DENUNCIATION OF PROFESSIONALISM.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12825, 8 June 1907, Page 10

DENUNCIATION OF PROFESSIONALISM.

(Received June 7 h. 11.26 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 7. Professionalism in looib_ii was severely criticised at tho reception •riven to the Queensland team at- the Town Hall. Mr Calvert, President of the New South Wales Rugby Union, said he saw some danger of the taint of nil taints in football. Tho professional came was looming up. and he hoped Now S uth Wales a-xl Qiecnslnnd woul I resolutely sot their faces against itThe women t professionalism entered anything behind it came that abominable thins tho gnmb'ing spirit, nnd that wns the spirit thry wanted to keep out of a good manly gamo like football. Tlie Attorney-General, Mr Wade, referring to the damapre professionalism ciused in England, declared that the h ichor aspects of tho game had been entirely lost and it had como to bo a matter of havint in on« rwkot a largo amount of money and in tbo other a lnr_.T amount of blue wet d. Mr Oaks, a mombor of tr. A.*«. mhly. sad Iv w. cln' 1 to so thr. in first a'tnnnt t-> introduce profit,iorn'ism in Xew Z-oalnn,-: had Ixvn shut ro.vn m . Mr 11. Toco" p-tid it, was gratifying that the first attempt in New Zon'anu bad met with such a formidable rebuff. Mr Le*. manar-or of the Qneersland team. <iid ; rot think there w:„ t h o slightest chance of e*tting a hold in Quo-'nsian.:". «_. th'-re we« alwrj. a dancer of it creeping in. and they were determined to watch so as to keep the game clean. (nto„ A COBREnTovdext.) WELLINGTON, June 7. Notwithstanding rumours to the contrary there is good reason for believing

that practically all details for the trip of tho professional football team to England have been arranged. The business head of tho scheme here is quiotly but surely working out arrangements. There is also a eugg<stion that when tho iidit time comes, tho New Zealand Rugby Union's declaration will carry very littlo legal effect, if any.