Evening star., 1907-11-19
DRASTIC MEASURES
BY THE A. A. u,

NEW YORK, November l9-The New
\ ork Athletic Club and the Irish-Ameri-
can Athletic Club, the two major athletic
clubs of the metropolitan district of the
A. y. T.. were dealt severe blow at the
twentieth annual meeting OF the Amateur
Athletic Union of the United States. held
at the Grand Union Hot'' yesterday. The
new law in reference to college athletes
went into effect and bars the following
stars from competing for the clubs:
Parsons. New York Athletic Club. 600
yard champion; Guy Haskns. New York
Athletic Club. One-miIe champion; Me
CullOugh New York Athletic Club. cham
pion huruer; W. Horn. Irish-American
Athletic Club. weight thrower: Lee Talbot
Irish-American Athletic Club, hammer
thrower; Conk, Irish-A merican Athletic
Club. pole vaulter; J. b. Taylor. Irish
American Athletic Club, quarter mile
champion.
The new law. as adopted, reads as fol-
lows:
"A student attending a university. col
lege. school or other educational institu-
ton may consider such institution his
residence for the purpose of registration
to represent such institution in competi-
ton. Such student during the period be-
tween the close and the opening of the
scholastic year may transfer his registra-
tion to club or other organization be-
longing to an active or allied member of
this union located in the district of his
actual residence WnICh, lor the purpose
OF registration. shall be the residence ol
his parents or guardian if he be IL minor,
or his last place of abode before entering
his educational institution if he be an
adult. Upon the opening of the scholastic
year he may be retranSferred to his edu-
cat.onal institute
The effect of this law will be that all
I Yale. Harvard and Pennsylvania athletic
/ stars will be barred from competition for
! the clubs in the metropolitan district
| Princeton and Cornell, however. are not
! prevented from contributing to the men,
| bership of the loci clubs.
+ For the first time in several years the
| Canadian amateurs were not represented,
and their absence marked the final sew
erance of their former relations with
American amateur athletics.
In calling the meeting to order Presi-
dent James l.. Sullivan said, in part:
! 1T is an honor, thoroughly appreciat ted
for me to call this the twentieth annual
convention of the A. 4. L. of the United
States to order. Conditions are better now
than they were one year ago. There are
more competition, more athletics, larger
athletic associations and a greater number
/ Of men take part
| The report of the national registration
comm .ljee l!ldI Will De read 10 you is m
teresting. 1t shows that we have regis
tered with the A A. L. of the United
States II, $50 athletes. with one association
I missing Quite an army.
"Registration is the backbone of this
organization. 1t is Capitalization; 1t means
| control 1t gives to us what we certainly
shoul. have, absolute control over the in
dividual athletes who compete unGer our
protection"
Referring to the college question, Mr..
Sullivan said:
Don't let the delegates be led astray
because we have found in the past that a
few college men. and very few. came into
our ranks and to a certain extent receive
benefits that other athletes do not receive
-favors. so to speak. | believe nrmly that
all of the vices that exist. in SO far as per
tains to the lew individual college stars
can be regulated by the different registra-
ton committees and if they can't, then it
is the duty of the chairman of the ma
tional registration committee to that
the evil is stamped out
The \ A. u. is now in a very strong
condition financially, having in its treas
ury the sum of sSJOS.39, the largest sum
in the history of the A. A. l..
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