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Show PLATT ADAMS IS FULLY EXONERATED New York Jan. 20 Piatt Adams Olympic champion in the standing high jump, was fully exonerated of the charges ol professionalism in an announcement tonight by the registration registra-tion committee of the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic union, which has been considering his , case for several days. Adams, who is a member of the New York Athletic club, was charged with selling trophies he had won. Several Sev-eral hearings were held at which witnesses wit-nesses against Adams conceded they had no positive knowledge that he had ever sold a prize three ol these , witnesses also admitting that they were prejudiced against the athlete because of a business dispute. Virtually the only thing the committee com-mittee considered in finally disposing of ihe charges, it is understood, was testimony that yams had exchanged two cups, awarded to him at an exhibition, ex-hibition, for New York Athletic club pins. Of this exchange the commit -tec says "We find that the cups in question were given neither for competition nor exhibition, but by fellow citizens of Newark, N. f , to 8how appreciation apprecia-tion for the good work accomplished by the Adams brothers at the Stockholm Stock-holm Olympic games of 1912" |