Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1929 — Page 14

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Talking It Over WITH JOE WILLIAMS

New York, Oct. 24. ALL right, now that the Carnegie Foundation has blown the whistle and the police have arrived, what about it? Is it true that college athletics are a stifling menace to the well stuffed academic skull of the nation? I mean to ask has the turn of sports reached such a stage that in order to insure educational security football as it is currently practiced must be booted into the ash can? * a a Before *re*edinr farther with thi* dissertation I wUh to ronfeee that I am ocareelr aaallfled to present an opinion of valae and that taeeeedlne romments represent nothinr more than random reflectlans. mam In the beelnnlne It must be admitted that the eentlemen who functioned for the Foundation tn comdetln* the lnaulrv eertalnlv pulled up In front of the post oßlce with a wniron load of Imposina data. Uslnir 3*l paees to tell It. they proceed to tell the world that only a handful of colleee* In the land are free from the sinister taint of professionally In one form or another. mam THIS taint takes the general form of recruiting desirable athletic material and subsidizing said material by means of salaried jobs around the campus. In a great majority of cases these jobs are lowly in character, such as waiting on table and assisting in the upkeep of the grounds and the salary is commensurate to the labors entailed. These monetary rewards are handed out only to the star athlete, and thus he is enafcled to keep himself in spending money most of the time while the pale-faced aspirant to a Phi Beta Key must skimp it along as best he can. 808 At the foundation report implies, thi* Is palpable unfair and even the fact that In the blr week-end spectacles the athlete Is the chief magnet in filling the stadium with thousand* of customers at *4 per head does not seem to square the economies pf the matter. Os course I am aware that in some instances the athlete Is more commercial than in others and that there have even been times when he has been known to accent money for doing chores around the premise* which he did not do at all. aan While my list of acquaintances does not Include a great number of all-American football plovers who shined shoes to get through college. I do recall being waited on bv a pretty fair Harvard tackle two years ago at a time when I lunched with William Bingham, the athletic director, and Coach Horween and his assistants. 808 1 MENTION this by way of showing that this phase of college athletics is not wholly a myth. Incidentally, a compilation of the number of athletes who are actually working their way through college would have made an interesting addition to the Foundation’s report, even if it did add nothing to the bleakness of the sweeping indictment. B B B In on* Important rtspret. the report is probably auite disappointing to the alarmist element because a statistical study of IR.M7 students showed that the young man who went In for Athletics was a definitely better student than the young man who didn’t. BUB I have heard It said on supposedly authoritative grounds that theoretically at least, the main reason young men go to college Is to study and learn.. Well, you have the Foundation's word for It that the athlete studies and learns, and that he does a better lob of it than the nonathlete. b an THIS would seem to indicate that the athlete is at least mildly interested in an education, and the possible fact that he was recruited ar.d subsidized by “the Fagins of American sport” has not automatically made a pool room bum of him. However, even the fact that the athlete manages to do right well by his studies does not completely satisfy the Foundation boys. YALE OFFENSE WEAK NEW HAVEN, Conn.. Oct. 24 Despite the most drastic shakeup the Yale lineup has experienced since practice started five weeks ago, the varsity showed little offensive strength in Tuesday's scrimmage with the freshmen in preparation for the Array game Saturday.

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One in Every- Seven Athletes Subsidized , Foundation Declares

Battle in H. S. Clash on Friday

with true Boilermaker stoicism to athletic ability, a long report issue get in some outdoor practice during Advancement of Teaching declares "the P has Blven aq investigation which took tl up des P air and retired indoors i eges and universities guiltless of t for skull w o rkouts until the weath - Educational institutions from coas er clears. Alex Yunevich’s left leg ! suading prominent athletes to atte .. . . . . . or indirectly, for their athletic ab still is on vacation due to injuries purdue and Notre Dame were but is undergoing intensive treat- sc hool was charged with subsidizin i I ment and may bear its owner into offering special inductments. Indi: ■ the battle with Chicago, Saturday. i eges were no t visited by the inves "I ~ • ♦ "

THE lads pictured above are expected to figure prominently in the city grid series clash between Shortridge and Washington high schools at Shortridge field Friday afternoon. S. H. S. won the city championship last year. On the left is Garland Burris, 190-pound back field ball toter and expert blocker of Washington, a veteran mainstay with the west side eleven, who can crash the line or flatten opposing interference in collegiate style. On the

Washington Grid Mentor Resigns Bu T'nitrd Press SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 24—A two-year fight by students and alumni of the Unievrsity of Washington to oust Enoch Bagshaw as head football coach, has been successful. The mentor’s resignation today was in the hands of Earl F. Campbell, graduate manager. The attack on Bagshaw was due to Washington’s gridiron slump since 1927. GUS TOSSES “STRANGLER” Ru Times Special LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24—Gus Sonnenberg, claimant to the world’s heavyweight wrestling title, defeated Ed Lewis, former title holder, two falls out of three here Wednesday.

