Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-12
WAGING WARON GRAFT
MOVEMENT IN BEHALF OF
CLEAN AMATEUR SPORT.
Alliance Of Amateur Athletic Union
and the Young Mems Chris
tian Association.

ttan Association.
With their pockets full of evidence of pro-
fessionalism under the guise Of amateur
sport, President James F. Sullivan and
George J. Fisher. Md. who represent the
A. A. u and the Y. M. C. A. Clean Sport
League, are out after the violators Of the
ethics of sport. These men are determined
that gentlemen's sports shall be conducted
on gentlemen's honor. They have found
men competing under an amateur guise
who were professionals-men playing on
basket ball teams. dividing the gate re-
ceipts and wagering money on the games
high school boys paid to play on hockey
teams. These officials are going after the
coach who is teaching unfair methods in
competition and tricks to win rather than
training for fair tests of skill and strength.
Lieut.. J. W. Crawford, U.S.N., president of
the South Atlantic Association Of the A. A.
L., said today that he believes this section
to have almost no offenders Of the classes
mentioned, the amateur base ball teams be-
ing the only really troublesome ones here.
President Sullivan's Policy.
President Sullivan, who was last fall
elected to lead the Amateur Athletic
Union, has adopted a broad policy of ac-
vision of competitive sports and the hold
ing of championship meetings all over the
country but the promotion of games and
sports in public schools. sunday schools
and settlements. With the Y. NJ. G. A. he
will unite in making sentiment for munich
pal baths and public Fairgrounds. Or.
Fisher has been requested to lead the pub
lie school athletic movement, with Super
intendent Maxwell Director Gulick of the
No. D-lr Ito or,d inlpt (NYa
ford of Washington as members of his
committee. Superintendent Maxwell be-
lieves that athletics are an essential part
of education; that competition teaches
honor, aids in discipline, and develops
motor power. DR.. Gullck has furnished
scientific system of mass plays for chill
dren in which many could take part. This
committee will furnish advice in the organ
ization of public school athletics in the
various cities of the country.
Supervision of Athletics.
The Athletic League is an athletic body
which supervises athletics in the Young
Mems Christian Association of the United
States. This body works in close relation
and harmony with the A. A. U. Each rec
ognizes the others registrations and sane
tions and an athlete who may be suspend
ed in one Is likewise suspended by the
other. Sections of the country which were
rank with professionalism are being cap
by frequent public utterances on clean ath-
letics and the awakening sentiment for
pure amateur sport in the colleges has
opened the way for further reforms in
sport.
The Young Mems Christian Associations
stand practically a unit for clean anna
teur athletics, and have brought their
strength to the support of the A. A. U.
This cooperation has been demonstrated
Recently in the Philadelphia district the
numerous Young Mems Christian Associa-
lions united with the A. A. u and made
possible the reorganization of the Atlantic
Association of the A. A. u, which had
been temporarily disbanded owing to in
efficiency and corruption.
Progress of the Movement.
In the Pittsburg district, known for its
open professionalism in all sports, the
Young Mems Christian Associations have
united for amateur basket ball. and for the
first time in years an amateur basket ball
league is in progress and amateur athletics
organized. This will lead to the develop
ment of the A. A. U. in that vicinity.
Messrs. Sullivan and Fisher recently met
$50 of the representative citizens of Tren-
ton, N. j., and made addresses on the SUBJ
ject of amateur athletics. AS result the
Y. NJ. C. A. professional base ball team
of that city has been disbanded, and a
clean sport league organized which will pro-
mote all forms of amateur athletics. They
also met the physical directors of New
Jersey, and as a result progressive plans
have been put in operation for an extensive
program of public games and contests They
are arranging a comprehensive tour of WIS.,
itation. especially to unorganized sections
of the country. In many cities the A. A.
U. and the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton unite in the selection of the same in
dividuals as athletic commissioners and
copsuls.
Revolution in Canada.
marked revolution in athletics has been
achieved In Canada At the suggestion Of
DR.. Fisher the leading Young Mems Chris
tan Association of the dominion became
members of the Canadian A. A. u, thus
strengthening the element in that organiza-
ton who were in favor of purely amateur
sport, and brought into effect a reorgani-
zation of the Canadian A. A. T., establish
ing registration basis and more effective
plan Of administration of athletics. The
clubs in favor of permitting professionals
and amateurs to compete together were
forced out, and now the Canadian A. A. U.
is strictly amateur movement, and for
the first time probably in its history. Can
ada has amateur hockey and amateur skat-
ing. The A. A. u. In the United States
backed up the movement to the extent OF
breaking its alliance with the National
Skating Association, which sympathized
with the professional element and took
skating under its own Jurisdiction
BY working together the Y. NJ. c. A.
Athletic League and the A. A. Z. are purs-
ing winter sports of professionalism, and
Messrs. Sullivan and Fisher declare that
this is but the beginning of still greater
conquests in the realm of amateur athletics.
HERRESH0FF WON