The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-12
MONEY IS RUNNING COLLEGE SPORTS.
 BELIEVES CAMP.
We'll -to-Do Students Spend Time in Pursuit of "Jazz," ]"
 Says Brooke
Rr WALTER CAMr

Copyright. i92s, by The Ase-lieraldj
 New York, February 11.-An en- tirely new note was struck today in the chorus of accusations and ex- plantations relating to college foot ball and baseball. That note was sounded by George Brooke, old foot ball player of the University of Penn Sylvania. He attributes the inroada of professionalism into college sports to the fact that the men in college today who come from the more well do families and are not In need of funds, are finding the pur- suit of jazz" more allluring than the hard work of the gridiron, the dta- mond or the track. The field is left. therefore, to those whose ex- plenishment. Moreover. he claims the lure of cash is essentially force- ful.
 A MenacinK Situation
 If this be true. We have a situa- tion even more menacing and dis turbiug than any we have faced for decades. Football rules and eliEi- bility rules may be enforced, they may be altered and they are always subject to criticism and revision. but the manners and customs of a college NNthhi0AiAtN Gb III NdNtSs ntA are practically impossible of sudden changes either through medium of faculty ediet or a convention pro- gram. noted woman writer once said after visiting the boys scchool attended by her sons, that she found there laws as immutable as the Ten Commandments, but having little in common with them.'
 Everyone knows how fashion springs up in a college and how everyone follows It. Everyone is anxious to pattern after certain set of leaders whether fl be in the cut of coat, a turn of a tie. the vogue of a restaurant or the trying for an athletic team. If the so-ealled leaders should indicate that thing to do Is to turn from the athletic fields to the society and dancing craze, 1t surely would be a calamity for the college and the students connected with it.
 Ran on Motor Car
 Recent attempts at some institu- tions 70 put ban on increased use Of the motor car shows that there must be a distinct cause for alarm at least in the minds of the faculty members. This in measure con firms the statement of George Brooke. If we are beginning to turn toward the flesh pots of Egypt" and away from the more Spartan disci- pline of the athletlD field. 1t will iu- deed be a bad time for our country.
 It is on the collegian that the edu- cational failures of the country are laid Dr. Nichols Murray Butler uf Columbia recently called the modern college a high class country club" Dr. Fletcher, another New York ed ucator, called the average student d complicated ass" Now Dr. Sihler of New York university says enjoy ment of luxury and ease for four years, and little study on the side, constitutes satisfactory fulfillment for the requirement. of college de- gree nowadays"
 Says Girls Are knock-knced
 There is one consolation, Dr. Me kenzie of Pennsylvania. although he characterizes American girls as knock -kneed, praises the fine phy- sique of the American. young man. But that fine physique will disappear if indoor delights become more en- ucing than the call of the gridiron and the diamond. IL is well for us to consider all sides of this question carefully. for upon it depends far more than the general public realizes.
 The college athletic authorities, meanwhile. are beginning to realize the fact that their failure to enforce the eligibility rules regarding sum mer baseball has had the usual se- quel. IL is impossible to allow boy to make something on the side in baseball and then not find football players equally determined to make something on the side also. So Il great overhauling is In progress.