The New York herald., 1922-02-03

CHICAGO. Feb. 2.--'Tke anu-profes-
tional tornado having swept back to
PURDUE after spreading athletic debris
All over the campuses of Illinois ana
Notre Dame College. fans are wonder
1nS to-day which of the Big Ten in
stitutions will next be invaded. Don
IS White, athletic star at Purdue, has
been disbarred from participating in
college games, following a faculty in
vestigation. He makes number eighteen
of the mid-western athletes who so far
have been dismissed. White confessed to
playing semi professional basketball and
baseball.
The barring of White virtually wrecks
the Purdue basketball team, now tied
for conference honors.
Official edict barring nine University
of Illinois athletes from further COM
petition skaters gridiron prospects for
1922 at Illinois. So far Northwestern.
Wisconsin and the University of Chi
cago are absolutely clean" but Coach
Stagg is conducting a private investi-
cation regarding Chicago athletes.
Grover Hoover, coach of the Taylor
vile professional football team, has made
sensational disclosures of the grip that
professional athletics have on the throat
OF Western sport. He has disclosed new
evidence against prominent Big Ten con-
ference athletes. and exposed the COM
mon proselyting practice employed by
university alumni to attract star high
school athletes.
II am tired of being questioned by the
Press and pointed at by the public" said
Hoover, former star athlete at Christian
Brothers College in st. Louis. Now
there are few questions / would like to
ask coaches and athletic directors in the
middle West.
r E.It
back, and Aubrey Devine. quarterback.
All American football stars of the cham
ponship Iowa team, been protested by
Illinois? Because Illinois athletes have
played professional baseball against
against them and would also be caught
II they squealed. Can Locke clear him
self of his pro baseball record at Garden
City?
why has there been no protest over
Wisconsin football stars who are pro-
fessional ball players?"
When asked to name them. he replied:
''I don't want to name them. Let the
Madison authorities investigate"
Break Conference Rules.
''How many Illinois baseball players
are professionals in the summer timer
continued Hoover. Probably 95 per
cent. George Huff tells the truth when
no admits that collage ball players break
conference rules every summer"
Hoover was also quoted by several
newspapers as saying: why should
Knute Rockne. Notre Dame coach. have
tears in his eyes when eight of his men
coffessed playing on the Carlinville
team against Taylorville? He knew it
two days after the game, but did moth
ing until the Illinois players who were
caught squealed. a salesman visiting
ia oil 10 hafora har 4 tnId
that Rockne had heard the story and
kiddcd his athletes because they got a
trimming in the game. The salesman
had talked to the Notre Dame coach only
day previous"
Coach Knute l.. Rockne OF Notre
Dame announced late to-day that he
would institute libel proceedings against
Hoover for his statement that he was
aware two days after the Taylorvile-
Carlinvillc game that Notre Dame play
ers had participated.
You can tell them for me that he Is
telling untruths. He must be crazy, If
&c made those charges"
Continuing his denunciation of ath-
letic directors of the Big Ten, Hoover
said: why are Michigan alumni all
over tho middle West Dragging about
low they took Herb Steger, the Oak
Park star, from Illinois and Chicago?
What did Chick Harley say to Steger
when he was sent as a special agent
from Ohio state to talk to Steger while
he was still in high school?
"Bow did Michigan attract the Work
man brothers, Hoge and Noel. from West
Virginia. and how did Ohio State get
..tl.em right from under Yost's nose? Why
ri N Yost send out en- appeal to Michigan
Hlptlnni to send him football material
,hasfer disastrous season in 1919? Why
do cs Stage believe that every one of his
Chicago athletes has a clean record
when the talk is openly otherwise? Are
Chicago men any different than athletes
in other schools who wink at amateur
rules?
Hoover Gets Laugh.
"r see that Joe Sternaman. who played
for me in the Taylorville game. has been
barred. Joe should worry. II he wants
TO play more college football he can go
10 any number of other Eastern schools
They're all filled up with them down
East.
II did get one laugh out of this mess
we stirred up Eddie Anderson, ALI
American end at Notre Dame, tells
Rockne that If he had played end in
stead of quarter for Carlinville Taylor
VILE would not have scored. But Eddie
did play end on defense and Charlie
Dresser of Decatur first baseman of the
st. Paul American Association baseball
team, ran round him for Taylorville's
touchdown in the first half"
When asked IL $3.50 was the price paid
to the Jlliri athletes. Hoover replied: "I
coached the team but was not the busi-