MAJOR GRIFFITH SCORED ALLEN
(By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.)

New York, Dec. 9. —- AP. Next to picking a successor to Judge Landis,
about the hardest sports job of the coming year will be to select a
Western conference commissioner who can fill the place of the late

John L. Griffith. . « Some folks will tell you the major didn't have

any real power, but he had plenty of influence and a commonsense way

of using it. . » The last letter this department had from Griffith
commented on Phog Allen's proposal to appoint an athletic czar: "First,
you can't make people good by legislation, and it is foolish to make

laws before there is a demand for the laws. Second, our athletics |
ean be controlled better by local groups than by a national organization."
« » e By way of illustration he added? "#6 do not deal with this problem
of recruiting and subsidizing as tho it were a matter of ethics or morals,
but rather from the standpoint of fair competition. Our men are agreed
that they want to conduct athletics on a nonpaid player basis and while,
now and then, somebody may help an athlete, we feel that we are handling
our own problem pretty much to our own satisfaction.”

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