itself to justify a decree by Presi-
dent Wilbur Smith of the National
Collegiate association forbidding
future coéllege games at the Gar-
den in general and, most of all,
the late March tournament aimed
-at establishing a national cham-
pion in collegiate circles.

A scanning by this column of
the N.C. 2-A. constitution and by-
laws failed to disclose that the
head of the association is clothed
with specific authority to order a
transfer of the tournament from
the Garden to a college fieldhouse.

Nevertheless, lack of that au-
thority should not serve as a bar
to hard-boiled action by the as-
sociation prexy. We recall that the
late Judge K.M. Landis never

hesitated to make his own base-

ball laws, this by way of protect-
ing the good name of the national

game, so it follows that if Presi- | -
dent Smith were to call a few)

shots, no college management

would dare to say him nay. '
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ITY of it all is that the head

man of the N.C.2-A is more

or less hand-cuffed by virtue of

the fact that Tulane university,

 

 

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athletic director,
By Dixie is a member “of

Corruption a college confer-
ence (Southeastern) which openly
defies all the concepts of amateur-
ism in sports — a defiance that
likewise applies to the by-laws of
the National Collegiate association.

A defiance which manifests it-
self in the grant of perquisites to
athletes—free tuition, living ex-
penses, books and whatnot — in
violation of a by-laws clause that
forbids setting athletes apart for
the receipt of special favors.

We have reason to suspect
President Smith is fully aware
that the nation’s colleges would
welcome summary action on his

 

‘part to move the national tourna-

ment to a college fieldhouse, but
such a move would demand a
cracking-down on the corruptive
practices of the Southeastern cir-
cle—a tossing of stones at his own
glasshouse; a mote-plucking from
the other fellow’s optic regardless
of the beam in his own.