Show Famous Gridiron Star Turns Down I Huge Hug Pro Offer Offe MADISON MADISO- Wis Match March ch 1 17 Marty Marty Below is through playing football Tile The ex-Badger ex captain unanimous choice for Western All-Western conference tackle and chosen by many for their American All-American mythical elevens has taken a definite stand against professional football My college days are ove says Below and with them go my football football football foot foot- ball days I consider professional football a menace to amateur collego collego col- col tt lego football t a and will not foster te it itin itin in any way The othe day Below walked walled in into La Lathe the office of Professor I T. T E. E Jones director of ot athletics at the University sity of ot Wisconsin and tossed a letter letter letter let let- ter on his 1118 desk The letter contaIned contained con con- tamed a startling offer for the 1924 football season from the owner of one om of of the tile great greatest st p. football teams in the tile country The rhe figure would look like a fortune to any young man just leaving col col- lege legs What about It asked Jones You kno know leno I need the tIle money answered Below but but and he picked l 1 UP th thEt letter and toe e It to bits hits Below says that the present ever-present eligibility trouble in college root root- ball will never ne b become come remedied until college athletes quit going rut cut into that field lie also contends conten s that t the life lite of a professional grid star Is a haphazard one because illeman the ille theman theman man man comes to depend on his seasonal seasonal seasonal sea sea- salary too much |