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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951
'There Has To Be A Payoff' In Any Sport, Fraley Says
By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer
New York (U.P.)—The gathering momentum of the New York basketball scandal made it evident today that the time has arrived to eliminate the so-called "amateur" sports and start calling a spade a spade.
Actually, there is no such thing as strict amateurism in a sport of any consequence.
Whether it be basketball, football, tennis, or boxing—or any game which doesn't charge admission but counts on pulling the customers through the turnstiles—there has to be a payoff of one sort or another.
This is not a defense of the players involved in the current basketball "fix." Any college man should be old enough to know right from wrong. But the basic fault behind such incidents is the present "amateur" setup.
From Congo cricket to cock fighting, there an angle behind every sport to which admission is charged. The wonder of it is that something such as this hasn't occurred in college football.
There you have penny-pinching idealists who insist that youngsters should die, or at least get batted around, for dear old Rutgers without expecting anything. It is slightly idiotic to me that 22 young men should jam a stadium with 90,000 fans—at from $2.50 to $6 a head—and then be harpounded for taking board, room and tuition.
Yet that was the attitude of the greedy N.C.A.A., which tried to suspend seven schools for giving too much aid to athletes. I have great admiration for those of the "sinful seven" who politely told the N.C.A.A. to drop dead, that they had to take care of their boys.
Coaches get paid and college officials get paid. Why not the lads who are paying off the mortgage? Then they won't be tempted to dump a game to get themselves out of a financial hole.
But the payoff is the loudest spokesmen for sheer amateurism are from schools which supposedly are paying off under the table. And certainly most of the supposed purists are.
Let's look at amateur boxing. The winners get watches and gold medais which wind up in the closest hock shop. If the fighter is real good, the trip is made unnecessary by the promoter simply handing over the cash.
Tennis is another example of so-called "amateur" sports where a
Prep Regionals Start Today
Topeka (U.P.)—The chase for the Kansas State high school basketball crowns gets underway today and when the firing is finished in the regionals Saturday night the field will be paired to 16 teams in each of the three brackets.
Next week, those 48 teams will fight it out for the Class AA, A, and B titles, with new champions expected in each bracket.
Among the AA schools, Newton and Wichita East, co-champions of the powerful Ark Valley league, have the highest state rankings and both may reach the finals, at Emporia, since they play in different regionalals.
Double-A regionals will be played at Coffeyville, Great Bend, Junction City, Newton, Pittsburg, Shawnee-Mission, Topeka, and Winfield.
Class A tourneys will be held at Beloit, Chapman, Cherryvale, Eureka, Garden City, Garnett, Hays, Hiawatha, Lyons, Oberlin, Pratt, Topeka, and Turner.
Tennis Candidates To Meet Today
All K.U. Varsity tennis candidates are urged to meet at the Memorial stadium courts (south end of stadium) at 4 p.m. today, Glen Tongier, tennis coach, announced this morning.
youngster can earn a comfortable living if he has the shots. There are a lot of relatively poor youngsters playing the tennis circuit, traveling to Australia, England, Sweden, France and many other countries. I am not convinced that they can do this, and make all the right places they do, on a strict expense account.
Tongier, who was recently appointed K.U. tennis coach, wants anyone interested in playing tennis to report and tryout for the team. All spots are open.
Baseball learned its lesson in 1919. Since then it gradually has started paying living salaries. Boxing you can write off as a crummy "sport," rotten with racketeers and leeches. The honest fringe keep it legitimate.
But it is the amateurs who are getting the black eye at the moment —mostly because they draw big crowds, big gates and then get tired of standing in the bread line.
Show me a strictly amateur sport and I'll show you a sport which doesn't have gate receipts that amount to anything. So why not pay the lads who draw the money—pay 'em right out in the open—and eliminate the dishonest dollar?
Women's IM Class Cage Games Slated Tonight In Robinson Annex
By MONA MILLIKAN
Senior and junior A teams and senior and junior B teams play each other at 7 tonight in the winners' circle of the women's intramural class basketball games. The sophomore and freshman A and B teams meet at 8 p.m. in the losers' bracket. All four games will be played in Robinson annex.
In the first round of class games played Feb. 28, the juniors and seniors had an easy night as three of the teams won by large margins.
The senior A team had an almost identical margin with a 45 to 23 victory over the sophomore A. The junior B's had a little harder time but scored a 33 to 20 victory over the freshman B. Closest score was the senior B team's 23 to 21 defeat of the sophomore B.
Highest individual scoring was in the junior-freshman A game. Janet Meyers made 20 points for her team to maintain her record as the highest scoring player in women's intramurals this year.
Her season average was 22.8. The top scorer for the juniors was Barbara Quinn with 16 points and Sydney Ashton was close behind with 13.
In the senior-sophomore A game Frances Pence took scoring honors with 18 points for the seniors. Teammates Virginia Loveless with 15 and Betty Thomas with 10 points accounted for most of the others. Sophomore scoring was more even
as Betty Clinger and Catherine Holloway each made 7 points and Jerre Mueller scored 6.
For the junior-freshman B game Jane Gray was another high-point player with 18 points for the juniors. Teammate Lois Lacy scored 13. Phyllis Sims led the freshmen with 9 points.
The close game between the senior and sophomore B teams saw scoring honors go to sophomore Esther Harms with 13 points, Janet Lull led the seniors with 11 points and Kathryn Taylor made 10.
CLASS ROSTERS
Senior A: Donna Cathers, Arlene Hill, Joan Holzapfel, Maxine Holsinger, Geneva Fleshman, Virginia Loveless, Nancy Moore, Frances Pence, Betty Thomas (mgr.), and Marv Verschovle.
Senior B: Gwenda Braun, Bonita Clark, Janet Lull (mgr.), Daisy Martin, Betty Ozenberger, Anita Philipp, Virlee Reardan, Barbara Smith, Kathryn Taylor, and Mary Van Houten.
Junior A: Sydney 'Ashton, Ernes-
tine Dehlinger (mgr.), Myrna Davidson, Joyce Herschell, Janet Maloney, Shirley Mickelson, Suzanne Neff, Barbara Quinn, Nancy Seaman, and Lila Tessendorf.
Junior B: Sue Baldwin, Mary Dixon, Elizabeth Franklin, Phyllis Fink, Margaret Gowans, Jane Gray, Lois Lacy, Patsy Landis (mgr.), Marilyn Seymour, and Chloe Warner.
Sophomore A: Vinita Bradshaw, Betty Clinger, Shirley Dieking, Catherine Holloway, Joyce Jones, Jean Michael's (mgr.), Jerre Mueller, Mary Ann O'Neill, Darlene Schindler, and Shirley Thomson.
Sophomore B: Dorothy Halbower, Marilyn Hanson, Esther Harms, Jane Henry, Christine Johnson (mgr.). Dolores Kelley, Marian Miller, Rosemary Scheuerman, Jerry Tillotson, and Shirley Wilkie.
Freshman A: Margaret Black, Virginia Brooks, Nancy Gilchrist, Mary Ann Mahoney (mgr.). Patricia Martin, Beverly Marsh, Sybil Mathes, Janet Meyers, Mary Ann Pitts, and Joan Squires.
Freshman B: Linda Bartley, Jean Denny, Barbara Fordham, Patricia Garrett (mgr.) Theresa Hanlon, Mary Loveless, Carolyn Nardyz, Georgia Schrader, Phyllis Sims, and Joanne Wieland.