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...sport writing fraternity recognize their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport. This may be due to self-consciousness, or sheer ignorance of the sanctity of their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write...
...late Hammond Lamont greatest of all modern editorial writers I think--who urged unceasingly the bearing aloft of "the flaming torch of journalism". It should be borne in the domain of sport as elsewhere. As the writer has said in a foregoing paragraph, there are a few-a small minority--who have received inspiration from their new relations with those who conduct and participate in amateur sport, who have developed a sense of dignity and of responsibility, who have come to a conception of the root significance of the amateur game. But such as these are not a little mystified...
...another column will be found a paragraph from an article by Laurence Perry entitled "A Sport 'writer Confesses". It reveals an attitude towards amateur sport that is unusual among writers. Times have changed, says Mr. Perry, since the day when a sport scribe was rejected from Red Top as a spy; now he is invited to join the coach on the river. He is not longer required to supply thrills for his readers but to write from the point of view of an expert. He is recognized as an authority in his line by coaches and athletes as well...
...knowledge of the gridiron jargon, but an understanding of the commercial aspect which threatens the game; if it is rowing or track he must remember that in them "There exist opportunities for the promulgation of the international relationship whose recently appreciated significance has utterly changed their character as mere sport and made them important adjuncts to statecraft and diplomacy". His task has expanded beyond the realm of common reporter so that today it is of such significance that Mr. Perry feels justified in saying that there are few sport writers who "recognized their stewardship in respect to the ethics...
...this is a new situation in amateur sport circles. Thew writer of today has far reaching influence; his work may do so much good or harm, to collegiate athletics especially, that Mr. Perry asks his profession to take itself and what it is doing seriously. We know that he is only one of many sport writers who have the best interests of the colleges at heart. If any one of Mr. Perry's profession, in following his advice, sets down fearlessly what he believes is the truth about problems of amateur athletics--and that today is part of his work...