Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-08
A.A.U. SANCTIONS
AMATEUR LEAGUE
OFFICIAL APPROVAL IS GIVEN
NEW ORGANIZATION
At Meeting of Southern Branch, Ac-
ton in Forming League Is APP
proved-Raitt Is Chosen
Field Meet Referee

AT meeting of the A. A. u. com-
mission held last night at the Los An
geles Y. NJ. G. A. the amateur A. A. Z.
league, which was formed at the Los
Angeles Athletic club June 28, was Of
ficially sanctioned by the Southern
California branch of the F. A. A. The
amateur baseball situation was thor
oughly discussed and in behalf of the
league Frank Abbott, coach of the Los
Angeles high school during 1907, ap-
peared before the commission and
stated that the league will abide by
the rulings of the A. A. u, and the
president appointed "a committee con-
sisting of Dr. E. c. Beach of the Los
Angeles high school, Kinter Hamilton
OF the Harvard military academy and
Red Perkins to look after the interests
of the A. A. u.
1t will be necessary for each player
to register his name with the COM
mittee in order that he may play in
the Sunday league during vacation
time, If such player is connected di-
.rectly or indirectly with any high
school or college in Southern California.
A meeting of the managers will be
held this evening at the Merchants
Trust building to decide whether the
organization will be an eight or ten
club league. Owing to the news of the
sudden illness at Chicago of the sister
of r. A. Abrams of the Long Beach
team, he will be unable to attend, as
he left Southern California for Chicago
last night. In all probability a tenn
porary treasurer will be appointed to
fill the vacancy until his return.
Meeting Harmonious
The meeting was one of the most
harmonious since the history of it's or
ganization. Everything came off ac-
cording to the program. The first bust
ness matter to come before the COM
mission was the receiving of reports
from the registration and gymnastic
committees.
The former through Chairman
George Braden reported that thirty-six
applications had been received since
the previous meeting Harry Wycroff,
chairman of the committee in charge
of the recent A. A. U. gymnasium con-
test, filed his report through President
c. B. Raitt and it was found that q
delinquency of five dollars over the ae-
tual expenditure including money
taken out for the individuals, has
| occurred.
The committee refused TO allow
Wycroff to personally stand The eX-
penditure and passed reTo.utor to
comp ase ate him for his diligence and
the manner in which he handled this
event. George w. Braden, who has
charge of the athletic program iurirs
the ElKS carnival, reported that there
are forty-seVen entries in the track
and field events and said that although
Southern California is noted for de-
veloping fast athletes he was sorry
that the south could not hold it's own
among the phenomenal athletes of the
northern part of the state. Such fast
athletes as Ralph Rose, holder of the
worlds hammer throw record, will be
among those who will enter from the
Olympic club of San Francisco.
Athletes from far off Arizona will
compete both in the track and field
events as well as the wrestling con-
tests. President c. B. Raitt of the
Southern California commission was
selected as referee of the track and
field events. Ra:tt, in his day, was one
of the foremost backhelders of the
Stanford university football squad and
an all round athlete.