The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-02
MATTER OF BUSINESS

MATTER OF BUSINESS
There is no denying the fact
that the big PRO games lack that
do or die" spirit which raises
college football to the very pin
nacle as spectacle and as char
acter builder for the. participants.
A pro gridder is simply living UP
to a business contract. A pro
player rarely is giving every ounce
of strength that is in him.
1t is useless to argue that the
Bears, who viii play eight games
in eleven days (anOther contest
was added Tuesday,, can give
their utmost i'm each battle. But
all this is no Indictment of
Grange. He is on exhibition as
frenzied public pays to see the
latest hero.
In all this uproar professional
football has gained tremendously.
People who never heard of the
Chicago Bears now hear about
them every day through the news
papers. Those who never dreamed
the pro game had SO many Of the
best former college stars have
found it out while reading about
Grange.
ON DEFENSE
But through it all the profess
sional sport has been put more or
less on the defensive. The pro-
moters who make living out of
the grid regulations made in col
lege claim to have a rule in which
they agree not to tamper with ath-
letes while in school. 1t is certain
hat this agreement was violated
IN the case of Grange.
The professionals must be =
careful if the whole affair does
not act as a boomerang and fly
back at them. They made mis-
take by trying to- sign Grange at
the close of his Junior year in
school. Red admitted he had
been approached, but stayed to
play his last year at Illinois.
Now it seems as though they
are making another error in SEIZED
uling too many games in such a
short period of time. Old Ben
Franklin once said that honesty
was the best policy. A football
player can not be honest with
himself or his public if he plays
eight games in eleven days.
You see we. are willing to admit
that there are two sides to this
controversy, but as far as Red is
concerned who can blame him?
Many stones nave been thrown by
people living in glass houses.
Those among you who have
turned down thousands of dollars
with as little reason as you give
for Red not making a fortune
may take aim and fire. The rest
of you kindly refrain.
Here's a basketball team that
should move over into Indiana.
Wilmington College, an Ohio in
stitution, has scheduled forty
games of basketball for the
season. We have a name for
that club right now--the Broken
m Arches. -"
NT HE boxing fans have been
wondering why the next
- mitt show at Tomlinson
hall is to be held on Tuesday in
stead of Monday as usual. Billy
Shine, promoter, comes forward
with the explanation that many
of the regulars" at the boxing
entertainments are also inveterate
first nighters" when a show like
Ed Wynn's Grab Bag comes to the
city. Wynn opens at English's
next Monday-and there you are,
the secrets out.
There is a ruling i'm the Indi.
ana Collegiate Conference that
none of the members is to play
an independent team. Oakland
City College clashed with Lock-
years Business College of Ev-
ansville Tuesday night. There
you are. Need we say any more
to wise independent manager
who wants to play some college
games? 49,
a my team that is not "con-
IAI sidered" by Athe Tourna-
49, ment of Roses committee
for the annual New Years game
on the Pacific coast should feel al
most insulted. Already four teams
have been mentioned for the inter.
sectional affair at Pasadena
against Washington.
nm Pittsburgh, Colgate, Tulane and
Alabama have been named as ''pos
sibilities." Each year this same
procedure is gone through.
The only strange thing about it
this time is that Notre Dame is
not on the list of teams. There
is a simple explanation. Washing
ton and Nebraska played to 0
tie and the Huskers beat the
Irish" II to 0.
1t looks as though Colgate may
take the trip. But we wouldn't
hazard a guess. We know one
thing. A southern outfit would
have a better chance to compete
against the climate. Tulane or Ala
bama is used to playing with the
mercury In the thermometer climb
ing toward the top.