blackens the athletics (
Minnesota. 1t has those of the other nstit
I tions handled. The replies gain but limited CT
culation compared with the accusations. The1
will be more said by others as to Jordan
methods of working. This promises to be full
as Interesting and much more direct than IL
original story.
Ignored at the 'sU.''
When seen this morning President Northr,
and Dean Jones of the university faculty r
NOrthrop expressed his surprise at the stat teme
made by Jordan that he the only weste
college president in favor Of football as a &C
lege sport, and said that the statement was
surprise to him. as from conversations wi
some of the western presidents, he had gain,
the impression that football was favored
many Of them. ....- ..-
Dean Jones said: 'There is nothing to answ
In the Jordan charges. They are intangible al
Indefinite. 1 suppose that 1000 students in II
university are doing outside work In effo
to help pay collegiate expenses, and of th
number l suppose many are not football player
Jordan makes charges against the admin
q tratlve authorities at the university, and the
is nothing in his story that requires an answer
Henry O'Brien's Views.
Henry O'Brien, the Minnesota quarterbac
who, according to Mr.. Jordan came back
college In the fall of 1904 in order to get In
the Nebraska game and for whose servic
key Kaufman provided a financial remuner
tion, denies the charge absolutely false
had oEor