Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-07
THE COLLEGE ATHLETE
 IN sUMMER eAs EBALL.
"terhart" says Professional Under Assumed Name is Beneath Con tempt.

George Herbert Daley, sporting eilf- tor of the New York Tribune. and writer for it's columns under the nom
 de plume of Herbert" in letter to The Yale News on the question of summer baseball and professionalism in college athletics. says:
 For some reason hard to explain many persons will not discriminate be- tween the man who plays summer baseball ts aid him in getting 8 cos- lege education and the man who adopts some other form of employment during the vacation period. The old question is it not right for the other, and why should the powers who govern anna teur sport make fish of one victim and flesh of another? It is not hard to answer. There is absolutely nothing wrong in college player using his baseball skill to help nay his way through college. He should be encour- aged and applauded, but he should not be eligible to represent his college on the athletic field for the simple reason, apart from minor considerations, that it opens the door to proselytins. the athletic evils.
 There was & man at Yale several years ago who found it necessary to play baseball in the summer with a minor league team to aid him in pay ing his way through Yale. but good player as he was, he did not represent his college on the diamond. He did take a lively interest in the sport, how ever, practiced with the varsity, play ed on the second team, and aided so far as possible in coaching. In this way he did his full share for Yale and ciates without jeopardizing the good name of the university. How different his case from the undergraduate who for selfish reasons or with the mis- guided idea that he is working in the interests of his college plays under an assumed name for money and then lies about 1t.
 'T would like to repeat what I said in my own column two or three weeks ago resent the imputation that as scctatfon with professional baseball players has of necessity a contaminat- ing influence. 1 say of my own know
 ledge that a majority of the men who make baseball a profession are as clean in their way of living as the average person. There are exceptions, of course, and the little tricks of the game ap- willy cannot be aped and followed with the same latitude in amateur sport
 But the boy or young man is more
 likely to suffer from associations out side of baseball than 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 the door to proSelyt1ng.
 The governors of every sport have their own ideas and their own defl- ritions as to what constitutes an anna teur. Some of the rules are hard and fast, others are loose and elastic. As a matter of fact, however, every rule could be short and to the point. An amateur is a. man who does not play for money. or in any way commercial iZe the sport in which he is competing. It is plain and simple. Every man knows in his own heart whether he is playing fairly or not. and the way of the athletic transgressnr should be made so hard that violation of the ethics of clean sport would be dis outraged.
 The professional player should, and in a large measure does, command re- spect, but the professional. wrongful ly called the semi professional who covers himself with the amateur cloak is beneath contempt"