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Show COACH ASSAILS 'PREP' RECRUITS Snatching of High School Stars By Universities Is Deplored CHICAGO. Feb. 7 Declaring 'h.n "proselyting" of collego athletics through recruiting of hlKh BChQOl : ra by various universities hal be-cbnie be-cbnie a menace not only to amnti-ur SDOrtB hut to American youth, AlonCp A. Stagg. athletic director at th- 1'nl-erslty 1'nl-erslty of Chicago, today called a meeting of Western conference athletic ath-letic directors to decide whin action Should be taken to prevent profes- lonallsm in the conference at high school toainc. Th" athletic directors will meet "nt nn early date," Mr. StiLSTP n nnouncrl. "This prOMlytJng has been a growing grow-ing menace to the health and purity of i' lilctlrs," hi f.ilil "If hnn also I. ecu demoralizing to the morals ol" high school boys. Competition .imong the colleges of tho enst for high school athletes. I am informed has become a scramble, in the middle-west it has oeeomc a serious matter, for certain eastern colleges have brongly entered the field of competition. This is the most Insidious of all the forms of pro foaaionaltam and cannot le easily era-cllcaterl. era-cllcaterl. The Western conference must find some way to overcome this evil " |