Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
RUN ATHLETICS
LIKE BUSINESS
NO SLIPSH0D MANAGEMENT IN
COLLEGE SPORTS
GRADUATE MANAGER MAINTAINS
REGULAR OFFICE
Employs Clerical Force and Under.
graduate Assistants Have Desks In
Rooms Provided for Trans
action of Affairs

Few, II any, of tn thousands of
spectators who witness the contests Of
college athletes from September until
outside Of the preparation of the ath-
letes, which is expended on the games
The idea of the majority is that the
college provides field and grand stand
or bleachers and all else that is neces-
sary is for the men to come out on
this field and be taught by more or
less able man what to do and how
to do 1t.
That is the way it appears to an OUT
slider, but back of the elements OF
sport in every college there is a busi-
nesslike consideration Cf men who
really are the mainstay of athletics.
If it were not for them there would be
trouble of a financial nature all the
time, but this is fact seldom thought
of.
For several years past the larger col
leges have found that a strong attn
letic association, composed of the man
ayers and assistant managers of the
various teams, all under the guidance
of one man, usually a graduate, Is an
economy and puts the athletic analrs
on a more businesslike footing than In
the days when each manager settled
his team bills.
Such an organization has been per-
fected at Harvard university and in
the offices of the athletic association
there prevails the air of the business
like place of solid corporation. There
is large, airy, main office, where the
graduate manager makes his head
quarters and where all clerical work
is done. Adjoining it are three smaller
rooms, one for the meeting of the ath--
letic council, one for the keeping of
accounts and the selling of tickets for
the various athletic events and a
small private office for the graduate
manager.
The undergraduate managers of the
various teams have their desks In the
council room, convenient Tor the meet
ings of that august body, and the as
sistant managers also hang out" here
when their superiors are not using the
desks. No one outside of those di-
rectly interested in college doings has
a place in the offices, as there are any
number of sophomores anxious to get
in line for the different managerships
and these men make themselves useful
in many ways.
But athletics, while OF chief impor-
tance, are not the only business deals
carried on in the office. The manager
of the Harvard Lampo~n n is housed
here and the finances of the Delta Up
silon, the college dramatic society,
have, during the past year, been put In
charge of the graduate manager.
Therefore, with all the interests reck-
oned upon. the business done in the
"athletics office" last year amounted
to more than 100000.
The "boss' of the ONCE, otherwise
the graduate manager, is William Du-
gan, formerly manager OF the 1907 base
ball team. He was appointed last
spring upon the resignation of John
Senior, who had held the position since
1t was first created in 1901, and who
gave it up only to take a position with
a New York publishing house. The
office of graduate manager is no sine
cure, but with neat salary, about
$4,000, attached 1t is one to be desired.