AMATEUR DEFINITION

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 7

AMATEUR DEFINITION

Exclusion of oarsmen.

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LONDON, Bth August

The Olympic Association, replying to the Amateur Rowing Association's resolution regarding Olympiads, says: "The association's real motive appears .to be a determination to maintain tilie. antiquated amateur * definition, excluding from the ranks of airuiteurs many loarsmen against whom the only objection is that they earn or havo earned their living by'manual work. 11

[Tlie committee of the Amateur Rowing Association, in a conference with representatives of the universities, the Henlov regatta, and provincial rowers, passed a resolution that organised international athletic competitions like tha Olympiads, entailing a vast expenditure, were entirely contrary to the triio spirit of amateur sport, and would endanger instead of fostering friendly relations with international contestants, owing to the exaggerated importance attached to victories therein. The conference decided not to support the British Olympic Association, offering instead itself to arrange occasional friendly contests open to Brit iah and foreign amateurs. The conference also refused to alter the present definition of amateur.]