The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-16
AMATEURS MUST
REFUSE MONEY
Schoo! Athletes Must Not Com
pete For Cash-SulIivan


New York. oct. Thames Il. Sulli-
van, president of the \. \. L. and d
great friend of schoolhoy athletes
scores severely any suggestion to make
legal playing for money by school ath
ietes. In an Interview recently ne
stated that the idea undcrrnines the
whole principle Of amateur sport and is
untenable So Ions as we intend To
make athletics the great force that
they are in this country today.
/ To maintain any such idea as that
which has been advanced about
schoolboys taking money for Sunday
games is wrong. It's going back that's
all The Idea is just this: There must
ne sharp dividing lire between the
professional and the amateur and it
| must not be transgressod so much AS
one inch
The best reply that have ever seer
| to such proposition was published H.
the Harvard Lampoon' when some
one~wrotc letter and askc.; why a
student should not be allowed to play
ban for money when he could earn
something from languages, music and
the like. 1t is said that literature.
music. languages, architecture end the
like were business occupations and
We're u he the professions of those
who studied. Therefore it is only
right and natural that they should
Yield money TO ahead and realize all
YOU can from them. Athletics. how
ever are our play. and they must be
kept for such. The line between the
amateur and the professional must be
sharp.
Athletics Are Recreations.
"rhis does not mean that the pro
fessional is any better than the anna.
tour. for sometimes he is not IS good.
but simply that athletics must be re-
served fer recreation.
Here is the wicked feature Of this
thing: suppose boy takes 81 for
pitching "A game of ball on Sunday
what's To prevent him from taking so
or $50. That's what the good semi
professionals set for c game Of ball
and tell YOU that once YOU break
down the barrier there Will be NJ
stopping and all branches of athletics
viii be filled up- with professionals.
There then can he no means of limit
inc the thing. and that's where the real
evil lies.
III they want to have professional
teams in the schools, ct th,m but
theT must brand them as such and
have them play among themselves.
There can be no objection to that OK
cept that / THINK that IL is back |
sliding pretty far and would regret |
such = thing. But to havo profession
ais play with amateurs is to promote !
deception and is not to be countenanc-
ed
"one of the greatest bcaeEts of |
school athletics. when properly con
Quoted, is to teach boys upright ways |
Of livingaEd to like manly sport That
is impossible under such condition ms as
arc suggested, and | am sorry TO hear
them brought forth. It is the same as
boys to break the rules.
II understand that the advocates of
jhis proposition know that they would
have to begin at the top and go to
Yale, Harvard, Columbia. Princeton
and all the other big universities and
persuade them to admit boys in good
who had played for morey.
You see If a boy should take SIS for
playing game of BAN he would for
ever he barred from amateur sport.
World Has Amateur Rules.
AT The olympic games they ask us
where we get our line athletes and the
answer is that we train them from the
time they enter the elementary schools
They don't do that In Europe. Here
we have AN army of thousands of lads
in the schools, some of whom are sure
TO be members of the olympic team
at Berlin in 1916 Wouldn't il be
shame TO have them barred for any
such reason NJ that? The other coun-
tries wouldn't allow them The ideas
OF amateur sport now are unanimous
throughopt tho civilized world Tho
dineront nations may havc peculiar
IDEAS about what should be accepted
as prizcs ard what should be consid-
ered eNpt nse money. but they all agree
IN the law that no amateur shall ac-
cept money.
RMS thing comes tp every year and
! have been fighting II for thirty five
years ! hope can mako It clear that
the principle is wron~. / have no
don~ that those who advance the
are entirely sincere and