The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-11
Sport ,S1antS
 ALAN J.0oulD

It remains a very popular pas time in the more wide open areas to lambast the Fastener, to &C., cuse him of nearsightedness or astigmatic vision in his outlook upon athletics anywhere else, to regard him as hide-bound in the moss-covered traditions (for exam ple) of the Old Big Three.
 The charges in many cases may be quite true, just as there may also be few hcary old prospectors that persiz5 in the belief that thar is god in them hills" Yet it would seem that the Fastener who has not been disillusioned as to his ideas of athletic supremacy in the light of Western performances eith- CT is somewhat groggy from punish ment or subject for examination.
 It is therefore perhaps surpris- ing to find this statement in the attack made upon the good faith of the Carnegie Foundations re- port by Prof. Ralph w. Aigler, chairman of Michigans Board in Control of Athletics:
 Tn a number of places in the Bulletin the so-called Wester Conference now the Big Nine) is referred to and curiously, almost always with a sort of half-veiled sheer. The truth apparently is that the Bulletin was written from the point of view of the Eastern athletic man, who has it pretty firmly fixed in mind that, athleti- cally, things are pretty raw in the territory generally West of the Alleghenies"
 Not even the most astigmatic Fastener can fail to blush a trifle in a casual reading of the famous Carnegie Bulletin "23." Closer study may go so far as to furnish a shock. The colleges most severely arraigned by the report are largely in the East.
 MOT is the abuse Cof subsidizing and recruiting) confined by any means to any particular section of the country" asserts the report on Page 225. 'In the Midwest the Intercollegiate Conference (Big Nine) regarded by many as the most thoroughly controlled of all conference bodies, has repeatedly called recruiting and subsidizing it's most serious problem and events in the spring of 1929 (concerning Iowa) clearly demonstrated this fact. On the Pacific Coast, the larger institutions, having expend- ed much intellectual effort to con- trol the abuse, are even now at tempting to arrive at an equitable solution through common under standing. From similar cares the Southern Conference is by no means free. In the Rocky Mountain Conference sentiment in favor of recruiting recurrently strikes cer- tain institutions with full force. Parts of Pennsylvania and the ad- iacent territory have long accepted and openly practiced it as an 1n- dispensable aid to victory in foot ball.
 Of the 28 colleges given clean biuv bv the Carnegie Report, l2 are in the East, seven in Canada five in Midwest, three in the South and one in the Far west Of the eight, so-called major col leges" in this collection, however, three each are from the East and Midwest, two from the South.
 Phil Scott's secret punc brought back from England for his fight with Jack Sharkey at Miami remains a deep mystery. The London Fireman's readiness to go into details for the benefit oi ship-news men was abruptly cut short by his American manager James J. Johnston, going on the theory that what the boys do not know about Phil for the time being uill be so much better for the ballyhoo and the gate receipts or February 27.