Baseball—
To Be, or
Not to Be?
Sports Staff Is In Favor
Of Keeping Sport; Cost,
In Comparison, Is Low
By SPORTS EDITOR
The indignation meeting of the
Order of the “O” held last evening
is expressive of the senitment of
the campus on the proposed- abolish
ing of baseball as an intercollegi
ate sport. It seems that the only
argument for doing away with it
is its cost.
* • *
Baseball costs $2,000.
Track costs $4,000.
Basketball costs $2,000.
None of them pay and track goes
in the hole for the entire amount
spent.
If the abolishing of the sport
is for financial reasons, why not
abolish wrestling, swimming, tennis,
or boxing? And then, we suppose,
tiddle-dy-winks and porch piffling
would follow in their wake.
# • *
Who are sports for?
It all narrows down to the fun
damental question and reason for
all collegiate athletics. They are
primarily for the benefit of the
students—it is part of their life.
• • •
One hundred and , twenty-five
turn out for baseball every year.
The sport is as popular as track,
football, or basketball and as many
or more men participate in it. Thus,
it is doing as much good for the
students as any of the other sports.
# * •
The success of the recent foot
ball season has sent a wave of com
mercialism and of “day dreaming”
over the campus. Chickens are be
ing counted before they are hatch
ed. The football teams supposedly
are going to pay for million dollar
libraries, and in fact will build the
University. But now these dreams
are far off and the fundamental
reason for all the sports is for the
student.
* * *
Baseball is not commercialized
more than any other sport.
Professional basketball and foot
ball teams are playing all over the
country. Tennis, wrestling and
swimming are professionalized. So
the condemnation of “commercial
ism” cannot be placed on baseball
alone.
* * *
Baseball is the cleanest sport in
the whole program, for the man who
plays it is playing for the school
and is a true amateur for he can
go professional any time he wants
to in most cases. It is the most
sportmanslike game in the colleg
iate program. A man is under the
eyes of the spectators and he has
to play clean.
The sports staff of the Emerald
votes unaminously in favor of keep
ing the sport. 0 — « ’
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Mr. Carl Joy reports that a num
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