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WHEN IS AN ATHLETE AN and particularly International
AMATEUR ?
VEXED QUESTION TO SOLVE,
competitions, enjoyed such vogue
as they do now In the old days
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the athletes chosen to represent JONES DEFEATS BARNES. their countries abroad were drawn mostly from the colleges, and as Ernest Jones of Epou, defeate these competitions were held G. Barnes of Haileybury at Queen mostly in the summer time the bù January 24, a match to doels athletes, as a rule, were not com which of the pair should take the pelled to lose much time from
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are to hold a meeting this summer business, for the simple reason second mize in the Professional at Prague in an attempt to reach that they had no business. For Ruckets Championship Compati- one of if not the most vexed ques- the most part sons of wealthy or Queen's Club professional, was the tions confronting organised athle-well-to-do fathers who were glad ties to-day, namely, an acceptable enough to foot the bills them-winner. The match throughout definition of amateurism. A selves.
was of the closest possible descrip- In every country where athletic: With the ever increasing tion: contests are held the governing popularity of athletic competi- Jones, who is in his fiftieth your, bodies have wrestled for years tions, all this has been changed sud was giving away more than half O. E. WARREN & CO, LTD with the question: what is a simon and as the rivalry has increased his age, (Bares in 24) just lasted pure? And to-day they are just there has increased a demand for out long enough to win the fifth as far from a satisfactory answer the services of young men who of and decisive game by 18 acres to us ever. In every country there is their own account cannot afford a 16, after each had previously won divergence of opinion au to just trip abroad to represent their two games. The scores in Jones's where the line should be drawn, country in an athletic way. That favour were 16-10 9-18 16
they cannot afford the 7,9-15; 18-16 or a total of 67 and while those countries, which is: have a national governing body, incidental expenses, such as time aces to 69 evidence in itself of like the A.A.U. (Amateur Athletic lost from business, extra clothing, the closeness of the struggle. Union) in America, have drawn travelling outfits, and the like. more or less rigid rules, great And right there is where the differences of opinion crop up rub comes. The athletic authori whenever there is an international ties; as the case now stands, meet, like the Olympic games, for declare that it is ethical and instance. At the Prague Congress within the spirit of the rules of an effort will be made to reconcile amateuriam to pay the steamship have been the rule in Australia, Big crowds for Test matches all of these differences, so that fare of an athlete from one coun and no touring team from Britain International meets of the future try to another, but entirely has had to complain of lack of may be conducted upon terms against the spirit of those rules to interest. No doubt the first teams equal to all. A perusal of British pay that same young man his sent out from Britain taught the and American papers reveals, how-salary while he is away, or to buy Australians a good deal about ever, that the athletic.authorities him the dinner clothes (for in-playing the game, but they found of those countries entertain slight (stance) that he will inevitably enthusiasm for the game ready- hope that anything like a work-need if he is to be a suitable repre able basis will be established sentative of his country at the Nearly 61 years ago; at the
One of the big questions that foreign athletic meet. Yet nobody will come before the Congress is can deny that the youth who goes what has come to be known as abroad as a sort of athletic "broken time." That relates to ambassador will have almost as the question whether an amateur much need for a dinner suit as he athlete, while competing for his will for his track clothes, and the country in an international com- question is: who should pay for petition like the Olympic Games, the dinner clothes, the athlete should receive compensation, not himself, or the athletic association those days. only for travelling and other he represents direct expenses, but also for time: It is admittedly a hard nut to lost from his business. In other crack. If you say that the athlete words: should the athlete who must pay his own incidentals you to cover their incidental expenses, takes a month or more from his thereby eliminate from all con- including, for instance, money business to represent his countrysideration a large number of "they would have earned at home' in international athletic competi- athletically capable young men if they had not been compelled to tions. be compensated from the (and young women, too) who can leave their business or their jobs gate receipts of the meet in which not afford the outlays involved in in the hands of substitutes? he competes?
such trips. And on the other. It is a difficult question to koive, hand if expenses are extended to writes "Wešta”. În a contempor- cover “allowances” for incidental, ary, but it will never be solved outlays, where will it stop? Who until an organised effort to solve will there be to say "No" when it is made, and that is the kind the simon purés get to demanding of an effort that will be launched all sorts of Impossible allowances this summer at Prague.
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