Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-24
Judgments

~ 1T appears that the summer base
ball player is not to be permitted
to play foot ball at Yale OF Mime
~ sofa. This Is as It should be, and
this statement is made with all
due regard to the arguments that nave
been advanced in favor of the proposition
that 1t is no more harmful for a young
man to sell his talents as an athlete than
1t is for him to engage in writing or
waiting on table, or other form of re-
munerative occupation to earn money for
his uses while attending school The
harm does not reside in his engaging In
any sort of employment for pay; 1t is in
entering in competition with others under
the pretense that he is not unduly pro-
ficient in the form of contest proposed.
In other words, an athlete who is good
enough to command pay is an unfair
competitor for one whose skill is not so
developed. This point has been deter
iynined after long and careful considera-
(tion, not so much on the actual physical
as on ethical grounds. The professional
athlete is necessarily under something OF
limitation as to certain of the higher
factors Of competition that must always
be given due weight when college sport
is considered. On this point there is no
room for dispute. The lack OF full ap-
probation of the exact quality of re-
sponsibiity is shown by the fact that the
young men in question. knowing full we'll
the rule against their conduct, sought to
conceal their identity under assumed
names and after violating the rules laid
down came back and sought to proceed
as members of their respective college
teams, deceiving by their actions those
about them. II dishonest on this point,
on what can they be fully trusted? Our
schools are failures If they cannot instill
the reasonable essence of common
honesty into the students And this
means that a player cannot be a profess
sional In the summer time and an anna
teur in the winter.
Choosing a president for the Western
league is Just now the game. with sew
entries, one Of whom is Frank zehruns
Of Lincoln. well known all around the
circuit and elsewhere, for that matter,
as a successful business man, theatrical
manager of experience and good repute,
a
enthusiastic worker in any game he goes
into. II the Western magnates are sue
cessful in the Earring loose Of T. O'Neil,
Nathey can easily go farther and fare worse
than by choosing Frank zehrung. 1t
isn't so darned certain at this time that
they're going to get rid of Tiperino.
though, for the Denver papers hint that
Jimmy McGiI is weakening in his stand,
and Hughey Jones is said to be selling
out to Ducky Holmes. and II these moves
come to pass, Tip will have five teams
and the other fellows three, and then
where are you?
Another wrassler has bodied up In New
York, and proposes to get the champion
ship by the easiest possible route. He
will challenge Gotten. and in event OF
Gotch not responding, will claim to be
worlds champion. AS Gotch is not likely
to 20 into the ring with any of the BROOD
having really and truly retired, this way
of getting to be a champion ought to
result in quite crop.
Joe Stecher went all the way to Evans
Vile to get into a foot race. He might
have had more fun following the Ford
along the country roads in Dodge county
He found out, though, that he hasn't
learned all the crooked turns in the
wrestling game. What he has TO find out
Is Just how crooked a man can be, and
then he'll be little more cautious about
entering matches.
Marty Krug has one pretty good man
agerial idea and that Is shown in his an
nouncement that nobody has a Job on the
Omaha team He's going to make 'em
produce right from the turn loose or look
for new employment. II he'd taken that
stand last April, the Omaha team would
have been much higher up the pole at
the end OF the season.
You've got a mighty good chance today
to see the best OF the big league teams
in action, and II you don't go out to
Rourke park, it's your own fault II you
have to go through the winter grouching
because you didn't.
One thing is pretty certain, and that H.
no matter who gets on the match with
4 Jess Willard, II won't be Jim Coffey.
frank Moran has answered that ques-
lion.
Brother Dave has the old stove steamed
up. but not at high pressure these days.
He's looking for a good winter.
KING LEAR BEANS SMOKE,
BUT TURNS DOWN CIGARS