Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 10 | Olympic Committee to Enforce Rules

OLYMPIC COilTTEE IB EflFOK RULES i 'Frederick W. Rubien Explains j Eligibility Rules in Brief for ' Athletic Stars NEW YORK. April 1. Late reports from Belgium indicate that the Olympic Olym-pic games' eligibility rules, always strictly enforced in the past, will be observed to the letter in the interna-itlonal interna-itlonal meet at Antwerp next summer. The slightest flaw In the status of an athlete is sufficient to bar him from the games, according to a statement made by Frederick W. Rubein, secretary secre-tary of the American Olympic committee. com-mittee. The rules governing amateurism are short but explicit, Mr. Rubein said today: to-day: "They will prevent several fine athletes, now in this country, from I competing from the United States, but as the code affects all nations aliko wo cannot complain. The rules are as follows: "Admission Only amateur athletes to be admitted to the Olympic games. " 'Necessary conditions required for the representation of any given country. coun-try. It is necessary to be a natlvo of any given country or a naturalized citizen of same or of the sovereign power to which said nation forms a part. " 'Whoever has once taken part in the Olympic games as a citizen of any given nation cannot be admitted in any future Olympiad as a candidate for any other nation, even if he has been naturalized in that country, save and excepting cases of conquest and the creation of fresh states, duly ratified rati-fied by the treaty. " 'In case of naturalization, the naturalized nat-uralized subject must supply adequato proofs that lie was an amateur in his native country up to the time of his change of nationality" nn