dume 1g 13435.
Mre James i. Henmond, Lawyer,
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Doar Mire Hammoud: . e 7 |
| Acknowledging your favor of the 25th ultimo, I om sending you
a copy of &@ speech i made at Cape Girardeau, Missowrl, in Novenber,

1séi, at the Southoast Missourl State Teachers College.

Lawyers have had their disbaruent proceedings for erring leayyeras
the doctors have done likewise. I doubt if athletic coaches will be~
aa the lawyers and physicians Lave acoomplished. However, I do know
thet there are wauy athletic directors and coaches that would like to
see a cleaner bill of health for athletics. ‘Those on the inside lmow
that a football team that is four~deep with powerful meterial is not
accomplished by the matriculation of the ordinary student in such end
such a college. | ) :

it would be u very difficult thing to get all the colleges in America
to heave uniform rules, but I did think that there were enough educators
who would welcome a more wholesome participation in athleties in the

_ Golleges. The greet value of education through play oan be accomplished
by doing away with hyper-proselyting that seems to have been in practice
in the most emphatic degree just prior to our entry in the war.

t think I am gaffe int saying that no “big time’ school in athletics
is without ite subsidizing and proselyting.

Judge Landis has done such a wonderful job in Wilding the confi~
baseball hed sunk to the lowest after the Black Sox scandal. I have a
athletics if the American Association of University and College Presidents
should act on same scheme tet would take the diseiplining out of their

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