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‘SPORT NOT ENOUGH NOW’

TANGIBLE VALUE OF ATHLETIC
SKILL HAS PASSED, LINDLEY SAYS.

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Ten Years Ago a Star Would Have
Been Offered Work on His Rec-
ord, but Not Now, Chan-
cellor Asserts.

(By The Star’s Own Service.)

WicuiTa, Kas., March 31.—The
passing of tangible value for athletic
prowess was the basis of a talk today
by Dr. E. H. Lindley, chancellor of the
University of Kansas, before the third
general session of the annual con-
vention here of the Midwest Physical
Education Association.

“Red Grange’s fame was writ on
water,’ Dr, Lindley said, “and Jim
Thorpe’s name was washed away
when the tide came in.”

Eddie Tolan, Olympic champion in
the. sprints, hung up his racing shoes
just the other day, he pointed out.
He is a young man, beginning his
adult life, and he has discovered the
terrific, speed he possesses cannot
avail him a living. His experience is
not unique, he said, it is the rule of
sports.

“Ten years ago,” Dr. Lindley ex-
plained, “many men would have of-
‘fered a man work on his athletic
record, Today these same men de-
mand scholastic grades.” _

The K. U. chancellor explained he
was not belittling athletic prowess.
The good things of civilization, he}.
said, had grown out of men posses-
sing energy greater in its power of|.
| application than that of the ordinary
man.
| “We have reason, in this part of |'
| America, to be proud of our young
men and their strength. It was the
corn-belt young men who proved to
be the. most skillful, and possessing
ithe greatest energy at the Olympic
games in Los Angeles last summer.”