Show It It c It 9 AMATEUR STATUS INTERPRETATIONS NOW MORE STRINGENT THAN o- o i DATE UP-TO-DATE ATHLETES MUST AVOID p VOID SLIGHTEST HINT OF P PAY Ii Y TO AVOID PRO STIGMA Jones' Jones Refusal of Home Most Simon Simo Pure Act Watched j f By Robert Edgren now and then the oW old amat ama- ama t tuC c spirit pops Opa up again Bobby J started a revival meeting of or Jh pu pares when he h. refused the present of or a in him b by some of Dob- Dob it fends who admire admits hla his pt KoU JOU cups cupa There haven't 9 many athletes as simon almon pure Of course coue to some lome exit ex ex- tall tacit it ft may have been Bobby Dobby Judgment that It would 1 be good to sidestep hi his hilt Christmas J Unfriendly critics in Eng Eng- England land 2nd who no doubt would be delighted de de- lighted to view Bobby Dobby aa as a professional al golfer had bad been making sar- sar remarks about Bobby obby Jones Jones' u. u and Bobby Dobby flattened th total aa completely by registering a a. refusal on the grounds that while Zi J. IM didn't se see any breach of the I spirit In the action of his tad he thought it best beet for tor tho the Interest sot golf to refuse to accept It flabby Bobby Is Js ao so much of an ama ama- tier tear that last time he won the tho Brit Brit- he refused to take the all sll- v r cup home borne with him ard asked naked to keep possession of the n. n The same critics who lately late hae been writing 8 sarcastic rea tic references refer reter- antes to Bobbys golf golt house wrote about Bobbys Bobby's leaving the British sh open trophy at home in as aa one of ot the fl finest t evi evidences vl- vl d dences neu of the am amateur spirit known la Izi history PLENTY STRICT WITH Another nother evidence of the growing interest in amateurism is ia the strenUoUS strenuous atren- atren 1005 objection of A. A A. A U U. officials to giving Dr the German mile half record holder bolder a permit to compete in athletic sports whilo InthIs in inthis this country The Tho objectors tors stated that they wished to avoid old the chance of ot aD any accident t during this his Olympic year This was interpreted inter inter- to mean that the A. A A. A U. U flared tred Dr Peltier would stub his toe while running on some of or our tracks cripple himself so 80 that he cant can't run in the coming Olympics and then G Germany would always believe Ue It was a mean Yankee trick to pre prevent prent nt enemy competition in inthe inthe the games s. s and that wo vo built a n. atrick atrick trick track Just juat to make Dr break his toe What the tho A. A A. A U. U really reany feared Zeared was the possible chance that the visiting athlete might beju bo be ju t. t like Uk some lome other famous European European Euro Euro- athletes athlete who haro o come over I here hee with a great grest ballyhoo and horned into the gate receipts of or ora Va Various Va a rious track meets through the agency ncy of ot a manager Our ama ama- I j I tsar authorities hr hi vo become a n. bit weary tf d letting some galloping foreigner grab part of ot the money iader cover These birds are arc too grasping They want big percentages percentages per per- and big guarantees whereas where where- as u our own star gallopers used to toli li lit satisfied with liberal expenses across the Hudson HudOn and back back say something like round trip fare Care from tram New W York Tork to Hoboken and return b by wa way of oC New Orleans Los Los' Ang An- An g San Francisco Portland JUitte nutte and way ports not overlookIng overlooking overlook overlook- ing log the Grand canyon the Yosemite the Yellowstone Glacier park and the Thousand Islands blAnd Ono One visiting galloper had a manager man man- a. a ager who went ahead and anti told games promoters that he ha thought he he t i uld induce his galloper gallop to run and br break k a worlds world's record if tf the manager could bo be shown some lame in interesting In- In reason for tor listing the Sometimes the manager was shown oWn an Interesting the galloper ran and aDd perhaps broke a ar r record MANAGER COLLECTS IN ADVANCE But Biu there was aa more or leas less scandal scan scan- dal 41 following this tour For or one thing on un returning to Europe the galloper a Indiscreetly said Aid he M saw AW no 50 reason rion why an amateur Athlete should net DOt ot be paid and talked about well th they y know how to to do things in the United States Stat ii He U. gave JaYe away U the th system Stung ingratitude the amateur Ii le moguls decided that no DO noor or- or galloper should ever come tb rom abroad D. D a. 1 go home horn to i. One came broke a aIt It Of tf was wa ballyhooed en enthusiastically en- en b by the A A. A. A U. U and seat Dt at on oco a tour around the te country competing in tn various farious rlou m meets and drawing dJa big ble crow crowds But Dut suddenly the tale A. A A. A U. U discovered that th this O POO O had bad a t manager too and the manages' manages was out ahead head of or the show a. a little collecting That's That why Ute the A. A A. A U. U thinks Dr P stub his t toe Tte lII amateur idea originated In in enl Gre Greece c wh where the Grek winners at Olympus w. w were crowned owned With wreaths and r received c more substantial to for their d six alx months of hard rd training and their effort In But an Olympic wian winter win win- Tier ter returning to b. b his hla home born city wa Was treated like a 1 conqueror A was wu made in the th wall wail to let hint bins Im In tn a butts given him to U. U live his In and service and all living needs provided for tor a year at the expense of or city Bobby Bobb Jon Jones turned down much less ku than that ENGLISH HAVE QUEER IDEA I The English idea Id of or a gentleman amateur Is 1 a man maa who d doesn't nt do I anything at all aU but pia play at the port sport In U 17 1107 7 Edward Idward H. H Ten Eyck Eck iv 5 old yes Massachusetts boy w went nt to England with his hla father tather Jams Ten Tn Eyck and won the th dla- dla on the great t En English rowing row lax ing race That a a. 15 y lC-y old lest old ar-old old boy should carry oft off Ute tile historic trophy was a tr tremendous blow to the tile Eng Eng- Bob rowing rowlo- clique cirque England had b been cn Invincible on oa her het own waters for man many years year n So when Edward sent back the diamond sculls n. n n next t year rear Nr and aDd sent not his entry ento for the th race to defend the tro trophy h his hi entry was wu refused on the tho ground that he was wa not 00 a a Jent gentlemanly maDI amateur be because M- M cause his was Vas only a profesS S tonaI oarsman coach at K later and aDd Ned ed would probably work for Cor a living when he new grew up Neil didn't row In HD Boland nd again But Dut Buta Duta a funD funny joke Soke In that connection U Is that the English Dinner for two or three years rears was a n. butcher eS |