The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-03
NO REGARDS FOR
ATHLETIC UNION
Frank G. Menke Points Out Lu.
dicrous Result Of AppIica-
ton Of Rules

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coming a mere fgurehead IN amateur
athletics in the United states" asks
Frank @. Menke, one of the leading
athletic critics Of the country in the
Salt Lake Tribune. 4r.
'"The general impression always has
been that the A. A. u. was the gov.
erning body in athletic affairs in the
United States, that its rules were the
standard laws, that all amateur bodies
must be governed by it's dictates.
| But such Is not the ease. The golf.
ing and tennis associations make thei,
own Laws, overriding those Of the A.
A. Y. as they pleasci the college au-
thorittes make theirs. All Of them
practically ignore the A. A. u. in the
drafting Of their laws. ..E#. 8 r.}.
The A.A u. rules are, in the opin.
ion Of the collegiate, tennis and golf.
ing authorities, "too narrow Sc
they have drafted rules that are
broader and by SO doing have taken
issue with the A. A. u, 5t =
A. A. Us Definition ~
ARTICLE 10 Of the A. A. U. rules
reads as follows! ..''. d. ,
"An athlete becomes professional
II he enters competition open TO q pro-
fessional or knowingly completes
against a professional. - : O : ~ u
Further along there is this rule:
A single professional on team
makes that team asprofessional. Il
Judged by the "A. u. rules. Jerry
Travers, Francis ouimet and at least
800 other golfers who are classed as
amateurs really are professionals. And
under the A. A. U. rules all the men
who played on the following football
teams in 1918 are professionals. -
!. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Mich
gan, Syracuse, Dartmouth, Brown,
Carlisle, Trinity, Amherst, williams,
tufts, Bowdoin, Springfield, Montana,
Colgate, Columbia and Mount Union.
Tainting Of Golfers 1..u.
, tTravers, Ouimet and hundreds of
other amateur golfers have competed
in open tournaments, and, therefore,
knowingly competed against profes.
SIGNALS. They violated the A. A. U.
rule by this act and became profes-
SIGNALS. Each of-those tainted men
later tainted every man against whom
he competed.
George Brickley played with the
Philadelphia Athletics last summer and
accepted money for his services. By
this act he became n professional. In
the fall Of 1915 he was assigned to the
fullback position on the Trinity college
football team.
The A. A. U. rule says that a single
professional on team makes that team
\ professional one therefore, the
Trinity team became a professional out
fit. The rules state that an athlete
becomes a professional when he know
ingly' completes against profession.
al. Every team that played Trinity
must have been aware Of the fact that
3 presence in the lineup made |
that, team a professional one, and that !
its action in playing against the Trim |
ity team would, according to the A. A. |
U. rules, put it in the professional
class. |
Football &''
"Outside of Columbia and New York |
none Of the teams on Trim. !
ity's schedule cancelled its games with |
Trinity. They played them and by
that act became professionals, in the
eyes of the A. A. U. Brown played
Trinity, was showed into the profess
sional class by that action, and then |
Brown played Yale, Harvard, Syracuse,
Carlisle, Amherst and Williams, pass
ing the faint along to them.
"ThOse teams played other teams and
tainted with professionalism every one
Of their opponents. All the other
teams played by Trinity became pro.
according to the A. A. U. |
rules, and they in turn passed the
professional faint along to other col
leges.
Therefore, according to the A. A. |
U. and its narrow rules, there are at |
east 1000 professional football players
in the United States, and there are so 7
few simon-pure amateurs that they can |
be counted on one hand.
"However, the A. A. U. rules in the
main are ignored by the golfng and
football authorities. Those authorities
ave their own rules, which are broader
md fairer, rules which do not make
/ professional of an amateur merely
because. he plays against profes.
Iional.
"There is no crime in an amateurs
,laying against a professional, and the
4. A. U. ought to wake up to this
after day sentiment in regard to thi,
it ought to wake up TO
he fact that its rule in this respect
s somewhat absurd"