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Show SI Abu TALKS OTJ SUIUfv-ER BASEBALL College Flayers Should Bs Honest in Playing. Chicago Mentor Says Sport Either Goes Completely on Professional Basis or It Remains Amateur Hits Other Sport. In a recent statement regarding summer baseball by college students, A. A. Stagg of Chicago says : "A common com-mon argument for allowing baseball players to play during the summer for hire Is that it would enable many poor men to accumulate funds for their college education and also for their social .and fraternity needs. Curiously, the point is continuously overlooked that no college students or would-be college students are denied that privilege now. No one denies the right of college students to earn Just as much money as they are able through the u.sc i.." their baseball ability, abil-ity, and vtzx are honest and honor-aWe honor-aWe enough to openly take advantage of that right without expecting to play on their college team. But such men have no rights as college players under the rules of the Western Conference, Con-ference, and if they were true and 'honest men they would not steal '.hem by cheating and -falsification. "The issue Is perfectly pla'n. To my way of thinking, college sport i' - ?, Coach A. A. Stagg. either goes completely on a profes sional basis or It remains amateur and puts up a strong fight for amateur principles. "Rather than yield in fundamental principles and to cater to the Influence of commercialized baseball, it is my firm conviction that it would be far better to give up conference intercollegiate intercol-legiate baseball altogether." |