_ BOOING, A REAL MENACE

Fielding He Yost, of the tiatversity of Michigan, ones said,

“Before intercollegiate athletics can mean all they should mean, spectators,
students, critics, and school authorities must accept the an of the office
ials as final." : :

So long as spectators object to the rulings of the officials they are
- not qualified to wear the toga of true sportsmanship.

‘Alonse ds Stagg, Chicage’s gramf old man and doen of 011 scsches ani
directors, once seid to his basketball audience when it lest its head,
"Ladies and Gentlemen? Be ledies and gentlemen Yr |

There is <till peril for the longevity of college sports in the blat-
ent rowdyiom expressed in the form of booing, hissing, and the well-known
Bronx cheer. These regrettable outbursts are the products of the professional
hippodrome and its ballyhooe From professions! boxing and wrestling: caning
as well as from the fans in baseball perks, this practice of oral razzing has
come. The management of such piases. must accept their customers. However,
it is wrong to permit the public, because it pays money, to deride end
cajole and abuse the officials.

in: college sports the es eho play the game are constantly under the
discipline o of training in order to acquit themselves well in the games. |
fhere are set rules of behavior that the athletes must tellows Just a
the spectators pay admission to these contests, it dete net follow that they

should be ‘permitted to hurl m

 

dipisesent epithets and diseourteous : ronarks at

  

i ers and officials and ‘thus diavupt the smouthness # a

   

chich wes planned for their mn'joyment« -
Within this deplorable eitastion lies a disrespect for law and order.

Let us suppose for the sake of argument thet « father who is careless in

his respect for the opponents sad the officials should take his young sons,

below colloge age, along with him to the games, and that he boos lustily

 

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