Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-06
SPORT MORE INDEPENDENT
AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION
IGNORED BY OTHER BODIES
Golf aud Tennis AsSociatiunS Make
Own Lnws-tOIIcpr Authorities
Follow own Dictates.

Is tho Amateur Athletic Union be-
coming mere iiSurchcad IL amateur
athletic affairs ia III" United states?
The general impression always has
been tina; TIA" Amateur Athletic Union
as the governing body IN athletic az
fans In tia" United SIacs. tina, it, rules
are IN" standard laws that all ANA.
tour bodies must -" governed by it's
dictates.
"a, such not the case The goliing
and tennis associations max. their owr,
Laws. overriding those OF the ;. 4. l..
make theirs All Of them practically
-H"rc ihe \ y. L. IN the drafting OF
It's laws
The y. a L. rules are. in the opinion
.! the collegiate, tennis and goliinr
authorities. too narrow" 80 they hav..
GRATED rules that are broader. and ~
SO doing have taken issue with the
=. \. t..
Article 10 OF The y A t. rules reads
as follows:
An athlete becomes professional,
II d" enters competition open 10 a pro-
'"ssional. or knowingly completes
against professional"
Further a.ou@ there is this rule:
single professional on team
makes tnat Team professional"
Judged by the =. \. L. rules, Jerry
Iravers. Francis Ouinet and at least
80 otn"r golfers vino are classed -
amateur really are professionals. Ana
under The y. :. L. rules all the men
"ho played on the following football
teams IN 1918 are professionals.
Yale. Harvard, Princeton Michigan.
- r"cUse, Dartmouth. Brown, CARLISLE.
r"liy' Amherst, Williams Tufts.
Ho"doiu, Springfield. Montana. Col
cate. Columbia and Mount Union
TraNcrs. Ouinlet and hundreds Of other
amateur golfers have competed in open
tournaments. and. therefore. "knowing-
~ competed against professionals
They Violated the a. \. L. rules By
this act and became professionals.
These. in turn, tainted others. and 50
IL" faint has spread 10 a point where
II has touched practically every anna
tour golfer o: note in the United
States.
George Briekiey PLAYED with the
Philadelphia Athletics last summer ard
accepted money for his services 81
this act he became a professional /,
IN" iaIl OF 1913 he was assigned 10
IA" fuilback position on the Trinity
college football team.
h" y \, L. rule says that "a single
professional on 4 team makes thar
team professional one" Therefore.
the Trinity team became a professional
"uthl The rules states that am attn
Vt" becomes a professional when n.
hho"lnSIN completes against a pro-
lesSional Every team that playcI
Trinity must have been aware Of the
fact that Bricklcy's presence in the
ilhc-up made that team a professional
one. and that its action in playtu.
against the Trinity team would, accord
ing 10 the y. \. L. rules, put it in III.
professional class
Outsideof Columbia and New Yorl;
University. none of the teams on Trim
itEs schedule. Cancelled their game,
with Trinity. They played them. and
bN mat act became profess ionals. in
the eyes of the \. y. L. Brown PLAYED
Trinity, was showed into the profes-
slonal class by that action. and then
Brown played Yale Harvard. Syra
cuse. Carlisle, Amherst and Williams.
passing the faint along 10 hem
'hoSe teams played other teams anu
'n'hteh with professionalism every one
OF their opponents. All the other
teams played by Trinity became pro
fessionals. according to the A. \. l..
rules and they in turn passed the pro-
lesSional faint along to other colleges
therefore. according TO the a. A. L.
ana its narrow rules. there are al
least 1000 professional football play
ers in the United States and there are
SO few simon-pure amateurs that the,
can be counted on one hand
However, the a. y. IT, rules in tho
main are ignored by the colfing ana
football authorities. Those authorities
have Their Town rules, which arc
broader and fairer: rules which do not
make a professional of an amateur
merely because he plays against "A pro-
fcssional
There is no crime in an amateur
playing against professional, and the
y. A. L. ought TO wake up to this
latcr-day sentiment in regard to this
competition: it ought to wake MP to the
fact that its rule in this respect is
somewhat absurd,