The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-04-03
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS


felt that athletics got too mucch attention
in colleges-and perhaps bit too much
in our senior high schools. So we were interest
ed the other day to know that Allyn Hanson,
Hamne University's star football and basket
ball player has much the same feeling, only he
goes father in his condemnation than we ever
did.
Mr.. Hanson, who has been prominent in
athletics at Hamline throughout his four years,
made athletics and the fault of athletics the
theme of the Grafton which him first place
at his own school and third in the state In
cidentally Mr.. Hanson is the brother of Harold
Hanson, a star on the University of Minnesota
football team.
These are some of the conclusions Allyn
Hanson has reached; these the reasons he
feels that all the time and hard work he has
put into his work on gridiron and basketball
floor has been loss of time and may have been
harmful. He says the college athlete is
Physically overworked.
Not given time to study.
Under a great mental strain that harms
his nerves.
Harmed by the public which makes him
temporary king
Exploited for the financial benefit of his
school.
After discussing the various phases of his
accusation against the system the young man
concludes in this wise;
"And yet all this praise is temporary
and superficial. When the seasons ends
the praise vanishes. Who cares about
Chick Harley now? Who ever talks
about Red Grange? Who ever knows
that my brother was selected on four
all IA thol IN
Athletics fame is for the moment.
"Let us have clean intercollegiate con-
tests, conducted with simplicity and
economy. Let go back to the old style
of physical exercise where wholesome
activity and mental efficiency were the
detectives, where men competed for the
fun of playing and for the spirit of the
game"
Perhaps as he says the solution lies in
shifting the emphasis from intercollegiate to
intramural sports, to concentrating attention
students with weak physiques rather than on
those already fully developed, on having sport
for every man and woman in school.
We don't expect those who lust for the fray
for the victory for personal fame, however
transitory, to agree with what this young man
has found to be the truth, but since he has found
findings something to be needed
H*u
A group of powerful lawyers in New York
have, according to the news dispatches, banded
themselves together to nullify the prohibition
law of the land and to do it on the ground that
in their judgment the penalties for violating
the law are too severe.
This is new manifestation of bolshevism
and coming from the source it does it is quite
surprising.
Here is the way the effort appeals to the
Owatonna Journal Chronicle:
ut is a sad commentary on the honesty of
members of the bar, when a group of leading
lawyers in New York organize to conduct a
campaign of education to propaganda pro-
spective jurors, so that judges will find all vo-
laters of the liquor laws not guilty. This is the
move by which these lawyers, generally of those
types find making speciality of defending
bootleggers, moonshiners, and other law viola
tors, expect to combat the new and more drastic
Jones law. We are convinced that the plan of
the wet lawyers, who may be classed more
properly as barmen' rather than barristers, will
bear only scant and f1accid fruit But that leav-
es no less stigma the profession which, in
its relation to the courts and the enforcement of
the law, should be regarded in the proper adj
ministration of justice and the law should be
meticulously jealous of its ethics and reputation
and should guard carefully against any faint of
unscruplous activity on the part of its men,
bers. We may well feel happy that such honesty
exists only among small minority and that
there is really less of it among the members of
the bar than there would be in numerous other
callings. But that leaves it none the less shame
fur-Long Prairie Leader