Evening star., 1932-05-03
SENATORS ACTION
PROVES LIFE SAVER.
Many Schools Hard Pressed
to Garry on Without
Added Burden.
BY ii. C. BYRD.

THE biggest single thing done
for college athletics and
physical education since
the first intercollegiate con-
test took place was the action OF
the Senate Finance Committee
late yesterday afternoon in elm
mating the provision of the tax
law which would have placed a
tax on admissions to college
games.
No other single action in the whole
history of college athletics has had as
far-reaching effect as this tax law
would have had if the Senate Finance
Committee had not painstakngly stud
led its possible effect And to the mem-
bers of this committee, Senators Smoot
of Utah, Watson Of Indiana, Reed of
Pennsylvania, Shortridge of California
Couzens of Michigan, Keyes of New
Hampshire, Bingham CT Connecticut,
La Toilette of Wisconsin, Thomas of
Idaho. Jones of Washington. Metcalfe
of Rhode Island. Harrison of Mississip
pi, King of Utah, George of Georgia.
Walsh of Massachusetts,, Barkley of
Kentucky, Connally of Kentucky. Gore
of Oklahoma, Costigan of Colorado and
Hull of Tennessee, the colleges and
universities and high schools of the
country owe very real debt.
These men have not only eliminated
q tax from college athletics, but the way
the law was written, tax that would
have been the more drastic and far
reaching in its i'll effects than any
ever placed against any one enterprise.
Manu- nf tho pnl1nppc and nniVnTcifinc
made the fiat statement that they would
have to abandon their programs, while
all said that they would be compelled
to completely reorganize their work
with a view to drastic curtailment.
The general view among the colleges
was that college athletics, supporting
physical education and play and health
programs, simply could not carry on
with financial burdens greater than
now already are being carried because
of the depression.
That the members of the Senate
Finance Committee, with the serious
problems confronting them, were will
ing to give their time to a real study
of the effects of the proposed tax on
college athletics should be to their ever
lasting credit. Not only have they ac-
complished something very much worth
while and of direct benefit to their con-
stituencies, but they have achieved that
which should give them a good deal of
personal satisfaction-given help to the
youth of America and in no small
measure protected the future of their
country.
MARYLAND'S ball team plays Wake
1'1 Tc-est this afternoon on its home
diamond. The Old Liners have
won their last four contests and are
playing just about 100 per cent better
ball than when they made their ex-
cursion TO North Carolina some weeks
ago.
HALLAUDET goes out to Catholic
~ University tomorrow for a dual
meet The Kendall Greeners are
expected to show well in some events.
but 1t will be an unexpected result if
tney prove strong enough to win.
catholic U. ought to be victor by a
gooa margin, as Coach Dorsey Griffith
! mas gradually been developing a SQUAD
+ good enough to class up wen with other
universities OF like student enrolment.
Not since the teams have been meet
ing In dual competition have the Ken
Dali Greeners defeated the Cardinals
Jimmy Rayhll and George Walnoha
are the big shots of the Gallaudet team
whose leading performer last season was
Johnny Ringle.
Frenchy Higgins and Wells Logan.
promising but green lads will represent
Gallaudet in the quarter and half mile
runs, and Capt. Johnny O'Brien and
Arie Gray will carry its colors in the
longer events.
Gallaudet's revised schedule calls for
meet Saturday with La Sale of Phila-
delphia. May IA with Lynchburg Col
lege, May 81 with Washington College
and May % with Maryland freshmen
All will be held at Kendall Green.