The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-03
CANADIANS ARE AFTER
AMERICAN A. A. U. SCALP
Gathering Evidence to Prove
Existing Professionalism
Over Line.
Tribune Special Sporting Service

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK, March 2-Intlmation has
been received IN an unofficial way by
those interested in amateur athletics In
this city that the neWly-organized ANA
teur Athletic Federation OF the Dominion
OF Canada proposes to get after the ANA
teur Athletic Union unless the latter or
ganizatlon withdraws from the fight
on the latest thing in the way OF Do
ninion athletic governing bodies Ac-
cordlng TO these statements, evidence Is
now being gathered In Canada to be used
II IL should be necessary TO show that the
American Athletic Union Is rotten with
hidden professionalism. The men who are
engineering the matter claim that they
Will not only be able to prove this. bu,
also hope to prove. II necessary. that the
union is being used TO advertise and
boom certain industrial propositions, and
patronlze these things do not bask in the
sunshine of the powers that are.
The fact that so many Canadians have
gone into athletics in the United States
III almost every branch Of sport will help
the people who are being fought by the
A. y. u. TO get UP matter that Will be
of use to them, particularly as 1t Is un-
derstood that some Of these men who
have now given up sport are prepared
TO make clean breasts OF the way things
are run across the line.
The statements or yelled threats, as
they may be termed. are considered in
the light of joke on this side OF the bor-
der, for the athletic authorities OF the
states are fully aware Of the standards
OF the men who organized the a. A. +. D.
G., and II they were in doubt the Cana
dian scrbes would easily put them on
the right track, for a list of the clubs
represented at the first meeting as an
nounced in several of the Canadian pa
pers. included the Montreal A. A, A, pro
moters OF professional lacrosse and hook
ey Shamrock A. A.. promoters of pro-
fessional lacrosse and hockey: NIontae-
nard a A. promoters OF professional la
crosse and hockey; Federal Hockey
League. an out~and-out professional or
ganzation. without making a pretence to
be anything else; National A. A. profes-
sional lacrosse team; Amateur Skating
Association of Canada. which left the
Canadian Amateur Athletic Union In sup
sionals. and participation In whose meet
has brought to all competitors dsquall-
hcatlons from competing in Canada, the
United States or Europe as amateurs;
National Lacrosse Union. an out and -out
professional organization; Victoria Hook
ey Club, members of a professional
league.
That this group of atletic authorities
should be able 10 detect professionalism
in the 4. A. L. ranks, II such a thing
existed, there can be no doubt. for they
should know professionalism miles away
after their training with the various or
CARNATIONS OF Canada which permit anna
tours and professionals to play together
and against each other without losing
''SH ,icSpSS'NiNe status. pul lley nave
missed their guess IL they think that pro
iessionalism stalks rampant through the
\. a. L. and that yelled threats can make
that organization withdraw from the fight
now being waged by the United States
and Canadian unions for the preservation
OF amateur sport on this continent The
move has undoubtedly been Inspired by
that faction OF the National Skating As
sociation which wished to conduct This
line OF sport under the regulations which
are In vogue In certain portions of the
Dominion, bur the a, A, t. is in the
fight for the control of skating 10 stag,
and since these men refused TO abide by
the amateur rules laid down by the S
A, u. they Will have to do something
more than get their Canadian cohorts to
threaten the -A. ~. L. II they would come
out or the conflict with regulations as
sport preseryers whole