Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-04 | Page 6 | Today's Sport Angle

r r TODAY'S SPORT ANGLE . i What is an amateur? Is there such a creature? Athletic dire, tow are much puzzled. I wan: to go on record OS saying the simori pure amateur is almost extinct. It Is so easy for a star athlete jii any branch of sport to pick up some Oft money, thai most of I hem fall for the lure 01 the filthy lucre. The exposure of the Notre Daino-IUlnoie Daino-IUlnoie a .'Tair I, .s resulted in seventeen seven-teen suspensions. More may follow. Notre Dame and Illinois aro not alono in the failure of a number of their athletes to live up to tin rules. Throughout tin country a numberl of colleges are harboring players w ho1 are as guilty of professionalism as the players who figured in the re,, I scandal. It took two months for the No're; Damc-Illlnois affair to break. A number of other players just as guilty have escaped detection, because their 1 eccret has not leaked out. The r.muteur in sport Ls prcttv much of a joko. The Insistence moxt colleges have on foolish amalei standards docu not make for b Iter men. Rather they Invite deceit. is there :" line t h 1 i:g v.r..nir v.-ito t ' eollege rules governing athletics? I Are the colleges more at f;-.ult thin the students ; During the summer months, when la player I not In school. Is it right to tell him that he cannot accept money for playing baseball? Proficiency In baseball is a money-1 making asset In most cases it Is I I'"- -H'l. lor , o!!. xe '..ill ,:-ivers t . ' make a great deal more money playing play-ing baseball than in any other waj-ls waj-ls it right td deprive them of tu.-u right ? Often such money goes a long way toward making it " possible for those concerned to attend collep... When the dire, tore Of athletics of th leading western oolleges meet In March. Lhav will , iv 1 v lems to solve. Ceorge Huff of the University of Illinois says: T have believed for a long tim-that tim-that our baseball rule was a failure Any athletic director or coach wro believes his men are living up to tho rules, is only kidding himself." V V