Weather Sends Purdue Inside Ru United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 24.—The Purdue football squad, which had been braving rain, sleet and snow with true Boilermaker stoicism to get in some outdoor practice during the first part of the week, has given up in despair and retired indoors for skull workouts until the weather clears. Alex Yunevich’s left leg still is on vacation due to injuries but is undergoing intensive treatment and may bear its owner into the battle with Chicago, Saturday.

Burris, Washington, and Kilgore, Shortridge.

Ohio State Makes No Shifts hi Lineup for I. U. Battle Buckeyes Favorites Over Crimson, but Willaman Warriors Keep Eyes Peeled for Hoosier Threats.'

Ru Times Special COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 24 Through their respective squads, coaches Sam Willaman of Ohio State and Pat Page of Indiana will have their first battle of wits in the Big Ten when the Buckeyes and Hoosiers meet here Saturday. The pre-game “dope” makes the Ohioans the favorites for the first time this season in a Big Ten game, but the Buckeye coaches and players have plugged along all week on the theory that they can not al-

College Probe Committee Finds Wholesale Commercialism Practiced to Build Up * Teams; Purdue, Notre Dame Included. BY FRANK GETTY United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Athletes in American colleges are subsidized today to a point where one in every seven receives support because of his athletic ability, a long report issued by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching declares. An investigation which took three and one-half years finds few colleges and universities guiltless of the charge of proselyting. Educational institutions from coast to coast are directly accused of persuading prominent athletes to attend, and of paying these boys, directly or indirectly, for their athletic ability. Purdue and Notre Dame were visited in Indiana. The Boilermaker school was charged with subsidizing, and the Irish were alleged guilty of offering special inductments. Indiana and Butler and other Hoosier colleges were not visited by the investigators.

right is Kilgore, snappy Shortridge end, shown in the act of snagging a pass, the ball also being in view. Coach Bogue of Washington has a bunch of stalwarts in uniform and Coach Goldsberry of Shortridge probably will advise his lighter brigade to depend on the open game for gains. Washington walloped Manual and got nosed out by Tech. Shortridge plays Manual and Tech in later games.

ford to rest on their laurels, considering what is ahead of the in. They appreciate full well that while the Hoosiers may have lost to Notre Dame, Chicago and Colgate, they are apt to make trouble. When the Indianans deploy here Saturday it will be the first time a football team coached by Pat Page has shown its wares in the Ohio stadium, and'will be the first time in five years the Hoosiers have been here.. The last time was In 1924 when, with the score 12 to 7 against them, the Buckeyes marched the length of the field only to fail to make a touchdown on the fourth down a yard from the goal line as the game ended. Hoosier threats to be matched by the Buckeyes include Paul Balay, full back, who can pass, punt, drop kick and generally disport himself as an all-round star. Lowell Todd, Indiana’s track ace, carries his athletic ability into football and may be used either at half or at full. Magnabosco is another power on attack. Frank Faunce, Indiana half back, wears No. 13, but it does not cramp his style. It was his twenty-five-yard run a year ago which enabled the Hoosiers to defeat Michigan, 6 to 0. Other Hoosier threats in the back field are Brubaker, Hughes and Ross. As far as possible. Coach Willaman intends to adhere to the Buckeye lineup of last Saturday and of two weeks ago. McConnell and Horn probably will be the half backs again, with Holman at quarter and Holcomb at full. The line should include Fontaine and Fesler, ends; Marsh and Larkins, tackles, Shelby and Ujhelyi, guards, and Barratt, center. Officials of the game will be Frank Birch, Earlham, referee; W. D. Knight, Dartmouth, umpire; Fred Young, Illinois Wesleyan, field judge, and H. L. Ray, Illinois, head linesman. Rti T'niteil Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Oct. 24. The Indiana football squad ran through its last practice §ession here today prior to entraining for Columbus to battle Ohio State. Shields, tackle, was absent from the lineup due to illness. Shanahan has been shifted from guard to fill the hole. 60-TO-1 SHOT SCORES * / EMUIRE CITY, N. Y., Oct. 24. One of the longest shots of the season scored Wednesday afternoon in the fourth race when Russet with Jockey Quackenbush up, nosed out Vacation and Golden Arrow and repaid his backers S6O to $1 to win. The place price was S2O to $1 and i the show price, $lO to sl. The time was 1:60.

