European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Widt Moy july 3, io4 you have to Admire Avery Brundage the chief protagonist of Simon pure athletics. He s a Man who says what he thinks and he has thoughts on a great Many subjects. His latest thoughts have to do with sports editors. Brundage blames the sports editors for confusing the distinction Between Amateur and professional sports. We quote Avery it is very simple from our Point of View. The olympic games is designed for people who wish to participate in sports for amusement As fun without any thought of material Reward. The minute Money enters into it it is no longer a sport it is Abranch of the entertainment business. You Fellows who Are on the sports desk Are responsible for a Lotof confusion. When you pick up the papers these Days what do you read about professional football professional baseball professional basketball. The sports Page consists largely of a description of professional sports which should be on the entertainment Page with the circus vaudeville bullfights. You peo ple Don t understand this. This is not sports at All this is Busi Ness. As far As that goes a perfectly legitimate he said he had read the other Day that one professional Basket Ball player was getting $250,000a year. Think of it he said. To like to get a Job like that my he continued those boys Are workmen. They Are no sportsmen. They have to do As they Are told when they retold. And they have to win or they lose their Job. Olympic sports is quite a different thing of course. The idea behind Thea very Brundage games is the development of the Complete Man. Sport is Only a recreation or an avocation. I think that s a very Clear complained of the commercialization of the Winter games in Grenoble France. He observed that France spent $240million to stage the 10-Day spectacle. Well that s a Little out of reason he said. No one i spending $240 million without hoping to have some recalling the Grenoble controversy Over charges that athlete were helping advertising ski manufacturers he said we Are not through with that episode yet. As a matter of fact 1 App pointed committee to study the future of the Winter olympic Well Avery old buddy i be got an answer for i were a millionaire i would t be a sports editor and go around printing the sports news that most people want to i could print the results of the Epworth league College baseball and girls hockey. I could also Start looking for another Job too. The trouble with Avery is that he is an idealist in a realistic world. Brundage represented the United states in the 1912 game sin Stockholm As a modern Pentathlon competitor. He says with Pride that he accepted no expense monies trained on his downtime and in Short paid his own Way As a True Amateur should. Well that s Fine. Brundage comes from a wealthy family an Money and time were something for us poor working Joes to worry about. If you did t have the Money then you should t try to represent your country in the olympic games. That would be Fine if All the nations would live up to the Amateur code. But you d have some pretty Dull olympic games. If Only the wealthy could compete i m afraid we would t seethe class of Competition we have in our modern games. Avery deplores the Cost of staging the games. Yet Avery who is a very successful hotel Man in Chicago must know that the Cost of everything has gone up up and Why can t our olympic Leader figure out Why it costs so much to stage the games and Why the promoters want thievery Best Allenl available. The better the Competition the More spectators and the More spectators the More Money to pay for the games. It s kind of a vicious Circle but a very realistic one. And i m sure that Brundage runs his hot i business die same Way. Personally i think we should do away with the word Amateur and Lump them All together with the pros. Let the olympic Dames he an open affair such As the Tennis people Are doing now. If a Man can run the 100 meters in 9.9 and get Money for it Mure Power to him. If another Man can run the 100 meter sin 9.9 and wants to run Lor fun Why let him do so. In Short do away with the hypocrisy of so called Amateur athletics. I it them All run together and give the Winner a Cash prize along with his medal. Then no one could Point the Finger and accuse the other nation of having professionals while telling the world How pure we maybe we could have two olympic games. One for the real Simon Pures and the other for competitors who need the moneys they can Tram and compete in the games. Losers score in 1st tuning wild pitch Holts Gibson s Zero skein As cardinals set dodgers Down 5-1 los Angeles a first inning wild pitch Cost Bob Gibson a Chance for a record tying sixth straight shutout monday night but the St. Louis right hander went on to quell los Angeles 5-1 for his seventh straight Victory. Gibson 10-5, had pitched 47 2-3 consecutive scoreless innings before Len Gabrielson and Tom Haller hit successive singles for the dodgers to put runners at first and third with two away inthe first inning Gabrielson then scored1 a Gibson bounced a wild pitch past Catcher Johnny Edward while Ron fairly was at Bat. That Cost Gibson a Chance of tying Don Drysdale s recently set major league record of six straight shutouts and 58 2-3 consecutive scoreless paid crowd of 42,603 turned out to watch the cardinals the stars and stripes i i i. Irwi Wpm xxx i a exploit9 charge probe requested Elpaso Tex. Up the student body president of the University of Texas at Al Pas said monday he will go before the athletic Council to request an investigation. Of the school s alleged exploitation of negro athletes. Ron Mccluskey said a Demon stration staged Friday was spawned by quotations attributed to athletic director George Mccarty in a sports illustrate article. The article by Jack Olsen quotes Mccarty As using the word it was the Firstin a series on America s negro athletes. Step s negro athletes have been used Only to win in sports Mccluskey said and very few of them Are graduated. He said Many students feel coaches recruit athletes who Are not Able to pass College work. When their eligibility runs out Mccluskey said they Are forgot ten. What he Mccarty said brought it to a head Mccluskey said. About 175students demonstrated near the administration building Fri Day he said. The school s president or. Joseph m. Ray said monday have no statement of any Mccarty also had Rio com ment monday. He said last Fri Day the writer could have mis understood him because of his Southern accent. Mccarty is recognized a being the Man who began integrating the University s ath Letic program. He said in the article we think they negroes have done a lot for us and we have done a lot if we Are going out to get people to win games we should take on the responsibility to see that they get the courses to graduate Mccluskey said. If something is not done there could be quite an explosive situation he feel the Campus has been disgraced said students were wondering Why Mccarty did no defend himself. He said he would explain the students feelings to the athletic Council and Call for Mccarty s Resigna Tion if what he said is True. It is hard to believe he said that Mccluskey said but when a Man does not defend himself you tribe scalps twins Johnson. Sny Tor hot-7 Cleveland up a Ojohnson and Huss Snyder obtained in separate trades Las week each drove in two runs monday night to give the Cleveland indians a 4-1 Victory Over the Minnesota twins and hand Sam Mcdowell his eighth Victory. Johnson picked up in a Deal with the Chicago cubs for Willie Smith slammed a pair of Solo homers. He hit his third Homer of the year in the first inning and smacked his fourth leading off the third. Johnson has no Whit three homers in four games with . Balling at a .305 clip since being obtained from the Chicago White sox for Leon Wagner singled in runs in the second and sixth innings. Mcdowell gave up two hits in7 1-3 innings. He struck out 11 and walked five before giving Way to Stan Williams who allowed one hit Over the last1% innings. Mcdowell gave up a Ladof double to Cebu tour in the first inning and did t give up another hit until Tony Oliva singled with one out in the eighth to Knock him out of the game. 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