TO STOP 0 baitt secretary ed ilver of the A saya college athletes A A will W R n lk their amateur standing r tamos E sullivan secretary tr cr er of tho the A A U and president 1 of l rules committee committed of 0 tho the internal In terai amatory Ath athletic letle federation od ta those college baseball captain aro fagala trying to make it boj too dosai for or en rn undergraduate under graduato to play at oo 00 bayo bajo ball without tho the riak risk of io rau un atour status to direct their uto more profitable channels ch annele tsa to aro a wishing for something that in ba will dovir never got fie for 31 3 earn I 1 havo have been anhut ltaif to keep amateur and professional tempe strictly sold said mr sullivan rt 41 coduy and I 1 must admit that it is I 1 hect discouraging to learn thil VIM done so 90 many college men should still bb bi 14 to I 1 favor of allowing undergraduates t oct earn cam money during tho the summer by nov working as professional ball play player erl door thoro there IB Is no such buch thing as place baseball what there oung men ao bao summer bummer baseball ba ie Is nothing more or 01 be less than ronal ball efte 1 I noto note that bernard K X rhoades etL cal T princeton captain states that ho bc ca elt the not seo see why a man talent runs ron top to baseball baso bull should not help himself jor through collego college by using that talent cut jubb jug as well as a man whose whoso abilities ag aro are more scho scholastic blastic and ho ear 01 money by tutoring 1 I remember cremeni ber when this point WM was ac raised some four years ago at Ilar harvard Tard that somebody wrote to tho the harvard lampoon pointing painting out that while man was at college learning was hie his profession and that if ho he needed labe should pick up all the money ho he coald i james E sullivan get hold of in following that profession and when a ma man n had finished his days work and turned to sport for recreation he should look upon the hours spent on the track in tho the gym or in the tank as hours of play the prime object of college athletics was defeated when a man tried to turn his athletic prowess into dollars and cents every sport in every civilized country has an amateur rule along tha same lines as that of at the A A U and at a time like this when the international athletic federation Is proposing for the olympic games an even stricter amateur rule than that which now exists I 1 can assure our college friends that there Is not one chance in a million that they will ever bo be permitted to play professional baseball in tho thes summer and retain their amat ear standing