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Commercialism in college athletics. declared in the report to be “the darkest single blot upon American sport,” is charged to more than 100 of the schools which were investigated by Dr. Howard J. Savage, staff member of the Carnegie Foundation, and his associates. Only 28 Guiltless Out of 112 educational institutions visited only twenty-eight were found guiltless of the accusation of subsidizing athletes. Yale, Cornell, Chicago, United States Military Academy, Wesleyan and Williams are among the schools at which the Carnegie investigators found no evidbnee of commercialism. Canadian colleges and universities came off unscathed. Fordham, Columbia and New York university in the east, Wisconsin and Northwestern in the middle west, southern California and Oregon Agricultural college in the far west, come in for special condemnation on the grounds of proselyting.

“Commerce” in Athletes A “nation-wide commerce” in eligible athletes is described in detail and condemned by the investigators. Catholic colleges and universities are listed as furnishing assistance to students of athletic proclivities. Notre Dame, Fordham and Georgetown come in for special mention. The report tells how Brown university handles its “recruiting” correspondence, how Southern Cali- . fornia indulges in proselyting and how Wisconsin, despite the denials of its authorities, evades the agreement of jthe Big Ten. As for subsidies, it describes "jobs to pay for tuition, room and board in return for very nominal services,” or “an outright allocation of funds [without return except in athletic : j participation.” Many Scholarships As for athletic scholarships, seventy-five are available at Penn State, the report declares, a like number at New York university and twenty-five at Colgate. Southern California has $40,000 in such scholarships available, Syracuse $14,000 annually. In declaring that one in seven college athetes are paid, Dr. Savage, head of the Carnegie investigating committee of four, said he was setting a “modest, conservative figure.” “The number of subsidized players on first-class varsity football teams throughout the country probably would run as high as 50 per cent,” Dr. Savage said. “An intensively organized, sometimes subtle system, that may coordinate or utilize numbers of agents on or off the campus,” is in ! effect at such schools as Michigan, Northwestern, Oglethorpe, Southern California and Wisconsin, according to the investigators. Brown, Denver, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin are named as schools at which “a more specialized development” of the system of finding jobs for athletes is to be found. Carnegie Tech also is “implicated.” The Pittsburgh school was reported to have a $13,000 slush fund for athletes. * In the final analysis few schools are cleared. Little that was not already known or suspected is brought to light, but the repercussion in the college world may be resounding, since a spade is called a spade.

FRIDAY Washington vs. Shortridge (Indianapolis). Marlon at Technical (Indianapolis;. Jefferson (Lafayette! at Brazil. Bloomington at Martinsville. Rushvllle at-Richmond. Attica at Crawfordsville (night!. It SATURDAY v Crispus Attucks at Central. Louisville. Park School. Indianapolis, at Westfield. Wabash at Muncle. Lebanon at Newcastle. Anderson at Elwood. Bicknell at Gerstmever (Terre Haute). Wiley. Terre Haute, at Casey, 111. Greencastle at Bloomfield. Vincennes at Sullivan. Robinson (111.! at Clinton. Central (Evansville) at Linton. Jasonvtlle at Bosse (Evansville). Princeton at Jasper Academy. Petersburg at Boonville. Central )Ft. Wayne) at Garrett. South Side vs. Central CathoHo (both Ft. Wavne). North Side (Ft. Wavne) at Portland. Emerson (Gary) at Hammond. Froebel (Gary) at La Porte. Whiting at South Bend. Michigan City at Plymouth. Ironwood (Mich.) at Horace Mann (Gary). Kokomo at Elkhart Howe Military Academy at Goshen. CALDERWOOD AT FULL \ Northwestern Veteran Half Back Shifted for Wabash Tilt. s?* r T>rpa9 EVANSTON, HI., Oct. 24.—8i1l Calderwood. veteran of Northwestern’s football squad, will be shifted from right half to full back for the game againSc Wabash Saturday, according to Coach Hanley. Oswald Baxter will go to right half. Michelin Tires On Credit PUBLIC SERVICE TIRE CO 118 E. New York St.

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70,000 to See N. D. and Carnegie P.u Times Special PITTSBURGH, Oct. 24.—Advance sale of tickets for the Notre Dame-Carnegie Tech grid battle at the local stadium Saturday is the heaviest ever reported for a game in Pittsburgh, according to Tech officials. Interest is runnihg high throughout the tri-state district and a capacity crowd of 70,000 is expected to view the fray. Friday night alumni of both Notre Dame and Carnegie will meet in a get-together smoker in the Tech gym, where stars of former years will “buzz” about old times.

