Show SAVE COLLEGE YOUTHS guard boys against professionalism while young dean briggs of harvard says athletes may be pret Pr acted elected in gram mar schools cheering Is termed as good thing college boys can bo be saved from professionalism in the grammar schools Is the idea expressed by dean dead le barou baron R brings briggs of harvard cli chairman nirman of the athletic committee of the college in his warning issued to prospective college athletes ti against playing for money in an address on athletics at harvard ue he said the ethics of athletics should he be ake ake the ethics of anything else if a boy bretti cs his amateur standing lie ile should be quick to say so and face the music I 1 think that any normal american boy will play a game of baseball wherever and whenever lie he has hag the alie chance often they get into semiprofessional company and without caring much about the stipend they receive accept money tor for their services few boys realize what may inny be the future effects of receiving pay for playing baseball As a rule a boy will keep secret the fact that he has earned money for ball playing but sometimes it may be years in the future the fact Is likely to come to the surface at a time when the boy would give many times the original amount if he could only blot out ills his one slip into professionalism the seriousness of playing for money should be shown to the boy when lie he Is still in the gra grammar minar or I 1 high I 1 agh schools oftentimes they have marred their amateur records before they even think of coming to college it if advice of this kind Is impressed upon the boys early enough the danger of their being declared professionals and later in college life would very likely be obviated there are some phases of baseball practically a accepted as institutions of the game that tire are decidedly rattling the pitcher Is one of these the incessant talking of the players Is another phase that Is hardly necessary the talk does not encourage a ge cheering Is a good thing it Is organized and under the control of the cheer lenders leaders but even this institution can be misused as it Is in football games when the cheers may make it impossible for the opposing quarterback to make himself hard |