Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-17

Y .~t0ushing number OF per
y sons think the rules gov
\ ar0:ng sO-called amateur
.lrr. need revision. Men from
psrrsy}vania. Yale, Princeton and
q, least three other colleges seem
~, b4 unanimous on this point. One
- fine best equipped professors at
..., T-niyersity of Pennsylvania
.,,,slis his opinion most emphatic
r, I, was substantially as fol-
aus. # to play a little summer
,,.enall makes a professional out
"a runner. why should not writing
inv nay for a newspaper, or work
.cg. In Il store. or acting as a waiter
i'm 3 hotel, also make any college
.,5,s,a professional? To play
baseball for pay for a few months
-o,rd NOT be any especial advan-
.aoa 10 runner or a football man,
en- why aisqualify a poor boy who
Is irving to earn an honest dollar
nv doing what he can do best? We
ID not said this Pennsylvania pro-
4as,or call any student a profess
s.oraI who works for pay unless he
5,opens to be paid in connection
with AN athletic event. To this
university man, the distinction
made +, hardship for boys who
IN mo- sense are really professional
ball players, but who can earn
NOR. during vacation by playing
ball ,han they could in any other
way
Half the hotels at New England
SIMMER resorts were once equipped
win college boy walters, but they
we're not called professionals on
flat account. Many students work
for pay at other caIlings during the
,ummrr vacation. This university
nofpssor believes the Olympiad
should be abolished for the reason
hat different countries must have
inerent ideas about sports and
that this leads to unnecessary bick-
e.ing every four years.
America originally got its ideas
abou, the distinction between a
professional and an amateur from
England There the distinction
vas founded with a direct refer
oncc to what they called workmen
and gentlemen. the latter being the
0attms
know d prominent young Phil
dtpaia college athlete who was
a, the Top notch in his line of work,
ll. who had to retire from all con-
rests because he once unwittingly
accepted a. present for acting as
marker at billiard match. To the
boy mind such an Interpretation
of .ha rules governing profession
a.isu makes the whole thing emf
uu,Iy ridiculous.
WHEN McGraw was in Pittsburg
" recently on his vaudeville
'ogr, Hans Wagner drove his car
n from Carnegie to see him act"
Honus was down in the second
row. his big hulk Overlooking a
couple Of seats, when McGraW
spotted him.
I'm going to have trouble maxi
ing hit here began McGraw. Il
See Wagner down in the second
row, and it will be tough to get
anything 10y him"
McGraW had his audience from
there on and he got by big. No
body can deny that he has talent
MS am actor.
"TALN about brotherIy love"
wurmured Jess Stovall.
"nN ! can tell you a story that
You can't beat. that shows this
with the reverse English on it. and
IT isl real true one, too. 1t shows
to-" one brother made his debut
mo the American league by knock
ing bis own brother out of it.
III 1904 was pitching for the
Detroit team and my brother
george was playing first base for
me Cleveland club. The Maps had
just got him from the team at Bur
'ngton, Iowa, where he was man
aser.
In the particular. game to which
'eto. l was pitching and in
'''lca. part of the game, with two
"7a on bases, l walked the dan
srrous Lajoie in order to take a
nance with my own brother
George
Tome on, you big busher, I
|'"eo ar him as he stepped to the
.",e Just take three swings at
"s 'a. ana SIT down on the bench
'.l" you belong and go back to
'.t.o2ton tomorrow
"o'. ] hate to tell YOU, but the
~. ''. pitched to him he hit for
.'l.e run past the center fielder
.. ."ur men scored.
.".. swat won him a berth in
que and knocked me out Of
'n " HRIEN says that $500 was
y collected last year in fines by the
'.-..- management. When Nc
~, d" lines man it goes, too.
- .0s-e Is no assessing and then re-
..',". When he plasters on
..2.' d TO to $50 for violations of his
..es goes.
~ appears that during trip to
western city last season McGraw
"a. " pr a stiff poker game in
' at the hotel He waited until
".. over and then asserted