Evening star., 1932-07-01
CUTS Off SOURCE
OF GATE RECEIPTS
Air Reports Have Done Much
to Create Cash Patrons.
Science Rebuffed.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

N EW 1Oftb, July Ill a
N two-day search since the
Y Eastern Intercollegiate
Athletic Association an
nounced the banning of radio
broadcaStS of foot ball games next
Fall, the writer has not been able
to find a man or woman who
approves of the action.
On the other hand, regret and
resentment are general. 1t is felt
that in thus turning its face
against the latest and one of the
greatest achievements of the hu-
man scientific mind, the associa-
tion is facing backward in man
ner wholly inconsistent with men
associated with institutions de-
voted to the advancement of
learning
Not only this-it is felt that this
move on the part of those who conduct
foot ball will work out as a distinct
disService to the game inasmuch as
had the practical effect of winning tens
of thousands, hundreds of thousands Of
devotees who otherwise would have re-
manned indifferent.
A ND while a majority of them, no
"A doubt, confined their newly de-
veloped enthusiasm to easy chairs
In their homes, there was an appre-
ciable-and growing-number of those
who did not. who. spurred to interest,
had begun to witness at first hand the
sport which had come so to thrill them
over the air
Also, it is maintained. the number Of
friends of foot ball. of those sympa-
thetic to the great Autumn sport, which
the radio developed, is incalculably
large. And there has not been time
since 1905 when the game needed a
wide understanding and a compre-
hensive tolerance as it does today.
In sum, the consensus is that the
Eastern Association authorities acted
with their eyes closed to the future of
foot ball.
IRON popular standpoint it re-
J. Quires little imagination to picture
the practical results of the radio
ban Alumni of, the various universe
ties involved who had got to an age
where they found it impracticable or
painfully uncomfortable, if not utterly
impossible, any longer to breast the
hurry and jostle of the foot ball throng,
had come to accept the radio reports
Is a boon beyond their fondest dreams.
It enabled them closely to follow their
team, not in one game, but in many
throughout the season.
It brings to an end throughout
large section of the country an i'm
portant social diversion, Saturday aft
ernoon foot ball radio gatherings at
which persons who formerly had known
nothing whatever about the game had
learned TO follow it with intelligence.
THOSE who gather at university
l. clubs to attend the fortunes of
their teams in classic struggles viii
once more have to resort to the cold
and impersonal telegraph report-thus
going back a decade of comparatively
archaic intelligence. and so all is woe
among those who love foot ball
In all this the writer merely reports
q state of public mind Such broad
casting as he has done has been in
the way of public service and without
remuneration. And in the nature of
his calling he must go to foot ball
contests far and wide. So the report
Is made without any bias at all.
The throwing out of radio may mean
q thousand extra dollars at big game,
but it may well be that the harm done
would discount stupendously larger
intake
Meanwhile has any one observed
that the growing power and activity of
the Eastern intercollegiate Athletic AS
sociation is beginning to mean practi-
cally the appearance in sport of an
Eastern Conference?