The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-24
Tennis Players Who Are In Game For Profit Will
 Be Severely Punished

the following: The Executive Com mittee feels that inasmuch as 1918 was a war year during which every effort was made to raise money for war purposes, it would not be fair to use that year as a basis for these reports"
 The reports which players in the
 sporting goods business are asked to
 m out contain, among others, these
 questions: Number of tournaments
 played in during 1919? Number of
 days absent from business for the
 purpose of playing tennis during
 l9l9? Estimate of value of tennls
 goods sold? Baseball goods? All
 other lines of sporting goods. Is your
 salary or share of the profits from
 the firm with which you are connect
 ed charged against the firms tennis
 department? Does your firm pay your
 transportation and living expenses
 when you leave your place of busi-
 ness to play in tournaments or exhi-
 oltlon matches? If so, to what ac-
 count are such expenses charged
 Does your salary continue during such
 tournament play? What percentage
 Of the new business you bring your
 firm comes from your participation in
 tournaments? What are your duties
 In the firm ?''
 In announcing the committees &C.,
 ton, George T. Adee. president of the C- S \. l.. T. A, said:f "The princ:S
 P.e duty or the executive committee
 or the U- s. N. l.. T. A. is to develop.
 the game of lawn tennis throughout
 the country to keep it's amateur standards and ideals on the highest plane and to enforce the rules of the association. With this end in view the executive committee appointed March, 1917, a sub-comittee on the Amateur Rule. instructed it to gather information and where it apneared that player had violated the Anna teur Rule to suspend him from tour nament play until such time ss he could show to the satisfaction of the ! committee that his violation of the
 rule had ceased.
 The amateur rule committee pre- pared at that time queetionnaires to De sent to the players in the sporting sooos business, to the clubs and a
 letter to sporting goods firms. but as
 war broke out in April 1917, the "hole matter was temporarily dropped.
 The executive committee in March. l9l9' again appointed a sub-commit- tee on the amateur rule and instruct ed It to carry out the policy begun two years before. This committee r,et on April 1 and 2S and decided to send to all players of any prominence, | In the sporting goods business oues- l tionnalres asking in general the pro- | portion of tennis goods sold by the | player as compared to other lines of
 goods; whether his salary or share in 1 the profits is charged against tennis | on the books of the firm; whether the ] frm pays his transportation and 'liy- l ing expenses while playing in tourna- l ments or exhibition matches and | actual time away from business allow l ed him by the firm to play in tourna- | ments; what percentage of business | brought in arises from his participa- l tion in tournaments and whether his | name is used to promote or advertise | the sale of tennis goods. Under the l rules of the association player i ceases to be an amateur by permit 1 ting or sanctioned the use of his name 1 to advertise or promote the sale of | tennis goods, by being connected with firm manufacturing or selling 1 tennis goods unless he has to do with l tennis goods to no greater extent than l with any other line of goods. The ob- | feet of the questionnairs is to find out if any players are violating these 1