Evening star., 1921-06-05

Wnicn means that those schools try
ing to enforce the amateur rule must
keep their eyes wide open if they
desire to avoid having some athletes
DISQUALIFIED next fall or Of being
placed in the rather humiliating posi-
tion of a rival calling attention to the
fact that professionals are members
o ftheir spads. This latter. of course.
always causes 1t to seem that those
in charge of athletics in the particu-
lar college in which the man aues-
toned is playing are "trying to get
away with it."
- Beat Around the Bush:
schools in the south bars any kind 81
summer base ball for which money Is Is
received; or. rather, bars members OF
teams in these colleges from playing
on such teams for anything othel
than their expenses. However az
tempted by the players. with the iuil
connivance of those in charge OF the
teams. to get around the rule.
Those running so-called amateur
teams are making all kinds OF propo,,
sitions to players who made good
they seem to have no conception OF
what clean athletics means. and some
of them appear to have very NIUE
regard for truth. One college pall
players not a million miles from
Washington recently had an oner
teams which involved a remunera-
lion far above anything within reason
for the kind of position the player
was rendered. When this player was
asked whether or not the money ne
was to receive actually was to be
through the firm. his reply was: Il
suppose the ball club is going 10 pay
it, but they have offered to>give me
an affidavit at the end OF the season
that ] have not received cent Tor
playing ball"
was told that il he played with the
team from which the proposition had
come he would be declared ineligible
to take part in college ball again.
Tempting TO Players.
1t was thought that the money de-
preston this year would prevent the
organization of many ball teams OF
this kind. but II seems that just as
big salaries are being put up to
and received year ago. At least one
player the writer knows of has been
offered a clerkshfp In a mill for this
summer at a salary of 500 per week.
Such an arrangement is supposed 10
protect the amateur status" Of the
three -fourths of that money was not
offered for base ball ability then the
young man possesses qualities as
clerk which have not hitherto been
discovered by anybody other than the
management Of that particular mill.
Two kinds of so-calfed industrial
ball are extant. One is that in which
the business organization itself puts
out a team and actually puts the men
it. hires on it's pay rolls for jobs at
certain salaries: the other is that in
which what ordinarily is known as
semi-professional league is organ.
lied and where the teams instead OF
paying the players direct pay them
through firms for which they are
supposed to work.
The first of these may be repre-
sented by such teams as that which
wears the colors of a big mercantile
establishment in Philadelphia. This
establishment hires college base bal
players as clerks and during the en-
tire vacation pays them $45 or So
per week. and at the end OF vacation
outfits them in wearing aparel FOL
40 per cent less than the usual prices
The other of the two kinds OF in
dustrial ball usually, though not al
ways. is a case Of subterfuge, II
which the management, of the bal
club furnishes money to firm tc
pay the player. the player holding a
nominal position ana doihg pracli'
ca&y no work.
This may best be illustrated by 6
case which came to the direct atten'
tion of the writer. A young fellow
was playing in North Carolina las'
summer and working" for a garage
When asked If the garage manage.
ment actually paid his salary he sait
it was his opinion that his salary
came through the garage manage
ment, but was originally taken from
| the.gate receipts of games and from
funds collected by the toVnspeopl'
| for running the team.
He went Yurther and replied. in re
! sponse to a question about the exac