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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 9,1947
PAGE FOUR
By BILL CONBOY
The United Press carried the following story Wednesday:
"Barbara Ann Scott's loyalty to Canada meant more to her today than the new convertible which admirers gave her for winning the world figure skating championship, so she decided to return it and make certain her amateur status was not in jeopardy.
"Miss Scott, beautiful 18-year-old skating star from Ottawa, Ont., was presented the car when she returned from a triumphant tour of Europe during which she won the world title.
"She was warned by the Canadian Olympic committee which met at Montreal Tuesday that to keep the car might impair her standing as an amateur and make her ineligible to compete in the 1948 Olympic games.
"It would be selfish of me to keep the car and lose a chance to bring honor to Canada,' Miss Scott said."
The workings of committees on amateurism are mysterious indeed. Mr. Average Sports Fan becomes dizzy these days reading reports where athletes are banned for professional activity or, even more common, where the greatest abuses of amateur standing are calmly ignored by the men who make the rules.
Murgatroyd Clunk may be declared a professional because his wife accepted an ice cream cone from the sister of the man who owns the stadium where Clunk once played a game of summer baseball, but Charley Trippi of Georgia university can receive $15,000 for a season of college football without the fathers of amateurism lifting an official eyebrow. All this because the former might be openly admitted, but the latter is kept hushed up.
Or, taking it from another angle, why should Cornelius Warmerdam, the greatest pole-vaulter in history, be considered ineligible for Olympic competition because of coaching activities when rules on amateur standing were originated to protect against abuses arising from men being paid to compete in their specialities?
Some national clarification of all the vast tangle of regulations on amateur and professional standing is needed in this country as well as throughout the world. Technicalities instead of the spirit of just competition are now controlling decisions.
Amateur athletics stands in danger of losing most of its star performers because players in most sports find that it often costs them personally to compete. Whenever worthwhile expense money is guaranteed, there is always the chance that some purist will start a yell of "Professional!"
Barr To Address Students
The Rev. Dr. Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, will deliver the baccalaureate address at Hamlin high school Sunday.
KU Tennis Team Meets Sooners Here Tomorrow
The Jayhawk tennis team will be host to the Oklahoma squad in a conference match tomorrow. Coach Gordon Sabine will send his men out in an attempt to avenge an earlier defeat at the hands of the Sooners.
The Oklahoma net team won, 4 to 3, over the Kansans in a match in Norman in March. Gerald Tucker, 1942 Big Six singles champion, had not yet reported from basketball at Oklahoma but was recognized by conference coaches as one of the greatest net teams in league history.
The Jayhawkers have now won four straight matches, climaxing the string with victories over Nebraska and Iowa State last weekend. Coach Sabine said today that he will stick with the same team he will be: Dick Richards, Erwin Busiek, Roy Shoaf, Sam Mazon, and Harold Miller.
Richards and Busiek accounted for all the Kansas points in the Norman match, each winning his singles engagement and the two combining for a doubles victory.
The match tomorrow will be the first of a seven game schedule for the Jayhawkers. The Oklahoma Aggies, Kansas State, and Missouri are all listed for matches following the Sooner tussle.
The Sooners and Jayhawkers will square off at 2 p.m. tomorrow on the Memorial stadium courts.
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Phi Kappa, Delta Tau Meet In I-M Softball Today
The Phi Kappa and Delta Tau Delta intramural softball teams will meet in a game at 4:15 p.m. today. This contest will be the second in a three way playoff to determine a divisional champion and runner-up for the forthcoming softball finals.
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Mother's Day Gift
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