Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-11
CHAMPS STRONGER
THAN LAST SEASON
RumOrS of Professionalism
Among College Athletes
Seldom Backed.
nv ". G. Nv RN.

2 Univ RS1TY OF NORTH
CAROLINA Is being picked
by track experts through
ont the South to win the
Southern Conference track end
field championships at Birming-
ham. the preliminaries of which
are TO take place Friday and the
finals Saturday. According to the
way the situation is described, the
Tarheels, who won last year, are
stronger now than then and there
Is no other school that seems
.ho have gained any appreciate
strength over what was shown In
the. 1880 meet,
NORTH Carolins is strong in every
-vent saws a coach familiar with South
srr Conference squads, END I cannot
zee how sny other school cen beat y
-pt In the championships, Virginia, ]
heIieve. ts = little better than last sea-
son. but not enough better TO take the
rrAaA,lre NJ Bob Fetzer's OUTFIT. Georgia
oT'ech. Clemson, Louisiana State and
Vanderbilt have some good men. but.
~ far - 7 can see, no other school has
.s,ieb q well rounded aggregation IS
garo4ina''
It Is doubtful Is many schools from
the South Atlantic section viii go to
Birmingham to the meet. With the
exception Of North Carolina, and Vir-
ginia, track athletics in this section, as
far Is Southern Conference schools are
concerned, Is not as well advanced as
might he. North Carolina. of course.
viii send full squad, and Virginia may
,send down p strong group. but y Wssh
sinSt on and Zee, .Virgjpis. Military Jnstl-
hlie, MARYLAND emo he other schools ia
mis- region sre represented il will pe
ov oufv q. few ADGrlss. j. IL S1oTn Tos
some schools will no. oe represented 81
an
- section that there is . growing
feeling among schools along the
Atlantic seaboard that the meet ought
to be shifted about, so that the ex-
pepses Of long trips would not have to
be borne each year by the same teams.
The cost of sending big squad from
any point in Maryland or Virginia, or
North Carolina for that matter, TO
Birmingham Is almost prohibitive.
movement was launched last Fall look
ing TO a change in policy which would
cause the meet to be held in different
sections of the Conference, IS it is felt
by many OF the schools that holding
the meet in Birmingham every year
gives too much Of an advantage to
schools situated in that part Of the
South.
n UMORS galore go the rounds in
X connection with college athletics
and college athletes, especially the
latter Statements often are made that
this athlete gets a salary. that athlete
never goes to classes, another athlete
did not have entrance credits to get in
college but ie IN and 10 playing on
varsity team and numerous other
4insinuations of that type. And about
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
there is absolutely no foundation TO
any Of them. The writer recently had
occasion 10 look into q matter OF this
kind. after having been told that
certain star athlete who played foot
ball brilliantly in Southern Confer
ence university for the last two years
had entered that university with only
.10iz units and only little more than
two years of high school work.
Usually no attention Is paid to that
kind of innlIendo, but the statement
source that IT was felt that check
should be made. A letter frankly set
ring forth the criticism was sent to the
registrar Of the university IN which the
athlete Is enrolled asking for p tran
script Of the athletes entrance credits.
They were forwarded immediately and
N developed that the athlete who was
said To bsve entered with only Two
years Of high school work and 1O12
units actually had graduated from high
school with marks averaging around 90
and had the ceTttncation and recon-
p1endation of his high school principal
as an honor student. And good many
of the criticisms about university ath-
1etes have very little more substantial
foundation than this one.
TIJASHINGTON AND LEE and Mary
w land are carrying their base ball
bail seasons much later this wear
than usual, largely 10 experiment with
the policy OF staging q bell game as
Dart NJ their Commencement week pro-
grams Washington and Lee has agreed
10 play 81 Maryland on June IS 9
cart OF the program OF Alumni DAY and
Maryland Is to Jump to Lexington on
Monday, June 4. for Q game that will
feature Alumni day activities there. No
whether or not the games are 10 be
continued as q perms nent arrangement
and probably will not be until IL is
seen how the arrangement works out
this wear,