The daily Alaskan., 1921-05-10
State Should
 Supervise Sports
Bill to be Introduced in New York State Legislature; Amateur Sports
 to be Included in Plan.

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 Miller believes that all sports should be under the supervision of the state Plans are now under way for the in- troduction of a commission to super wise all sports from boxing to track and field. The amateur sports are in- cluded as we'll as the professional branches of sport.
 Amateur sport is not money mak- Ing project. nor is it promoted by professional promoters. There is not an amateur sport in this country that could make it worth while for any professional promoter to handle IL, and if such was the case such sports would quickly lose their strictly am- ateur hue. The New York governor however believes that all sports should pay a tax to the state government on it's gate receipts, and if this is done with amateur sports it will do more to kill the various amateur games, etc. than anything else. Some amateur sports in some specially favored sections at times draw big crowds, but this is the eX- ception and the money taken at the gates either goes to the club treasury or to the A. A. U. of the United States for the furthering of amateur competition.
 If amateur sports were taxed there would be many instances where the gate receipts less the tax would not be sufficient to pay the legitimate eX- penses, and such a tax would in real ity be a slap at the state and country at large. The amateur goes in for this sport for the fun he gets there from. and the natural healthy eXer- else to be derived. The cost of all athletic sports at this time is "top heavy" owing to the unjust tax on sporting goods Imposed by the feder- al government. There is q nation wide movement just now to have this tax taken off, and if New York on the face of that decides to add state taxes on gate receipts in New York clubs and amateur governing organi- cations will be forced to call on many events that are an annual fix ture.
 Governor Miller believes that put ting sports under commissions Will lift the standard of sports, but in this he is not generally supported by those amateur officials who by years of experience know what is and what is not good for sport in so far as the amateur standards are concerned. The Governor intends to name non salaried commissions. and he believes that this means the commissions will be kept out of politics and sports receive proper support. Amateur officials are unpaid and like the athletics act purely for their love of running off events, and other de- tails always falls on a few hard workers who can find the necessary time to give to this work. II amateur sports are put under com mission in New York the said com missioners will be hard to find. They will have to be men of experience in amateur sport with all their time their own and practically speaking these amateur commissioners will have to be men of considerable private means.
 True. there is room for improve ment along certain lines in the wofk of the A. A. U. of the |. s. in its government of amateur sports, but the State Commissions would not gel half the results that he A. A. U' brancces do at present, aI,d the bur der Cf q State tax on amateur ev"i'iF would help kill, or at least de!elior' a!r amateur events in gen2ral.--ia clic Sports Service.