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Show i AMATEUR GOLF AND FOOTBALL PLAYERS I , r- ,V 5 ;- I ' U iO f 1 i u t 1 'i if - W j I 5 j f Uy ; J 7S I Charged With Playinf Against Professionals. Syracuse made professionals out oi hvry team it played afterwards. Many of the 1915 football players will compete in baseball, track and field and rowing affairs in the spring. By their presenco on those teams they will cause their amateur associates to become professionals and will throw into the professional class all the amateurs ama-teurs against whom they compete. In short, the fact that George Brick-ley Brick-ley was allowed to play with the Trinity Trin-ity eleven in 1915 when the fact was generally known that he was in the professional class has so tainted ath-lethi ath-lethi affairs in the various colleges that before the end of this school year thefa will not be a dozen absolutely purfc college athletes among the tens of thousands that began the 1915-1916 college year. (By FRANK G. MENKE.) A study of the rules governing amateurism ama-teurism in athletics convinces us that there are so few simon-pure golfers and football players in the United States today that they can be counted count-ed almost on one hand. Jerry Travers and Francis Ouimet, the golfing stars, are regarded as amateurs. ama-teurs. They are not amateurs; they are professionals, if we interpret the rules correctly. And in the professional profes-sional class belong at least five hundred hun-dred other golfers who are under the delusion that they are amateurs. Eddie Mahan, the great Harvard football star, and the men who will be the Crimson's pitching mainstay in the spring, is in the professional class, according ac-cording to the rules. So are his teammates. team-mates. So are all the players on the Yale, Princeton, Syracuse, Amherst, Trinity, Dartmouth, Michigan, Michigan Michi-gan Aggies, Colgate, Carlisle, Williams, Tufts, Wesleyan and a score of other teams. Article 10 of the constitution of the Amateur Athletic union, the governing body in amateur athletic affairs in the United States, says, in part: "An athlete becomes a professional if he enters a competition open to a professional, or knowingly competes against a professional." - Jerry Travers, Francis Ouimet and hundreds of other supposedly amateur golfers have competed in open tournaments tourna-ments have played against professionals profes-sionals and have done so knowingly. By this act they violated the laws of the A. A. U. and became professionals In every sense of the word. Later, when those men Travers, Ouimet et al. who "aad become tainted taint-ed by playing in open tournaments, played against real amateurs they tainted every one of those amateurs with professionalism. The rules of the i. A. U. are specific on this point, and can be construed to mean that if Travers, after competing against a professional, played in a tournament against 500 amateurs, every one of those amateurs would become professionals profes-sionals by their very action in playing against Travers. There is no alibi for those who played against Travers, Ouimet, et al. ifter they became tainted through playing in an open tournament. Ignorance Igno-rance of the ItiW excuses no one. The imateur law reads plainly, and it was jp to those men who wanted to preserve pre-serve their amateur status to make sure that they were not playing igainst professionals. And now as to football: George Brickley was signed to play 'or Connie Mack's Athletics last spring. The fact was heralded through-Hit through-Hit the country. Brickley played two sr three games with the Athletics during dur-ing the summer and was paid for his services, in keeping with the contract le signed when Mack corralled him. Brickley entered Trinity college last September and played halfback on the 2leven. He was in every sense a professional, pro-fessional, and all his teammates be-:ame be-:ame professionals through their ac-'.ion ac-'.ion in playing with him. Here is the A. A. V. rule to back up this statement: "A single professional player in a team makes that team professional." Brickley and the professional Trinity Trin-ity team played seven games during the 1915 season. Every team that Trinity Trin-ity played became professional through its action in playing against a team that had become professional through the fact that it knowingly played Brickley, the professional baseball player. Norwich, Brown, Bates, Amherst, Williams, Tufts and Wesleyan . were the teams that played against Trinity, and each "became tainted with professionalism profes-sionalism by its action in competing with the professional Trinity team. These teams, in turn, tainted all those they played against later. Brown played Trinity, got itself in the professional class and then passed it along by playing Yale and Harvard. These teams tainted Princeton. Syracuse Syra-cuse played Brown and automatically ;ct inti the professional class, and |