The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-18
BOASTS COLLEGE MEN WHO PLAY
 BALL IN SUMMER

George Herbert Daley. sporting edi- tor of the New York Tribune and writ CT for its columns under the nom de plume of 'fE1erbert,'' in g. lettar to The Yale News on the question of, summer baseball and professionalism fn college athletics says:
 Tor some reason hard to explain, many persons wall not discriminate be- tween the man who plays summer baseball to aid him in getting col adopts some other form of employ ment during the vacation period The old question is asked-f 1t is right for one, why is 1t not right for the other, and why should the powers who govern amateur sports make fish of one vtotiu and flesh of another 1t Is There is absolutely nothing wrong in college player using his baseball skill to help pay his way through col HgS Hpn1a,ds @ enfIe enf he sogia 5 not be eIg o 3ble to represent hts college on the athletic held for the simple reason. it opens the door to proseIyting,. the most dangerous and fns4dtous of all athletic evils.
 sThere was a man at Yale several years ago who found 1t necessary to play baseball in the summer with a minor league team to aid him in pay Ing h1s way through Y9fe. but good sent his college on the diamond. He did take a lively interest in tR sport however, pract&ced with the varsity, 1 played on the second team and aided l So far as possible In coaching. In 1 this way he did his full share for Yale | and was respected and loved by his | association wdthort jeopardizing the
 good name Of the university. How different his case from the unG grad uate who for selfish reasons or with
 the misguided Idea that he is working
 in the interests of his college, plays
 under an assumed name for money
 and chen lies about 1t.
 T would like to repeat what said | in my own column two or three weeks
 ago. resent the txnpp1tation that as
 socfat1on with professional baseball
 players has of necessity a, contaminat-
 ing influence [ say of my oWn k1ow1-
 edge that q majority of the men who
 make baseball a profession are as clean in thetr way Of living as the av-
 course, and the little tricks of the | game applaa1ded by the masses as
 sharp and willy cannot be aped and
 followed with the same latitude in am ateuE sport
 But the boy Or young man is more 1 likely to suffer rom associations out
 side of baseball 'gnan within. The ] trouble lies not so much in playing | with professionals as in violating the
 principles laid down for being an anna
 teur, and, as said before, In opening i the door to proselyting.
 | t'TEae governors of every sport have their own ideas and their own def1ni- | tfons as to what constitutes an anna | teur. Some o& the rules are hard and fast, others are loose and elastic. As | & matter of fact, however, every rule
 cna1ld be short and to the point. An Adna3eur Is man who does not play for money, or in any way commercial 1ze the sport in which he is npeting.
 It is plain and simple. Every man knows in his own heart whether he is l playing fairly or not, and the way of l the athletic transgressor should made
 go hard that violation Of the ethics of lIcFean sport would be discouraged 1 "The professional player should, and i in a large measure does, command re- spect but the professional, wrongful Iy called the nni-professlonal, who covers himself with the amateur cloak ig beneath conteInpts''