Show A Menace To Athletes Football takes great pride in the fact that it is strictly a college first and but maybe it wouldn't be so sure of itself if it could look in on some of the soft drink parlors and cigar stores and see the alumni members of the University of laying one honest shekel against another on the results of the Saturday football Time was when football was strictly a speculation given only to friendly wagering between a couple off very close in The friendly bet was the thing this kind of wager being one of those things you pay off so gladly that the bitterness does not wear off until the next homecoming Those were the good old but are evidently gone While alumni and undergraduates are still wagering the friendly the malted or what by snooping around Where the real betting is it is made to the skeptical soul that the heavy play is being made by fellows who once saw a college very distinctly from a car They seem also to be cognizant of the fact that a football is globular and Other details regarding the game picked up from time to time as they go So you find them studying as intensely as they can the charts on the horse They also try to call the upsets like they pick a dark horse from the These persons have evidently succeeded in making college football a medium of betting second only to the line with each Saturday pigskin it is only a matter of time until the big shot gamblers get to some college star when his resistance is Then football will have an odor as bad as the Brooklyn College basketball of last |