Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
AMATEURS MUST
WORK FOR GLORY
Conference Committee Outline
Rules For Government of All
Sports and Adjourn
Sescial 70 tie Telegraph

New York Dec. 81. - Representa-
tives of nineteen different sports
agreed upon the definition of an anna
teur yesterday at a meeting at the
Hotel Astor and suggested set of
rules TO govern all sports in America
except bowling and shooting. Meetings
viii be held annually.
Gustavus r. Kirby, of the advisory
board of the Intercollegiate Association
of Amateur Athletes of America, pre-
sided over the session.
II was unanimously agreed that an
amateur sportsman is one who engages
in sport solely for the pleasure and
physical, mental, moral and social
benefits that he derives therefrom and
10 whom sport is nothing more than
an avocation.
BY competing or giving an exhi-
bition in any of these sports under an
assumed name, or by being guilty of
any fraud or any other grossly un-
sportsmanlike conduct in connection
Herewith, it was decided the penalty
should be disbarment for life from
amateur eligibility of any person guilty
OF such infringement of the rules.
One Punishment
For other infractions of the rules,
such as receiving pay or pecuniary
benefits in consideration of or as a re-
ward for participating in any public
disposing of prizes for personal gain.
the offender shall never thereafter be
permitted to compete or exhibit as an
amateur in the sport or sports in
which such act was committed.
After a peDod of five years has
elapsed since the commission of any
such act the person thus disbarred
may have the privilege of applying to
the governing body of any other
branch of sport, and on assurance be-
ing given by him of no future vio-
lations he shall be privileged to COM
pete in the sport of which such body
has control.
The most radical change in the rules
was that of lifting the ban from the
professional coach. 1t was decided
that professional coach or trainer
should be permitted to compete . S an
amateur in sport other than that in
which he was an instructor as soon as
he announced his retirement as a
coach. and in the sport in which he
instructed five years after he had quit
professional coaching
Summer Baseball and Writers
On the question of summer baseball
and summer camps whose amateurs
take part in games with professionals,
or where the amateur is a player on 4
team or playing against n team on
which there are professionals. il was
the sense of the meeting that such
fOHlpSIlllOiS bGlNeeH amateurs ana
professionals should not be favored
hut that under exceptional conditions
and with proper safeguards such COM
petition may be permitted without
ieopardizing the amateur status of the
player
To cover the case of the famous
athlete who Capitalizes his name as
salesman or newspaper or magazine
writer, a rule was drawn up. 1t pro-
hibits man from competing as an
amateur during the time his name is
being used TO advertise or promote
the sale of sporting goods or other
commodities for use chiefly in connec-
tion with athletic games and in around
about way prevents an athlete from
using his name over a newspaper or
magazine article unless the story is
written by himself.
1t was unanimously decided that
some of these rules or penalties should
apply to bowling or shooting with a
revolver. rifle or shotgun in all of
which competitions money prizes are
invariably offered.