The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-27
CAMP TALKS
ABOUT HONOR
IN ATHLETICS
TIE FAMOUS ATHLETIC WRITER
SAYS THAT NO GENTLEMAN
UNLESS AN ADMITTED PRO.
FEssIoNAL COMPLETES FOR
MONEY DIRECTLY OR INDi-
REcTLY.

Waiter Camp, in the October issue
OF Boys Life Magazine, has sound
article on Honor in Athletics. He saws
emphaticaily to the Boy Scouts of
America. No gentleman unless an
admitted professional completes for
money directly or Indirectly Like
wise he says, "a gentleman always is
courteous to his rivals"
About the question of competing for
money directly or indirectly, Camp
says:
No matter how winding the road
may be that eventually brings the
sovereign into the pocket. it is the
price of what should be dearer to YOU
than anything else-your honor 1t is
quite the fashion to say sentimental
bosh to any one who breaches such
an old-fashioned thing as honor; but
among true gentlemen, my boy, it is
just as real an article as ever and il
Is one of the few things that never
rings false. The man who tells you
that insufferable rot about being prac-
teal and discarding sentiment, is not
the man you would choose as a friend
He wouldn't stand by you in a pinch
and when we come to the reality. it
is only the man who believes in such
q thing as honor that Is worth any
thing. So stick to it, my boy, and
keep 1t bright. Carry it down into the
small affairs of school and college,
IF you are enough of a man to be
a good athlete, and some one asks
you to use that athletic ability upon
their behalf, don't take money for it
or anything that amounts to pay. II
you are on the school team or nine
and go into training, don't break faith
with your captain, yourself, and your
fellows by surreptitious indulgences
This doesn't mean that If you see some
other fellow smoke on the sly you are
obliged TO tell of it, nor does it mean
that you must call him to account
unless you are the captain. If his
standard is not so high as yours that
is his misfortune. If lie asks your
opinion, give it to him. if you like, but
not in such a way as to leave the i'm
preston that you are put out by your
d
II you are the captain and you find
a man breaking training in spite OF
your orders, and you consider it adj
viSable to put him off, don't be afraid
70 do it. Gentlemen are not towards,
mentally or physically.
~ A Little Incident.
II remember a little incident of my
own college course. l was a freshman,
and knew almost no one in college ex-
cept a certain Junior. l had entered
in. two events in the fall athletic
games, one a quarter mile. the other "A
hurdle race. I had run the quarter
and been beaten, although | finished
second. My opponents had all been
upper classmen, and received no little
announcement from their friends. ]
felt very lonely and disguised with
myself and life in general Wien l got
on the mark for the hurdle / had but
two competitors, and both had been
cheered when they came to the scratch
Suddenly as we were getting on our
marks heard a voice halfway down
the course call out. You can do 'em
and l saw my Junior friend waving his
hat to me. 1t was not a classical re-
mark, but it made me feel better ]
was clumsy in getting off, and wher
we came to the sixth hurdle was near
" five yards behind the other two, but
from that time on / could hear my
friend roaring out. Go I'M You've
got 'em YETI Now you're over as
went up each flight l did finish first
and / had hardly touched the tape be.
fore he was patting me on the back
yell for poor freshman, but / know
that l always thought of him as on,
of the best fellows | ever knew, AM
in after years / have remembered
enough of the feeling that was in m,
hc-rt toward him to get out and try
to make some others feel that even
freshman has friends.
.'Now about the treatment of you
rivals. A gentleman is courteous. I
IL not courtesy upon a bah field t.
cheer an error of the opponents. If |
ID upon your own grounds, II is tn
worst kind of hoorishness. The sam
Is equally true of any attempt to rattl
your opponents by concerted cheeri:.I
or talking. Moreover IL there ar
remarkable plays made by your rival
you yourselves should cheer: coneea
any chagrin YOU may feel at the los
It may be TO Your side, but be cour
teous to appreciate and applaud al
exceptional play by the opponents.
After winning a race or a match
there is no reason why good. health,
lot of young men should not do plent,
of cheering, but there is every reason
why they should not make their en-
toyment depend upon insulting thos
w have lost. You can not take YOU
hilarity off into a corner and choke
to death and no one wants you to
but gratuitous jibes and jeers at tn
crestfallen. mark YOU as a man VIII
does not know how to bear victory
a man whose pate is added by the ex
element or whose bringing up ha
been at fault