Show Carnegie Foundation Official Continues Attack on Athletes Appeals to Sportsmen to Aid in Abetting Practice Practice tice of Subsidizing by Colleges NEW YOUK D Dec 30 AP AP-A AP A further urther f attack on tho the subsidizing of ot athletes by colleges and universities I- I t ties ies was launched by Howard J. J Savage of oC the Carnegie Foundation for tor tho the A Advancement of ot Teaching i in n a speech prepared for delivery at ata a a. luncheon o of the Sportsmanship brotherhood today In his first public address s since publication of ot the tho now famous Carnegie Car car- ne negie lo report on n commercialism In college aU athletics Mr Sav go declared de do- do- do clarc dared 1 that although tho the practice of recruiting high school and preparatory preparatory tor tory school athletes probably i s diminishing gradually the tho situation still sUIl Is eo 60 serious that it sho should ld engage the attention a of every sports sports- man maii SIMPLE MATTER Th The recruiting of or athletes Is 19 no O simple matter and its Us it rights and wrongs arc aro not so Immediately obvious obvious ob ob- ob- ob as one ono might wish said Mr Savage The practice seldom and aDd probably never novel exists without the tle uso 1110 of ot subsidies As tho fisherman n bal baIts s 3 his WI hook bool so tho the recruiter dangles dan dan- steM tho the subsidy before tho the eager cager eyes of or f the preparatory or high ligh school athlete So widely videly recognized reco- reco l aro are the thc practices that a c com complementary nt- nt practice has hns developed I among schoolboys known as shop ping around J II in lii which tho schoolboy school bo boy without waiting for tor overtures 0 from th the college or it fl lift recruiter may nay offer b by correspondence and andev L' L ev even n b by tel telegraph sr ph his athletic ser ser- vI vices cs to tho the highest bidder among th tho colleges It is n. n satisfaction to no note not that many colleges do n not t solicit athletes as athletes or respond favorably to their tenders of or athletic ability It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is even moio molO e gratifying to know that recruiting probably is 15 diminishing diminish diminish- and that thit the lug InS although gradually t I time will com como when shopping around will bo oven more disreputable disreputable I able ablo than it lt is today Yet however mu much lJ we can congratulate con ourselves upon the Improvement in these thesa re-j re that has t taken ken place over the tho past and more the tha sit sit- sit situation situation Is still BO so that it ft should hold engage the att attention nUon of ever every sportsman AMATEUR SPORT Nominally American collego college sport Is jg amateur sport So long as asIt asIt asit it is amateur recruiting and subsidizing sub sub- subsidizing must murt bo be carried on secretly and secrecy in im implies Sm- Sm plies pUe- deceit Th Tho college th that t. t re recruits re- re or permits the recruiting of athletes b by f subsidies de deceives ds de el ceh-el its and rs and tho the pub pub- lie lic The Tho coach or director of ot physical Jh Ical I- I cal education who such practices th i or 0 even en connives connives con con- nives at af them Is furthering deceit The ILio alumnus motive mo mo- mo- mo tive who Subsidizes r a abo aboy bo boy with nn m eye cye to tho success of or uSa his college on the tha football fie field leM d o on n the tho track or on cr Is 55 Injuring not alone collego college sport and the tho in institution in- in f whoso son b Ja I. but most of ot all tho boy wh he appears to lo befriend I |