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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 14,1947
PAGE FOUR
By BILL CONBOY
In thumbing through an eastern newspaper recently, we came upon an editorial concerning collegiate athletics. It is not often that the sports fan finds football or basketball news on the the editorial page, so we read the article with particular care. The meat of the writer's sentiments was contained in his concluding paragraph:
"It has become evident that intercollegiate athletics can no longer continue on an amateur plane. College sports have ceased to become sources of recreation. Each is now a business in its own right. The only sound solution is abandonment of intercollegiate competition and a return to the intramural type of program."
Athletics Is Important
It is such reasoning which has led to the difficulties which now exist in the amateur competition of our colleges and universities. Athletics have grown to be one of the most important phases of American life. As such, it is logical to assume that each sport will quite naturally become a business in itself. But why must the word business be used as if describing something illegal?
Education has become a business. Eating is a business. Even living is a business. Why should athletics be degraded because it is a business? Anything which concerns many persons in pursuance of a common activity is a business these days. Just going to school is one of the biggest businesses in the nation.
Danger In Power
The only thing which ever makes a business undesirable is when it becomes so large or powerful that it works to the detriment of the people as a whole. Back around 1870, large corporations in the United States did gain sufficient money to protect the welfare of the citizenry. But the people didn't cry "Do away with all big business." Back to the days where everyone makes his own clothes and raises his own food."
Instead the people and government recognized that the nation needed big business but that control and regulation must be instituted. Congress stepped in and curbed the abuses.
Similarly, the solution to present sports problems is not to abolish intercollegiate competition but is rather to institute the necessary rules and regulations to bring the control programs under standard
Allen Wants Czar
Dr. F. C. Allen, head Jayhawker basketball coach, has long advocated that college sports. basketball in particular, should have a czar. This czar would enforce a uniform set of athletic standards and regulations throughout the nation. In this way, the indisputable fact that sports have become big business would not hurt the fans or the participants.
America is a land of business men. It is also a land of sports enthusiasts. There is no reason why the two cannot be brought together in a combination satisfactory to all. But the greatest mistake would be to try to spank the now mature American athletic set-up or send a dark closet of soy intraural athletics. Sports are now grown up. In some cases, may they have grown too fast. If so, the answer to the problem is intelligent supervision, not blind punishment.
YMCA Downs Pharmacists 12-11, In Game Tuesday
Bill Tincher clouted a home run with one man on base in the last inning to give YMCA a 12-11 victory over the Pharmacy nine Tuesday.
YMCA and the Pharmacists are members of the extra softball division composed of teams that were late enfering intramural softball play.
I-M Softball Playoffs Begin With Four Games
South Park diamond -Sigma Phi Epsilon versus sigma Alba Epsilon.
Playoffs for the intramural softball championship begin at 4:15 p.m. today. Here are the pairings and fields for the opening contests:
Intramural field two--Beta Theta Pi versus Delta Tau Delta.
Intramural field one—Phi Delta Theta' versus Die Hards.
Intramural field three—Sigma Chi versus Kappa Sigma.
Semi-final games will be played Friday with the final game Monday. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi won their divisional championships without the loss of a teammate during the regular season but finished on top of the division in a special playoff completed Monday.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma, and the Die Hards all dropped one contest in placing second in their divisions. Delta Tau Delta was tied with Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa at the end of the regular season for first place. The team's playoff eliminated the Pi Kappa team and placed Delta Tau Delta in a runner-up spot.
there are the probable batting orders
Sig Eps
Wright, rf
Gibbons, bz
Wreglesworth, ss
Ward, cf
Garich, 1b
Kappelman, 3b
Jarrell, lf
Fisher, c
McNeive, p
Sig Alphs
Sig Alphis
Biggs, 2b
Bailey, ss
Thompson, cf
Barrington, p
Jenson, lf
Humphreys, rf
Glover, 3b
Rosenfield, c
Houchin, 1b
Delts
**Betas**
Schell, 3b
Nelson, lf
V. Hall, ss
Jones, 1b
Hunter, cf
Joseph, c
Altman, 2b
Cramer, rf
Conboy, p
**Delts**
Dryden, 3b
Haynes, cf
Neel, c
Baker, p
Jones, lf
Dodson, 1b
Marshall, ss
Moore, 2b
Moffett, rf
Sigma Chis
McDonald, ss
Connelly, lf
Reddoch, c
Pattee, 2b
White, rf
MacDonald, 1b
Sands, 3b
Maupin, cf
Williams, p
Kappa Sigs
Crump, rf
Rankin, 2b
Sapp, 1b
Templer, cf
Walker, 3b
Finney, lf
Price, ss
Hutchens, c
Heisler, p
Phi Deltis
Powell, ss*
Mcilrath, lf
Perkins, lf
Evans, p
Dewell, 1b
Fitzpatrick, c
Auten, cf
Oliver, rf
Cousins, 2b
Die Hards
Milligan, 3b
Knuth, 1b
Collins, e
Dorge, rf
Ricks, cf
Schmidt, 2b
Carroll, ss
Dahlman, lf
Rider, p
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Ten Teams Near Net Semi-Finals
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Ten teams are still in the showing as the women's intramural tennis doubles nears the semi-finals.
In Division II, Gunsolly and Hoffman, Kappa, Kappa Gamma, will play Bentley and Bacon, Alpha Delta Pi.
The winners of this match will compete with van der Smissen and Brownie, Locksley, for the semi-finals. Gardner and Varner, Pi Beta Pi play well scheduled to play Play and Goodrich, Miller, for the semi-finals.
In Division I, Anderson and Harger, Alpha Delta Pi, will match talents with Corbin's Mitchell and Horseman for the semi-finals. Delta Gamma's ace team, Mueller and Ward will play the winners of the Scott-Hiscox and Stall-Stienbaugh match
Baseball Results
TUESDAY:
National League
Natualo Leagl
New York 5, St. Louis 0
Boston 7, Chicago 4
Cincinnati 7, Brooklyn 5
American League
New York 9, St. Louis 1
Boston 19, Chicago 6
Detroit 8, Washington 0
Philadelphia 7, Cleveland 6
American Association Louisville 4, Kansas City 1,
Toledo 9, Minneapolis 4
St. Paul 8, Columbus 3
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STANDINGS:
National League W. L. Pet.
Chicago 14 8 636
Boston 14 9 609
Brooklyn 12 9 571
Pittsburgh 12 9 501
Philadelphia 11 12 478
New York 9 10 474
Cincinnati 10 14 417
St. Louis 6 14 300
American League W. L. Pet.
Detroit 13 7 650
Boston 13 9 591
Cleveland 9 8 529
Chicago 11 11 500
New York 10 10 500
Washington 8 9 471
Philadelphia 10 12 455
St. Louis 7 15 318
American Association W. L. Pet.
Kansas City 12 6 655
Louisville 13 9 590
Columbus 11 10 523
Toledo 9 9 500
St. Paul 12 13 480
Milwaukee 8 9 470
Indianapolis 8 12 400
Minneapolis 8 13 380
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