Show SCHOOLBOY ATHLETES an astonishing story of conditions in college athletics Is told in the college athlete how commercialism is making him a professional by henry needham in the june mc cauree Cl uree the subsidizing which makes some ot the star athletes practically nothing more than hired gladiators extends to the preparatory schools where agents of the big college neami are constantly on the watch for good material visit exeter and andover and one will find the evil of college athletics cropping out in the sports of youngsters and this notwithstanding the et flici ent of harlan page amen and alfred E steins principals of these typical american preparatory schools at exeter and andover are found evidences of the most demoralizing feature of modern athletics the comon process of of the recruiting to which preparatory school athletes are continually subjected the evil is one of the most corrupting influences to which a young boy can be subjected said principal sterns who was a famous athlete it aati not merely on his athletic standard it undermines his whole moral maleug and gives him false and views of life and his position in the world which are pretty sure to crush his independence and balk all chances for a normal and manly growth and development it Is high time that the public were made to realize the extent and the of this practice for this the colleges ara to be held strictly accountable through their alumni their undergraduates their coaches and their professional trainers the colleges are ruining certain of these boys there was a student at exeter last year by the name of edward L greene hailing from new haven conn he was known as a of mike murphy the yale trainer he left before he graduated and got a position on a football team matriculating at the university in the course of architecture greene visited exeter at thanksgiving time and returned to philadelphia with promising football players from among his old classmates henry R bankart the center ruih and edward J bart a halfback pennsylvania had invited the entire exeter team to witness the cornell game but the faculty refused the boys permission hart who is a boy of 17 Is of most humble birth hla father labors in a foundry and hart has to work his way through preparatory school he I 1 typical cal of the class that the colleges are corrupting boys whose ethical standards are barely in the making when the lad told of his trip his eyes fairly bulged ho had never seen fo much money before they certainly gave us a slick time said the lad why our dinner cost 9 they must have spent I 1 setting us up I 1 tell you they are good to the fellows at penn it aint just the students either the city folks take an interest in the boys one man offered greene his room and board and he bought him a CO overcoat greenes got along well there he told me he got to pann with 27 cents the other victim of pennsylvanian Pennsylvania 1 hospitality is a somewhat older youth in whom the commercial spirit la well developed he has received letters from bowdoin Bow doln brown dartmouth and williams the letter from the wll llama football captain written on tho official stationery of the association contains these promises there are several positions for next years football team vacant and I 1 have in mind certain men to fill them if you are in need of financial aid there are plenty of scholarships here to be had tor the asking are good jobs about town and money matters will worry anybody L ig regarded as oneat the fc leanest colleges in the sast |