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...King testified that Lady Campbell had been unfaithful for as long as twelve years, and her lawyer asked Sir Malcolm if this were not with his consent. "No!" snapped the Speed King. As the trial proceeded Lady Campbell withdrew charges that Sir Malcolm had misconducted himself with a Mrs. Atherton who in court last week said she only consented to appear in order to preserve the honor of Mr. Atherton...
...John M. Atherton...
...Atherton's survey was ordered by the Conference two years ago, when faculty delegates, after years of non-intervention while Pacific teams paid off the mortgages on some of the most glamorous football hippodromes in the U. S., decided to take a hand to keep commercialism from running hog-wild. Atherton, a stocky, black-maned, 43-year-old lawyer, onetime consular official and G-Man, now head of a Los Angeles investigating firm, started by questioning some 500 letter & numeral men on 1937 Conference teams. He got cooperation by promising: 1) no punishments, 2) no publication of details...
True to his promise, Investigator Atherton refused to make his findings public, but presented them this year to the annual fence-mending meeting of Conference delegates. His imposing document contained nothing really new to anyone within whiffing distance of any football-minded campus in the land. But along the Pacific, the cumulative effect of this 2,000,000-word arraignment was electric. Because of it, contrite Pacific Conference turned over the most simon-pure set of new leaves in the picaresque annals of U. S. football...
...prep and high-school athletes (sometimes carried on in California with brass bands); 2) athletic scholarships; 3) phantom or sinecure campus jobs; 4) alumni or student organization handouts; 5) scalping of football tickets by squadsmen; 6) other "bad practices." To administer these bans, the Conference engaged wordy Mr. Atherton for three more years as its "commissioner," a post promptly dubbed "Tsar of West Coast Football...