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fessionalien, and the spirit of the colleges will be identica] with that
of the New York Yankees or the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the players are apt
te be booed for mistakes as are the professionals. ‘The cheers and the

here worship will go only to those euper-athletes, as to Joe Ditiaggio who
deciding to make such a steps

‘Tt would be far healthier for our athleties if we could come
out in the open and eay to the public that definitely we are subsidising
these athletes. The richer schools or the schools with wealthier alumni
would raise the ante and tho seme situation that obteing now would obtain
in the future. : :

‘Unless inflexible laws for college conferences, with sharp,
biting teeth in thom, are enaoted, the laws would be broken in this case |
the sane as they have been in the prosent end the past. Subsidisation
ould be adequately enforced by the colleges employing a super~esar, or
& high commlaesioner of athletics for the United States, to serve all
eonferences, with vested authority in hin the cam as is crambed Judge
landig in professional baseball. This high commissioner would have
player, or to prescribe certain rules of condust for any athletic board,
or even go so fur as to demnd the renoval of certain menbers of any
sollece athletic board. kash conferees would agree on the price to pay
their athletes, Only mouber schools subscribing to such a plan would be
eligible to belong to sueh a conference. And only conferences subserib-

~ ing te this arrangement would permit their schools to schedule genes

with school belonging. No games could be scheduledwith any non-members
in the United States. Of course, non-menbers could play with non-members,