Academy Chiefs Meet Next Week Ru United Press ANNAPOLIS, Md„ Oct. 24.—Rear Admiral Samuel S. Robison, superintendent off the Naval Academy, will meet General William R. Smith, head of the Military Academy, at Washington next week for a conference which it is hoped may lead to a renewal of athletic relations between the academies. The meeting was suggested in a letter received here Wednesday from General Smith. Admiral Robison said he would go to Washington for the conference. WABASH LEAVES FRIDAY By Tiiiirs Sort in I CRAWFORDS VILLE, Ind., Oct. 24.—A light workout this afternoon was to end Wabash’s preparation for their encounter with Northwestern at Evanston, Saturday. Coach Vaughan and his squad will leave early Friday morning and will work out in Dysche stadium, the Wildcat lair, Friday afternoon.

Did You Know That—s EARL SANDE sings in a sweet, tenor voice. . . Jack Curley admonished the newspaper boys down in New York the other day that “when you are writing about wrestlers you are writing about gentlemen ” .. . . Even the second rate wrestlers own their own homes, says Jack. . . . M. Curley says they are linguists and travelers. . . . At least they have to talk some language in there unfamiliar to the fans. . .

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Hudkins and Walker Stir Ring Circles Title Fight on Coast Next Week Has Fans on Edge. Ru XEA %-ri ice LOS ANGELES, Oct, 24—Will Ace Hudkins be the the next middleweight champion? The Nebraska Wildcat Is certain that he will. Mickey Walker, present title holder, is equally sure that the Cat won't. The question will be decided Oct. 29 when Hudkins and Walker meet at Wrigley field, Los Angeles, for the championship. The bout is holding the spotlight in the boxing world as one of the best “naturals” of the year, with the tearing, savage Cat matched against the hard-hitting, crafty Walker. Once Beat Ace Walker has memories of a decision over Hudkins in Chicago seme time ago, and is certain that he can “take” the Cat again. Los Angeles fans are boosting Hudkins in the bout. Hudkins, always a good drawing card, definitely put himself in line for a little bout by decisively whipping Kentucky Joe Anderson. He carried a vicious slashing attack that had Joe in a bad way in four rounds, and brought an end in the sixth. Both Hard Hitters Both Walker and Hudkins can hit and take it. Walker may hold a slight edge in betting, due to greater ring craftsmanship and greater boxing skill, /but should Hudkins be timing his “one-two” with the same accuracy that he displayed against Anderson, and should his right and left hooks carry the same effectiveness, anew champion may be crowned. Walker has not defended his title for some time, but has been doing considerable work, so that he should be in condition for the bout. Hudkins has been fighting more, and is top shape for the affair. Under the terms of the bout Walker will get 47% per cent of the gate, Hudkins 12% per cent. It is expected to gross about $200,000. The fighters are making 160 pounds. TRIEvS FOUR CENTERS Ru United Pri ss WEST POINT. N. Y., Oct. 24 Four men were tried out at center Wednesday as Coach Jones sent his Army team through a heavy practice session in preparation for Saturday’s tilt with Yale.

OCT. 24, 1929

Gridders Like Horses —Hop ’Em Up! Ru United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Under the hygiene of athletic training, the Carnegie foundation report on college athletes brought out that one football coach in 1926 administered caffein tablets to his team in the final game. Another coach stated that as a player he had been given strychnine tablets by his former coach. At another college a football coach offered to inject cocaine in the leg of a p’ayer so that the pain would not deter him from entering alEr important game.

Normal-Oakland Tilt at Danville Rll Times Special DANVILLE. Ind., Oct. 24.—Due to a change in schedule the Danville Normal-Oakland City college football game Friday afternoon, will be played here instead of Oakland City, Coach Cook announced today. Danville is in good shape for the game, despite the loss of much practice this week. The kickoff is scheduled for 2 p. m. CHICAGO DRILLS IN MUD Ru United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—Chicago’s Maroons braved a sea of mud on Wednesday to engage in passing and signal drill. Ankle-length sheepskins and cowled overgarments set anew fashion note on the gridiron. •FORDHA^rCOACH PLEASED NEW YORK. Oct. 24—Dummy scrimmage against Davis and Elkins plays featured Fordhr - ''’ practice Wednesday. Coach Cavanaugh was pleased with the success of the vasity in solving the Scarlet formations.

lowa Laughs Up Sleeve Ru United Press lOWA CITY, Oct. 24—Iowa university officials were jubilant today as the result of statements in the Carnegie foundation report that the school was not seriously involved in proselyting of athletes. The belief was expressed that the report would\ help lowa in obtaining reinstatement in the Western conference.