Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
BASKET BALL RULES
Many Suspensions Result
From Not Following Order.
PROTECTION FOR AMATEURS
Amateur Athletic Union Insists on
Clean Sport in Its Own
Organization.
PROTECTION FOR AMATEURS

Organization.
Although the basket ball season is but
week or SO old, already managers have
had trouble because of their failure to
acquaint themselves with the A. A. L.
rules. This is especially true of man
ayers of college teams and those of teams
which have scheduled games with COL
leges
Some people are under the impression
that the Amateur Athletic Union wishes
to control athletics in colleges but this is
not the case. What the A. A IL. does de-
sire to control is athletics within its own
body, and the main object of this control
is to see that these athletics shall be fair
and fairly conducted. 1t desires to keep
the professional from competing with the
amateur; to eliminate those who compete
under assumed names, and to keep out Of
competition all those who have been sus-
pended for violating the rules of clean
sport. In doing this it has two major
methods - one for the identification of
the individual this is registration) and
the other for the Identification of the
games Chis is sanctiom
In basket ball the Amateur Athletic
Union says that any person competing
without registration and without sanction
VIII not be eligible to compete In any
sport governed by that body. This is not
an attempt to control the athletics of any
other bodies. but is merely an attempt to
keep the sport within itself clean as
possible by saying to athletes that If they
wish to compete in games under the A.
A. U. sanction they must live up to the
regularly esta blished rules of clean
sport. If college, a preparatory school,
a church or a lodge desires to have con-
tests in which cash prizes are offered ana
in which professionals are owed TO
compete with amateurs the a. -. L. has
not a word to say, but the individuals
competing in these games cannot there
after compete in games held under It's
sanction.
Disregard Rules.
Failure to understand these things
brings these other bodies, particularly ed
ucational institutions, frequently into I'M
fortunate relations with the A. A U.
Each year at the beginning of the basket
ball season the A. A u, through Its
different associations, comes into unneces-
sary conflict with these bodies in regard
to their playing basket ball with teams
from UNCONVENTIONAL institutions, and
year after year much i'll feeling is caused
when the A. A. u. announces that the
PLAYERS on such and such a team have
automatically disqualified themselves.
For instance the Corcoran Cadets team
has been suspended for thirty days for
playing the team representing the Cath,
Ole University. which is an unregistered
team This could very easily have been
avoided had the management OF the
cadets team been up in his rules: Ihese
part in open sanctioned sport must be
registered.
With the announcement of this college
team or that school team that has heen
disqualified, much hard feeling usually
crops out. and Il result the PLAYERS
who desire to compete in track and neId
sports are forced to apply to the union
for reinstatement. Now, why nave thlS
trouble year after year: Is ~ not iiiucll
better for the managers of these teams
to investigate the rules before they starr:
AS q matter of fact Il promlneht UNI
versity has announced IL basket pan game
with a team in Greater New YORK that
is not an 4. a. L. y. M. G. ~ team
Therefore, should this game be played.
the entire university team Will have dis
qualified itself. y glance at the Scheduie
of q prominent. Brooklyn, New 1Orh'
prep school shows game scheduled Win
n team which is neither All y. y. l. nor
!. v NJ. c. A. team. IL this team plays
that game it will be compelled to forfeit
all of the games it has scheduled WIN
other schools that are members OF the
an allied body of the y. A. l., and should
any one of its players compete against
an unregistered team, these players VIII
have disqualified themselves. When
team representing an educational insu-
tuition plays a non-educational institution
team it causes trouble, unless the situa-
ton is clearly defined, and for the benefit
of teams from educational institutions, the
following explanation Is made:
Registration Necessary.
The A. A. L. allows teams from educa-
tional institutions to play with one another
without sanction or registration; 1t con-
siders that these institutions have per-
feet right to compete among themselves
without comforting with the A. A. u,
and it is hoped, for the good of the sport,
that they will confine their activities
toward playing one another. On the other
hand should they desire to play outside
teams, then they must register. the team
against which they play must register,
and the game itself must be sanctioned
by the A. A. y. or an allied body.
The basket ball committee OF the South
Atlantic Branch Association is now care
fully scrutiniZing the schedules of all
clubs that hold membership in the asso-
citation. 1t is going over the schedules as
published, and if it finds, after a careful
and thorough investigation, that clubs
that are members of the association are
playing in their gymnasiums unsanctioned
and unregistered basket ball. these clubs
will be suspended from further competi
ton in organized athletics.
The law in relation to maintaining an
unregistered team is very clear, and it is
given below:
Amy club. a member Of any association
of the Amateur Athletic Union of the
United States, which sanctions the compe-
tition of any member or team, under its
club name or it's club emblem, in I'M
registered sport or professional contests.
or which persists in playing disqualified
athletes, or which permits professionals
to compete under it's auspices in any COM
petition in a sport over which the ANA
teur Athletic Association assumes juris-
diction. where such competition is an
nounced as a competition between anna
Tours shall be liable to forfeit its men,
bership in such association
1t will be well for managers Of basket
ball teams to study up a bit on these
rules, as it is understood that the basket
ball committee intends to make an ex-
ample Of the next case which comes be-
fore ii.